#Workers

John Field, “comedian”

AmericasComic

My dad wasn't just a cop, he was a police chief. Specifically of a White suburb of a predominately Brown city. He enacted policies in his town that, as an

Sean Carey

flyoversean

Unconscionable level of maladministration on the part of @IAGovernor This is criminal negligence on her part, and a refusal to admit that stronger action needs to be taken is something

John Roberts

JohnGRoberts

ICYMI: The education and health secretaries have written to all local public health directors telling them to support the government's line that schools are not moving to rotas or partial

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Who will put $600 to better use -- Scrooge, or Tiny Tim?A Christmas economics explainer.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/should-you-give-600-to-scrooge-or 2/A few people claim that Scrooge would put $600 to better use, because he'd s

Bob McKenzie

TSNBobMcKenzie

NHL Draft Lottery goes Friday night at 8 p.m. ET. This year’s lottery is taking place at the @NHLNetwork studios in NJ and @KathrynTappen of @NHLonNBCSports will host the half-hour

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

OK, I keep getting asked why our #COVID19 rates are so high. Here are my best guesses.https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1336378612707016706 1. An incomplete explanation: We are a small state. Small variations in #s

Vishal Ganesan

vjgtweets

Interesting piece on the geography of farmer suicides in India. Looks like Punjab and Mizoram are the two states where farmer suicides in 2018 surpassed the overall suicide rate. What's

Kelly Bauer

BauerJournalism

The Chicago Board of Elections has a news conference at 10 a.m.I'll live tweet. Follow for updates and let me know if you have questions.https://buff.ly/2HKKmId . Chicago's already 738,055 ballots cast,

Bibblings and Babblings

bibblings

Regarding the exam results scandal, I’ve seen some anglican twitter thoughtleaders(? Some have blue ticks, others substantial followings idek) raise themes of technology vs humanity.This is fundamentally mistaken and unhelpful.Technology

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly Jan 22: Racing Against Mutants!The post-holiday flood cresting but cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain astronomically high. Viral mutants increasingly concerning. Vaccination is our best tool but only

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

So... I read that Larry Summers op-ed. Frankly, I don't completely understand the whole thing, but he said something that isn't entirely true:"Unemployment is falling." Sure, but labor non participation

Adam Maidment

AdamMaidment

A thread: A tragic incident in Moss Side has brought the area back into national headlines. The area, like any, has its own set of issues but there are some

Kiran Kumbhar

kikumbhar

Public health diplomacy in Indian history:Therz been much talk about India-manufactured vaccines being shipped to some countries. As an ordinary Indian I tend to agree with folks who think this

Frog Person 🌵🏴💣

OoglePride

On request I'm sharing who these people are for the unfamiliar. I'll include essays of i can find em on the library. Most of these folk aren't around anymore but

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

My @thetimes column about the most important economic issue no-one is talking about: the collapsing fertility rate. Not long ago the UK had one of the highest fertility rates in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Rise of the machines. Boston Dynamics robot does a gymnastics routine. 2) I too share a lot of concerns about the robots, not because I dislike technology, but I

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