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Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition.A grift is a scheme that profits from the

Joshua J. Cohen

joshuaJcohen

A YouTube duo with 300-400 million monthly views told us they think 95% of their merch on the market is FAKE. That got us to take a closer look at

Joe Mathews

joemmathews

(1/) My Zócalo @ThePublicSquare column today is about the rapid growth of Medi-Cal (what we call Medicaid here) into the most important program in California, the closest thing we have

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

With its US body count around 200k, the opioid epidemic may seem like small potatoes next to the slaughter of the bungled covid response, but it's a still-suppurating wound on

🇨🇦Canada First🇨🇦 “Grizzly Patriot”

MarkFriesen08

1) Sleepy Canadians, please understand it's not about masks. It's not about social distancing. It's not about lockdowns. It's not about vaccines. These issues are mechanisms being employed to achieve

Martha Hampson

marthie

New stats from @ChildrensComm presented in Anne Longfield's final speech. Echoes @mssophiaparker's remarks last week that this isn't unresolvable. "It's not that we can't do it, that we don't know

Brent O'Carrigan

brentocarrigan

Short thread on evidence for steroids in #ARDS or lung crit care before #RECOVERYtrial: some discussion on #MedTwitter that "steroids make everything better" or "we already know steroids help" that

Valley For Change

ChangeValley

We're live-tweeting the @bergencountynj commissioners' meeting tonight. Time to let them know that they need to take a public stand against the Bergen ICE contract! https://twitter.com/ChangeValley/status/1351003726715236355 1/ From

Fielding Hope

fieldinghope

Bandcamp fee waiving day! Here's a little thread of recommendations, kicking off with Silvia Tarozzi's new album on @Unseen_Worlds. Genuinely bowled over by the lush song-craft on this, taking Alda

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Dutch prime minister Rutte and other "frugals" continue to use distorted images of Italy and Southern Europe to water down the EU recovery fund. Here are seven ("surprising") facts about

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

Rich people break the law every day and get away with it. But y'all think the law will stop Trump from declaring the election is postponed due to COVID-19 and

Eliot Hochberg (Actual)

EliotHochberg

I'm no expert, but I observe this:What is happening today is the culmination of both 40 years of backlash against progressive and civil rights victories, and more than 200 years

Calvin Freiburger

CalFreiburger

And now, a few words on this idea I’ve seen online that “letting” Democrats steal the election means we’ll never get our country back. If we believe that, we might

Widas 🐊

WidasSatyo

DONGENG SEBELUM TIDUR“Bite The Bullet”Kita seringkali dituntut untuk bisa melakukan segala bentuk antisipasi. Namun, ndak jarang juga semua itu berjalan ndak sesuai rencana.When the times is come, maybe… maybe we

📍ISOLATION CABIN

maliyahomer

today is day 43 of the uprisings in Louisville...it hasn’t stopped. local media just got bored of covering and they’re actually fairly racist in their programming anyway. they were posting

Spike Cohen

RealSpikeCohen

You asked for it, so I'm giving it to you:My review of @JoeBiden's Cabinet Picks!SPOILER ALERT: they're what you would expect from Jim Crow Joe, one of the architects of

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