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Ben Winograd

benwinograd

It’s been more than a week since SCOTUS halted the effort to rescind DACA, and I haven’t seen much response to the premise of Justice Thomas’ dissent—i.e., that DACA itself

Allan Westview 🎶Ding-Dong 🎶 UBI Now!

Westview_Al

Canada has seen a dramatic shift in the @globeandmail to what is known as “Yellow Journalism.” Over the last few wks it has become abhorrent & insufferable in that regard.

Natalie Fertig

natsfert

Link to live stream of the hearing on the #marijuana reform bill here: https://rules.house.gov/ #cannabisnews https://twitter.com/natsfert/status/1334185857973182464 Chairman @RepMcGovern begins by saying it's a historic day, becau

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Those who follow me know that alarmism isn't my style. But the new UK variant does have me a bit concerned. I'm not qualified to critically assess changes in transmissibility,

Salim Furth

salimfurth

After I watched @HillbillyElegy, I was puzzled why movie reviewers hate it so much. (It has a 26% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a level usually reserved for mailed-in sequels). Usually

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

The death penalty is utterly barbaric.UK criminal law once included 220 crimes punishable by death, including "being in the company of Gypsies for one month", "strong evidence of malice in

Bryan Gividen

BryanGividen

How I Think Originalists Should Approach Q of Post-Tenure Impeachment1. Start with the Constitutional text on impeachment, using the vocab & grammar standard in 1787. Does it establish a clear

Tristan Varela

TrisTangents

Disney made an amazing Filipino-themed Xmas ad, but since most of the media coverage I've seen misses the pinoy-ness of it all, I thought I'd make a thread about all

WarNuse

WarNuse

'A Satanic Death Cult, An Exorcism, And A Fear Of God Behind The Resolute Desk.' Fear [feer]'A Distressing Emotion Aroused By Impending Danger, Evil, Or Pain. An Unpleasant, Often Quite

Alia Malek عليا مالك

AliaMalek

NOT SURPRISED: A THREAD (cc: the entire media industry but esp the enablers @nytimes )RCMP arrests ‘Abu Huzayfah’ for allegedly faking his past with ISIS | http://Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/7350363/rcmp-arrests-abu-h

Scott Young

ScottHYoung

Some useful mental models worth knowing: Efficient markets (and the efficient market hypothesis): Prices adjust until quantity supplied = quantity demanded, and that this can result in an "efficient" distribution

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loopuleasa

Here are the main distilled points from @naval's talk with Brett Hall (@ToKTeacher), in a tweet storm formatExcellent talk of two brilliant men, on the practical nature of knowledge and

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J_Dahlin

Mask wearing - is it effective?I see the anti-mask crowd has latched onto a few studies to support the "masks don't help" train of thought.As a data scientist however, I

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

1/ There is a paragraph in this article that is really 'off', and I already see some zeroing in on it.THREADhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/world/europe/france-covid-schools.html?smid=tw-share 2/ it's this one: 3/ The 1st sen

Water, widdle claw connoisseur 🦑

SeraphimWater

So this is a thoughtful Analysis thread about Anduin Wrynn from World of Warcraft and why he’s so popular among lgbt+ fans and why so many people see him as

Dan Hernandez

CubanMissileDH

Writing Thread! As writers, I don't think we spend enough time on the philosophy of story and character. It's hard, but it can be the light in the darkness when

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