#Figures

Matt O'Brien

ObsoleteDogma

This is innumeracy masquerading as accountability. $1.4 billion out of $269 billion—a 0.5% error rate—going to people it shouldn’t have really isn’t that big a deal for money that had

Brynne Keith-Jennings

BrynneKJ

New post & thread: Census Bureau data shows that nearly 1 in 5 adults report that kids in their household are not getting enough to eat. This is shocking. https://www.cbpp.org/blog/boosting-snap-needed-to-reduce-hardship-long-term-effec

Philippe Lagassé

LagassePhilippe

Quick thread on the Governor General's annuity and benefits. First, kudos to @btaplatt for his reporting on the amount that former GG's get for their professional expenses in retirement. The

Bryan 🇺🇸 #WeVotedOutFascism

swimmerbr78

Letting people die for political reasons, because they lived in 'blue states'??? There should be a criminal investigation.https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1289153840718127105 Excerpt:"But the effort ran headlong into shi

Benoit Vaillot

BenoitVaillot

Pourquoi y a-t-il si peu de monuments publics en France commémorant des figures anti-esclavagistes ou célébrant le rôle joué par les Français d'outre-mer dans l’histoire ? Est-ce que la République

Bill's Stocks and Thoughts

billsstocks1

#NavigateTheOTCJanuary1/25/21 - STAYING ONE STEP AHEADYesterday, I discussed using retrospectives to help you do more of what you did right and less of what you did wrong (use hashtag #NavigateTheOTCJanuary

Sonia Sodha

soniasodha

Will the *scientists* who detrimentally underplayed risk of Covid reflect? It’s not science if you don’t reflect on what you got wrong & why. Hope they’ll be as public about

John Bye

_johnbye

This week's Test & Trace report is an unmitigated disaster.Cases rising, contact tracing performance sliding, test turnaround times hit by an IT failure, a backlog of tests to process at

Raunak Shah

raunak246

Notes from @paraschopra and @kunalb11's podcast:1) Two kinds of startups: One that increases efficiency in existing behaviour, and the other that creates new behaviours. 2) In absence of future data,

TimAkers

TimAkers

A call to action for readers and writers:Let's all be clear about something. The coronavirus lockdown has been terrible for the publishing industry. The whole industry, from top to bottom,

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

Remember when the Scottish Government was happy to cite the Centre for Economic Performance when assessing the economic impact of Brexit in 2016? Apparently the same organisation's assessment of the

Tim

Tim76028671

The Catalan language is in danger of extinction in Barcelona and its region. Especially among young people the numbers are dramatic. My personal opinion on a few of the causes.

Ⓐ🐬👽Year of the Warpath👽🐬Ⓐ

veerbatims

We talk a lot about John Brown, for obvious reasons, but we should also talk about some of the other figures involved, because they deserve to be remembered too! Let's

Natalie Peluso

nataliepeluso

Having studied a music degree, then #opera in London, I realise the #LNP would consider my training a waste of life. And in a way, it was, if my only

harry reis

harryreis

Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution plan has been a huge success. Israel has distributed shots to more than 2.6 million of its citizens, leading the world in vaccinations per capita. That's

The Last New Yorker

LyMoula

Selling some wrestling figures. Let's start with Elites, then we move to Basics. All are loose but mint unless otherwise noted. Shipping is $4.85 plus $1 for every additional. First

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