#Grapple

Emily L. Hauser אלה אסתר

emilylhauser

We're reeling from our losses today. Mourners aren't able to find comfort in rites & rituals; we can't hold them in their grief. For many, sympathy notes will be the

Katherine Michelmore

michelmorek

@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of

Maria Chong

mariachong

The New Jersey governor’s press conference today was really good. Clear, articulate, compassionate, firm, informational. I KID YOU NOT that Governor Phil Murphy put out a call for COBOL programmers.

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

By request from @hyperstitional, this is a reading list of books that have influenced me. To be honest it makes me self-conscious, because I know that many of you have

Tom Crowley

TomisCrowley

BUDGET THREAD: if you want to skip ahead while the Treasurer’s talking, here’s a hastily compiled Budget summary thread. Headline: govt really has changed its stripes. Big ticket spends: aged

Cat Moon

inspiredcat

"Nowhere have I encountered restrictions on the use of law by ordinary people that are as draconian or anti-democratic as the ones we have in the United States."https://bit.ly/3iy2tPr 1/ "Law is

sam

LWSupremeStreet

Trigger Warning: This thread contains vivid details of the experiences of victims of genocidal rape & and the aftereffectsIt is disturbing content, so I encourage you to prepare yourself emotionally

FELIXANDRIA OCATSIO-PURRTEZ

Kamunt

Okay, I've gathered my thoughts and I actually have something important about justifiable fears of Mitch McConnell being the rat bastard we know him as.There are several Senate Republicans who

EbWatchesTrek - #LowerDecks Coming August 6! 🖖🏿

EbWatchesTrek

The problem of amalgamation isn't uniquely Black American (fantasy worldbuilding post-Tolkien; USA's founding mythologies), although I agree it's a problem for us. I guess...I have to write about this. (There

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

I have spoken already about affordances of the mind, but there is still much ground to explore. “Minimally counterintuitive” is another hook that ideas use to stick in our thoughts.

Matthew Kavanagh

MMKavanagh

Deeper dive into Trump's @WHO letter... Big threat, but clearly without intent for actual reform. Let's all be clear: this is a political tool aimed primarily at a US domestic

Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary)

SpockResists

The COVID-19 Pandemic is an Apocalyptic Event. Just Not in the Way You Think. The word “apocalypse” conjures up images of burning buildings, panicked masses, and the end of the

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Russian_Starr

Donald Trump and his supporters' reaction to COVID-19 is indictment on white American pathology. That he is willing to kill us all by ignoring science shows there is something sick

gaming disorder bun

roun_sa_ville

the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, or Victory Museum, is the Russian national WWII museum. It was built during the final years of the USSR on a massive 5,000

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

This, like wearing masks, is the exact opposite of what the CDC was saying two months ago.https://twitter.com/markberman/status/1263811822630637569 There is a temptation to think "oh well, we know so little." And

Lydia DePillis

lydiadepillis

NEW: By Trump’s own benchmarks, his approach to trade hasn’t worked. Here’s my story about what he set out to do, the guy he chose to do it, the agency