I confess I didn’t know about the Uyghur Muslims until @MaajidNawaz went on hunger strike. But Maajid is a very good man, the world would be a much poorer place without him, and that’s good enough for me. PLEASE sign the petition & help reach 100000
https://t.co/pRCuuWGBZT
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping."
-- Hubert Reeves
Seven dangers to human virtue:
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasures without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Business without ethics
5. sciencetwitter without humanity
6. Religion without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
Mahatma Gandhi
@Kpaxs
Typically beautiful piece by @andersen about animal cognition. How fascinating that bird brains have a structure "that appears to be networked in cortexlike ways, a tantalizing clue that nature may have more than one method of making a conscious brain." https://t.co/X2REbcCTlf
As someone who has had my press credentials denied by authoritarian China, I never thought I'd see this crap happen in the US. And this "most reporters are okay but @Acosta is aggressive" thing is the EXACT line Chinese propaganda printed about me. It's a tactic, people.
The fearless man is not the one who conquers nations
It is the one who express his innermost feelings without the slightest need for acceptance or reciprocation
In the end, it can be said
That all things are said to ourselves
For ourselves.
My colleague @bposton and I spent a while investigating one of the deepest inequalities in California housing and tax policy — so deep that U.S. Supreme Court justices and others say it's like medieval feudalism (1/13) https://t.co/PrjHV7AhRG