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I read Michael Gove’s big FDR speech so you don’t have to. TL;DR - I think FDR would sue. (Thread) The speech has Gove’s customary grandiloquence and rhetorical excess. The
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Now you might ask - why focus on big state schools that get public funding? Because those big state systems are so big, they set the tempo for everyone else
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Music theory thread:Never in my life have I seen a good explanation of how music works. The way music is currently taught is a Byzantine morass of disconnected concepts. But
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I had a good talk with one of the directors of @FurnalEquinox on the topic of making the con more POC-friendly, and I think what I brought up is important
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[THREAD] My criticisms of the People's Republic of ChinaThis thread will cover three topics [Dengism, Economy, Geopolitics] , as I will discuss my main problems with the current state of
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End of week 2 thread on post Brexit food trade There is continued growing unease. The main picture remains one of depressed/tentative trade (c50% down y-o-y) and some high profile
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I am the grandson of Moroccan-Jewish refugees (1956), with diasporic ties to the region from the 1st and 2nd Temple era, predating Arab, Spanish, and French influence. Here’s my family
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Read a comment to the effect that using the term “myths” means that the person has no faith & should be committed to an asylum. By that logic, many great
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This year, we published nearly 300 essays addressing a wide range of issues—from religious freedom to nuclear disarmament to the fight for racial justice. Here is a brief selection of
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@Razarumi claimed that his NED fellowship doesn’t ‘prove’ him a CIA agent. Well, it may not “prove” him a CIA agent; it definitely ‘frames’ him.How?For this purpose, it is pertinent
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Good afternoon! If you need a distraction from 2020 doing its' best to twist the knife one last time before the year end, grap a cuppa, sit back and enjoy
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Elon Musk is on record that he makes decisions using the same technique as Jeff Bezos.I found YouTube videos of them explaining it.A thread on thinking more clearly: This thread
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jordan peterson is trending because he is apparently writing another "12 rule for life" which I think warrants a trip down memory lane. THREAD WITH CLIPS revealing him to be
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20 years ago today, I was at a Damascus hair salon when an assistant rushed to tell us Hafez Assad had died. What I saw and lived in the next
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Thread: Neo-feudalism1) “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths
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(1) There has been an ongoing conversation on Twitter about when did Dean and Cas realize they are in love with each other so I decided to do a quick
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