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Warning: long thread on the terrorism label and what happened on January 6 in Washington, DC. The label of terrorism should not be tossed around lightly. It can be overused,
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It’s Friday and I’m feeling spicy, so here goes:The American law firm norm of billable hours is ableist, discriminatory, and directly responsible for the mental health and drug abuse crisis
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THREAD 3: We’ve looked a little at the design flaws of the Windrush Compensation Scheme, and will be back to that in future threads, but we’re doing something a little
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I used to be an @GOP voter. I started life as an @TheDemocrats but as I grew older and worked in conservative environments later in life, my voting trended that
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The effort by Ionannidis and scientific colleagues to directly influence the president on a matter of scientific policy is not unprecedented. There have been many attempts by other scientists to
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Remembering good times in Dubai when Norwegians paid me & my boss 2 1/2% each of the company’s profit. Boss was 30 & I was 27,used to work from morning
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We have one of 5 manufacturers of tear gas/tactical armor within 3 hours of Denver, in Casper, Wy. With a 5 star review rating. @SafarilandGroup whose mission statement is to
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SMH at all my Berners, who after being shown this is a rigged oligarch pageant, not a democracy TWICE now, are talking about 2024 elections.Have none of you heard of
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Saif Ali Khan wants to reimagine Ramayana to show Ravana as a good person & justify Sita’s abduction. This is most disturbing & must be opposed. Why at a time
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At 7pm, my political club (@FourFreedomsNYC) is hosting our mayoral endorsement meeting. I'll try to livetweet the highlights. Won't you join me? #nyc2021 We are hearing from 10 (I
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56/68Hu Jintao was set to retire in 2013. This convention was succession planning exercise. This is where Xi managed to worm his way into the 9-member Politburo Standing Committee of
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Can we squash this tiresome trope that teachers don't want schools to open? Or that arguments for closing schools are somehow preserve of liberal/wet child-eating commies....this is about hard choices
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I've got a story from 2018 Abolish ICE protests outside detention centers & how there was an extreme level of ignorance among some comrades that amounted to Mexico stanning....in solidarity
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Quarter of people may already be immune to coronavirus..I’m delighted that mainstream newspapers are picking up on ‘prior immunity’. It’s a lot more than 25%, arguably >50%. 1st paper MID-APRIL!!
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I'm not going to say this statement is a fact, but I will say it with 80% confidence:New Federal spending programs should be entirely deficit-financed up until a point.What is
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1/ A comprehensive analysis of the Commission Report will not happen this week. It will take a considerable amount of time for us to attempt to access the Commission's sources
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