#Historic

A long day but a rare win for the environment today and I wanted to share it. I rarely post about what I do, but here goes... 1 Congress just
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Happy International Anti-Corruption Day! highlighting some @hrw work fighting corruption that robs people of their rights. 1/ 2/ First, some good news. In Lebanon, WB/UN/US announced a new framework for
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The "EU Joint Statement by the High Representatives" on the crisis in Tigray Region of Ethiopia is appalling for the fundamental issues that it glosses over. Issued on the eve
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Officials in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, are expected to vote to remove a 100-foot-high statue of former vice president & slavery advocate John C. Calhoun.I'll be in
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For those of us who want government to do more in American life, it’s essential that we make the vaccine rollout an inspiring, seamless, surprisingly easy preview of the world
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1/ Me on skynews. The Facebook case is historic, and we're seeing regulators finally reach for the powers that they've always had to hold monopolies to account. But it's just
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I am listening to Jason Kenney try to chastise the incoming Biden Administration over KXL and it's hard to imagine a veteran politician misreading a day's mood any worse than
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The reason this bombing is so personal to me is because when I was a kid in the mid-late 70s my mom was a volunteer for Historic Nashville. Their office
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RCEP makes the headlines today, creating much furor as ‘historic, ‘the largest existing FTA’ and ‘China-led’.RCEPs signature is historic, but for reasons other than one may think. In essence: RCEP
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thread:COD PEACE1. As certain European countries are claiming historic fishing rights in our waters, I'll do a thread on the legal position shortly, but first let's take a look how
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"The north-south joint liaison office was completely destroyed with a loud explosion at 14:50 on Tuesday." "The office, which was set up for facilitating close discussion and fully providing exchange
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Just to be clear, the BBC demeans itself with the ridiculous suggestion that the National Trust has gone ‘woke’ (please stop normalising this meaningless rightwing jargon!!)and it also trivialises an
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calling female reproductive organs by biologically incorrect gender neutral terms only hurts the people who own them, regardless of whether they are cis women or trans men information about the
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A little thread on the past, the present, and the nature of historical judgement sparked by an argument that’s happening about NASA administrator Jim Webb. There’s a lot of talk
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We often define the greatness of historic states by how much territory they controlled. But, early states were more concerned about population > land.Having a sufficient number of people to
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Ok, this is all kinds of weird.1. Thomas Becket was not an advocate of religious liberty, just of clerical immunity from secular law. More here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23645138?seq=12. Neither Becket nor his
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