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Story Thread: This might dox me but I figured I'd tell it since its relevant to what's going on right now. Where I live in Chicago is notorious for being
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Despite slick PR portraying #Airbnb & #ExpediaGroup as caring & supportive of citizens & their neighborhoods, their actions reinforce my belief that they should not be relied on to act
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1) Cheryl asks a good question: what do they really want?2) Whether they read it directly or just absorbed it, they ALL believe in the "Cloward-Piven" thesis of how you
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We have 5,000 plus jails and prisons in the U.S. This is the most comprehensive and elaborate infrastructure of incarceration and punishment the world has known. "From slavery until today,
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Today Tr*mp was quoted trying to take credit for people talking about Juneteenth. It confirmed something for me. Tr*mp knows this isn't about him, and he knows that this could
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LeGend Taliferro survived open heart surgery when he was 4-months-old. His mother said he had "the heart of a lion." He was ready for this year's American Heart Association Walk.
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NEW - Former South Bend mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been tapped by Biden to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of Transportationhttps://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1338919633416572929 Fun fact:https://twitter.com/ad
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@BlountStrib Love your piece on Gopher stadium name change. Reaffirmed my objection to corporate name sporting facility for this reason. I advocated naming stadium after Sandy Stephens. Now Detroit formerly
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This whole AOC/M4A conversation is, per usual, missing the forest for the trees -- if reps have no power and thus have no need to challenge or put up votes,
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Disappointing (but wholly unsurprising) news last month in Redcar of a recommendation to demolish the Redcar Blast Furnace. We can change this though – sign the petition - https://www.change.org/p/ben-houchen-stop-the-demolition-of-redcar
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Mobility pricing is back on the radar thanks to the City of Vancouver's climate emergency plan. Here's a thread based on research I did a couple years ago looking at
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Trump's stormtroopers tear-gassed Ted Wheeler, mayor of Portland.He was there to listen to demonstrators.The feds knew he was there.I repeat: the federal government knowingly gassed the mayor of an American
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This from @mudede is right, seeing this as an outcome of the contradictions of neoliberal urbanism. 1/xhttps://twitter.com/TheStranger/status/1336475617907208193 The neolibs and corporate allies believe they have a natural right to rule.
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1) I think the reason of Turkey's military operation in Gare was not primarily saving the hostages (soldiers, intelligence officers and civilians). I believe Turkish government wanted to legitimize future
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Step back and look at the 10,000 foot view. Trump has a multiple avenues to victory, it's true...but the Swalwell investigation is a direct hint what his **final** pathway is
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So for anybody who wants to argue that our premier is smart, consider this: He wouldn't put in hard measures to stop the transmission of COVID at the start. He
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