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#Lebanon parliament convenes for a legislative session on Monday w/ 68 laws on the agendaHere's the important ones (+what's missing):-Amendment to domestic violence law + law criminalizing sexual harassment including
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Thoughts on statues, a thread. Many public statues in colonial India commemorated acts of state violence. Among these, especially prominent were statues of ‘mutiny heroes’, including men responsible for ordering
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Morning Piers & Susannah, The current discussion about tightening restrictions is more about distraction & apportioning blame to the public than any genuine effort to reduce cases/admissions & deaths. It
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What does it mean to be controlled?What could it make you do?Push a transparently false narrative?That destroys jobs? Businesses? Families? Lives?Interferes in an election? Suppresses @realDonaldTrump votes?I think we are
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[URGENT COMMUNITY ACTION][MADISON, WI][12/9]Hi, everyone! Tonight, at 5:30 PM CST, the Madison Police & Fire Commission will be meeting to vote for Madison's new Chief of Police.Here's a thread on
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The US is led by 'personalities' not statesmen. It was the inevitable evolution of the presidency & public office post Kennedy/Nixon debates of 1960; but an argument can be made
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Since I'm receiving lots of Q's on my views on the Trump Ban and Parler ban by platforms (Twitter, Facebook etc), I thought write about it. Here's how I think
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The last installment in an @AP @KHNews yearlong investigation into the U.S. public health system shows the stark toll on the public health workforce. 1/?https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-public-health-michael-brown-kansas-coronavirus-pan
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How has people's experience been renting an apartment and calling in-house maintenance vs renting to a single entity such as landlord and having to call for some late night plumbing?
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The White House released the ‘National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness”.It opens with “America deserves a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is driven by science, data,
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I am deeply thankful to @RepCicilline, @SenJeffMerkley, @SenBooker, + @SenatorBaldwin for introducing the Equality Act.But you might be wondering: why do we need this? Isn't discrimination against LGBTQ people already
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We need your help! We’ve looked at 1000+ contracts issued by the UK gov in response to COVID-19. These total £11.2+ billion of public money given to private companies. Help
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#LSMATS 1Today @TFIupdates presented to the Travel and Transport SPC giving a summary of issues raised during the public consultation period. On the upside, there was overwhelming public support for
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Today, when asked about vaccine distribution in prisons & jails, the Governor claimed to not know the definition of “congregate” setting. This comes
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UK has authorized AZ/Oxford vaccine. Importantly: UK is leading the way in taking a bold public health approach (vs individual health) to getting the population vaccinated - Prioritizing distribution of
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The SNP's approach to the pandemic was always about using it as a platform to campaign for indyref2. So Sturgeon was put front & centre, to present the SNP as
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