#Locked

THREAD: Today the WH ordered DOJ to phase out contracts w/ private prisons. A landmark step, but incomplete. The EO covers “criminal detention facilities” but not immigration detention, an omission
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I’m not sure if this is the granularity you are expecting. Some of these concepts are bigger than others. I invented exactly none of them. The list is not exhaustive.
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Been down the rabbit-hole of #Croatian #folklore - here's a #thread of what I found:'#VAMPIRES IN DALMATIA: THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF ŽRNOVO ON THE ISLAND OF #KORČULA
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I took this photo of my @chronicle colleagues during Trump's inaugural address 4 years ago. We were all on the cusp of a paradigm shift. You could feel that. Trump
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A thread explaining why we will be finding Uyghur forced labor and Xinjiang abusive institutions involved in more and more things we buy: Starting ca 2010, PRC expanded the 援疆
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This is my last day at the Abbotsford News and, in all likelihood, in newspapers. (I'll still be a journalist hereabouts so.) Sorry (I'm not sorry), but I have Things
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Today, OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind is out. I thought I knew the basic story of Millennial life - that it's precarious, that we're broke,
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Good evening, followers of sedition and its consequences: as promised, let's take a look at the "Answer" that Trump's latest set of impeachment lawyers have filed in the Unites States
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Egyptian mythology is quite vast, and broad and in order not to be too ambiguous,I will start with the myths.This thread is not for everybody, lol, don’t open if you
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Some facts on COVID in the GTA and our response: In the GTA hospitals run on average with 95% capacity with many running at over 100% capacity (what we call
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Yesterday, for the first time in 4 months, I went to the cinema. I want to share how different this previously normal experience now is… At the entrance you complete
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Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing Parliament. Prepare for another session of "lockdowns bad, livelihoods good" P.M. will be talking about 4 points.Point 1 - Coronavirus P.M. saying government acted
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Yulia Navalnaya arrives at Moscow court, where her husband Aleksei could be sentenced to several years in prison today. Yulia Navalnaya arriving at court Riot police keeping the press at
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Last summer, there was a feature story called "Everything is Gamergate" in the same paper edition as The 1619 Project. It's very different but just as important. If GG is
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[thread]Fuck this.Fuck you.A thread on QIUI, BDSM, technology, and my continuing problems with expletive variation due to overuse.https://twitter.com/QIUI13/status/1314165438842986496 I am about to waste my time on twitter.I'm pretty su
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Most people are familiar with our separation of powers system. Our Founders had an 18th century mentality, informed by their experiences in the British mixed system, and they set up
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