#AMERICA

I’m going to start a thread of all of the books I read in 2021! ‘LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay’ by Warren KozakA well written
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Final 2020 Presidential debate thread. Debates don’t matter. Just don’t screw it up. Trump looks like he’s still in a bad mood. Trump first question is about coronavirus. Standard spiel.
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I've tweeted about how vaccine pauses seemed a rly bad idea a fair bit, but the decisions made by some countries to do them while very rare events were investigated
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In 1935, Bernard Weinstein, an Odessa-born Jewish labor activist living in New York, published Bilder fun yidishn arbeter-lebn in Amerike (Sketches of Jewish Workers' Lives in America), a Yiddish book
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Happy Halloween Week!!!!! In celebration, here's a list of all the fics I've written that are suitable for the season. Not all are themed for Halloween itself, but all feature
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With democracy itself at stake in this election, here are some ideas of what academics can do. Please retweet, adding your own ideas. 1.Educators should allocate dedicated time in class
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The sheer amount of violence cops commit & the money we spend on them is mindblowing. Cops harass, arrest, beat, & sexually assault people regularly. We pay them to do
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Q is Russian Pysops A Thread 1 2 Russia wanted to boost patriotism and rebranded a British show into a Russian equivalent called Name of Russia. Embarrassingly, Russians chose Stalin
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Can large reductions in trade costs break the path dependence of the location of economic activity? Can a large reduction in trade costs promote economic development? @SebEllingsen JMP uses a
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1/ The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party: it’s a cult. It’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the Republican Party only stands for one thing: the privilege
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One of the interesting things from chatting to our students in the SU (back when we could!) and from talking to friends kids, is that:"Become a Content Creator!"Is, to a
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Remember that theft and violence aren't a crime for everybody. When protestors turn towards the redistribution of property and the destruction of institutions of exploitation, they are criminals. But that
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I think playing Joe Biden's racist hits would be appropriate at this point.A thread/moment... In this clip, the former Delaware Senator tells an Indian man he has just met: "You
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Carl Bernstein: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officialshttps://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html In hundreds o
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This month, US courts ruled that the government's massive spying program was ILLEGAL, vindicating @Snowden for blowing the whistle on the government’s crimes. So why is this hero still exiled
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Well, since Marco Rubio is trending, I figure now would be a good time to remind people who he is, and how he came to power.Rubio is one of a
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