#East

Today Mike Parson commuted Dimetrious Woods' sentence. I first interviewed Woods in 2016 over a prison phone line, and reported on his legal battles, release, and the MO supreme court's
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The indigenous healing tradition of Afghanistan is called Yunani, from the word for “Greece.” A quick thread on this fascinating natural healing practice. Yunani is a fusion tradition found in
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1) Except for tweets by @From_Himalaya, @/dikgaj, @biswa_gh, @shardula23 everything written in this thread is unadulterated bullshit.Pure shakha level stuff. Most Young Virat Hindus from Bengal dont read. Too much
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Today federal law enforcement officers tried to arrest Dakota Means at a park today but got blocked people there. They claim that they shouldn't be arresting one of their "comrades"
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the race discourse on Kamala is already very interesting for those of us who study multiraciality. Barack was talked about as first Black, rather than first biracial candidate/POTUS and now
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The establishment of Balkan academic specialists in the West played a role in the 1990s wars that was every bit as inglorious as the role of the Western political establishment.
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stan culture needs to die.people are not products, commodities or mascots you can flail around and then throw away once you don’t like them.a thread. stan culture is harmful to
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I'm in lockdown, so might as well post a few photos of the 61 new protected areas announced in Nova Scotia yesterday. Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area will be
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If you're a young Muslim journalist who's black, Ahmadi and/or Shia—my door is always open to you.Happy to help connect you to editors, brainstorm publications to pitch, edit your pitches,
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On this date in 2009, Boise State beat Oregon in the season opener for both teams, 19-8. The game's mostly remembered for LeGarrette Blount punching Byron Hout afterward. Some facts
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Sheer rage stopped me from sleeping last so I stayed up into the early hours doing a bit more research for a Thames based project I’m working on, and fell
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Welcome to the White House Daily Press Shadow Briefing. We apologize for our missing the last briefing, internet in rural Maine is at times challenging. But we're back and the
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Interconnected & compounding problems evade solutions. But that dominant nucleus, that hairy monster, is also the soft underbelly. Neutralising it provides pathways to solutions. Conditions of society depend on human
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My take on the Israeli/Palestine conflict- a thread I’ll start by saying I’m an Israeli teenager who supports both Israel and Palestine and 100% thinks that the Palestinians should be
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1/ He's right. What he is amplifying is not Russian disinformation. It's PAKISTANI, and it aims to destroy our alliance with an important trade and SE national security partner. https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1198401948191461376
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How am I? I realize, NOT OK. I realized just a few minutes ago I'm being hit with a lot of waves right now I hadn't put together in my
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