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Hi everyone! My name is Cate and I'm a pop culture critic and freelance writer. I love deconstructing media texts, especially TV and movies. I have been writing at length
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A doctor says he was removed from his federal post after pressing for rigorous vetting of treatments embraced by Trump.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-live-coverage.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-652
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Quite an arresting email this morning which noted “Thank you very much for living your life out and proud with your husband” @bradherbert We are lucky as members of the
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This article documents truly harrowing conditions of childbirth in Venezuela. Yet it almost completely discounts the critical and criminal and yes partial but still very significant responsibility of the US
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1 A few days ago http://revcom.us  @tuneintorevcom wrote an impt piece abt implications of Trump pardoning WAR CRIMINALS. https://revcom.us/a/622/why-donald-trump-pardoned-three-soldiers-en.htmlMight this be preparing a section of the military t
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An estimated 6% of Miami-Dade county residents are seropositive. Investigators leading this ongoing study recruited participants by calling a random, representative sample to consent to drive-thru testing. Infection roughly 15x
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35 years ago today a police helicopter dropped a bomb on a row home in West Philly, killing 6 adults and 5 kids, and burning 61 houses.Too many don’t know
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As scientific teams grow, our model of credit assignment (1st author, last, or everyone else) becomes increasingly outdated. One impediment is ineffectiveness of author contributions text. Here’s a suggestion for
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#AussieQ Daily News Thread 140520 Please add below important local news you think other AussieQs need to see today, will do this daily as needed. Please RT1/ Following drastic
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Want to put a marker on this, and I am willing to be wrong, but despite the talk I will be surprised if Trump launches a Trump TV network after
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That time of the year where students look for reference letters for applying for PhD abroad. A short thread on academics doing well, having done their PhD's in India (within
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I’ll give you a real, concrete example of what is happening. Anderton Park primary was the scene of some fairly ugly, to my mind, parent protests about teaching children about
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Not sure why repatriation has to be so difficult, the problem is Morrison has left it to the free market and the free market has failed in a pandemic. So
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Does someone have kid-appropriate anti-colonialist Thanksgiving propaganda I can spread around? “the first Thanksgiving feast was called by John Winthrop [for] soldiers that had just massacred the entire Pequot tribe,
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Stateful Functions 2.0 is out.https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/04/07/release-statefun-2.0.0.htmlIt allows you to use @ApacheFlink as the base of a *stateful serverless* platform. Flink takes care of your state and messaging, while your application
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Airborne virus implications: 200+ experts now declare that the coronavirus can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air, infecting people who inhale. This risk is highest in
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