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THREAD: As the VA cares for 9 million vets + civilians with #COVID19, it's facing 50k vacancies — a figure larger than the Depts. of State, Labor, Ed, + HUD
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1/ I began to see a spike in hateful liberals, deranged emails and DMs this evening, and now I know why: @nytimes right on time fanning the flames of fear
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There has been a lot of uninformed commentary on the exclusion of some topics from #CBSESyllabus. The problem with these comments is that they resort to sensationalism by connecting topics
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Is your smartphone only a device for entertainment/ social connect...?Think again...!Warfare has evolved in tandem with socio-economic evolution. Weapons of a generation appeared (and used) similar to eco tools of
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My new team has worked hard for this new generation of #EuropeDirect centres that starts operating today, in 424 locations, covering most regions of the EU to be close to
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Lesson 1. Everything you’ve probably heard is a lie. Specifically, the most discussed “solutions” to police violence have no evidence of effectiveness. For example, Body cams don’t reduce police violence:https://www.pnas.org/content
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San Francisco is making progress on its road to economic recovery, and supporting that recovery is going to take all of us working together. There will be challenges ahead but
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Good thread.And look, I read Heinlein when I was in high school. But by the time I did I'd already found @dancinghorse and @TanyaHuff and @mercedeslackey and Anne McCaffrey and
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Been reflecting on this a lot over the weekend. By far not the first time it has happened and it's sad, but I don't think it will be the last.
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#covid19uk - Detailed positive tests thread. The majority of this thread is a set of views of rolling 7 day average positives per 100K by specimen date. Starting with England
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So heres what I learned of all this fucking stupid shit of the fucking politics. I cant be apolitical so lets get involved.[SUPER FUCKING LONG THREAD] Im pretty sure ill
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This discussion is fascinating! How would a modern empirical economist, student of Duflo and Piketty answer this? The fundamental empirical question is it worth going to Harvard when US State
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To those complaining about the time the results come out: There are REAL people...working tirelessly.. from till ... in our laboratories... It is humans who swab. Humans who operate
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This sort of shit really annoys me. I'm way more religious than many on here, & even off of here, would probably realise & shit like this twat being on
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UPDATE: I FOIed the DHSC communications around the decision to publish the COPI notices that Matt Hancock signed. It's a fascinating little look into the relationship between the Prime Minister's
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All eyes on He Sapa, the Black Hills!National Guard just deployed to break up a blockade of Indigenous land defenders, taking back the Lakota sacred site renamed “Mount Rushmore” where
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