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New school guidance just released by @ISBEnews and @IDPH (thread):-students w/confirmed or presumed COVID-19 case must isolate for 10 calendar days (? why changed from 14?)-all siblings/members of household of
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1/ We need to have a talk.. I’m seeing a lot of y’all coming dangerously close to shaming folks, even other nurses... for not deciding to get vaccinated as quickly
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Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:- Eddie Daffarn witness statement describes "heartbreak" at loss of Grenfell Tower community and feels he was "stigmatised as a trouble maker" by TMO
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It's Indigenous People's Day!! Here are five ways to celebrate, acknowledge, and honor their collective PRESENCE on our precious Earth. #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020 1) Honor the land, and acknowledge that you are
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Gonna explain what's happening in the Philippines rn. We're hitting 10-12k cases a day. We do not have enough vaccines for frontliners & elderly because pharma cos prioritized Western countries
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At the request of an activist friend, I spoke at a recent Ann Arbor City Council meeting on the issue of #racism & #housing, which I care deeply about. During
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Starting the thread on #MUSICFORMENTALHEALTH Feel free to add in the songs that comfort you, uplift you, or maybe just help you cry when you've been feeling numb to your
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Small businesses in LA are in crisis. With less financial cushion and less access to loans, many are in danger of shutting down forever.Mass small business closures would be a
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1 of 11:15 years ago today from FOB McKenzie, near Samarra, he was looking ahead. The end of a 12-month deployment to Iraq – his second of OIF – was
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So I'm really liking this new subway map from the MTA, but I do have some thoughts. #nyct #subway #map https://map.mta.info/  First of all, this is a huge improvement on
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The Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) is asking @SenBobCasey, @SenToomey, @RepDwightEvans and other members of Congress to include 501(c)(6) organizations (aka, most Convention and Visitors Bureaus) in the expansion
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Mini Thread on why Marxism doesn't mean a nanny state & why the USSR wasn't Marxist:I would begin by addressing the communist manifesto. The manifesto was written when both M
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Anybody that can take the time out to read my current situation would be highly appreciated My heart is breaking and I don't know what to do So I've not
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A lot of people have been asking me, a person they know who lives in Portland, about what's going on here. Here is a brief thread with some context /1
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Hi! I’m here to cover a march to the Iowa Capitol for Immigrant reform for the @DMRegister Follow for updates. Here is the link to the tweet with the demands
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“A concerning number of hysterectomies have been performed on migrant women held at a Ga. detention center — some of whom didn’t know why they had the procedure — according
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