#Nation

A friend of mine passed away due to Covid while on the road with her father. They were on their way to the sixth hospital they were told to go
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1. #Thread “Prime Minister @narendramodi has blinked.” This is the ONLY way I can describe it. Pitched against the powerful forces of the MNCs and trans-national aid agencies, the
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For the purposes of this thread, I'm going to use headdress and warbonnet interchangeably. The most easily recognizable style comes from Plains tribes (Lakota especially), though Blackfeet traditionally had a
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"People want to talk about this virus as an equal opportunity pathogen, but it's really not. It's going right to the fissures in our society." Smartphone data shows low-income workers
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Prominent right-libertarians flirting with fascism; a thread In 1927, Ludwig von Mises articulates that "...Fascism and similar movements...are full of the best intentions and...their intervention has for the moment saved
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Real talk. This reminds me of some things I was tweeting last week. Left is always playing the short game, right has the long game on lock. And so many
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Over-financialization lead to the dotcom bubble, GFC and the great unwind now. While debt-fueled booms support growth, they disincentivize optimal allocation of resources within a nation’s borders, leave little time
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A conspiracy theory is a belief system that asserts that world events are being controlled by a powerful group who operate behind the scenes. Conspiracy theories have been with us
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“First, we strive to protect the health of our students, faculty, staff and their loved ones”. Clearly, opening the university to in-person, on-campus classes in the Fall is the “moral”
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Thread: Police ignore way more crimes than they address. They only "enforce the law" against some people, some of the time, in some places, and every aspect of it is
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"Reconstructing Justice"Excellent new @NiskanenCenter report from CUNY's Michael Fortner unpacks the generational divide behind calls to defund the police, and the "complex, and sometimes contradictory, internal politics
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The #1619Project published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most
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The vast increase in those claiming #UniversalCredit due to #coronavirus, shows that we all need a strong social security system we can rely on when times get tough; it is
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YOU HATE CHINAYou hate China, the Chinese and the CCP? That is fine. ��You are free to think whatever you want. You are free to not buy any goods made
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The Natives Land Act of 1913 was passed on this day. 7% of arable land was allocated to Black people, the rest was allocated to white people. The Free State
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Some Trump defenders try to justify Trump's slurs against the military by comparing them to Eisenhower farewell address, the military-industrial complex speech. Anyone who says that is counting on you
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