#News

#STIMULUSPACKAGE negotiations update: “Dear Democratic Colleague” letter from @SpeakerPelosi outlines key Trump shortcomings that actively harm the American people; vows to pass relief. #STIMULUSPACKAGE: “the Trump Administration’s
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There has been no more depressing spectacle this week than this: Large media outlets took a misleading, incorrect, propagandist birther column in a publication that no one reads any more,
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Some say that France is a country run on a secular ideology and have always allowed mocking religions and ideas/countries under of freedom of expression.That’s not true. In this thread
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On September 25, Adachi Ward assembly member Masateru Shiraishi (LDP) took issue with teaching kids about LGBT people in schools and said that if everyone became gay or lesbian, it
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Senators @ewarren @SenSherrodBrown @KamalaHarris @SenatorDurbin @SenSanders @amyklobuchar + others are calling for student loan companies to help borrowers holding private student loans.so far they've been left out of the stimulus
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// !SERIOUS! - !SERIOUS!Hello everyone.Notice i really haven't set up the news thing yet? I have a question for you all.IF i were to leave the animal crossing twitter parody
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A bird's eye view of the early 19c Four Courts and surrounds, from the Illustrated London News.Zoom in even closer here on this or any part of Dublin:https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/20582/rec/361Thanks to @Old
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An important read on a "paradox" of calculating the R. The overall R is useful to determine whether we have an epidemic, but the failure to recognise that it's actually
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one interesting byproduct of checking dozens of different local papers everyday is seeing what the through-lines in coronavirus coverage are across the state My LAT colleagues have written about how
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A good piece by @gordoncorera but which hits some of my trigger points on how national security is covered.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52122991 First, for some discussion on broad definitions of national security, you
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It’s been a hard news week for us Black folk & we have many emotions coming up that are being invalidated by our yt peers. Your mental health is important
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I’m about to drop another depressing story about Hong Kong with @Nuttallreports. But first, a full minute video documenting the first time kittens Miko and Momo playing with the classic,
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One thing about this NYT story and the picture it reveals: I cannot emphasize how strong the mythic image is, among his base, of a saint-like Trump who had a
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We're sad to see Tri Angle Records shutting downCelebrate their legacy by revisiting some great records they put outhttps://pitchfork.com/news/tri-angle-records-shuts-down-after-10-years/ Few albums articulate love with as much nuance as @serpent
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The accuracy of swabbing does not make sense. We're being told that false negatives are because swabbing is being done incorrectly.I've been swabbing patients since Feb so I'll start with
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2017. “Okay, wait. Sorry, this is a real bank shot. Walk me through it?”2016. “Wait, ‘20, ‘19. Let me try. Iowa produces corn, right?”2017. “Sure.”2016. “Which is used to make
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