#News

THREAD: Last week, IDPH reported the COVID death of a Cook Co female in her 20s. My research indicates this death is a suicide that occurred in May.At a time
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A thread on my editorial in @bmj_latest comparing the response to Covid-19 in South Korea and the UK. Early adoption of a “test, trace, isolate and treat” strategy was the
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Despite my best efforts and daily phone calls to the Dallas County Elections Office, my absentee ballot never showed up. So I came home for the final day of early
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Today marks 20 years of Direct Provision.Below, essential reading which helps us to understand why this system was implemented and the wrongs highlighted within. Earlier this year, @LTlaw_ at UCD
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I'm not saying anything new but this article around drinking during the pandemic is one of the most irresponsible things I've ever read. We live in a society and a
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Ugh Me Neanderthal. Today is 2 Full Moons since end of Paper-On-Face Rules. Sleepy Chief Biden say Land of Lone Star make "big mistake" & we use "Neanderthal Thinking."Look Covid
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I thought it might be a good time to do a thread on inflation. 1/x Most people know that inflation relates to higher prices, but if the price of milk
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Let me tell you a little story about @RomeluLukaku9 We are playing PSG in the second leg of the Champions League, with little little hope of qualifying. 2-0 down on
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Let me tell you something shocking. How a fake story gets planted in media. People wonder how it happens that totally fake thing gets printed. Goes back to more than
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It's now 144 days that I've had lingering symptoms of #covid19 - here's an update on my symptoms. I've also found some useful resources for the #longcovid community [thread] 1/n
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Today we have launched a new video on the wrongful conviction of David Reece and our involvement in his case. David is serving a 19-year sentence for a crime he
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I never covered cases seeing CM & party. Never. Took up what I came across & where I felt I should intervene. Focused mostly on UP as it’s my native
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CW // antiBlackness, racism, digital blackface, ableism...I'm going to talk about this reaction gifThis man has a congenital condition called ectodermal dysplasiaIt is very rare - occurs about 1/1000th as
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I've seen this tweet saying that a tory plan to raise the state pension age to 75 is "set to go through law" - I've been trying to handle my
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The argument that "original" Trumpians (like Steven Bannon) got this crisis right ignores a simpler explanation: The "original" Trumpians are (mostly) catastrophists with a taste for the apocalyptic and thus
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1/ Exciting news: We hit 2 million subscribers!Within 2 weeks of reaching our fifth birthday and 14 months after hitting 1 million, we hit 2 million. A little history lesson
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