#PANDEMIC

We're excited to announce the launch of the Indianapolis E-Learning Fund with $2.6 million to support students across Indianapolis in response to challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. To donate, see
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OH YEAH soooo those of you feeling real weird and a bit 'off' right now, as everyone has said that's the result of the national PTSD but here's what I
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Amy Coney Barrett is wearing a mask. Lindsey Graham is not. (Follow for a video thread of Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing.) "Ruzzle" Leahy: "We should not be holding this hearing
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I’m smiling. I admit I was a bit stumped at first about how to teach outdoor ed remotely. Then I had a vision. Then I worked my ass off for
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I am getting furious about politics again - so I’m taking a deep breath & conveying in calm words: 1) the fact that the Prime Minister said in a cabinet
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Anti-vaxxers are some of the worst people on the planet!! Right now a lot of autistic people are stuck in quarantine with abusive family members. Anti-Vaxxers encourage people to see
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Dr. Rick Bright–head of @BARDA the USG agency supporting #coronavirus #vaccine development–was REMOVED after pressing for rigorous vetting of #hydroxychloroquine hawked by @realDonaldTrump, saying science, not “politics and cronyism” must
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Slovakia’s doing across-the-board free nationwide Covid testing this and next weekend. The most demanding exercise in the country’s history, because they’ve had * checks notes: 219 deaths since the pandemic
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Thinking about functioning labels and how useless they are. I'm what they like to call "high functioning," but I have left every single job I've ever had (with the exception
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The central claim behind Comcast's long holy war against #NetNeutrality is that without "network management" (slowing down your connection to the sites you like unless they pay bribes to
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1/ Students will travel this weekend. Let's take Kitchener. Students at university in Kitchener travel to Ottawa and Toronto. Students FROM Kitchener travel back home from Ottawa and Toronto. Most
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I'm looking at the awful scenes from Wisconsin where people were forced to vote in person in the middle of a pandemic. It's not right that people have to choose
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Several people have reached out to me in the last couple of months saying they were looking for advice on losing weight. Here’s my advice: fuck your weight. (Thread thingy)
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“Depressingly, the Obama admin decided to keep a lid on most of what it knew so as not to undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of the election, even
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Research Director Kartik Athreya, along with colleagues from @KansasCityFed and @stlouisfed, authored a fourth special report on financial distress and the second wave of #COVID19: https://bit.ly/FinDistress4  Between April 15 and
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Yet another honest write-up of the Swedish Strategy"From early on, the Swedish government seemed to treat it as a foregone conclusion that many people would die."https://time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster/ While reading
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