#Society

1/ Brief thread on our latest in @JAMAInternalMed, where we look at the potential effect of steering patients from Medicare to ACA-compliant individual market planshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/27778
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Happy Pride! To all the queers, faggots, bum boys, batties, trannies, he-shes, dykes, rug munchers, pillow biters, shirt lifters, freaks and abominations. To all of you going through a phase
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Dear Japanese people, STOP FETISHIZING MIXED PEOPLE and even if you're not Japanese, STOP FETISHIZING MIXED PEOPLE. FYI, saying "I want mixed babies" is NOT a compliment : a THREAD
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I will answer you based on the fact you genuinely want to learn.Before I do that I will offer you a tiny picture of my background.I come from a family
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— this or that: movies & seriesa thread to vote for harry, quote the tweets using the ht for the ARIAs or the AMA'srt so more people can see this
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French President Macron says Islam is in crisis as it fuels separatism in France via mosques and madrassas.The French invented secularism. In India the notion of "secularism" is used to
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Some observations about popular discussion of the UAE-Israel agreement in the Gulf.First, if you measure by battle of hashtags, the agreement would appear to be unpopular. The hashtag "Normalization is
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An incredibly important article on what it's like to live with a partner in prison in Egypt from Heba Anis. Her husband, Dr. Walid Shawky, has been held in pre-trial
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What they really mean - a thread.1. Virtue signalling.Used as an insult to suggest you're simply trying to jump on the 'being nice' bandwagon (which is apparently a bad thing)
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It bugs me that lots of transformative fandom analysis tend to assume that everyone who's into erotic fanfic is a bottom / sub who identifies with the passive partnerNO, SOME
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Okay my ire has not abated at all today, so here's a THREAD on common myths about asexuality; hopefully someone will see this and learn a damn thing or two
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The president is denouncing critical race theory on national television—and elevating this intellectual fight into a major campaign theme.The battle-lines are drawn: we can embrace the principles of 1776 or
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Twitter lit it up and sent that phrase and "President Plump" and other slurs trending. What was especially disappointing was seeing some reporters and others I respect indulging in the
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You might've seen a good deal of outraged right-wing bloviating about "critical race theory" lately. So what *is* critical race theory, actually?Here's a very brief breakdown of how to understand
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They could have shown us so many tracks.... like 1.saurabh sampurna ko beti hoti hai aur kaise uske gharwale uss beti ko maarna chahte hai aur AniDita rok dete hai
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Something doesn't quite sit right with me about many journalists taking turns to talk about how friendly a senior presidential aide was to them, and how they were good WhatsApp
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