#State

A short thread to try to explain to non-UK people what seems to be happening with the A-level results in England&Wales.Disclaimers:1) There are lots of anecdotes going round2) The situation
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I wish I had learned this earlier in life. I truly didn’t understand this when growing up. “The system isn’t broken. It was built this way.”A reply I saw on
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Purge your follows of all these Republicans grifting off Democrats.FFS, they are deplorable.Trump is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug.1/2https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1176992445147549697 Nixon colluded with S. Vietnam t
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244 years ago today, church bells rang out over Philadelphia as the Declaration of Independence was adopted.(Spelling and punctuation as provided by the National Archives) In Congress, July 4, 1776.The
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Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of
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What is happening at the intersection of energy/climate/political economy in India? There are no easy answers to such a question. And so, in what will be a slow-growing thread, a
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so on my day off yesterday, the head of LA County's public health department put out this ominous statement about how bad things are getting with covid, basically saying that
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—TAKEAWAY LESSONS FROM PANDEMIC 2020-21: A THREAD—Below, a few basic lessons I have drawn, as a political philosopher and informed citizen who has made it my business to closely follow
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1/ Bored in the house and in the house bored? Same, let's chat about antibody testing. I know you've been hearing comments like these. @Newsy 2/ You've also probably seen
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In my undergrad #HistoryofMexico class @RutgersU this semester, I gave students the option to create digital timelines using @knightlab's TimelineJS. The results were innovative and inspiring! #twitterstorians #digitalhistory (1/ Studen
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The Intriguing story of ADÉGBÖRÒ.The story that birth the Yorùbá Adage; "ENI TÍ Ó LE SE ALÁBÀÁRU L'ÓYÍNGBÒ, KÒ LE SE BÌ ADÉGBÖRÒ L'ÓJÀ OBA".Adégbörò was born in Ibadan Oyo
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THREAD #1 Irish TimesApril 25, 2020By Fintan O’TooleTHE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED & ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT Over more than two centuries, the
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Like this tweet for a shark fact Whale sharks, basking sharks, and megamouth sharks are all filter feeders like whales More people are killed per year by jellyfish than sharks
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The ghost plane from Pakistan:Today I'm going to re-up a VERY MYSTERIOUS incident about an Antonov plane that unauthorizedly entered India last year during Lok Sabha elections from Pakistan, was
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Honduras is in a state of national emergency due to the Hurricane ETA. This is the second largest hurricane ever to hit Honduras and has caused sudden and potential lethal
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This is where I live. This happened maybe two miles away.How this could possibly happen, and the particular brutality of it, given everything that is happening in this country is
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