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Fun fact re: Felicitas Mendez (THREAD)The Mendez vs. Westminster lawsuit (filed in 1945) to desegregate Cali schools. They won in 1946.The school district appealed, though. & several orgs joined the
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If you mentioned this obvious possibility last week when the news broke, the typical band of hysterics reflexively screamed that you were an apologist for "white supremacists" or whatever. So
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Today, the Trump Administration issued a reg to further expand the Mexico City Policy (MCP), (known as, "Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance"), which bans U.S. global health aid to
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Overdispersion in action. In this church cluster, a single index case resulted in 53 (!) secondary blue cases. Yet, each blue case resulted in only a few tertiary cases. In
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Skl, noon pa man at ngayon, I am really fond of “list” (kaya siguro sobrang gusto ko nang Ang Pinaka noon and Watchmojo ngayon). I searched for the list of
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It's interesting to me that so much of the tech criticism I see are directed toward Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc - "the big platforms" but not toward Wikipedia. I understand
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TWO more deaths in custody overnight of Indigenous ppl. I hate that Indigenous issues invariably become whataboutism in this country. The inevitable “yes but White ppl are dying just as
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There is a big problem here . A big one Why do u say the n word stu*d white btches as expected Idc abt her physique but more abt
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This video kinda annoyed me and it's hard to explain why. Click bait article, zero research from twoset (as usual), Sci-Fi speculation that has no basis on reality. Call me
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Ugh as a lazy "adult," who's stuck in college, everything that's been going on stresses the fuck outta me. I mean I know for sure that I'll fail most of
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Gather round kiddos, today's "six-column photo of a work of art that I like" is the painting "Look Mickey" by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. It was painted in 1961.
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Ooff I'm horrible but I want to write a fic of Katsuki in an abusive relationship that no one suspects to be such (maybe a canon character or OC). In
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At some point in our lives, all of we Former Action Guys begin to get soft. We leave the service, hang up the uniform or badge and feel that our
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I'm starting the PhD next month, so discount accordingly. But I've worked outside academia for a decade, and want to say that this advice feels true only for a subset
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Meet Phillip Saunders, who was appointed Interim CEO at SAA today. Whilst I don’t question his acumen or experience, surely we could have appointed a South African.Also, the message that
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If anything, the cognitive dissonance that the diasporic Indian community is experiencing (US = opening up! vs. Indian health infrastructure crumbling) is like a canary in a coal mine/Cassandra effect:
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