#State

I watched the debate on secularism being essential for democracy in India on NDTV. It was quite disturbing to watch. Old Right-wing falsehoods about India's founding parents not wanting to
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[Thread]Big Drop!Documents released via an FOIA req from the lib American Oversight org contain details compiled by Giuliani/Sec. Pompeo re the #Ukraine money laundering/political influence scheme, including interviews with Shukin
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As @SomeStingray pointed out the other day, blaming 100 Companies & their CEOs is very similar morally, causally, analytically & social scientifically to blaming consumers as individuals. I’d like to
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There have been 54 gang-rapes recorded in newspapers in India between 14 Sep 2020 and Oct 15 2020. That is, from the day of the Hathras gang-rape incident, 186 men
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Ooh, Treasury regs interpreting the ARP rule that state and local governments cannot use federal aid to cut taxes are out. TLDR: They are *very* sensible, responding to the federal
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IGP Kashmir today revealed at a press conference that DNA of the Rajouri family members has matched with that of the 3 persons killed in Amishpura Encounter in Shopian on
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Sober feels like a crime in Nairobi. I find it very hard to enjoy the company of Nairobians because your definition of fun is almost always tied to alcohol. What
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I recently sat on the panel for the Huwag Matakot: an Aswang post-screening roundtable with @dakila_ph. I’m sharing here my thoughts about this whole “art for art’s sake” thing, which
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moral and legal pressure now building in PA where state Attorney's General has opened up a criminal investigation into #NursingHomeDeaths https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/05/12/pennsylvania-attorney-general-nursing-home-coronavirus-investigat
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The married tory I accidentally slept with last year has just messaged me the best/worst part of this story is that he told me he lived near Chigwell and in
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How close we are to more shootings If the government doesn't protect people from being terrorized by crime, they will protect themselves. It's not hard to understand. This is how
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Coming up in a few minutes @GovHolcomb will hold his daily media briefing. Holcomb says the order will be changed up a bit today - two guests present an update
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Last May, a govt org outlined an extremely Orwellian vision for what the US must to do to win "the tech war" against China in AI. It essentially called to
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Until last year, the 100% state-owned Dutch public railways owned an Irish subsidiary whose only function was to formally own trains that were leased in the Netherlands. This way NS
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As I read about another black man murdered in Minneapolis Minnesota by a cop, (citizen approached because of suspected forgery. That crime does not merit deadly force.) I’m going to
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Today I reiterated the consideration of granularity and confidence in attribution. There’s a segment of the industry that believes in the theory of “true attribution,” but I believe that theory
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