#State

Today Mike Parson commuted Dimetrious Woods' sentence. I first interviewed Woods in 2016 over a prison phone line, and reported on his legal battles, release, and the MO supreme court's
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being in this state of uncertain future supply of basic household stuff has made me uncomfortably aware of how fuckin wasteful i have been about using basic household stuff i
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So how are state police protecting their personnel from #COVID? What measures have been taken to ensure the smooth functioning of the police force, which has to be active at
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There. Is. No. Constitutional. Prohibition. On. DC. Statehood. These are bad-faith arguments in service of keeping a majority Black city unrepresented in Congress. A mini-thread. /1https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1386072911719505922
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Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta Police Officer who murdered Rayshard Brooks on June 12th was an enrolled student at Kennesaw State University In the 111 days since the shooting, @kennesawstate has
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1/ Some amazing news at this hour for my fellow residents of the Pittsburgh area and all across Pennsylvania. In previous posts I pointed to the good signs in the
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Today we announced our Badger Bounce Back plan. This plan takes the steps Wisconsin needs to take to decrease #COVID19 cases and deaths and increase capacity in our healthcare system
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THREAD: I wanted to share a thought about the comparative optics of America and China's respective responses to COVID-19, beginning with two caveats.First, albeit for different reasons, neither country has
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If you look at polling of French Muslims, the overwhelming majority (82%) oppose vigilante attacks on blasphemers, but they also oppose publication of cartoons (70% think of them as unnecessary
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A lot of young people probably feel like they will end up needing to live with their parents until they are 40 and work until they are 80!Truth is things
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So I've been giving @bartongellman's long piece on how Trump could steal the election a close read and there's a major problem with his argument that needs to be pointed
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You don’t have to be a legal expert to know that when unidentified federal forces wearing military fatigues snatch people off the streets into unmarked vans, it’s an abuse of
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STOP. REWRITING. HISTORY. Instead of attempting to spin the public into a hateful, frightened frenzy, let’s try reporting some facts with the correct context. Here’s what that might look like:THREADhttps://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/12504715677
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I see many evangelicals on here incredibly frustrated by the state of their churches. The problem is that it's not going to get any better. Starting more parachurch ministries won't
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There are a lot of people providing much good evidence to demonstrate the United States is failing in efforts to contain the coronavirus. This column from @paulkrugman is persuasive. Utah
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There's several international dynamics happening around the rebellion in the United States that I think are interesting. This thread will be based around people, not states, because geopolitics is a
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