#Thing

Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing Parliament. Prepare for another session of "lockdowns bad, livelihoods good" P.M. will be talking about 4 points.Point 1 - Coronavirus P.M. saying government acted
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Let’s talk about money and the State (Sovereign).Since everyone constantly gets this wrong.1/ So look: there never was a barter-centric state of nature. That’s a nice story but when we
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1/ In "stupid lawsuits over mean tweets" news, the 6th Cir. will hear arguments shortly in a case against @kathygriffin (save your personal opinions about her, I really don't care).
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People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to
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Whatever Sadhguru speaks makes news these days. Some people are bent on making controversies though out of his statements. One such vermin started spreading a news that Sadhguru has asked
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Of all the arguments in this controversial area, this is the one I find most difficult to address, because the person has such a different view about what creates value
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On intersectionality: plenty has been written about it and plenty more will be. However, there are severe misunderstandings and purposeful misrepresentations of the theory. I'm not going to be an
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@GovWhitmer just blocked another precedent-setting tax burden shift by the Michigan Legislature.She vetoed $220M in general fund tax dollars lawmakers designated for the Unemployment Trust Fund, which is traditionally funded
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Might do a daily thread of statues I'd like to get rid of, not because of their histories, just because I'm an aesthetic snob. Benjamin Disraeli, Parliament Square. Disraeli is
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A lot of interest in the Greenland ice loss study from King et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2To be clear, this is not good news. Greenland ice sheet is demonstrably out of balance
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that alone cannot really tell us much, but the data by parish (louisiana counties are called parishes) CAN.look at orleans and jefferson parishes.they were the big spike in april. then
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I am seeing a massive number of higher ed jobs with salaries under 30,000. It’s 2021. Everything costs more generally but even more so BC of the panoramic. Has anyone
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im going to take one for the team & just say it: mpreg is NOT transphobic. the only thing transphobic about this situation is assuming pregnancy belongs to women &
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I can’t watch football until my wife goes to bed so for the next 90 mins I will be live tweeting Christmas Vacation. Apparently this movie only has a 68%
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The fight to avert climate change is rooted in a very fundamental drive: protecting the places we call home.Protecting them from the rising tides, the raging fires, the roiling storms,
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Everyone's freaking out about how seastars are born, but if you think that's weird, let me tell you about HUMANS (hint: we're more similar than you think) [a thread]...https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1356610600743354371
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