#2020

The Board of Trustees have reconvened in open session with an Update on COVID-19 Response Planning for 2020-21 School Year. LISTEN LIVE athttp://www.fortbendisd.com/july13meeting  Pre-Registration for the 2020-21 School Year is
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This (as usual, graphically amazing) NYT piece provides a clear reminder of a vital fact: sending "essential workers" out to die young is not an artifact of the pandemic but
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More ballots will be mailed in this election than ever before, which means -- a lot more contested votes. Perhaps you're nervous that your ballot will be rejected? I spoke
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Thread of theatrical movies I watched in 2020: (THIS REVIEW FEATURES A MINOR SPOILER. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.)My ★★★★½ review of Weathering with You on Letterboxdhttps://boxd.it/WMQ8f  My ★★★½ review of Sonic
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Looking over racial dist data for #NYC #COVID19 deaths, I'm struck by #hypertension issues. The #SARSCoV2 virus acts thru angiotensin receptors - related to hypertension. It would be great @NYCHealthCommr
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Some extracts from this important Washington Post piece. Lessons from Brazil for #Covid19InSA. "In the developing world, the coronavirus is killing far more young people"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronaviru
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Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy - A Thread:Who? The temporary wage subsidy is available to employers of all sizes and across all sectors of the economy, including non profit organizations and
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Ppl find my use of "representation" problematic but am an enactivist: Simon: "Put an ant on [...] rug, and the movements of its legs become very complicated [...] complexity [...]
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1. Important op-ed in @Oregonian today by Calvin Duncan, a formerly incarcerated person and first-year law student at @lewisandclark Law School. He argues Oregon AG @EllenRosenblum should stop blocking relief
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You may read that Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, is aiming to be "carbon negative" by 2030.You may then scratch your head. Because, of course, that cannot be right.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-0
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As the USA crosses 100,000 recorded covid-19 deaths, many people are incorrectly equating that figure to the estimated 100,000 dead in the 1968 pandemic and wondering why the world didn’t
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Berkshirea-based Apacor could supply millions of coronavirus tests, with 150,000 ready for immediate distribution. It’s a South Korean test, which is also being used in Germany. But Public Health England
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Independent @BookstoreDay has been postponed until 8/29--but why not observe it twice? I started by making a bookstore life list: http://keirgraff.com/2020/04/14/a-bookstore-life-list/ So many of these stores have nurtured me as
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[Thread] With the conviction of Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd, we have seen a police officer held to account. Sadly, police killings of unarmed people, particularly the shooting deaths
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Articles on maps of the soul 7 : a thread https://twitter.com/nisaaaaBTS/status/1253605227082608640?s=19 https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bts/8551435/bts-map-of-the-soul-7-album-everything-to-know https://variety.com/2020/music/reviews/bts-map
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A few weeks ago I moderated a panel on Women and the Legal Profession for the Connecticut Bar Association and was reminded that how many mom lawyers have war stories
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