#American

I promised you all a thread on the state of modern American healthcare from the unique perspective of both a pediatrician and a father of a gravely ill child undergoing
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I've shared on here before that the most conservative thing about me is my commitment to, and defense of, the institution of school and public education. I spend a lot
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Took leave from work to take care of myself (as much as I could, all considered) this week for the first time in as long as I can remember. To
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How did we get here and why is nothing being done about this criminal?Trump is going out the way he came in: A loser, a liar and a cheathttps://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/trump-is-going-out-the-way-he-came-in-a-loser-a-liar-and-a-cheat/#.X6_e
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Couple things going on here:1) Unlike the 2016 Tsai-Trump call, this might be the most direct congratulations we'll see between Taiwan and the U.S. (Replace Tsai with Taiwan's de facto
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Why Trump fenced off DC and why he moved out and is never going back to the White House. And why there will be a NEW capital elsewhere.Occupying a foreign
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I was working on a long thread of all the work I have done on the risk we are going into a double dip recession - we are - and
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Pastrami sammies usually aren't that cheap, but Pasadena doesn't fuck around when it comes to sandwiches.The Hat and Lucky Boy both sell great pastramis for almost $10 and both places
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So there is currently a lot of speculation as to if Biden is actually in the Oval Office or not due to some things being out of place. (will provide
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Some people in this country are sincerely confused to hear people talk about “white supremacy” in conjunction with politics in America today. At the same time, a lot of people,
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As you're contemplating getting the vaccine or not, there's 3 important people I'd like you to learn more about. 1. The first person to introduce vaccines to the United
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Unpopular opinion: Focusing your journalistic/academic writing about Israel/Palestine & not knowing Hebrew and/or Arabic is really quite absurd (cough, @PeterBeinart). And no, speaking with a tiny bubble of Palestinian-American academic
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Our group's household secondary attack rate meta-analysis has gained traction, but not for the reasons I'd hoped for. We did not conclude "no asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic spread" of SARS-CoV-2. A
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When all is so clearly lost, have a look at this beautiful little discussion of the exponential function https://www.pseudorandom.com/implementing-exp Someone should make one for total beginners; it's wonderful when you
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THREAD 2020 Best Books on Far-Right, Racism & Anti-Fascism Given resurgent threat from populist radical right, mainstreaming of far right by conservatives & continued threat of neo-Nazi terrorism, it was
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A great shot of Bebe Neuwirth by Timothy White starts off my #diner thread Park Slope #Diner by Jack Ziegler@NewYorker, October 28, 2013 Leonard Cohen in a New York
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