#COUNTRY

1. I often say that capitalism in decay produces a sea of nihilism with islands of hedonism. The rampant alienation gives rise to this type of culture, and the ruling
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Why is it so hard to get a test? Why does someone have to call around to find some place that's open, get screened, drive over, stand in line, get
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There isn't a deep state, there's just a state. What's worth noting is how, by design, foreign policy establishment and apparatus of the US is fundamentally anti-democratic, in the small-d
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One reason you know Mama Diaspora and other Nigerian elites aren't serious about the diaspora (and @cchukudebelu talks about this often) is that diaspora-building gets harder as communities get more
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You may have heard there's something going on Tuesday night (11/3). Something having to do with the future of our country.A short thread on voting in the IE and our
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I worked the last 2 evenings in the #COVID19 pods of our ER. What struck me - more than at any other point during the pandemic - was the resignation
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I know I said no more threads til Princess Diaries (that’s tonight btw), but I lied. I call this one Racism Rebuttals for Those Want to Learn. Read on: “You
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THREAD:As police and politicians insist that this wave of uprisings is the sole work of "outside agitators" to justify violent crackdowns, now's the time to revisit the long, racist history
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1/10Three days ago, we saw the putrid runoff of what’s been stoked, distilled & fomented by Trump since the beginning of his term. The riot in service of an attempted
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Portland: My teen works a min wage job at a v expensive pizza place, one that lower income to working class folks generally aren't buying pizza from.Tonight, 3 different customers
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Plenty of Arsenal news doing the rounds today (11th July) so I've done a quick thread to keep you guys up to date just in case you missed any Arsenal
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$Link is one of those ideas that once you wrap your mind around the implications of it, you'll forget price but think about it constantly from a conceptual and philosophical standpoint. So
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Really interesting discussion on regional inequality and Levelling Up on @BBCRadio4 this morning.Much I agree with, but we really need to move beyond arguing about whether to invest in transport
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THREAD The Queen's Gambit. A brilliant and uncomfortable watch for any number of reasons. Firstly when I was 11, I was a top junior chess player. I will always rue
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1/OK folks, let's talk about BITCOIN!!Many many people have proclaimed the death of Bitcoin over the years, but it looks like it's here to stay.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/triumph-of-the-hodlers 2/Remember the big Bitcoin bubb
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in 2016, there was an Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessment that was basically ignored. Here's part of a new one: Russia is using "a range of measures
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