#TODAY

Hurray! New paper out today from @TyndallManc on shipping and climate change:https://rdcu.be/b4QUS Can shipping make a fair contribution to keep warming below the Paris Climate Agreement 1.5 degree goal?Thread… 1. We
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A guy said doc, we have 70m poor people in Nigeria, "poverty capital".. I replied but we have 136m people that aren't poor in Nigeria. This figure is enough to
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Can Trump pocket veto the omnibus-covid-everything bill?Unless I'm missing something, I believe the answer is yes.Thread: Under the Constitution, Trump has 10 days (Sundays excepted) to sign or send it
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Massachusetts is finally crushing the covid curve, with measures of infections/deaths dropping 80-90% since the peak (which is far enough back that it doesn't appear in the graphic below). https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-jun
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January 6th, 2021 is a day that will go down in infamy in the annals of American History. I'm going to place a couple of collections of news stories write
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Luke Akehurst is the director of We Believe In Israel (part of the BICOM pro-Israel lobby group).He supports the Iraq war and the actions of the US in Vietnam, said
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This naive assumption shared by many armchair theorists in Europe that Erdogan can (or ever will) adhere to a rules-based system is exactly what has fueled his neo-Ottoman aspirations and
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I was having a discussion with my brother-in-law today. We were talking about how fucking soft Americans have become, how little inconveniences have become what amounts to insurmountable obstacles. We
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Regarding the $GME phenomenon. I think there's the huge metatextual component to the chosen stock being Gamestop too that appears to be getting ignored. There's nostalgia there, for sure, but
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I know there's a lot happening right now, but I don't want this to get missed. These comments from @cporterwa about the Government's consultation on its fundamentally flawed Integrity Commission
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I think today is a good day to have this conversation. There are myriad reasons why what happened yesterday happened, it's a compounding effect. But one I would like to
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That "more under-60s died on the roads" stat actually just proves yet again that you'd never allow a product that killed as many people annually as cars do onto the
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Happy Juneteenth! This a perfect day to talk about how black people have always fought for freedom and how that fight often led us to seek it beyond U.S. borders.
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So, to vaccinate against Covid19 or not? I was against it initially, having been tested on non humans it can not be described as vegan. I even came out and
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10 Ways for YOU to Save an EXTREME amount of TAX.What would YOU do with some of the 30-50% of TAX you pay if you could AVOID paying it (legally)?What
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Happy Friday! Our Friday read is a starter kit on how South Koreans earned their right to vote and the logistics of voting in Korea today.https://twitter.com/BluRoofPolitics/status/1332315244065001472 South Korea's fight for
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