#News

Wow, UI claims rebounded to 1.38 million (948K UI initial claims NSA + 428K PUA claims) last wk after the Thanksgiving lull, worst since Sep!Prior week's drop was likely fluke
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The same people who want to remove a salary cap. Are the first people who complain that ISL clubs don’t develop Indian players/Indian attackers. You think other clubs will give
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1. What are "Golems" and where do they come from? https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1345838693404139520 2. Are there "Golems" now? If so, why?https://mobile.twitter.com/SamParkerSenate/status/1280354004044668928
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One thing (of many) I think the press did a bad job of explaining these past four years was why covering Trump was so difficult. Our inability to articulate it
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Let me put this a different way about why I am very concerned that Trump will try to overturn the election and stay in power (and the very serious people
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Something I've learned while in law school is about the social construction of crime. I work in a legal clinic on wage theft cases, where employers have "improperly paid" workers
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Sad news. Comics great Denny O'Neill, one of the most interesting and influential writers of the Bronze Age, has passed away at age 81. He started out scripting bonkers Steve
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A few things that inspired me this week! Women factory workers in Meghalaya, India are to get free sanitary napkins at their workplace as the state cabinet approved an
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Yesterday the Pacific Islands Forum-- the Pacific region’s most important political body and a powerful voice for the Pacific on the global stage-- made a decision that is already causing
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The scenes in Portland are incredibly dystopian. Faceless agents attacking protesters, grabbing people off the street & throwing them in vans. The agency carrying all this out? Border Patrol. And
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28 November 1975 - Prime Minister has summoned the Chief Minister of UP to New Delhi.She is very angry. She does not believe that Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna did not know
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Does #Bitcoin have a long-term future? (long thread, 1/24)I thought I might as well air some worries, which might be common but unarticulated among crypto newbies like me.These worries
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i'm seeing people go"omg the pollsters were wrong again"and"ugh polling companies really need to change how they work"meanwhile here's how polling compares to real results here's another one of these
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Whose useful idiot are you?Politics and propaganda in 2021.A thread. The "useful idiot" is one of the best new terms of recent years.It's a neat term for people who whole
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The worst part about all of this is that if we had all been patient, been willing to suffer just a little while longer and followed lockdown rules and real
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Early issues of the Daily Mirror have been added to @BNArchive, which is great news because the paper has a fascinating origin story.It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe)
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