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I think there’s a conversation to be had about (perceived as) straight authors *being centred* by the publishing industry while also being aware that that’s not purely a choice that
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“Kristallnacht: The Nazi pogroms that began the Holocaust”Today marks 82nd anniversary of #Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) when Nazis destroyed 7500 Jewish businesses, 275 synagogues and 236 people died including
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A long term Twitter follower asked yesterday, out of concern, under my latest photo, if I had lost weight.Yes, I replied, my ADHD pills screwed my appetite up and I
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For decades, Joe Biden took the train back and forth to Washington every day. This begs the question: why not drive? Joe Biden is a certified car guy. (https://www.autoblog.com/2020/08/05/joe-biden-corvette-twitter-video/) Why
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For those curious on dangers of high risk settings for the spread of COVID-19 here are a couple places you can find good data and research: "We found large variation
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(THREAD) My open letter to the Premier, Ag Minister, and my MLA inviting them to reconsider the recent decision to close the Ag Offices across rural Manitoba.1/ The recent announcement
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A brief THREAD markng this 19th anniv of the 9-11 attacks. Research shows that babies still in t womb on ths terribly stressful day were affected by t stress their
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video from the @ChefGruel tweet of a health inspector doing a happy dance that she had shut down another business. It reminds me of the novel "The Betrothed" by Manzoni
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Today, as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King, our office is announcing a major new policy geared towards combatting racial profiling.You can read the full policy here: https://www.washtenaw.org/DocumentCenter/View/19235/Pretext-Stops-Polic
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I think we should get specific on the whole “consultants are the problem” convo re @FlaDems. First, consultants come in every shade, the good, the bad, the unethical, etc. Sometimes
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Four years ago I had no twitter, no blog, nothing.Today, people have spent tens of thousands of hours listening to my podcast, reading my blog, attending events, enjoying my book,
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Je sais pas ce qui me prend mais... Avec tous les dramas du Twitter littéraire francophone, j'ai eu envie de faire un petit jeu.Je vous présente... LES 22 TYPES D'AUTEURICES
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I've been noticing something on Twitter that my brain has been mulling over so here's a (personal view) long weekend thread on "funders". Lots of tweets and discussions use the
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Updated version of The Global Financial Resource Curse (https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wch3u3pjdrz927/globfincurse_june2020.pdf?dl=0). Since the late 1990s, a global saving glut has pushed capital from developing countries to the US. But invest
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This is your daily pension announcement. The Travis goes balls to the wall edition! It has been a busy week in pensions, so I will again dive into the dung
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Why is testing breaking down again? Of course where cases are rising, demand is also rising. More people are symptomatic and more people have been exposed. The result is discouraging
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