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In my latest for @StarTribune, we analyze how the killing of George Floyd marks a failure of Obama-era/post-Ferguson police reforms.https://www.startribune.com/floyd-s-killing-marks-failure-of-obama-era-police-reform/571373582/ Minneapolis
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Should colleges offer a "major in sports," as Sally Jenkins proposes in @PostSports? https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/07/college-sports-major/ I'm surprised this column has gotten this much attention; the idea com
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On Sunday Venezuelans will elect a new National Assembly, putting an end to the opposition-controlled legislature that underpinned @jguaidó's widely-recognised claim to be the country's legitimate president. In this thread
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Today, @Ginkgo announced a free 5-week classroom testing pilot for 100s of schools. As part of the pilot, we’ll provide all the materials schools need to collect and ship samples,
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so, inauguration week is coming to a close.one highlight of the week were the many #Bernie memes, often tagged with creative & at times hilarious captions.i wondered, though, if we
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Rant on cultural diversity in academia:Etiquette in academia is overwhelmingly dictated by UK / white-US / Scandinavian / German cultural norms; mostly due to the overwhelming representation of scientists from
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Is it heresy to live tweet @son_nair? Whatever, lookit her face. This is the Broadly Speaking 'New Voices in Food' panel for @wheelercentre. What comfort foods have helped im lockdown?
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Just reported a tweet of some Star Wars/Marvel stan targeting two random accounts, fully visible to find, for saying negative things about the recent announcements as a rallying cry to
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TOP 12 Countries Where Gringos Can Go…Coronavirus EditionIf 2020 got you looking for an escape, lemme break it down for ya!Vamonos! P.S...Subject to changeDo your own researchThis is just my
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I really shouldn't be at this point in history but even I was surprised at the criticism I've seen of the State Departments announcement on Taiwan. So let's unpack it
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“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser is like the Bible for nonfiction writingAnd it can be applied to anything you write – books, blogs, emails, tweets, etc.Here are my 5
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"The crisis that will emerge if the Trump crime cohort is not prosecuted does not have to do solely with Trump, but with elite criminal impunity as the guiding force
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Some Western “Leftists” need to understand that there is nothing progressive about Islamist movements in the MENA (or whatever you want to call it); they are certainly not the equivalent
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Join us tomorrow as we discuss the international order, past and future, before Trump and after, and my new book. THREAD https://quincyinst.org/event/the-liberal-order-before-trump-and-after/ In 1999, a decade after the fall of
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Here is a thread in support of #AmbassadorPeteUN. For the videos, I include very brief summaries. Common themes in his foreign policy speeches and conversations are: 1. Climate change is
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Hemingway vs. Faulkner: The Little-Known Rivalry Between 2 Of America's Most Famous Writers 1/ If you thought the 2pac vs Biggie feud in the 90s was competitive, let me tell
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