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I often hear Western fans say that Akira was more popular in North America than in Japan. I think the recent Otomo retrospectives and these giant public murals prove otherwise.https://twitter.com/blauereiter/status/1381340633818755073
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Rappler editor-at-large Marites Vitug talks to Asian studies professor Patricio Abinales from the University of Hawaii-Manoa about the institutional weaknesses of the PNP and how these have led to the
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The Depp Discourse has been a good reminder that most people don't know anything about how to evaluate evidence in a gender-based violence trial. So here's a thread about how
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Joe Biden making an ASL interpreter sieg heil and draw a swastika is a good bit Biden makes the pussy fingering hand sign while talking about women. Baffling. Biden recites
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Okay. Here it is."Frog In Our Throats: Intro"- THREAD -1. Robert Mercer's company, Cambridge Analytica, cultivates & powers the messaging for the NRA.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/nra-hillary-clinton-dona
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THREAD:In which family history, DNA, family mysteries regarding ancestry, and a plausible explanation for a missing branch of my family that has baffled three generations.*+ *CODICIL:It would be inappropriate as
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I wrote an article a few years ago with the title "Taiwan can win a war with China." It went mildly viral, and all that. Barring some pretty massive internal
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Justice Alito's invocation of Sir Matthew Hale in his leaked majority opinion is so, so much more fucked up than people realize. I'm a professor with a PhD, and my
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Steal as much as you can by @nrolah is - a scathing indictment of the culture industry and its hegemonic stranglehold by privately educated mid-upper classes.I’ve been a joiner, then
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The land where Brookhill sits is owned by the Spangler family. They are probably the wealthiest family in NC. When CD Spangler died in 2018, his fortune was valued at
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• How did the Brazilian league system work?• What was Pelé’s record like?• Was it really the best league back then?I normally back Pelé, but in this THREAD there are
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Zócalo asks, "Can we build a better Summer Olympics?"Welcome to the mega-thread of *reasons why the Olympics should immediately fuck off forever*https://twitter.com/ThePublicSquare/status/1271587145220669440 "The six Summer
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Last night, I watched the @NatGeoChannel documentary #Jane—I wanted to see it for a while, but now that I have access to Disney+, it seemed a good time to catch
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IN REVIEW: this week, the u.s. billboard chart was called out after some sort of logistical mistake resulted in australian pop band 5 second of summer’s new release being ranked
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Welcome to the WH daily shadow press briefing -- morning after edition. For those who are new here, think of the briefing as a sci-fi novel. @PressSec provides the fiction,
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The Twilight films truly had one of the best soundtracks of all time: a thread Decode - Paramore Supermassive Black Hole - Muse I Caught Myself - Paramore Leave out
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