#American

Still processing the fact that I spent today watching a coup d'etat attempt in the United States of America, live on television, while American security forces actively refused to intervene.
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The op ed by Ambassador Lighthizer in WSJ raises an interesting question of the interaction between US and EU policies on free trade agreements.Thread. Prior to the Uruguay Round,both the
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A thread with some thoughts on Merrick Garland, whom Politico is reporting has been selected as attorney general by President-elect Joe Biden... /1/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/biden-to-tap-merrick-garland-for-attorney-general-4
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Thread: 1/ There's an intra-left debate going on with regards to the future of liberalism. Some of the best voices on this are @ZaidJilani @shadihamid and @zackbeauchamp - and its
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THREADNo rest for the weary.Now I have to debunk THIS horseshit.I guess people have no idea how @realDonaldTrump is protected.Look up LARP and ARG. You people said "White House insiders."You
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1."This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same. 2. I
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FAVORITE MOVIES OF THE 90s:β€’ GOODFELLAS (1990) β€’ THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) β€’ PULP FICTION (1994) β€’ L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) β€’ THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) β€’ SE7EN (1995)
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It's still too early to do poll assessments. If we don't know who the next president is, we definitely don't know how well the polls did. That said, a couple
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The Black Wall Street Massacre took place on May 31 & June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa,
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Late last week, I received a message from I can only hope was from am MAGA umm.. idiot. He wanted to know why I,a Canadian was getting involved in something
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This reminds me of the developer who made a fortune by having the first Tetris clone in the App Store, in 2008. In every new, empty channel, the first people
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THEAD Is it a coincidence that a deadly world pandemic sweeps the globe when political tensions in the West have never been as high?Directly after a polarising U.K. general election
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The β€˜Al Saud’ has emerged as one of the world’s wealthiest dynasties. By the time of his death in 1953, King Abdulaziz had married at least eighteen women and fathered
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I keep coming back to this tale of two cities: New York and Madrid both had terrible starts to the pandemic, both brought it under control, but then Madrid lost
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1/5. I have a lot of thoughts on effects of racism on scientists, the scientific enterprise, and the future of the scientific workforce. I shared some of those thoughts in
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When I WAS a liberal... I refused to watch Trump. I just couldn’t. Like most liberals, I didn’t see the allure. However, ppl I & respected stood by him
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