#Crisis

Very poor decision by @WVGovernor Justice who removed highly respected state health officer Dr. Cathy Slemp –the person who has effectively run the West VA COVID response -- after a
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Yesterday reignited a debate about an article Ash Sarkar wrote for The Guardian in 2018. For me the the moment she surrendered the moral high-ground on antisemitism was not her
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MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU: Don't you think If they had evidence of hospitals "under siege" to back up their 24/7 FEARMONGERING they would show that in every broadcast?
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Years later, I wrote of the George W. Bush administration https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/books/review/peter-bakers-days-of-fire.html 1/n My own role in the administration was both brief and modest, as I describe here. https://www.amazon
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Why didn't UK take part in EU procurement?No 10: 'We didn't get the email in time'.Michael Gove: "Communication confusion".NEW: Official minutes show UK took part in four EU meetings where
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Because often when I make threads I ask the simple question, what do I feel like writing about today? What will guides my hand? I'm a real person? With feelings?
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IMPORTANT READ: Our colleagues at @UK_Music have published the Music By Numbers Report today. READ THE REPORT IN FULL HERE: https://www.ukmusic.org/research/music-by-numbers-2020 Music by Numbers is essential reading for anyone who
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[Thread] There is a discriminatory aspect to #Yemen's current conflict that people tend to *not* disclose. Its significance has social and political implications for generations to come and in my
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Gag me with a silver spoon. If there's one thing we've learned over the past decade, it is that there are no Republican deficit hawks — only poseurs who claim
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We're 6 hours in to Leeds City Council's Plans Panel debating whether to allow the expansion of Leeds-Bradford Airport. And I've no idea which way this is going to go...1/
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Match-going fans are currently excluded from football due to #COVID19. Executives, however, are still at it.Long thread about two alarming developments involving fans and the network of support offered to
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I founded Upfront Software in 1998. After 22 years in business, the survival of my company seems doubtful and I suddenly have to re-enter the job market. If you are
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Greetings, @PeteButtigieg, welcome to the wonderful world of the Department of Transportation. Here you will meet, well, me from time to time. So I thought maybe I'd compose a briefing
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One thing I will never understand. In 2020, we let ~340,000 Americans die, sometimes in the thousands per day. And we watched. There were no protests, no daily banner headlines
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The Real-Time Tragedy of Aggregation in the Age of COVID191/ The current health tragedy surrounding the spread of COVID19 cannot be discounted, however the real tragedy isn't the health crisis,
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We Keep asking supporters of an Indy Scotland what currency they’d use and is yet to get an economically sensible reply so let’s look at the options. The SNP would
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