#GOVERNMENT

The federal government has announced a temporary national sick leave program. It will help some workers who need income support for leave related to COVID-19, but it’s not the permanent
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Just about the only drama today surrounding the @mtgreenee cmte vote is whether she in any way says out loud what she told her colleagues behind closed doors last night
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Senior U.S. cybersecurity official asked to resign amid Trump transition tumulthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-resignation/senior-u-s-cybersecurity-official-asked-to-resign-amid-trump-transition-tumult-idUSKBN27S2RW this story
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We're watching a press conference about Mustang Public School's "in-school quarantine" program:https://www.news9.com/videolivestream?liveStream=https://live.field59.com/kwtv/kwtv3/playlist.m3u8 First Lady Sarah Stitt says
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Had fun last night, I started a thread on a QAnon site where I alleged that rather than avoiding the draft Trump was in fact a decorated Green Beret with
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There's a few things that bother me about local government. One of them is that thoughtful citizens are often shut out of the process because they are made to feel,
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Today, Kamala Harris became the first female, the first black and Asian-American vice-president of America But she isn’t the first woman to hold the reigns of power in the White
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Today @PerthUSAsia launches ‘Adapting Australia to an era of geoeconomic competition’. We argue that geoeconomics - the application of economic instruments to geopolitical ends - will be a major challenge
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Politically, the next week could see some madly interesting games of football.Thread: On Sunday, PSG will contest the #UCLfinal . They are owned by Qatar Sports Investments, the Qatari government.
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NEW @JLPartnersPolls for @Channel4News: the 1st poll of the Red Wall since the ElectionIn 2019 the Tories led by 48% to 39%. Now Labour leads by 47% to 41%On a
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The Cuba before Castro is an relatively unknown period, overshadowed by Castro's Regime and the Cuban Missile Crises and buried beneath propaganda and ideological bitter. Despite that, Pre-Revolutionary Cuba was
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Thread: On @USAID PREDICT, Global Virome Project (GVP) and China Virome Project (CVP); some problematic issues with these projects, it's link to #originsofSARS2; and illuminating re: reason there's a lack
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Watching Grass is Greener on Netflix about the history of weed and its roots in the black jazz and hip-hop community and the war on drugshttps://youtu.be/UCUDxgYMdxI  Louis Armstrong to his
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2021 will be a hard year in the life of the American nation. There is a great struggle that lies before us and our disbelief at its arrival must not
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Leader of Romanian far-right ultras group is likely entering parliament after today's elections. Not by chance, but leading his own party. I’m pretty shocked and here’s why.https://www.gsp.ro/gsp-special/diverse/cine-e-aur-partidul-
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Normalisation of a repressive regime? Nothing about this govt is normal - think back a few years and compare the amount of the following to today's govt HonestyOpennessIntegritySelflessnessObjectivityAccountabilityLeadership (as in
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