#STATES

Govt dug in heels re. EU touring visas yesterday. Arts minister @cj_dinenage told Commons that EU proposals were “simply not compatible with our manifesto to take back control of our
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Also while I'm waking and bakingit's weird, or perhaps not, that so many alt right hold up Sparta as some sort of ideal, or worse still...ideal of feminism.Like...no? I mean
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Oral argument in California v. Texas -- the constitutional challenge to the ACA -- is about to begin. It's set for 80 minutes of argument time (but likely will go
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Provoked by @ddupreejr's thread on US Presidents sucking and some "Canada's better!" comments: A LONG thread on why Canada isn't much better than the States when it comes to being
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Happy February! Even a stiff Kilimanjaro breeze can’t keep UM from bringing the . Won’t you indulge one of the hottest months of music for @umphreysmcgee? THREAD #umphreys #february
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There are apparently some doubts about whether the President had the authority to commute Mr. Stone's sentence. And Speaker Pelosi has called for passing a law purporting to restrict his
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55 yrs ago today, Lyndon Johnson signed into law Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII of which is now at stake wrt LGBT rights). On this anniversary, re-upping my
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THREAD: many in Lebanon were expecting drama of high profile indictment like Milosevic trial, this was never going to be the case. Tho it acquitted 3 defendants, @STLebanon found 4th
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a (long as hell) #syscourse thread about the neurology of multiplicity and how it shows no room for plurality. see the condensed version on my (very) WIP carrd here:https://muffinsyscourse.carrd.co/#neuroscience  in
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Let’s look at some of the lies published by the Portland Police following yesterday’s protest at the SE precinct/MCSO building!http://archive.vn/oXfqB  Lie number 1: Police claim that protesters were “making statements
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You may, unfortunately, find yourself staring at election results displays for hours on end today. As a person who builds those displays for a living, there is a thread of
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They will steal your vote by illegally changing federal voting laws They will lie to secret courts to start investigations - and give probation to liars and crooks They will
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I think of research design (informally) as being fundamentally about whether you have a story for where your identifying variation comes from--contrasted with the case where your identifying variation is
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Oh, I see they'd like to make a distinction between Trump's pre-meditated and planned insurrection and the insurrection that Trump incited that same day?Why not both? Authoritarians:1) reject or show
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Indian farmers are leading the largest strike in human history. They are fighting new laws that hurt the working class and decades of government abuse and neglect that has had
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The stock market is to me the most contemptibly stupid construct that apparently all of life depends on. Nevermind "the government" I live in a city with a few blocks
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