#Past

This is disingenuous. What the National Trust is doing is part of a full-scale politicised 'audit' of our history and national memory to, at the very least, asterisk anything that
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I’ve said before that not withdrawing from Afghanistan based on the terms of the deal would be accompanied by calls for an increase in US troop levels. And here is
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Today, I released the Office of the State Comptroller’s Oversight and Outreach Plan.Our plan lets New Jersey residents know the specific ways we’re looking out for their tax dollars and
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1/5 Diversity is a codeword for anti-white policies. A THREAD:DC is 49% Black, 36% White. Whites are underrepresented at Cava (a DC restaurant chain).This is similar to Microsoft's Diversity Report,
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#Wednesday #WomeninBritishIntel Freya Stark (1893-1993) Travel explorer, writer, photographer, #spy working in the #MiddleEast during the interwar period & SWW. The only historian to-date to successfully grapple with her secret
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A (short) thread on the Good Friday Agreement.A lot of people have a lot of opinions, not many of them have read it. It’s not very long, I’d recommend it.As
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Doesn't feel like a great time to celebrate anything, but I guess I should do a tweet:Yesterday was the one year anniversary of HEATED, the climate newsletter I quit my
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A quick little thread—before it's too late!—on late ancient Jewish views of Hanukkah/the Hasmoneans *outside of classical rabbinic literature*, which, actually, do conform a bit more to the modern "nationalist"
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The DES mess: a thread. Hindsight is 20/20 and these times are unprecedented, etc. Platitudes aside, however, these past few weeks have been a masterclass in how not to run
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I'm gonna get on my soap box for a minute, so excuse this rant. When I first joined Twitter it was to meet like-minded people, but then I got sick
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Really recommend you watching this super insightful lecture by @pol_antras on the current state and (post-COVID) future of globalization at the ECB with some super interesting stylized facts. This is
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Today in #DetectingDeception is ... this. It's a good example of why reading past the tweet or headline is important, and also a good example of deceptive distraction. 2/ There's
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The bull case on the consumerization of healthcare in the US seems to assume that healthcare $ shift from the insurers to the consumer, via an HDHP + HSA. But
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'bout time we did a QAnon thread. Here's everything you need to know, starting with @juliacarriew's excellent in-depth overview for @guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trum
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think one of the thing that bugs me the most about talking politics is the endless thrum of "this politician said they're going to help you; why don't you believe
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Let me double down and go through some numbers. I agree that too much is better than too little and we should aim for some overheating. The question is
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