#Controversial

A 17-year-old boy was rushed to the ER by his brothers struggling to breathe...[thread] He was in profound respiratory distress with deep retractions breathing 40 times per minute. It turns
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Once again we are having a discussion about #StopAndSearch I mentioned some of this earlier in the year but if we’re ever going to get to the causes of the
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Splatoon didn't exist when we last had a new Donkey Kong game. Neither did Undertale. Star Wars hadn't been revived yet back when the last Donkey Kong game came out.
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The elected school board in SF has been the subject of much discussion lately as it has made several controversial decisions (renaming schools & lack of planning to re-open schools).
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Nice study on Thrombocytopenia and Clinical Outcomes in Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Helps further delineate risks for poor outcome after ICH among patients on antiplatelet agents.https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.0314
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Amul was started in 1957 but the brand mascot, the blue-haired girl in a polka dot dress first appeared in 1966.Who would've thought it would withstand the test of time
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I'm an old now, but this thread is for the youngs. Gather round ... let me tell you a story. I went to college in 1985, in Florida, at an
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On the eve of the agreement between Morocco & Israel to normalize ties, I’m re-sharing what I wrote almost 2 years ago on the 1965 “secret” Arab League Summit in
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Thread coming up in the morning. What's clear is that there still isn't enough transparency about Facebook's decision-making about hate speechhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-politics-muslim-hindu-modi-zuc
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What a lot of Brexiters there are!The third in our field guide to Twitter's lovely Leavers, beginning with:1/15 Ramblin' Ron: He's behind Nigel's march 100%. Let's see those lazy Remoaners
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1/ A thread on financial regulation....and the OCCA lot of the disappointing discussions regarding @Michael_S_Barr for @usocc are really just a proxy fight over what could and should have happened
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THREAD: I'm really pleased with the support that we're getting for our People Friendly Streets programme. Lots of people are getting in touch to say how much they want a
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Indonesia exports (peaked in 2011 & declined since) by categories & item (yr 2019):#1 Commodities 54% of total#1 Coal (13% of total)#2 Palm oil (12% of total)https://twitter.com/Trinhnomics/status/1323511434408390656 #1 Coal is
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From @SenatorLankford Lankford Letter sent to constituents 1-12-2021 to justify his actions:"The idea of the commission was based on the election commission of 1877 after the disputed election of 1876."The
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One thing that a lot of people don't know about Portugal's Estado Novo regime under António de Oliveira Salazar is that unlike Franco and Mussolini in neighboring Spain and Italy,
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Inbox is filled with this a metaanalysis of mortality by Dr. Andrew Hill at Liverpool re: ivermectin. Easily accessible drug, safety profile, cheap. Some data at beginning at pandemic looking
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