#Middle

1. Interesting debate going on now in France over Barkhane. Predictably I find myself somewhere in the middle.https://www.publicsenat.fr/emission/allons-plus-loin/operation-barkhane-l-heure-du-bilan-au-senat-186583 2. On one side, folks say
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For those of you in our nation who seem to think that our military need your assistance in fighting for our nation and taking down our domestic and/or foreign enemies
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Omegaverse but I'm thinking about the logistics of having heats or ruts with kids in the house..(I've read fics with it being just one night or several days)Do they call
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There is astounding poverty of foreign policy thinking. It is both Trump obsessed and gratuitously narcissistic in US political self absorption. Virtually any geopolitical problem you cite will NOT be
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I’ve started a new evening ritual: I leave all my technology inside except my Walkman, and I get into the hammock in the back yard and listen to an album
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Thought experiment: What if the majority of Americans got to pick the president, the Senate majority and the House majority? What if there were no gerrymandering and no Citizens United?
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Thoughts on teaching grammar: 1. A lot of the animus towards teaching grammar seems to come from two radically different views of English language as a subject: If you view
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"It’s most commonly believed the line originated from the poem, Piers Plowman, said to have been written around 1360 by English poet William Langland, about a man in search of
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We recently read The Tyranny of the Clock (http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html) but we think it didn't go far enough.Let's talk about calendars. Humans always knew how to live on nature's time. They
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A thread on hard court sliding & movement (ATP)1/ There have been plenty of lightning fast athletes throughout tennis history. But today’s game, alongside its high-margin, spin-laden power, has spawned
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#SuperSpreaderEvent brought to you by #SuperSpreaderTrump. So he's endangering more lives as he bullies Ga. Gov. Kemp in an ongoing effort to overturn a legitimate election in which he lost
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I learned TODAY that a MILLION black men who fought in World War II w/Drew Brees’ grandfathers were DENIED the GI Bill benefits they EARNED because they were black. As
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A little thread on how Hatem Ali, an icon of contemporary Middle East's drama, broke new grounds both in Syria and in the region. I'll focus on one example, involving
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Labour's plan to focus on flag and patriotism to win back voters is unlikely to work, for several reasons, based on my recent book Brexitland with @robfordmancs (if you have
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No law should require someone to pay for parking spaces they don't need.Oregon just slashed parking requirements statewide. First state-level action of its kind in US history https://www.sightline.org/2020/12/14/oregon-big-parking-refor
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i'm an atheist & i value the "scientific method" a lot, but i think rituals, different belief systems, spirituality, and mysticism are highly underrated & should be explored and embraced
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