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A cultivated Conservative friend of mine once exhibited great distress because in a gay moment I once called Edmund Burke an atheist. I need scarcely say that the remark lacked
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The Curious Case of Whis Gi: DBFZ EditionThe Whis Gi is one of my favorite topics when it comes to lost FZ content, so with this thread I hope to
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OSD policy has published a new, more expansive fact sheet making the case for the triad. Knowing how long it takes to clear these things, it was likely in the
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JAPA has published my new article "Off the Grid… and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design" https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2020.1819382Curious how US street network design has changed
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[Thread] It is incredible how many Indian American writers in ‘think tanks’ and institutes have not even reacted to India’s massive push for Vaccine diplomacy & how it has delivered
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It may not have aged well, but it remains cable news’ preferred business model - pitch your coverage narrowly to an ideologically and demographically skewed audience, giving them lots of
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CW:Right. I think I've a fair idea who/what is behind the backlash that has occurred in the last few days, and it's as bewildering as it is disappointing. I could
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It's @POTUS's Climate Day and Biden *just signed* a batch of new climate policies to shift government operations into climate action mode, pause new fossil fuel leases on federal land,
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I am shocked Ugandan journalists are angry at being terrorized by security forces alongside other citizens as if they are a special category entitled to an exemption. This is a
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With the newest @bellingcat FSB poisoning story, we now have a pretty extensive bullpen of FSB officers we've uncovered who work in some way on operations to poison domestic dissidents.
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Covid19, the Church and Lockdown THREADI am genuinely torn. Sacraments are not an 'optional extra' in the smorgasbord of worship. The Eucharist is the 'source and summit' of the life
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Stupid but GeniusThread...1. A shoe hackIs your electric socket too high for your short charger cable? Worry no more! All you need is a shoe with string 2. Multipurpose buckleYour
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Moses Annenberg 1878 -1942Newspaperman and organized crime figure. Hired and directed criminal gangs on behalf of the #Hearst Corporation. Later used his wealth to purchase The Philadelphia Inquirer and found the Annenberg Foundation ht
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Story on C-PTSD & PTSD: I’ve been meditating on Jesus as Redeemer. Redemption can mean diff things to diff people. One definition is “restored to original state”, another is “a
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Settlers mega-thread: a thread for dumb ppl who won’t read the book and I’m too tired to debate (or ppl who just wanna learn); combatting misconceptions and validating the theoretical
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DURING THE PANDEMIC, we scientists made a lot of science communication mistakes. One big problem is there are at least four possible ways for a scientist to have a conversation
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