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At risk of getting flamed on here, I am going to tweet this anyway: I see that "Defund the Police" is in the news again because Obama had the temerity
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“Americans Are More Mobile Than Many Other Societies — And That's Not Always Good”@mises https://twitter.com/amyruckes/status/1350855999435976705 “Indeed, residential mobility can be associated with higher levels of stress, crim
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#writing #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writersliftSteinbeck on writing:"What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft ... a kind of breaking through to glory."1/5 "With the rhythms
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@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of
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Interesting parapo meeting today, anger, lots of 'THEY' vs 'US'. The zoom meeting was well attended. People threatening fire, thunder, tagging those of us calling for calm "Traitors". Then I
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The best counter-American propaganda simply sidesteps the accusations and says "but can you do this?"No, Mr. Lukashenko, we cannot.Note again how easy it is: just a bit of good clean
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Ugh, another one for the "who drives like that?" book I guess.Looks like poor Honda went airborne but I don't see any news for that date/location so hopefully nobody died
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Thread on Scottish consultation on the Nordic model: if you're in doubt about how to fill in the consultation and want to "listen to sex workers", here's my view as
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PSA: As someone who supported Bernie twice and who threw things at my TV every time he called Strom Thurman's Good Friendℱ and Tara Reade's assailant "my good friend Joe
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Thanks to social media, we were able to identify who the man in this photo was and the full story behind it. (1 of 6) This is an image of
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Joe Biden wears a Rolex. So do I. A thread (that's mostly about social class and how we think about it):https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/fashion/mens-style/rolex-biden.html When my dad graduated from his apprenticeship in the
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We're experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases in our area. After searching through our data I have some tips for the UK Test & Trace system...(a thread...) (1/7) (2/7) The
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The inanity going on at the NYT -- McNeil, the r-word, the doxxing thing -- would be meaningless if it weren't emblematic of something bigger. It's not about wokeness per
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Been thinking about this all day and here’s what I think people may commonly mean by ‘pace’ but can’t look beyond the surface. When pace is too slow it’s one
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I’ll try and articulate the mental strain/exhaustion of teaching amidst a pandemic. 1. We had nearly 6 months out of the classroom (WE WERE STILL WORKING) going back after such
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Wow, it's a good thing they launched two separate coup attempts based on fabricated evidence and then stole an election, just taking the L and riding out the Trump admin
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