#Story

In the school i went to the black kids would test you to see if you were afraid. They would yell something out like "hey white boy!" In the most
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A little info to consider:Each POTUS directly appoints about 4k people to work at the top levels of government. By my count, @JoeBiden has named about 1% of that number.
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Curious about Curious George? Here’s a #WW2 thread about the little orphaned monkey who escaped Nazi Europe and found refuge in America. Hans Augusto Reyersbach was born into a Jewish
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Since people are talking about the Jericho March it's worth considering the Jericho story. At Jericho Joshua saw that: "a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in
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No wonder Jenkins is distancing herself from the movie. She doesn’t have the sensibilities for this stuff. No effort here, would be surprised if Jenkins directs another big budget movie
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I spy with my little eye…something that makes me uneasy. A story from earlier this week...#Thread Our story begins last week when someone saw something that seemed a bit...off? They
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1st, this is not a thread about who Dal-Mi should choose. #Jipyeong hurts me, & not in the way people may think. Hence this thread just for him. He isn't
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How did Michigan get $300 million in grocery money to 900,000 kids by the end of May while Minnesota has struggled to implement the same program for 350,000 kids (and
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a notable thing about this strange, disappointing article is it doesn't actually name or engage with any of the journalists who have covered the Dream-Loeffler situation. It references ESPN/TSN, but
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Today's #ParrotOTD is the Carolina Parakeet, the species I have studied the most! They were the US's only endemic parrot species, surviving through blisteringly cold winters in the midwest. Much
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Some of my favorite podcasts I’ve been on are holiday-related ones with my friend/cohost @bobservo, so I thought it’d be nice to do a thread reminiscing.Starting with our podcast for
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The “religion” of Judaism is listening, questioning & critical thinking./1 Our spirituality lies in awe for HaShem — the unimaginable source of creation. /2 The practice of Judaism is in
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This is a thread about bureaucracy in the city of Los Angeles. In 2006-2007, there were some very high-profile car crashes in a quiet residential neighborhood. Death; destruction. Cars crashing
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I was asked to thread another "war story" so please bear with me while I think of one. Ok, this one is about a cop killer and rapist who made
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I finished my MS and needed a break from academia to rethink my interests. I got a job I love as a data analyst and helped my friend land a
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My feature in new @BW: How the American Worker Got Fleeced https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-the-fleecing-of-the-american-worker/ It's about a lot of what I've spent the past months/years covering:failed labor law, fissured wo
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