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Trying to figure out who #JoshDuggar is? As a scholar of religion in America and someone who has followed the Duggar extended universe since the mid-2000s, allow me to sketch
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THREAD: Public statues are often targets in a crisis, much like museums-but for other reasonsThis is a statue of a monarch who was beheaded for treason & overthrown in a
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First official nomination, on the first day of the nominations window.Mexico has nominated Jesús Seade Kuri for the post of WTO Director-General. Includes a link to his biohttps://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/dgsel_mex_08jun20_e.htm
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Our paper showing global and general effects of land use on zoonotic host communities is out today in @nature! There’s quite a lot in the paper, so I thought I’d
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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in
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1) My investment philosophy + Disclaimer -I'm a full-time investor and my concentrated portfolio is comprised of (primarily founder-led) high growth companies with large addressable markets. I usually look for
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It's much harder to imagine heaven than hell. In fact it takes no faith at all to believe in hell, only an open eye. You don't even need a pair
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Buckle up fam, Pepe Thread time. 1. I'm going to be candid, I don't know just how lethal the coronavirus is going to wind up being. I've given both sides
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alright, thread time. let's talk about what went down after 9/11, war crimes, and the history of white men in badges getting away with murder. If I have to know
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MEGA-THREAD: @mattyglesias competently summarizes the "Debt no longer matters, so relax & add more" case. But these arguments - common on econ Twitter - dismiss two key realities:1) Baseline debt
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Anyways, moving right along. New read. From Jamaica to Ghana. Let's see what @BlueBirdTail has in store for us ! #LiteraryTraveller . My library is obviously rich because I'm not
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Days after @IMFNews @WorldBank mtgs ended, I'm feeling anxious. A long thread! The threat of looming IMF-imposed austerity post-pandemic is clear. IMF's pushing this in 84% of #COVID19 loans, tho
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I haven't worried about this Impeachment for a single second. The deeps states last ditch desperate attempt to escape destruction. These scumbags sold out their own Country for power/fortune and
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Thread – STEM Education Succumbs to the Left1. I have repeatedly posted about the adverse effects of Robert Conquest’s second law of politics on American cultural and political institutions. 2.
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Pine Tree FlagThe Tree Flag (or Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution. The flag, featuring a pine tree with the motto "An Appeal to God" or,
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Happy 105th Birthday Beverly ClearyA thread http://waldina.com/2021/04/12/happy-105th-birthday-beverly-cleary/ Today is the 105th birthday of universally-loved award-winning children's author Beverly Cleary.  You will have a difficult
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