#Country

Hurricane Katrina devastated my community 15 years ago today. I was 17 at the time. In many ways, my personal experience and studying what transpired helped radicalize me. These events,
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Lots of speculation that yesterday's massacre in Rio was a deliberate effort help police-linked milícias take over Jacarezinho by softening the Comando Vermelho's long-standing hold on the community. Plausible, chilling,
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This is a time for understanding. There are 19 countries that have closed their borders, most of them are in Europe. They have a strong military presence. The US sent
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I’ve been reading a lot of the contrarian (primarily from fellow righties) COVID19 opinions, and I wanted to work through them in good faith. I find most of them pretty
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Warning: MASSIVE Thanksgiving thread incoming.cw: cultural genocide, genocide, colonization Since it's American Thanksgiving today, and a lot of folks are retelling the old lies about poor pilgrims and friendly Natives,
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Folks who want to use AI/ML for good generally think of things like predictive models, but actually... smart methods for extracting data from forms would do more for journalism, climate
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THREADOne last point about the Portland Antifa death-squad murder of Aaron J. Dickinson:For all you folks talking about what YOU'D do, these killers picked out a target, murdered him, and
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“Las Vegas pool enthusiast” twitter is pushing back on this. I’ll explain what I know.https://twitter.com/dankaszeta/status/1264657138963668992 Random Las Vegas guy takes umbrage at my trustworthiness, not knowing who I am or
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So many things wrong w/guidance that contact tracers are giving BCians.BC PHO is 2 months behind on the science. Masks are 1st line of defense, we all need to wear
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TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS THAT AREN’T ABOUT LOVE/BOYFRIENDS/EXS (A THREAD): 1. A Place In This World.Written at the age for 13, the song talks about young Taylor trying to figure out
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From photographs, to voice recordings, to televised ghost hunts, people have been using media technology to document paranormal encounters for hundreds of years, but is anyone really there? A spooky
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I think the SCOTUS/2020 election scenario that's far more likely than them handing Trump the election on sketchy grounds, is one where Trump tries to get them to do that
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https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/12636910505284526081/ I replied briefly before, but I think a more detailed explanation about contract tracing might clarify some things up for people as well as make clear why the idea
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A #thread on Mahatma Gandhi's relations with "pissfuls"An accident of history: In the year 1920, two books were distributed from all the mo$ques of India. One book was named "Krishna
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Quick Reaction Alert scrambles over the space of days... it's been busy for #TeamLossie But we're always ready to scramble at a moment's notice, #SecuringTheSkies of the UK Today
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Alright, I've got enough bourbon in me for one more thread before I crash. WARNING: this will be a weird one. I'm not even tagging the Conservative Twitter Intelligentsia in
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