#FERGUSON

I’ve read three completely different bits of journalism today, pointing to the fact that the UK is completely busking it. Firstly, this FT article from this morning (remember this morning!
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Max is right. Open Society foundation does support civic institutions. Max opposes civil society in countries he deems subject to 'regime change' because he's not a small-d democrat. That's what
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My little thread on Bond. I think it should be Rebecca Ferguson playing the character she plays in Mission Impossible: Ilsa Faust. They should get rid of "Bond", keep the
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“a lot of the ferguson protesters” haven’t died. i feel like i’m about to lose my shit about this fucking narrative. my nerves are fried and we’re fighting death from
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A thread of Famous Celebs you may not have known are related:Christian Bale and Gareth Bale (Twins) Sam Smith and Graeme Smith (Brothers) A. J Styles and Harry Styles (Father
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re: that LRT from LB...serious q: what abt the last few weeks has activated these white people to "finally wake up to what's been going on," as they've said? The
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Among the most poisonous legacies of the era of European colonialism and slavery is the idea of race. Silvia Sebastiani and I have explored a little of the history of
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If we make police response the metric, then the religious left is officially regarded -- by law enforcement and TPTB -- as vastly, disproportionately more powerful than anything the religious
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In my economic history class, I had my students watch two videos about Soviet economic power. One was a 1962 Encyclopedia Britannica-produced film narrated by Alfred Rieber, the other was
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twitter dms are being monitored. dont make any posts or dms about going to riots or looting. dont make any posts threatening donald trump. police will show up to your
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1/ On 31 March 2020, a thirteen year-old boy called Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab died at King’s College Hospital after contracting coronavirus.“Sadly he died without any family members”, because they dutifully
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I have a powerful need to create a thread that maybe two people will dig very much and everybody else will be like DUDE THAT DOESN’T MATTER RIGHT NOW but
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New detail re DC sister offering to "help with childcare" is interesting...last night it was claimed "Cummings went to stay with his parents so they could help with childcare while
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ThreadAs I listened to Harris speak, I wondered how differently the current situation would look under a different administration and something occurred to me - it DID happen under another
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Important works from the last wave of anti-police anti-white supremacist uprisings: Bobby London (@i_KAN_love) on looting as a political tactic, and how "looting" is used as a dog whistle to
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Could Jurgen Klopp be more successful than Sir Alex Ferguson? Given time he definitely can be, and on some levels he already is. Fact Number One-No club in football history,
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