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#CannesFilmFestival is where auteurs, stars, and journalists come together in one rosé-drenched, glamorous crush of humanity. In lieu of this year’s canceled fest, watch these award-winning movies à la maison
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Currently at Refugee and Immigrant Roundtable with @InterfaithMin. This is part of the @HoustonChron Listening Project, a new initiative to hear what people care about in this city, what they’re
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December 31st; China alerts WHO to new virus.January 23rd: Study reveals a third of China’s patients require intensive care.January 24th: Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting.January 29th: Boris Johnson misses
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Remembering the Nearly 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in Americahttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html?smid=tw-share Here is the essay I wrote to accompany this extraordinary work of journalis
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This is gonna be long, so I'll note the /end.I lived in Europe from when I was… maybe 7 years old until I was 14, when we moved back to
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https://twitter.com/wilson__valdez/status/1298997213444493318 https://twitter.com/ifthedevilisix/status/1292915042229395460 You know who REALLY loves Tucker? @ggreenwald https://youtu.be/oPpuEaZdUe0  Note the use of the term "n
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E&P cuts coming thick and fast today: Wintershall Dea "significant reduction" in investment, divi suspensionDNO cuts 2020 budget 30pc ($300m), suspends most drilling/capital projects, axes 1H diviBW Energy defers Gabon
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A thread on @KamalaHarris's town hall today w/ @cthagod & @jamooreforsc15 on her Plan to Provide Mental Health Care on Demand. You can read more about her plan here:https://kamalaharris.org/policies/mental-health/1/ First,
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We have to flip the Senate in 2020. It's as important as winning the Presidency. Remember what they did to President Obama?! Yeah, so let's do this. The polls are
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This is what I mean when I compare DJT to the ants in our kitchen.https://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1248277700239740929 He has these things he does, and they work out great for him a lot
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THREADSo, I've not been able to sleep tonight. I have a feeling it might be the prospect of Michael Gove as Prime Minister. "Why would that be then Chris?"Glad you
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You know what, I'm gonna talk about THIS.My 7 years are up on my NDA's anyways.Yes. When I was in Syria, we had specialized iPhones that could use WiFi/EMF emissions
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okay I am going to be serious here and I might get dragged for this butBlack lives matter and what is happening with police violence is disgusting and abhorrent. But
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A thread on the "humanity" of people fleeing war, climate change and torture:10 migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan raped an 18-year-old German girl for more than two and a
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The Umayyads in Asia: The Contact with Tibet and the Tang (700-742).[THREAD] In the 600s, the Arabs had began their conquest under Islam. In the 640s, Persia had entirely been
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"Far from being able to prevent civilian suffering, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have played a part in causing it," @SherineT said ahead of a debate
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