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This op-ed is a good roadmap laying out the relatively limited arguments that remain for defenders of the filibuster. It's worth taking a minute to break them down.https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/512512-unintended-consequences-o
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On Friday in Chicago, Black & Indigenous organizations led protests that wanted to take down a statue of Columbus. CPD responded by attacking protestors. A statue dedicated to hate was
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In a shocking development -- I'm just as surprised as you! -- I think Trump and DeVos are mostly right, at a high level, when it comes to schools reopening
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#twitterstorians #AcademicTwitter: you want to help Colombians and don't know how? A of organizations that you can donate to, easily from anywhere in the world. First, some context:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/americas/colo
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1. Last month, I was about to get on a flight to Africa for an ISIS story when our world fell apart. Now I've been asked to cover another kind
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You know what everyone needs this week? A community-driven thread highlighting Black authors, publishers, translators, works. We'll contribute tweets on the #worldlit angle; also, we'll RT your contributions. Let's share!Why?
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The #University of #Pittsburgh #School of #Medicine is unveiling a possible #candidate #vaccine for the #Coronavirus #pandemic that has spread across the world. #covid19 #CandidateVaccine #coronavirusmakers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technolo
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2/ Some of the people who helped Bush stop the election recount in Florida 2000- Kavanaugh, & Roberts--are in positions of power today. Roger Stone organized the Brooks Brothers riot
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Civil rights attorney David Henderson, who was a guest on @AlexWitt’s show a short time ago said something so important. American police are well trained at one thing in particular:
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What did I get right? What did I get wrong? What did I miss?Threading through the 15 things...https://www.sightline.org/2020/04/07/fifteen-thoughts-on-the-coronavirus-and-cities/ #1: Far less driving should lead to far less carnage. Will that
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Dear 2020 Election,Prepare to be delegitimized for power preservation. Don't think you weren't warned.Love,2016 Election https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1250067500190089217 Might as well get a running thread going This is
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The article 'The Long-run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money' in @sciencemagazine is an excellent example of how prestige academic publishing and the media can manufacture a 'development miracle'—in
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More problems for global meat giant, and consistent law-breaker, JBS -http://www.foodandpower.net/2019/01/03/jbs-shortchanges-nebraska-ranchers-violating-the-packers-stockyards-act/ JBS yet again breaking rules - this time selling adulterat
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2 weeks ago, I assumed the Trump administration's coronavirus response was abysmal due to incompetence.I no longer think we're here through gross negligence. The Republicans in charge HAVE been taking
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We need to pull out of this tailspin of the self-fulfilling prophecy of political violence during and after the election before it is too late.We can start by understanding what
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Some day the same Germans now cheering Hitler’s strut into Paris, will say to their American friends and to their brave German anti-Nazi friends: “We did not know what went
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