#NYTImes

We’re still learning more about what this virus does. Studies report it to attack not just the lungs, but also the brain, the heart, and now the skin.Needless to say,
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At the height of Black Lives Matter protests in New York City, the police were repeatedly filmed using force against peaceful protesters.We reviewed more than 60 videos. In many, force
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Killer Mike is the perfect example of someone who uses radical language without having any real commitment to actual radical politics. I went over the transcript from his appearance today
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I didn’t respond to @paulkrugman's original tweet because I assumed it was just a bad tweet and that he’d figure that out on his own. But now I'm realizing that
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I know I’ve been saying this for more than a year but Facebook needs to take Twitter and Google’s lead and ban microtargeted political ads until they can fact-check and
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As you're watching the working groups release recommendations, I think it's important for us to keep two contextual things in mind. First, the Community Police Council has been working for
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Speaking of, I have been fascinated by the gentrification of these atomized media sites -- the ways in which celebrity culture is flooding alternative media spaces which were initially populated
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A must-read by @CharlesMBlow. For anyone who studies how Black ppl embody health disparities (diabetes, hypertension, HIV/AIDS, incarceration, homelessness, asthma) it is unsurprising but still heartbreaking to see COVID add
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As much as recent GOP was always convinced the left was destroying the country (ahh, sweet memories of Pat Buchanan’s 1992 convention speech), there was always a foreign enemy. The
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200,000 more people have died in the U.S. since March than would be expected in a normal year.This number, about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been
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Comments on recent #COVID19 US developments, some positive, some not: US still in plateau w/ daily 25-30,000 cases and average of ~2000 daily deaths for ~5 wks. For perspective, the
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It feels like there’s no room to breathe. Human struggles are dwarfed by conversations about numbers. Those figures usually represent deaths, confirmed cases, or the stock market. I’d like to
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Why banning the mentally ill from gun ownership is actually dangerous (THREAD)Let me start by saying I am not an NRA member or gun nut. I purchased my first firearm
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NEW: 24 dead in Colombia as protests continue. A teen shot after kicking a police officer. A young man bleeding out as protesters shout for help. Police firing on unarmed
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Biden starts the general election with a lead in national polls, but it's closer than it looks. The polls show the electorate split along the same demographic lines as 2016,
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The @ManhattanDA charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take
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