#News

“Stop protesting, bottle your anger and wait 5 months and vote” is the worst take: Firstly, voter suppression (enacted through voter ID laws, voter purges and felony disenfranchisement, which disproportionately
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I had a really nice trip to the Guanfu Museum in Beijing this wee, but couldn't help wondering whether some of the items on display (particularly porcelain) were really authentic.
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Does previously infected covid-19+ person cannot get re-infected? What do we know about 'immunity passports' or 'risk-free certificates'?Read on..#COVID2019 From WHO: After reviewing the evidence on antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2
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I was just live on @RT_com to talk about the "clashes" as RT chose to call it between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces and It was not pretty.1st RT chose
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I've seen many stories/tweets about two hairstylists who exposed 140 people by working for *eight days* while symptomatic. One, this shouldn't happen. Two, where's the follow up? Is anyone actually
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My county has a webpage now that you can go to and report violators of the stay-at-home order in our state “While violating the order or a quarantine order is
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A pandemic that risks voter engagement, misinformation discrediting our electoral process, Trump fighting to undermine/postpone the election, years of festering voter suppression. There's a lot we can do to fight
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@ChanelRion Good Evening. First and foremost 'We' a Nation of Patriots would like to thank you for your work exemplifying the reason and the need for a Free Press that
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Did you get your mail-in ballot? Unsure of what to do next? Here's an explainer (THREAD)1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/ You can find more information about voting by mail
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Journalism needs a Glass-Steagall act /thread The glass-steagall act put in place a firewall between commercial, retail banking & investment banking. Idea was that FDIC-guaranteed retail bank funds shouldn’t be
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This has been weighing on my mind a bit this week, so I thought I'd get it off my chest with a Twitter thread. As you do. Earlier this week
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When Matt Lauer rears his head, I like to recall that in 2009, he tried to convince me to be interviewed by him about sexual harassment in the workplace. We
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Plenty of people respond to demands for police abolition by, quite understandably, asking: who will respond in a crisis if not the cops? A 2019 survey of unhoused people in
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Is Trump relaying more extreme conspiracy theories? That seems hard to prove. Remember that he started out with birtherism and Pizzagate. He's always been this extreme. And these theories successfully
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I've been watching the main UK news shows every evening and my impression is : When Italy reached the death toll of 800+ the UK reports about Italy were full
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GOP Moving ‘Full Steam Ahead’ With Plans To Hold Convention Amid Outbreak https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-full-steam-ahead-regular-rnc-plans-decide-alternative-later via @TPM Please do.
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