#STATES

Breaking: @MichelBarnier has told EU ambassadors that legal action against the UK remains on the table, but will be used only at the "appropriate time" 2/ During a briefing this
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This graphic is stunning. Here is the wider story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/17/coronavirus-has-come-trump-country/ They also allow you to see how rate of new cases compares to testing, deaths, and percent positive by
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The violence and forced displacement in #SheikJarrah have shocked the world this week. Israel’s settler expansion into East Jerusalem isn’t new. MERIP has been documenting this for decades. THREAD. Joel
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We all recognize that testing data doesn't tell us how prevalent the coronavirus is. If the % of positive test results for a recent day are higher than the cumulative
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#QAlert 5/24/20 This will be my THREAD for all #QPosts for Sunday, May 24, 2020. WIN BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE. Welcome to the Shadow Presidency of
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we should prioritize based on our capacity to administer and on effectiveness of the relief .. I’m disheartened but not surprised that the loans to businesses have rolled out in
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Despite months of predictions about a “blue wave,” @GOP kept the Senate & expanded seats in the House. Biden & his allies know @POTUS will win if only verified, #legal
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Dropping my #BlueMAGA / ShitLib Mixtape, feel free to add more tracks 1. Fake Account2. Trumper3. What time is it in Russia?4. Bot.5. Now do Trump6. No one Cares
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When media and pols use hate crimes for division, counterarguments must be timely, and start with data. 2018: Whites: 8% of murders of blacks, 81% of murders of whites. Blacks:15%
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Israel and UAE normalizing relations. Understatement to call this a big deal. A new geopolitics of the region. Palestine issue no longer a priority for Gulf States. And very bad
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Originalism, a lesson.If you actually read the Constitution (almost never done) you'd find that it isn't a set of laws to pass and not pass. It isn't a guarantee of
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Oregon is among a handful of states that had their highest ever prison populations in 2018. Forty-four other states have been reducing their prison populations. Elections like this really matter.
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We're the poorest rich country in the world. We have lots of wealthy individuals and an impoverished commons. The latter was looted by the former.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1247881635942539264 The United States is not
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1/ Stanford historian Jack Rakove has an essay on originalism in today’s Washington Post (if you subscribe, you can find it). A long-time critic of originalism, Rakove insists the first
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Some back-of-envelope math from #Indiana randomized #COVID19 sampling results:- 2.8.% prevalence w/pop. ~6.73 million means ~188.5k infected- Testing has found ~25k infected- So, testing is finding ~13% of all infected-
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Trump told states they were on their own to purchase medical equipment, so that’s what MA tried to do. But then the federal government outbid MA at least 3 times
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