#Enclaves

There were some threads recently that I thought about retweeting, and then fell into a pit of worry because retweeting them would bring more anguish and require more emotional labor
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@JebSprague @gabriel67891734 @PedroRNunes The Empire's showcase of democracy & #Corruption in the #Caribbean-#DominicanRepublic #Medinaregime - Via @VladimirVargasM https://twitter.com/VladimirVargasM/status/1289756614560555010 This
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a) this, at its heart, but I want to addb) the "dunk on gay marriage advocates for caring about marriage, which is a straight thing, for straight people" is a
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I’ve lived here 25 years. I send my kids to DCPS.I’ve rebuilt schools for the unfortunate. I’ve built communities from nothing. I’ve built more homes in dc than I can
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The most radical invention of modernity is despatialized place, or the creation of non-places. Think: the shopping mall or the suburban subdivision: simply locations where individuals inhabit; not places where
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A thread on the folly of "herd immunity" which I need to get off my chest:To begin, herd immunity by natural exposure to a pathogen is not a strategy to
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With the Trump administration targeting WeChat, some worry they will lose the last line of communication they have with the rest of their family thousands of miles away.@suhaunah reports:https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/202
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Every once in a while I encounter a video from some shithole country that beats the last shithole country video (some of them from enclaves in the US) for most
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You’ll see it in the headlines from time to time. It’s usually some variant of “which language did #Jesus speak?” or “is ISIS exterminating the language of Jesus?”. Scholars –
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Read this thesis yesterday. The largest population of Afghan Hindus lives in Germany, mainly because of immigration laws of Germany in 1990s. Majority of Hindus who left Afghanistan did so
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One of the things we don't acknowledge enough is that there aren't really any ancestral homelands. We think of, for example, Wales and Ireland as being the homes of Celtic
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#Thread on Puducherry ** Do u know the UT of Puducherry is inside 3 Indian states namely Andhra pradesh , Tamil Nadu and kerala#1stJuly Pondicherry and the other enclaves of
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The second-worst Legion Corruption narrative is The Emperor's Children with a bullet, and for much the same reasons: it immediately becomes 66% more compelling if you just ditch the fucking
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Perspective on development in Africa... how to stop manufacturing poverty on an industrial scaleIf you look at distribution of poverty thresholds in Sub Saharan Africa, you can see some regional
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Was waiting for more data (don't trust exit polls), but looking like Trump got larger share of some minority groups across country (Lumbee Tribe, Mexican Americans in S Texas, black
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The Boko Haram war has dragged on for over 11 years. Killing over 30,000 Nigerians, why displacing well over 2 million. Hundreds of military lives, wasted to the war, yet,
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