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On this date in 1941, my grandfather was en route to Tobruk, Libya, where he and his mates would soon be besieged ‘til late October. His diary kept a brief
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Trump’s proposed anti-immigration EO is as xenophobic & cruel as it is stupid & counterproductive. It embodies the worst of US exclusion w/out even tangentially addressing the pandemic, & given
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26./ PART 2 : Puberty Blocker Thread. @sjblakemore has shown the brain is radically transformed during the decade and more of adolescence with, for example, activity in the medial prefrontal
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This year, I'm going to start a thread and share the NON-academic books I read. Why tweet about this? A work-life balance thing, and a scientists-are-real-people thing; more about my
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Is the @WHO responsible for the global outbreak of #COVID19?Tough question to answer.But exploring the question shows how power politics influences international organizations.[THREAD] As I explained in an earlier thread,
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Lord Meghnad Desai, the British Labour Peer in the House of Lords, wrote in his 2017 book - “Politicshock” that 2016 will go down as the year that marked the
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While the CDC was telling us we didn't need to wear masks and not to buy them so they could go to front-line workers, long-time GOP operatives were leaving politics
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New York City could not have done a better job of accelerating the spread of Covid-19 if it tried. January 28: Coronavirus No Match For NYC, Health Commissioner SaysDr. Oxiris
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THREAD: #YuriShvets Notables1/ October 13, 2016 @OlegTsarov mentions on his blog that Yuri Shvets was working "at Clinton's headquarters" with "the task of finding dirt on Trump" and "any information
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Charles David Todd. (NBC)18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious Conspiracy18 U.S. Code § 1962 - R.I.C.O. Mark Murray. (NBC)18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious Conspiracy18 U.S. Code §
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I will do this tonight! It will be glorious! (if I get any likes) Amazing Spider-Man Gang War by Tom DeFalco, Jim Owsley, Ron Frenz, Brett Breeding, Joe Rubinstein, Mike
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/1 I received many questions from my most recent newsletter. I will do my best to answer them in this thread: Question from Lennart: Is it possible that statins would
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Good evening and welcome to the 93rd Academy Awards. I’m your host/commentator Matthew Wolfstein, and I welcome you to this preamble before the actual ceremony starts in an hour. Sit
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Okay mini thread of the cool and ridiculous things that went on in Avengers Academy: A running joke in AVAC is that some of the minions from each villain event
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Full on battle in the streets of Minneapolis right now. The rumor mill is saying members of a local militia are en route. This is via police scanner apparently.https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1265467731056394240 Folks
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Ranking all 61 episodes of Still Game from worst to best-A Thread: 61-Cats WhiskersComplete and utter shite. This episode features by far the worst character to ever feature in the
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