#National

hi! i work in local government and community management, and i’m here to tell you a secret: it is like, really, really easy to overwhelm the people who work in
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Trump is ‘Ideologically Aligned’ with some of the Biggest Threats to America: former DHS officialhttps://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-is-ideologically-aligned-with-some-of-the-biggest-threats-to-america-former-dhs-official/#.X066yDoCQ
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I have to speak my mind. As lockdown begins to ease so the assault on wildfire & nature by wreckless & stupid people begins again. The HS2 abomination, Beavers shot,
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#ProteaceaeGeneraAtoZ: - This will be a slowly evolving thread briefly looking at each genus in the family #Proteaceae in alphabetical order. For each genus I'll put up representative photos (if
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Why Berners should vote Green in 2020.(thread)1. No matter what you do, Joe Biden will lose to Trump exactly like HRC lost to Trump because they support the same policies.Plus,
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This piece on the carelessness of crisis metaphor by the ever-admirable @MarinaHyde prompts two reflections - one a book, the other on those elements our country's past that might provide
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The origin of State-enforced marriage age is historically from two sources. The Church wanted to erode the power of clans, and manorialism, which wanted to delay the marriage age of
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1/2) Yesterday I spoke with @DMwonzora on @MacBelts live show & I asked him how he intends to reconcile Politics &law in such a highly charged environment were disagreements have
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Ten Reasons Why We Must #SaveIndieBookstores, a thread: 1. Indie bookstores support new voices in ways algorithmic, online shopping cannot. Booksellers in indie stores take pride in finding, reading, highlighting,
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Why it is not necessary or even remotely helpful to make Election Day a holiday part 7632883275https://twitter.com/morningmoneyben/status/1318261340306288643 Everyone who can vote has time. Everyone who doesn’t have time serves these
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One thing that's interesting apropos the merging of left and right in weird authoritarian social movements is to look at how it happens in Russia. Here's a lil thread about
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In New York City right now, the number of new infections per day is still about 4x what it was last summer. The number of daily deaths in NY is
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(THREAD) There’s been chatter about threat modeling based on a @jayrosen_nyu piece. Since Sept ‘19, we’ve run over 25 crisis simulations with more than 1k people working in the media,
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The response to the #LIBREV conference was incredible & we know many of you wanted to keep the momentum going. We're pleased to invite you all to join the #LIBREV
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THREAD: There’s a disconnect between the #COVID19 reality and the fantasyland of the public conversation around getting back to normal. I don’t want to be alarmist, but let’s be realistic
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We were constantly told we were two weeks behind Italy. But will this government be reopening our bars in two weeks? Not a chance. Will anyone who raises the possibility
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