#Restraint

Remarkable interview w Collins, full of self-pity & view of herself as victim of Gideon & Schumer (whom she loves to bring up; can only be natural self-restraint that kept
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Why is the pressure to “be the bigger person” always places on the person who was wronged? Why have we created a society where the villains get to treat people
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Neil Basu | #ThreadA message to policing colleagues across the UK. This message doesn’t come from the head @terrorismpolice; An Assistant Commissioner @metpoliceuk;Nor a representative of @PoliceChiefs;It’s a personal message
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These two owned your ass. There was no disputing it. It didn't matter what time, day, where you were or what you were doing-the moment they called you answered. The
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1/Western elites often talk about a "rules-based international order" and how China has defied it.But what exactly is this "order"? And why do Western elites feel so threatened by China
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NBC says that this ‘faithless elector’ betrayed his state’s voters.But they are wrong.Colorado's Micheal Baca appears to be one of very few who understands the intent of the Electoral College.And
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1/21I argue that 3 sets of 8c Sogdian wall paintings, which depict men drinking from rhyta, show parameters & protocols of a lively drinking game. we are going back to
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In 1988 a Scottish constitutional committee issued A Claim of Right for Scotland. The title of the document explicitly referred to earlier claims issued in 1689 (opposition to the arbitrary
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#DisabilityRC mates. Lets...get mad. Link to paper in various forms:https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/restrictive-practices-issues-paper "We understand that ‘restrictive practice’ is a term used in Australia to
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Kerala High Court will shortly pronounce orders in the anticipatory bail applications moved by dubbing artist Bhagyalakshmi and feminist activists Diya Sana and Sreelakshmi Arackal, accused of assaulting a YouTuber
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THREADThis a plea to journalists. When someone dies under a pile of officers, the death is NOT an isolated event. And there are many more deaths than just the death
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OK, so, I'm biased, but I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching a show than I did binging @Netflix's "The Queens' Gambit". It is criminally
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THREAD: Talking to staffers at progressive orgs and in Congress, there's a sense that "yes, progressives are winning all these symbolic foreign policy victories, but..."Looking from the outside in, I
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I wrote about D.C. statehood.https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/democrats-push-to-make-washington-dc-the-fifty-first-state Over the course of writing and telling people about this piece, I've often been asked why D.C. isn't a
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Ball is Life (8 Lessons from our Basketball court) - #1 Foundations are everythinghttps://lorenzosbizarreplaylists.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/ball-is-life-8-lessons-from-our-basketball-court-1-foundations-are-everything/ It’s very noisy out
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I will not apologize for any of this thread. Upright. Reversed. Reversed reversed. Criss Cross! EVERYBODY CLAP YOUR HANDS—(I can’t think of ANYTHING I wouldn’t do with/for Nadia, and
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