#Tragedy

Today marks five years that Iโ€™ve written, reported and edited local news for @nbcwashington. Iโ€™m thankful to my team for teaching me to write breaking news better, to newsroom veterans
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I'm not preparing for the end of civilization. I'm preparing for the beginning of a better one. We aren't going back to a stone age, void of the pitfalls of
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Opening a wildly corroded can of Spider-Man Pasta from 1995: a thread. (1/5) I put the can opener to work, unsettled by the rust, but emboldened by the lack of
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Watching the notherners talk about the Birmingham statue is hilarious. Some quick facts. Birmingham wasn't around during the Civil War, the city was established in the 1870's.There are statues in
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The scale of our tragedy:7 out of 20 pages in Saurashtra Samacharโ€™s Bhavnagar edition today contain obituaries.It has 195 obituaries โ€” 63 with photos & 132 text-only.It had 21 obituaries
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Autism Research1. Find something that autistics reliably do differently than the rest of the population.2. Make it tragedy3. Profit#AutismAcceptanceMonth c.f.https://twitter.com/SNeurotypicals/status/1245884754710290432?s=19 c.f. alsohttps://twitter
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Media has convinced people that "the end of the world as we know it" is supposed to be some grand event that happens suddenly and ends quickly and we're left
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why puerto ricans donโ€™t claim lin-manuel miranda and why you shouldnโ€™t support him [thread]: lin-manuel miranda supported the obama promesa bill. what is promesa? after the puerto rican economic recession
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๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š:by no means is meant to take away or over shadow the tragedies going on in America but i want
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TO ALL #Covid19 DOCTORS:I know you're going to be asked to make some terrible decisions in coming months.But PLEASE. Please. Don't assume disabled people do not have rich, full lives
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Seeing a few questions on Twitter about the #WritersReliefFund from โฆ@writerstrustโฉ and โฆ@twucโฉ. Letโ€™s see if I can clear some things up.https://www.writerstrust.com/programs/canadian-writers-emergency-relief-fund There have been far more application
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The mute feature is helpful. You can mute people, hashtags, and words. I use this feature often. I follow some awesome people, but I can't handle their self loathing, depression,
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Abortion was banned in Poland already: exceptions were made for rape, incest, a mother in danger of dying and fetuses so malformed they wouldn't survive. The new law takes that
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If Trumpโ€™s May 28 executive order were to end up restricting the ability of private social media platforms like Twitter to tag tweets like his as misleading, it would violate
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I remember about 6 years ago, Ghana went crazy with this interview with former Gospel Musician Ama Boahemaa. When asked how her skin changed so drastically her "milk" response was
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Every day, my child asks, "Have we reached our peak? Have we passed the peak?"Embedded in this question is an assumption that I believe he shares with many people.The assumption
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