#Unusual

I'm teaching nearly 100 students first-year writing this term: five courses at three universities. All online. Here's a short thread about what it's been like, trying to help my students
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It took a few months but corruption is the most important story in the world againhttps://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1283256838801231874 Corruption is the most important story in the world again, part 2https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1
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In April and May, there will be various easy comps from low base effects that will make some year-over-year numbers look quite high.Official CPI for example is likely to hit
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A growing number of pastors are calling upon Southern Baptists to own the name Great Commission Baptists, which we approved as an alternate designation for the SBC in 2012. I
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The official name of this mosque is "Atala Devi Masjid". It still stands on the pillars of the Hindu temple that originally stood at this site. The temple was destroyed
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I can't decide which is more amazing: @MichaelEHayden's tremendous reportage yesterday on Stephen Miller, or the rest of the media today, all studiously pretending as though it doesn't matter. Incidentally,
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I checked the data on previous Supreme Court vacancies near an election. Here's what I found:Latest vacancy filled before the election: June 10, filled July 24. This was exceptional, though:
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Thread: Rod Rosenstein is a TraitorRosenstein will testify to the Senate next week about the origins of the Russia investigation. There seems to be some confusion regarding whether @RodRosenstein is
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Migration to Britain now running above the peaks seen before Brexit. Net migration now back around 300k a year. EU migration down sharply, replace by non-EU migration.Yet the political salience
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Climate grief is getting to me whenever I’m more than two hours out from talking to another human and good god, I wish I weren’t also terrified to share with
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Thread: Stumbled across game developer @SpaceBackyard Formed in 2016, they've released 3 narrative games + a teaser and ... WOW!!! All of them are incredibly stylish, feature vibrant atmospheres, and
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Why you, yes, you reading this tweet, are missing out on the most underrated anime/manga of the 21st century: a thread buckle up guys gals and non binary pals (don’t
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As academics critique the world’s response to Coronavirus, we need to start a conversation about what’s been happening in our own back yard. How is our own Covid response impacting
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NEWI spoke to the Texas Attorney General about the state's near-total ban on abortion amid the coronavirus pandemic. I wanted to highlight a few of the things from our interview.thread....https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-attorney-gener
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You match with a sweetwun on Tinder and after two days of chatting, you decide she's neither a thief nor a catfish so you invite her over to your place;
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Jagan Vs Judiciary - My Analysis1. The recent letter by AP CM Jagan to Honorable CJI has raised the eyebrows of many. Although there is no rule that prohibits a
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