#SOCIETY

Couple of thoughts:https://twitter.com/policytensor/status/1279664471351242752 1) With the WW2 GI bill, there was a deliberate attempt to use college to transmute social classes via: Elites go to college, therefore if we send
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Continuing with the thread on Susan Bayly. During the 18th and 19th Century CE, the British made heavy revenue demands. It made sense for many traders and commodity producers to
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on calling lesbians 'men' when they do not please you:it is such an old homophobic trope. The first thing a lesbian will always be stripped off when she disobeys society
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As well as unremarkable academics, assorted clergy and former politicians the signatories to this letter can be clustered into two main groups; a shadowy British front org for Assad, and
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When we're exposed to terms like 'woke', 'snowflake', 'cultural Marxism' or 'identity politics, we're experiencing 'weaponised narrative' - designed for speed of transmission, virulence, & exp
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what do people think impostor syndrome means, really impostor syndrome was coined after observing a group of high-performing late-career women with significant accomplishments act modest or downplay their own successes
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I'm fine with saying that consciousness is an emergent property/product of a complex system. But the system in question is not just the neurons in the skull, it's the system
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Today the #NoShutoffs coalition handed @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris a mandate for the next administration: Implement a nationwide moratorium on shutoffs for water, energy, & broadband AND invest in utility justice
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Don't agree fully with this WSJ piece, but I think it IS important that the COVID advisors should include folks who have been critical of lockdowns & other blunt response
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For the first time today, Virginia officially recognizes Nov. 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance.#TDOR memorializes trans people killed around the world, including Noony Norwood of RVA (11/6/16), India Monroe
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Guiliani just called for combat to overturn the election and he was met by applause. As someone who has seen, firsthand, the terrible consequences of internecine warfare, I can unabashedly
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MINI THREAD: People are really surprised that some of these fascist thugs storming the Capitol are university-educated upper-middle-class society types. Before I went to uni there was a message board
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1. COVID-19 Superspreading Thread As the mutant variant seems to spread more easily - it's important to remember that the COVID-19 virus spreads quickly given the ideal super spreading conditions
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Some info on the European Social Fund Plus (for nerds, but also non-nerds. At least I will try ):The European Social Fund Plus is the tool of the EU to
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We received this message today via email. The experience of disability is one of the few times (other than a change in income/class) that can tangibly strip privilege from someone.
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Today, the first time, CDC says "Fully vaccinated persons who meet criteria will no longer be required to quarantine following an exposure to someone with #COVID19."THIS IS HUGE. A thread.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info
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