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Just finished Cuties. I have some thoughts. Some I’ll save for my article but I’ll share a few of them here. Thread, I guess: The film has a strong message.
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ADHD THREAD 1/ Lately I've felt being open about my ADHD has blocked my progress as a #screenwriter. There's been a few 180 turn rejection moments that felt off, but
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A little round up of news for @fordnationa and @celliottability about migrant workers for whom we are responsible, through your authority. On June 1 it is reported 20 migrant workers
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If you see any more SPEAKING autists commenting on @Sia's movie without directing attention to what actual nonspeaking autistic people want the world to know, please remind them of the
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La Matrone: My סבתא (grandmother) was born in Nedroma, Algeria in 1928 to a family that had lived in Algeria since their expulsion from Spain. Finding life in Vichy controlled
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Many of the critiques I see on here boil down to the claim that the truth value, consistency, coherence, symmetry & correct assumptions of an idea matter less than its
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My @RUSI_org Journal article @npwcnn quotes from in his @CNN piece asking ‘Will deplatforming make Trump & the far-right vanish, move--or radicalize further?’ is unfortunately paywalled, but here’s the core
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1/Following great stories by @jennymedina and @mannyNYT, sharing some of what I saw on election night, most of which I spent with Mexican-American Republicans in the Rio Grande Valley (Cameron
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Who made Mark Zuckerberg king ? A thread . . . First, I'd start with the Harvard Ad Board who in 2003 gave Mark a pass for violating university IT
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To understand why patriarchy persists, it's crucial to listen to men's concerns about how they will be perceived & treated.Shahnaz Laghari's explanation of honour killings is superb:How men try to
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Recent discussion of critical race theory (CRT) in conservative evangelical circles has become a distraction from substantive issues of real concern—a chimaera, invoked by culture warriors in a transparent effort
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Last night Chris Vanderweide was arrested and charged in relation to threats made against our chair @BernieFarber and executive director @ebalgord — calling them “evil Jews” who “must be shot.”
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THREAD. Western elites revised their estimation of Corona in March. They had, for months, downplayed Corona as a minor, flu-like illness. By mid-month, they had decided it was one of
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There is something I need to get off my chest. A few days ago, @fordnation said that comparing the hiring of OPP officers to funding a safe school reopening is
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1/ Brazil´s Senate is set to vote on June 25 on a bill against "fake news" that threatens freedom of expression, association & privacy. If approved, it would be a
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Threadlet.There's a trite narrative being peddled about at the moment among the more polite sections of the media.It goes like this:Daniel Andrew's press conferences are the first time the great
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