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1/4 A scandalous and shameful situation at Security Council VTC meeting on #Syria chemical dossier today. After we asked clear questions to #OPCW DG #Arrias to be answered in open
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From today’s @WSJ “[Robinhood] differed from most major brokerage firms in a critical way: It wasn’t part of a well-funded colossus that had myriad sources of cash and sprawling compliance
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The US election is tomorrow.  If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the
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The 1876 presidential election was a mess. "A Democratic candidate had emerged with the lead in the popular vote, but 19 electoral votes from four states were IN DISPUTE."If you
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Charles Sumner thread!!This thread is inspired by a picture from the terror attack on the US Capitol on Wed. I’m not going to copy or otherwise link to the picture
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Thread: 170 wickets at 25.91, with a miserly economy rate of 1.94. Often unplayable, mostly unhittable.The greatest off-spinner the #cricket world has seen alongside Jim Laker. Hugh Tayfield was born
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I am doing a Q&A with rural hometown on vaccine stuff. Their biggest questions are about pregnancy and fertility. THIS MATTERS A LOT TO RURAL MIDWEST AMERICA. And has been
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I'm gonna tell you something.I don't think it's a secret; I think it's just one of those truths no one likes to discuss for fear of hurting others:It's a lot
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Today is launch day for Per Aspera and I wanted to detail the history on how @RawFury discovered this gem. It’s a fun story!But first, a big congrats to everyone
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If you’re wondering why people are calling for today, Juneteenth, to be a national holiday... you might only know part 1 of the “how slavery ended in America” story.When white
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I would like this morning to deal with a troubling subject. Why does London Road have an almost imperceptible kink in it through Abbeyhill, and why does Lower London Road
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Love the sword-bearer's design and how strongly African some of them are, with some clear specific cultural references notably from Egypt, Ethiopia and Senegal. These specific African references reinforce these
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Thread Re the AIDS storyline in 13 Reasons WhyI grew up in the South with minimal school sex education & parents who were unaware that HIV treatment had progressed beyond
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| All my life, we've been transferring to different cities (which I love) and I've grown up with different phases of my life in almost 7-8 cities. So when someone
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The Wolof (aka Jolof or Djolof) Empire was a state on the coast of West Africa, located between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, which Ancient civilization thrived from the mid-14th to mid-16th
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Story time https://twitter.com/shomadjozi/status/1342598022098784260 When I was 16 my family moved to Tanzania. I moved there first with my dad and we drove there from South Africa because my dad wanted
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