#District

This is a summary of National Association of Manufacturers v DHS, the 5th visa ban case to be filed. Other plaintiffs include the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail
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What does this guy have to do with this woman?Hint: dynastic politics.Thread. Charles S. Whitman was elected Governor of New York in 1914. By that time he was a committed
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NEW: The Bronx district attorney is reviewing 31 homicide cases handled by 3 detectives who used psychologically coercive techniques to get a 16-yr-old boy to falsely confess to the murder
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Ready for the story of how Trump's Department of Justice killed a 117-year-old literary Christmas tradition? In 1903, T.E. Donnelly — the publisher of Chicago's Lakeside Press — wanted to
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Gandhian leader who started Bhoodan movement and coupled it with land reforms. Later supported Emergency calling it anushāsan parva.Remembered a story I heard from elders about These land reforms were
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So I've read the book "Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village" by William Hinton - which documents firsthand the land reform campaigns (1945-49) in the countryside of
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So this story got me thinking about how West Virginia could do better for everyone. Give me a moment, I'm working on thishttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-coal-endorsements-exclus/exclusive-u-s-miners-union-t
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Affidavit- Jack Blaine of Sequoia, concerning their dealings with Smartmatic of Venezuela. This outlines how Smartmatic "divested" due to US law and their continued dealings with US businesses. SVS was
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Theories on Bhaumakara Dynasty Scholars like Binayak Mishra and RC. Majumdar, argued that the ‘Bhaumakara Dynasty’ was associated with a tribe called “Bhauma”, whose members originally lived on the Mahendragiri
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"December 2020 Bits and Bites: COVID Edition"As I'm still keeping an eye on the far right in Canada, I thought I'd do a little thread on what some are up
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Interesting epidemiology news: a lot of folks predicted the Black Lives Matter protests would cause COVID spikes, and that doesn't seem to be the case.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/black-lives-matter-protests-coronav
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Marriage For All Japan's post-court session debriefing stream is about to start! I will try to sum up what happened in Tokyo district court today afterwards.https://twitter.com/marriage4all_/status/1334075401857974273 Today's court
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A Republican lawyer said she was on a call where "Karl Rove's business partner said 'You guys need to stop worrying about Siegelman, my girls are going to take care
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Srimanta Sankardev, can be credited with giving shape to the Assamese society as we see today.On his death anniversary today (৩ ভাদ ১৪২৭); here’s a thread on the life and
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A new argument against renaming Auburn High School in honor of Harriet Tubman: That because Tubman didn't go to school there, it shouldn't be named after her. There is an
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Once upon a time, there was a neighbourhood which was a popping upper middle class district of Lagos. Till now if you wander round it, you will see abandoned properties
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