#America

1/ re: Ivana quote ..OK so Tocqueville didn’t write those words in 1835; Judge John Innes Clark Hare did in 1899, paraphrasing Tocqueville. BUT it was similarly misquoted in NUMEROUS
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Content note: CSA Imagine not acknowledging the dossier of women’s testimony against woody allen: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/christina-engelhardt-woody-allen-allegations https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-ope
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Finally, some helpful but incomplete data on cumulative COVID-19 hospitalizations in Houston. More than 1,000 admissions so far at the city’s major hospital systems, though this omits many smaller hospitals
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1/ Biden's goal to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 will require sweeping changes in the power generation, transportation and manufacturing sectors.It will also require a tremendous
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People are going to be judging me more, the more vocal I may become, so I'll just provide some perspective. The 1st 2 years of my public education, we regularly
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questions for non-canadians, by a canadianinspired by kenna's american thread90% of this is going to be food related, just a warning why the fuck do you call rockets smarties. how
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I've been studying the role of outside funding and infrastructure in social movements and lobbying campaigns for some time, and it's been interesting to witness this moment with the "reopen"
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"Latino" is an umbrella term originating in language coined by French colonizers to talk about people in Latin America that spoke Romance languages. Its meaning has changed over time, but
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No,this isn't a http://nightmare.You  haven't died and gone to hell.This is it.This is America.This is the world we live in. The most powerful country in the world has elected Donald
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I was trying to work today...but a reporter called to let me know that @CoryBooker was trending on Twitter because Trump was throwing shade. As a scholar of #deracialization, I
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"It's like watching the decline of the Roman Empire" - Canada"It reminds me of Belarus" - Belarus"We used to look to the US for inspiration. Sadly that is not the
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It’s not “divisive” to demand #MedicareForAll when millions are losing their insurance in a pandemic.It’s not “divisive” to demand a #GreenNewDeal when it hit 100° in the Arctic for the
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I just saw a thing on the news that said that foreigners are confused about why us New Zealanders and Australians prefer drying our clothes on washing lines instead of
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THREAD:So last night on #RuPaulsDragRace gay man and drag queen @JackieCoxNYC could’ve made a statement about Islam’s atrocious treatment of gays and women, while in drag, but was too afraid
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1/6 Covid-19 and the Rise of "Soft Despotism"Alexis de Tocqueville coined the term in the 1800s. It describes how a country can be overrun by a litany of small, complicated
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1) This UCLA professor was caught selling Air Force/Navy missile secrets to the Chinese. He's facing 219 years in prison.https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13423  2) The jewish head of the Chemistry Dept. at Harvard was caught
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