#Americans

Self help isn’t really my deal, but I am going to show you how your implicit philosophical commitments are holding you back and preventing you from achieving your potential Certain
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Al Franken: “Well, it finally isn’t funny anymore – the grandiosity, the ignorance, the cruelty, the bullying, the racism, the petty insults and incessant stupidity. But especially the non-stop lying.
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As we all grow weary of lockdowns & restrictions, & some case-counts seem to plateau, there's restlessness towards ending these to limit economic harm & 'get back to normal'Let me
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In September 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of students in Detroit. The lawsuit sought to establish literacy as a right protected by the US Consitution - the
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New in AJS: "The Making of Neoliberal Globalization" w/ S Babb. We examine the rise of Washington Consensus policies in 1980s.The US engineered the policy agenda, but how? A nerdy
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Looking forward to joining this...my first #HATM experience.https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1262422244980142082 Full disclosure, I have some opinions about our man Mel.https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1061629940632707072?s=20
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27 June 2020 #MAGAanalysis Riots scare me, and so does masking, but then again...Here's a very interesting story. It offers me a new thought, and I always appreciate that. I
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Vision Zero and Safe Systems are public health policy. John Snow's map of cholera cases in London is one of the 1st examples of modern epidemiology.Civil engineers ended that outbreak,
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Let's talk about the 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood and why the American Marines who died in it were not "suckers"[THREAD] To start, why were Americans even there? Specifically, why
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#OTD 4 July 1916, in an indication of how things were to become, & in part, due to the situation to the north, the struggle started to become tougher for
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Excerpt from Michael Cohen’s book “Disloyal, a memoir”:Watching Obama's Inauguration in 2008 with Trump, with the massive, adoring, joyful crowd on the Mall, incensed the Boss in a way I'd
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Three of every four rural counties in the U.S. are in what the White House Coronavirus Task Force defines as a “red zone.”The virus is spreading out of control in
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So now it’s imperative we use the power we’ve demonstrated as a collective whole to enact some real changes in football. The whole lot FIFA UEFA PL FA What would
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I find this Jill Lepore op ed extremely frustrating. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/truth-reconciliation-tribunal-trump-historians/2020/10/16/84026810-0e88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html To begin with, though Lepore treats them
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White House Rose Garden thread. There’s a lot of misinformation masquerading as commentary out there.https://twitter.com/sdkstl/status/1297221917364170754 2. “Most notable is the absence of the 10 crabapple trees that were part of
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**The Franklin Cover Up by John W DeCamp** (good book)What begins as a routine investigation into a financial scandal reveals a nightmarish satanic ring that stretches to D.C. Details witness
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