#Lawyers

Like many Americans, today I received $1,200. But I'm fortunate enough to still have a job, so I don't "need" the money. That's why I'm donating it all to causes
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Government guidance on coronavirus continues to confuse advice & law. Such confusion was presumably the reason for media reports over the weekend referring to a ‘2m rule’ as though it
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It's long, but ends with free books. This started a couple days ago as a thanks, and hopefully boost, to a handful of authors I like and appreciate. As I
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This has been lawyered. By which I mean: so much careful phraseology here Lots of stuff here to explain (away) adverse evidence This part is a tick-box exercise to accept
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Tonight’s downtown #portlandprotests will allegedly have marches from chefs (Chef Bloc), teachers (anteacha?), lawyers (lawyers), health care professionals (Scrub Bloc), and dodgeball players (thonk!).Is tonight career night. I’ll be in
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Happy birthday to Paul Robeson.On December 17, 1951, he delivered We Charge Genocide—a petition laying out the case that the US had carried out genocide of Black people—to the United
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U.S. Border Patrol migrant camp from above ‘There Is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at a Texas Centerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html?smid=tw-share I am not surprised
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One of this historical moments when citizens step in to limit the violent excesses of their rulers By declaring social media a de facto broadcaster, Trump has made it follow
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Right now in a small town in Canada, there's a sign war going on.It's wild.And it's the best thing you'll see on Twitter.Here's how it all started.A thread. It all
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I'm regularly struck by how every day the Financial Times features advocacy for ideas that aren't stereotypically pro-business. Often the FT seems as concerned about climate change, wealth inequality, bad
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If you want straight answers from @9news about WHO contracted with left-wing Trump-hating #denvershooting suspect Matthew Dolloff, WHY station pointed finger at Pinkerton instead of taking responsibility & WHAT else
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Story time: One day I was talking to my conservative father about politics (first mistake). My dad is what you’d consider a moderate conservative. He’s not a MAGA freak, but
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Read this up... THE Aare Ona Kakanfo! The Untold Story of How MKO Abiola Was Nearly Prevented From Becoming the Generalissimo. Where were you in 1987? That was the year
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Thread: a plea for change...The #FirstDoNoHarm Cumberlege review recognises concerns about the system that have worried me for a long time. That the system can be ‘disjointed, siloed, unresponsive and
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I'm honestly shocked at seeing that @TheEconomist, a paper that is usually careful with facts, has its frontpage story on EU vaccine problems riddled with wrong information. It tells a
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Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday! Today we are talking about Homan Square and lifting up the demands of @BlkAbolitionChi to #CloseHomanSquare! This week, we heard about federal agents disappearing protestors in
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