#Merit

An "ESL" concept that I would put forward if I was president and not Florentino PerezA 20 team open league at top of the Euro pyramid. Teams in the league
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What's really annoying and amusing to me about idiots celebrating the ban on TikTok is that these were the same people railing against nepotism and lack of opportunities for outsiders
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I have better things to do with my time than contend with with writers wilfully misinterpreting/projecting a range of assumptions on an innocuous, voluntary question aimed at discouraging black-facing in
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I just would like to say that I am heartened by the disappearance (hopefully permanent) of the adjective “woke”. “Woke” implied a finite destination. Like some weird video game, achieving
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I'm awash in a conflict of feelings, so I'm going to be extremely vulnerable for a moment and share my thoughts.I'm *really* struggling with purpose right now. Part of it
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Catching up on some of last week's earnings reports & conference calls and it's just so obvious the lengths company managements & the feckless "analysts" that follow the companies go
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I REJECT THE IDEA that there's only one way to build a scientific community. I reject that the fate of science rests on empowering certain scientists regardless of their bad
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I recently read about two Armenians who saved the populations of two Bulgarian towns from the Ottoman troops in the 1870s. Hovhannes Svajyan - a military telegraphist at the Tatar
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1. So why does America promote the idea of democracy in China? Americans believe that democracies are essentially better than autocracies because they provide freedom to individuals. This freedom in
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1/ I’m the only active female (HSsoftball) umpire in Knoxville. I made a call. I was confident in that call. Coach (m) disagreed. He’s allowed. I clarified. Assistant coach (m)
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ahead of their annual drubbing in the ANZAC match against the Storm, here are the Warriors ANZAC strips ranked from worst to somehow even more the worst 2019: the limited
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10pt Joe review:POTUS: most important job in the world. Of ALL the qualified, brilliant ppl available, Dems choose Biden:1. Bottom of his lawschool class2. Career politician 48yrs, no REAL job3.
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Oof. What a day. I believe there is merit to policing an identity, that is absolutely necessary for the material, mental, and spiritual well-being of a marginalized people—of their most
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I am not sure how many of you are ready for this conversation but we need to all reframe our discussions so that they are not solely centred around identity
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“I pause to stress that I am not belittling the threat of the virus, particularly to people who are especially vulnerable — the elderly and those with underlying health problems,
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Thread: Boris Johnson has just awarded his friend David Ross, the Carphone Warehouse owner worth £700 million, £85k for a private opera company in his house from the funds designated
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