#Policies

Bloodlands (Non-fiction) History, Europe, 20th century hell. Warning: you are likely to find this book extremely disturbing...which really means you’re human after all. Ok... I’m in awe from reading “Bloodlands,”
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The Directive Principles of State Policy contained in Part IV from Article 36 to 51 of the Constitution sets out the objectives to be taken up by the State in
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We need more open public space in the urban core. This is true before/during/after the #COVID19 crisis. Potential public spaces are hiding in plain sight but zoning regs, insurance policies
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One of the biggest problems with wrestling is that it has treated itself like some sort of secret boys club instead of a business. Let's talk about how actual businesses
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Seeing a lot of references like these in @nytimes and @guardian (and in more indignant forms in tweets) to supposed Israeli law that allows Jews to recover lost property from
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“Euro-American colonization caused the largest shifts in fire behaviors in California over the past 400 years. In other words, the genocide of Indigenous peoples directly relates to today’s catastrophic burning.”Just
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Today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, post-docs at University of Guelph vote on whether to unionize. Post-docs are a hugely important part of academia, so here is a short thread on why
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Republican trifecta governments are singling out & stigmatizing the very people they're elected to serve.Attacking a soft target like trans kids with little pushback helps with fundraising and satiates a
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Pressured into lockdown by a mendacious MSM & flawed, doom-laden modelsZero research into the consequences of shutting down the nationZero scrutiny of the Coronavirus Act3 weeks of borrowing our freedoms
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@UviNaidoo and @rhea_lobo are leading the skill-building workshop: advocacy for researchers for what will surely be an inspiring workshop. The resounding message so far? Lead with #empathy. (1/?)https://twitter.com/GlobForumTBVax/status/138
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With everything that's happening right now I've been thinking a lot about my Gran and the three weeks she was in hospital in April 2016, before she passed away in
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I agree with @ummodern that this is a great piece by @csissoko I also agree with his point about systemic interdependencies. Let me take a stab at expanding on that
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America, with or without Trump, was already a disaster. The Democratic elite's obsession with Obama-era politics and the concept of "civility," seeks a return to Neoliberal policies that kill people
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My five cents in a thread https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/world/europe/navalny-poisoning-merkel-nord-stream.html?referringSource=articleShare @LaurentRuseckas @RugeBoris @v_madalina @agata_loskot @StevenErlanger @MarcoGiuli @BLSchmitt @k
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Some good gun safety news coming out the post-election reports so far...1) The NRA’s big bet on Trump was a bust. The NRA's spending was down almost half this cycle
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EVELYN BOYD GRANVILLE, born 1924. Dr. Granville was the second black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Born in 1924, she grew up during
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