#Advocate

Here's what I mean by Black women should ask for more money:In most states in the US recruiters can no longer ask you how much you make, so in pre
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Keep track of the people who advocate legislatures appointing alternate electors in defiance of final court judgments. Remember their names. They are enemies of democracy. Enemy of democracy https://twitter.com/docmjp/status/132805772291540
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Most deplatforming in poetry is based on publishers and writers disassociating from each other based on a given behavior, be that behavior real or perceived; not on censorship, which entails
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Right. I gotta say something about this. @Patreon CEO’s YouTube message letting the community (and world) know 36 people have been “let go”https://youtu.be/MV-3GgU6rlo  I... I hate this video. I hate
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Watching documentaries about the AIDS crisis/gay rights movement is so heart wrenching and humbling every time. So thankful of the LGBT+ community that came before me. They paved a way
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At a time when there was a nationwide lockdown due to COVID19, granting limited access to internet services by restricting the speed to only 2G in Jammu and Kashmir was
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As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it
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A former meth addict is my greatest source of daily inspiration.@EdKressy refuses to let his past determine his future. A former San Francisco home owner and biotech employee, Ed fell
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Seeing the center left trying to cannibalize the left here in PA and I have some thoughts. Thread. first of all, let’s just name the structural barriers in the way
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1. For the last few years we've been hearing a lot about *evidence-based teaching* practices. In principle, I'm a big fan of using evidence to improve my teaching. In practice,
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I’ve been encouraged by the recent push by many big names in world lang edu to be more inclusive in conferences, webinars, blogging, etc. Many are being more intentional about
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Many people want to claim oppressed and thus in-group status re: transmisogyny (“no one is exempt” etc) without OPPOSING transmisogyny, revealing the superficially semantic nature of this argument for what
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Mega Thread to explain about Hindutva Trads:Trad was a term coined by western societies to describe those who align themselves with more conservatives values. Trads view the renaissance era as
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Background: Why the world is at risk is not just because of one coronavirus. Why we predicted it in 2006Transition to Extinction: Pandemics in a connected world. "Are people in
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In April of last year I wrote this piece for @latimesopinion about my work as a public librarian in D.C. leading to symptoms, and an eventual diagnosis of, PTSD:https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oliver-librarian-the-public-movie-20190419-st
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At 19, Warren Buffet completed Dale Carnegie's course saying it “had the biggest impact in terms of my subsequent success.”It taught him how to communicate, lead, and influence people.These 8
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