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I'm going to say something similar about "context". For the record: I am think context is tremendously important. I am very pro-context. But the problem with context is that there's
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Should we move on from Dominic Cummings? (No) Should he be sacked? (yes) Will it change anything (not much sadly) Here is my personal take. We need to look at
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this individual gave a definition of cis woman, a definition of trans woman, a definition of cis man, and a definition of trans man. all of this after defining woman
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Thread: From Iran-Contra, to Epstein, to Stone, to Flynn, Timothy Shea is Bill Barr’s bagman.Bill Barr ousted Jessie Liu as the US Attorney for DC and replaced her with his
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A thread about digestive issues in young female patients and how quick doctors/society are to label them mental health issues.I know because I was one of them.via @BBCNews https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-56688582 Digestive
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Thread on #Tibet from @ananthkrishnan’s India's China Challenge:“That tourists–and firefighters–outnumber worshippers in the halls of #Potala today (summer 2015) is a result of China’s grand project in Tibet: a project
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Okay, a quick thread which should be obvious. There are clearly still people in the UK who think the Premier League’s #BlackLivesMatter campaign is just corporate bandwagon-jumping, a way
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a shadow work journal prompt thread for different "negative" emotions for jealousy...•what is it about them that makes me uncomfortable in myself?•why do i unfairly compare their strengths to my
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1.) Our nation’s capital is turning out to be the hub of an underground pedophile ring, and with so much misinformation being circulated, it’s easy to dismiss most of it
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Economic Naturalist Question # 24. Why might economists engage in excessive formalism?#EconTwitter In an earlier thread, I explored why introductory economics courses appear to leave little lasting imprint on the
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[thread] Yesterday, Momentum put out a meme in taxation that was glib, unhelpful, out-of-touch & quickly deleted. Mistakes happen, but I think there’s a deeper issue that affected not just
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THREADI applaud any effort to promote a policing career within the BAME community but really cannot help but think that to many this story is counter productive. All the talk
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I gotta say a few words about what Ta-Nehisi Coates attempted to do in this piece on cancel culture and where, I think, he really misses the mark. Short thread.https://nyti.ms/33aMgqL 
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I had an idea how to explain privilege to people who may be struggling to understand it.The analogy I will use is Harry Potter, or, more accurately, Daniel Radcliffe.1/10 Daniel
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Regarding Klobuchar as a possible VP candidate; people generally dismiss VP candidates as not being relevant in elections. Mostly I think that's right: very few voters decide to vote for
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OK so bc Carnival Headdress Appropriation Discourse is roaring up again, a few points: (Before we start, I am a Dominican American. I understand different communities do Carnival differently. I
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