#Diverse

non-Americans have to understand that Americans take first impressions very seriously, not the least because you only get oneyou don't have to be unctuous (Americans hate that, too), but in
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There's a place for the "classics", value to be had in many, but if you want young people to get into sff/horror, don't say they HAVE to read books 50-100
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It's #FossilFriday and #Juneteenth , so the perfect time for a live stream dinosaur fundraiser for #BlackLivesMatter , organized by @DinoNerdsForBLM. I'll be taking part, along with many others! Join
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I’m currently reading Natives by @akalamusic it is quite frankly magnificent. However, I’ve just finished the chapter on secondary education and the hideous, obvious racist and what happened (or rather
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Several of you have asked for this. I don't tend to write memoir, but it's interesting, and I'll give it a go. Follow #TenThingsAboutMemoir to collect them all!https://twitter.com/IslaAitken/status/1059482902931668993 1. One
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News: Democrats in Hudson County, NJ, plan a vote next week on whether to keep jailing immigrants for ICE under a new contract. This would be a reversal of Dems'
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The Swastika, although now a taboo symbol because of its link to the Nazis, is one of man's oldest and at one time nearly universal beloved symbols.Swastikas have been found
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I started this campaign with a simple belief: there was little one could do to convince me that Kamala Harris should not be our next president. I came out early
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THREAD: Our coalition is out of this world! #ReadySetSoarOH has 100+ diverse orgs from across the state committed to ensuring that all pregnant women, infants, toddlers, & their families have
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We will not be able to begin the move-out process the week of Apr, 13 as previously indicated as a tentative week that this process would begin. [1/11] Since the
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It occurs to me that many people - individuals, commentators, pundits, politicians - have invested so much emotional and political capital in Brexit that almost any cognitive feat of affirmation,
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I’ve been doing claim sales for a long time. Did it quite a bit, then stopped doing them for quite a while mostly because of the time investment. I had
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1. The fallacy of "seat at the table" is often decisions are made before the table meets. I know this because much of my career was controlling tables. The more
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So this topic of the day has given me some thoughts on my/our whitness. Now before I start let me just say if you comment hoping to defend whitness I
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School choice, a thread:One of the major dividers in this country is what happens around schools. Not college, but K-12. It is a form of economic and cultural segregation and
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Piñata by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib : A ThreadRetweets & likes appreciated 6 years onward,Piñata is still one of the best rap albums of the last decade,and is undoubtedly
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