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President-elect Joe Biden announced his first batch of appointments. As I've done throughout #BidenTransition, here's a thread on the national security elites and corporate consultants named to his administration. Tony
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Ok. Let's take the important ones. Too many bills were passed.I'll keep adding to this thread. Can't really finish all in one go.Most are economic. But a few are cultural.I'll
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THREAD1)#Lebanon 's leaders were warned back in July about explosives at #Beirut ’s port, according to Reuters.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-documents-excl/exclusive-lebanons-leaders-warned-in-july-about-ex
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New article from me & Derek Anderson reporting on a sample of professors of philosophy (& some grad stud/postdoc). We examined whether psychological traits predict philosophical views. What did we
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THREAD: President @realDonaldTrump took decisive action from the beginning to protect Americans from the Chinese coronavirus. While Democrats & the media were obsessed with impeachment, President Trump was focused on
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A company owned & controlled by Dominic Cummings paid £250,000 to Faculty, the AI firm that worked on Vote Leave, in 2018/2019.Faculty also got the NHS #COVID contract alongside Palantir
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Some good news at last!Government must release migrant children in detention centers because of coronavirus, judge ordersChildren held more than 20 days at certain facilities should be released by July
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Long reads I really like/ love/ occasionally think about, a thread*:*to be updated once in a while The Suspects Wore Louboutins by Nancy Jo Sales | Vanity Fair, 2010 About
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As @alex_roddie explains in his piece: https://www.alexroddie.com/2020/03/the-outdoor-community-needs-to-change-its-messaging-regarding-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-right-now.html images fetishising isolated Highland 'wildness' may send the w
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Hey everyone, it’s time for the 6th (?) annual Tomcat Award! For those not in the know, this is where I read the entire Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, and
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Just to be clear: this person’s ONLY intervention in the House of Lords on the #COVID19 pandemic has been to ask for something of *direct* benefit to himself. #crooks
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This thread is a foray into the cult called The Family International (formerly Teens for Christ and then Children of God), founded by David Berg in Huntington, California, in 1968.
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In March, @CambsPboroCA and @GreaterCambs announced the next stage of their plans for the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM), a bus rapid transit system on steroids that promises to transform transportation
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How to land your first job as a web developerWhether you’re self-taught, a Bootcamp grad, or have a college degree, when you’re a fresh-faced web developer, landing that first job
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One of my favorite things about #Ramadan is its emphasis on giving & empathy for others.In keeping with my now 1-yr old tradition, for each of the 30 days
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@IFES1987 has published a paper on #Internet #Voting: An Overview for Electoral Decision-Makers, to assist #election stakeholders in determining whether #onlinevoting would improve electoral #integrity and active #democracy IMHO,
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