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Trump lost the election because he lost five states which he won in 2016. These states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.Some Trump supporters are convinced that he somehow
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It’s almost Thanksgiving Day.The supermarket chains millions of Americans flock to for their turkey and feast ingredients have a lot to be thankful for. Their workers, not so much. 1/11https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/13316193564
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1/ A few charts to place the covid-19 situation in @Allegheny_Co into context (thanks to data from @HealthAllegheny public site). Note that the data (e.g., case counts, deaths) is regularly
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Queer cultures have SO much to teach everyone else. But on the whole, straights refuse everything that doesn’t reflect themselves or turn us into a sideshow. We have reimagined and
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Morning after Wisconsin Supreme Court Election analysis thread follows. Based on 100% precincts reporting using NYTimes vote report.I include charts for both Karofsky & Kelly but most are just mirror
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Just imagine how much money and time the MTA/Amtrak could have saved if, instead of rebuilding HAROLD interlocking into this overly flexible...thing, they had come up with a simplified operating
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Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterdays 12.4 reports. Read the whole thread. (English version)Fig 1. Number of
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As folks have noted, Butler’s commentary on interdependence really sounds a lot like Indigenous philosophy/cosmology. After a friend pointed this out, I purchased Butler’s new book on nonviolence: she does
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Im a lurker in d biggest reddit forum for kdrama fans and lately I noticed tht IU is often being brought up & talked about as an actress, not just
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The US has one of the lowest voter turnouts of any developed nation. In recent years experts have floated the idea that #compulsoryvoting could help. I looked into it for
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akatsuki no yona chapter 195 spoilers!!i wanna talk abt the recent chapter don’t open this thread if u haven’t read it!! okay so like i’ve been looking at theories and
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I've been thinking more about this and it seems crazy but it would explain a lot.https://twitter.com/NRLBoomRookies/status/1266321561402798080 The unnamed clubland official who reporters love to quote and always chips in his
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May 8, 1961: As the reception for Alan Shepard at the White House is breaking up, JFK asks FCC Commissioner Newton Minow if he should bring Shepard to the National
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I keep getting messages from Democrats who tell me they oppose Prop 16 but are afraid to speak out.They are professors, party operatives or candidates afraid of retribution.They feed me
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Only 18 people have racked up at least 13 #HugoAwards nominations in the four primary fiction categories (novel, novella, novelette & short story). Robert Silverberg was the first, doing so
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I thought sohttps://twitter.com/FreeBabarAhmad/status/1262591683914543110 Gun crime in the UK is by and large a drug gang phenomenon, and much of the drug gang violence in recent years is driven by primarily
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