#Decades

Today Mike Parson commuted Dimetrious Woods' sentence. I first interviewed Woods in 2016 over a prison phone line, and reported on his legal battles, release, and the MO supreme court's
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1/ Since Bernie dropped out I’ve been seeing a lot of (mostly) white nonsense about people withholding their vote & making the spurious claim that it is morally reprehensible to
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I found out that my mother is being radicalized by Chinese Wechat & local Chinese American groups in California to either not vote at all or vote for Trump. During
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Welcome back!!!! This thread is going to be very long so grab a drink and really get comfortable.. Today we will be discussing something that has reared its ugly head
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20 semi-controversial investing beliefs [THREAD]: 1) Companies with deep competitive advantages are less interesting than companies whose advantages are only starting to shape up.Similarly, companies with strong cash flows are
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Gamer Thread:As my bloodfeud with @HeckPhiIIy continues, I gotta say, it’s been interesting learning about the next gen consoles and just how far we’ve come in a 25 year Console
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Missing from this article: People of color endure higher rates of exposure to air pollution due to decades of structural and environmental racism.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/climate/air-pollution-coronavirus-covid.html Studies show that while
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I'd like to make a couple things clear about my position on Xinjiang. So I'll paraphrase the introduction of this doc that I'll link at the end. (1/n) In the
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stan culture needs to die.people are not products, commodities or mascots you can flail around and then throw away once you don’t like them.a thread. stan culture is harmful to
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In another blow to S. Korea's fragile democracy, ruling party member says on the 40th anniversary of the #KwangjUprising, a protest-turned-massacre of protesters-turned-armed insurrection, he will introduce an amendment to
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Thread: There was a session today at #NCTE19, the annual conference of @ncte, called "Misreading the Science of Reading." I want to share some thoughts, and some reading material, to
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The core rights to live freely I enjoy today as a gay person (but not yet as HIV+!) are fundamental to the good things we value about Canada. They stem
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Some business and investing quotes that I've saved over the years (with several repeat guests!). "The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."
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There's a lot of news around. I hope you didn't miss the news on what's probably THE next big battery breakthrough.Meet QuantumScape, which went public today via a SPAC, at
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1. There is a webinar today, COVID Symptom Tracker Science Update @Join_ZOE There may be the opportunity to ask questions as to why the app is not being used to
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1/16Why is cancer associated with elevated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)?The answer is cool and provides insights into cancer that may not be obvious at first. So, what do you think?What do
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