#Adopting

So I’ve just watched a video about the latest BBC and @jk_rowling issue by a prominent trans YouTuber and... I have issues (so this thread appeared) “Being trans doesn’t hurt
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This piece harshes on target-date funds, which is kind of unfortunate. TDFs aren't *perfect* products, but why should perfect be the enemy of good when good is an excellent outcome
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Are. You. KIDDING ME with this shit?!Modern vampire fiction has queerness baked into its fucking foundations. For 200 years they've been about sex you're not supposed to be having at
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One of the most important men in history is Adam Smith. His magnum opus, "The Wealth of Nations", is the basis of the greatest accumulation of wealth in human history.
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the appropriation of AAVE (a thread) AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English.It is typically incorrectly perceived as “bad English”, “ghetto language”, and/ or as labeled as “blaccent”. yet, AAVE
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At the suggestion of my friend and colleague Heather Mendick (@helensclegel), I recently read "Parliamentary Socialism. A Study in the Politics of Labour" by Ralph Miliband and I wish I
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Significant victory for Manitoba Parents - 7 couples who filed legal proceedings in the MBQB against the Manitoba government relating to its outdated Family Maintenance Act are celebrating a victory
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Re: the last set of tweets, what I'm probably unprofessionally moaning about was when @samwineburg and started our push on this stuff in 2016 nearly everyone was saying that "critical
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Who would have thought that "take back control of food standards from the EU to give it to the US" could possibly have been a problem?https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/1276036707897540608 More on a US
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Amy Finkelstein dropping it hot to young economists: "Do not reject your own paper! Let an editor do it. If you have rejection experiences, that's already half the battle won.
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Here are my favorite quotes from half of The War on Normal People by @AndrewYang. [THREAD]It might give you a better idea of why I like him. "Socialism, communism, and
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One thing that I'm not seeing written about in Covid travel articles is advice on helping the smaller independant hotels survive as a guest.Our Vietnamese guests are the perfect model
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I may sound jaded. I am.But the Republicans want us running in circles, outraged, chasing our tail - so that we’re not focused on the one thing that can ruin
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1/7 bueno, iñaki @multicellgenome, here we go: I've always wondered how biologists could come up with the tree metaphor because already 18th/19th century naturalists/botanists knew that trees are alive from
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From day one, & even if the economy didn’t go south, ‘expectation management’; that inescapable challenge of modern governance, was always going to be a big challenge for this govt.This
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Reading the big piece on the YouTubers who gave up their autistic adopted son in The Cut, and can I tell you how much I hate the term "Gotcha Day"
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