#Discourse

THREAD: The @WhiteHouse National Strategy for COVID-19 Response & Pandemic Preparedness was just released. And there's a LOT to unpack.For starters, the comprehensive plan spans 7 goals & 12 Executive
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Let’s talk about abortion! More specifically, the repulsive appropriation and deracialization of the atrocities of history to abortion as used by #ProLife advocates, and how disrespectful and offensive they are.
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This is fascinating thread on the mechanics of the breakdown in political discourse, but for better/worse, that seems to be only symptomatic of a much more fundamental societal failure, triggered
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So, i finished Douglas Tottle’s “Fraud, Famine and Fascism” and i wanted to do a thread on it.If you’re an ML and you’ve been online, you’ve seen some discourse about
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Thread: @WSJ @WSJopinion @almarlatour @DanHenninger. We sent a letter yesterday, urging you to remove the word "Brahmin" from your recent Op-Ed by @ZaidJilani, using a dangerous word coined by @PikettyLeMonde.
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Started reading Dharampal’s “Indian science and technology in 18th Century”. The Portuguese, British and the French seize control of the whole of western coast for large parts of the 18th
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1/ Iran's interest in China peaked after the 1949 revolution. Two competing ideas about China were proposed in the Iranian public sphere: one which saw China as a negative example
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DIE HARD: A XMAS REVIEW (SPOILERS)This time of year Die Hard discourse turns to whether it’s a Christmas film, but I don’t care about that. I care that Die Hard
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In particular, I was triggered this weekend by listening to @iamrashidajones and @BillGates talk climate change on their podcast this week, and hearing this... http://gatesnotes.com/Podcast/Is-it- … It was like a bat
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A few thoughts on this sad development 20 academics criticizing an paper is fine; good science, really10000+ hate mail for studying schools in Sweden is insaneAnonymous docs/ prof (hiding in
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People defending Ted Cruz with shit like "well what's he supposed to do, go out there with a wrench and fix the power himself??" make me want to fucking scream
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Mario Draghi, soon to become Italy's PM, has been hailed as the nonpartisan technocrat Italy needs to gets its house in order. But who is Draghi and is his brand
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In the same way that it is said that the Trump presidency has politically polarized every corner of discourse in America, it is clear that these national protests — largely
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If you are seeing Hamilton for the first time on July 3, here are my personal recommendations for scholarly writing on the musical, in roughly chronological order! Paywalls abound, sorry!
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"On Scientific Fascism," by the handsome and good-hearted @roderickgraham, with whom I often disagree, but whom I like and respect a great deal.My thoughts below.https://link.medium.com/vPpD9xOVRbb  Right off the bat this
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Been following this since allegations surfaced, felt extremely uncomfy re: the implications of "withholding evidence for the ripe time" even back then. Child safety and security supersedes all social and
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