#Expectation

JUST IN: The first electoral votes have been cast in Vermont. Electors below depicted being sworn in.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/14/electoral-college-biden-victory-444952 "Not my first rodeo," Vermont's secretary of
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The best analysis of the C19 pandemic mass hysteria."[H]ow different political institutions and the state affect the development and extension of mass hysteria[?]""the size of the state exacerbates the negative
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Poverty is a curse.If you're a man, and you're poor, there's no telling how much you'll be pushed around by the society around you.Time for a thread. 1/ Your
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a thread on how I feel about magic and why I bother with it despite being a fairly strong determinist/materialist@GarshytHoel https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1273302891021758466 a note about belief: the explanations I have for
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1/Alright, so folks wanted me to expand on this idea, so here we go. Elite disaffection and the return of the American Left.As you may have noticed, we're seeing an
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Nigeria's Federal System and Potential for Collaboration and Partnerships. Nigeria's founding fathers bequeathed the country with a federalist system which  has a number of positive features that can potentially support
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Kids should be in school right now. (long thread)How is that for diving back into COVID post election?Ok, that’s a bold statement, but I thought I would put a flag
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1 "Other thoroughgoing researchers started to move toward the paraphysical concept in the early 1950s. The British science writer Gerald Heard published 'Is Another World Watching?' in 1950, in which
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Racism, Blacklists and Onyx Path Publishing (a thread)CW: Racism, Lying, Threats, Punishment, Black ListingI’ve written for, developed and consulted on numerous Role Playing Games (RPGs) and Live Action Role Playing
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Jan is #HumanTrafficking awareness month. I am a violence prevention professional, have been a crisis advocate for decades, am a sexual health educator, & also happen to be a former
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I joined a cult with my eyes wide open. They said they were a cult. I knew they were a cult - and yet I joined. Why - and why
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One thing I kept thinking about as I was writing this was just how much normalcy bias there is in media. There's this aversion to describing things as they are,
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NYPD is targeting known activists tied to Abolition Park — arrested two yesterday.They’ve been on the hunt and appear to be ramping up the intimidation.If you were waiting for the
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My latest at @mmfa:Never, ever, ever let Trump's accomplices live down their attacks on democracy.https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/never-let-trumps-accomplices-live-down-their-attacks-democracy One thing I kept t
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Let me get something off my chest...Scholarship on religion has changed a lot since I started out 20 years ago. One of the most significant changes has been an intensification
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Dismantling racism in medicine begins long before medical school & residency. The path to representative numbers of currently underrepresented minorities will not be solved with performative activism. Foundational changes, all
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