#Extraordinary

I had a friend that was fierce in criticising and mocking the HK government and police. Then one day she was arrested near a rally because she wore black. Detained
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The first time someone called me fake news, I laughed. Then another insisted a Deafblind person couldn’t go to Harvard. Nearly every disabled person has experienced the old, “You’re faking
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Tanya Plibersek is calling for “national leadership” in the wake of more than 900 diplomats being allowed into the country without entering hotel quarantine.It comes as > 30,000 Australians remain
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Our media has wholeheartedly endorsed Netflix's child sexualization movie.WAKE UPHere’s a thread of every outlet that has supported this horrific exploitation:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/cuties-mignonnes-the-extrao
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1. On this day 112 years ago, a team of construction workers in Toronto made one of the most extraordinary discoveries in the entire history of the city. 2. It
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68 percent of the US citizens or permanent residents admitted by Princeton for the class of 2025 “self-identified” as “people of color.” https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/04/06/extraordinary-year-princeton-offers-admission-1498-st
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[A THREAD] EMS: It's A System - 29 years ago this month, I ran my first 911 call as a paramedic. The month before, I had graduated with the other
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I thought that I would respond with a few thoughts about this deeply cynical nonsense. First thought: this'll just continue the trend of disintegrating lines of authority and confidence in
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If there’s any change in vaccine policy now it won’t be because @JayMitchinson and his team @yorkshirepost were wrong. It will be a change because they were spot on and
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Finished Violet Evergarden - 10/10 Authentic storytelling presented within such a complete audiovisual experience. KyoAni brings out so much honesty about human emotion in these stories and in Violet herself,
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This is an #EditorAppreciation thread.There’s lots of negativity out there, so let’s talk about the good stuff for a bit.If you’ve had a great editor, name them here and say
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I've been thinking about Rep. Deb Haaland her extraordinary achievement becoming the DOI secretary. It dawned on me this morning I've never had a Native doctor, a Native colleague (outside
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If you are worried of not having a specific skill you are best at but you have 2 or more skills that you are good at, then you should know
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Interesting that Ofqual is seen in the CH piece as part of the "quangocracy" doing stuff that should be done by DfE. Worth remembering that Ofqual is independent (and accountable
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Daughter asked me yesterday whether people would look back at this time in history - just as we look back (for her, on Horrible Histories) at times of war, plague
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They are deploying the exact same tactics to normalize pedophilia that they used to promote homosexuality and transsexualism. 1. Categorizing people into enlightened cosmopolitans or backward philistines based on their
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