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love everything about this piece (written by a dude, of course)) but the illustration showing a smiling man writing the rules for women is *chef's kiss*
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Like you're asking a guy you have no leverage over to do something his constituents don't want and that's bad for his family's financial interests and he's tentatively agreed to do it. So you decide to go ... pick a fight about other stuff? Idk.
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Indeed from Manchinâs POV this surely looks like congressional leadership acting in bad faith https://t.co/estkwAf30r
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It is literally impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Anyone who uses the expression should be made to try it and see where it gets them.
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13
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Remember this tweet?
According to a former senior official at the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for US spy satellites, Trump's tweet cost an estimated âbillionsâ in damage to the agency and was a "gift" to the Iranians.đ¤Śđťââď¸ news.yahoo.com/trump-tweeted-âŚ
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Should put a couple billion dollars into targeted Facebook ads repeating this video over and over to trump supporting antivaxxers. Itâll either convince a few marginal people to get vaccinated or convince people that trump canât be trusted, win win https://t.co/KPPLs0wl0r
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If you look closely at this chart, you can see some indications that a new more transmissible variant of the virus may have emerged.
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We've got our own Ultimate Intelligence now, take that TechnoCore!
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One component of a new American industrial policy should be providing companies that do the right thing with ways to withstand CCP coercion and retaliation. Great piece by @BethanyAllenEbr.
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the funniest part of the 2011 comedy "Contagion" is when they invent a lifesaving vaccine at the end, and then everyone takes the vaccine. hahahaha fantastic writing
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Nicely said.
Iâd add that the US does *not* have the top predictors of civil wars â poverty, a weak state, lootable resources, treacherous terrain, etc. â in cross-national models.
These structural factors have generally been shown to predict civil war better than grievances.
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