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Memstar

@MemmiR

Georgetown Law graduate. Still resisting attempts by my little bros to teach me to say pants instead of trousers. Thames River Rat. Undercover Anthropologist.

 Washington, DC
Joined August 2011
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What can leaders who believe in structural racism do when the government has just rejected it? @anita_kirpal gives tips here ourglobalfuture.com/2021/04/…
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‘Words alone will not heal America. Nor will the law, or logical analysis of the constitution. What is desperately required is empathy’: @GillianTett on the US’s crisis of thought on.ft.com/2LUbR4j

America’s political crisis runs deeper than ideology

‘Western elites tend to assume that their way of thinking is the only valid mode of thought’

ft.com
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Ed Miliband says call the cops on your neighbours for hosting an afters, but commits a murder live on television? Truly, a land of contrasts!
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My useless opinion is that we have wonderful people w/ good intentions joining police departments but being police in America is not about wonderful people w/ good intentions. We need to change what is means to be police in this country. And to call the police. We need to change
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If anyone is wondering whether and why it actually matters that the UK is committed to the rule of international law and the binding force of that law, here are just a few recent examples.
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Awesome celebration of our members 🙌 #loveyourlocalarches 🤝 with TfL
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@TfL26 Aug 2020
Arch spotlight 💡 @berberandq During lockdown, they kept the fires burning at their Haggerston Grill House arch and raised £42,000 to deliver over 12,000 meals to NHS hospital and mental health unit workers 💙 #LoveYourLocalArches madeby.tfl.gov.uk/2020/08/20…
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We condemn a Home Office video referring to immigration lawyers who provide legal advice to migrants as ‘activist lawyers’. Solicitors advise their clients on *their rights under the laws created by parliament* lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or…
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This campaign to replace a Democratic Senator with a Democrat is a waste of over $20 million in Democratic campaign $ that could've been used to defeat Trump & Trump supporting senators.
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@BostonGlobe21 Aug 2020
Kennedy, Markey unveil new TV ads in final stretch of Sept. 1 primary bos.gl/igWoG7u
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👇 – at Washington, DC
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@jack30 Oct 2019
We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵
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this is what knighthoods *should* be for
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Interesting detail in today’s Grenfell inquiry report about one man: an engineer called Jason Allday who worked for gas supplier Cadent. He is singled out for praise. 1/5
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Salah Khashoggi (@salahkhashoggi) profile pictureSalah Khashoggi
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Replying to @JKhashoggi
@JKhashoggi Happy Father's Day
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“In a world where actions to preserve forests and fight climate change find resistance in the old ideas of new governments, the Wampis are hoping their new identity as a free territory will help change the conversation.” pulitzercenter.org/reporting…
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Maps as resistance theconversation.com/using-ma…
Is war a virus? perspectivesinanthropology.c…

The Virus of Violence

In the study of epidemiology, one has an opportunity to learn about communicable and non-communicable diseases.

perspectivesinanthropology.com
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nytimes.com/2019/04/04/world…
In Libya, Militia Advances on Capital, Raising Prospect of Renewed Civil War (Published 2019)

In Libya, Militia Advances on Capital, Raising Prospect of Renewed Civil War (Published 2019)

Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who controls eastern Libya, has for years threatened to seize the entire country. Rival militias vowed to stop him.

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16 years ago today, the invasion of my home country Iraq 🇮🇶 changed my life and everyone else's living there forever. I remember that night vividly like it is just happening. [THREAD]
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My huge family has a very annoying Whatsapp chat that blinks the whole freaking day. Over 30 people typing nonstop monologues. I haven't had news from them in 5 hours thanks to the blackout in Venezuela. Not as pleasant as I thought it would be.
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Many thanks to @WCKitchen for connecting our family with Desde Mi Huerto for a morning of volunteer work at their amazing seed farm in #PuertoRico. Their work to foster sustainability is both noble and necessary. Mil gracias! #ChefsforPuertoRico #ChefsforthePeople – at Isabela, Puerto Rico
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