High School teacher in PG county. originally from the Cackalack.
Joined June 2013
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🧵Last yr, 250,000 ppl crossed the Darién jungle in a desperate attempt to make it to the US. This year, that number has already reached 360k. @federicorios and I have returned again & again to the jungle, trying to understand this flow. Some anecdotes from our latest reporting.
When you start stressing about anything really... important to remember how small we really are.
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“Spare me the bullshit of mental illness,” says Sen. Murphy of the United States. “We’re not an outlier on mental illness, we’re an outlier on firearms”
I don't know how someone could see this clip and remain neutral. What is the possible justification of beating someone carrying a coffin?
The closest video of the #Israeli police suppressing the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Aqleh as the coffin was leaving the French hospital towards the cemetery
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Places like Mississippi, Alabama, and West Virginia have drug addiction, mental illness, poverty, low wages, unemployment, domestic violence, but extremely low rates of homelessness — because while all of these factors contribute to homelessness, the #1 factor is housing costs.
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9 years. Well, as the characters of my favorite TV series “The Wire” used to say: “You only do two days. That's the day you go in and the day you come out"
I even had a T-shirt with this slogan, but the prison authorities confiscated it, considering the print extremist.
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Am often asked about different vaccines and their efficacy
Each trials tracks, reports efficacy differently
Currently, we have preliminary results for Novavax and J&J
But what numbers matter? What should you look for?
Here's one set of data to track. In a simple table
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JUSTICE of all kinds before healing and unity. It is the central lesson of Civil War memory and the memory of many other pivots in our history, such as the Civil Rights Movement.
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They’re in the chamber. One is up on the dais yelling “Trump won that election!” This is insane
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My latest: The threat of learning loss is especially severe for English learners, whose ability to grasp English is essential to everything from their success in school, to their social lives, to their ability to gain employment and even ask for help.
nytimes.com/2020/12/29/nyreg…
‘I Was Stunned’: Big Gifts to Small Colleges From an Unexpected Source nyti.ms/3remGyu
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Stock ownership increasingly concentrated among small share of population; top 10% of earners owned 87% of all U.S. stocks in 1Q 2020—up from 82.4% in 2009—while bottom 50% owns just a sliver @WSJ @federalreserve
