#ExtraOrdinary

Something big going down in State Parliament. Emergency legislation being rushed in by McGowan Govt after Clive Palmer dropped a claim worth billions over Mineralogy's Balmoral South iron ore project.
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"What public-health and well-being policies can help alleviate some of the extraordinary stressors that urbanites are feeling right now? It is our public green spaces, our parks, botanical gardens and
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In Whitefish, Montana, a young woman named Samantha Francine is confronted by a large white man with balled fists, shouting, "Black Lives Matter? Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!" She
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The big news for two days has been the โ€œprotestsโ€ of state governorsโ€™ stay-at-home orders and mandatory business closings to try to contain the novel coronavirus which, as of today,
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Dr. Sumit Sengupta (great pulmonologist based in Kolkata) writes: This is a personal summary of the COVID situation (without going into nuances or details) with some references meant for non-specialists
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๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฎ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ "For there are no limits to the stars; their numbers are infinite. Whic
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A centrist by mind with a left Libertarian compass & a #ConservativeParty stance for the #GeneralElection2019 . Am I something of a tripolitical prodigy? Or are others just as perplexed
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(1/18) The Supreme Court has awesome power, and now that thereโ€™s a 6-to-3 right-wing majority, theyโ€™re preparing to use that power like a sledgehammer. โ€ฆ (2/18) In 2000, they put
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For the past four years, I have been harboring a deep and wonderful secret. My wife @jialynnyang has been at work on a book, and not just any book. A
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I was going to recommend books Iโ€™ve read in the last year or so (many of which I blurbed) but my son wanted to do something with me so we
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It's hard to focus on anything but COVID at the moment but accelerating global heating is an even bigger problem - caused by the same over-population, over-consumption, urbanisation and deforestation
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Long thread ahead! I've been wanting to write this for so long, but never did it because I felt its too cheesy. I decided to write it today because after
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I *have* decided to rip-off a bunch of other literary types and start a thread of every book I read this year. I'm 25 now and mostly enjoy eating veggie
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Yesterday I tweeted that I thought the concept of "human cognition" was an ideological fiction, which essentializes mental processes that are determined by history and culture. Here are three examples
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The morning after India's coronavirus lockdown began, the building sites in Delhi where Dayaram Kushwaha worked fell silent.So he hoisted his five-year-old son onto his shoulders, and began to walk
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U.S. appeals court rejects Trump bid to escape 'emoluments' lawsuit - case is back on | Reutershttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-emoluments-idUSL1N2CW0P2 A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by President Donald Trump
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