#Authority

1/20In 1975, Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi The Great gave this interview to Canada’s CBCAccording to the CBC’s own description of the interview, “The Shah contends that the West built itself
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I'm not a musical theatre person, but goddamn can a good rendition of The Confrontation from Les Mis give chills.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlyEf6ZqAsQ&list=RDk0SWaGfkPxA&index=2 For context, Inspector Javert has finally lo
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We all know the saying... Fool me once shame on you. But fool me twice and it’s shame on who?Deja Vu Spanish Flu 1919 - 100 Years AgoA Thread First
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Preprint for our paper ‘Robot Right? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead’ is up on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05046v1. @theblub & I argue not just to deny robots ‘rights’, but to deny
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One thing my Provost letter said cost me tenure was that I asked a Cleveland police officer not to harass a client of mine for holding up a sign AFTER
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In Justice Alito’s draft opinion reversing Roe, he writes about “an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment,” up until Roe in 1973.He cites, as historical authority,
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"TYPES" are the 'old things' in the Old Testament, that give us a picture of, and point to, the 'new things' that they stand for, and are coming in the
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"V for Vendetta" 2006 is about a Totalitarian Dictatorship that gains its power by creating a society of fear due to an alleged Virus spreading throughout the world. In this
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I finally read @JaneMayerNYer’s big Mitch McConnell piece. I waited for the print issue and read it by the firepit, fortified by bourbon and Prine. Since I have familiarity w/
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THREAD on some of the Trump policies the courts, in an *unprecedented* show of activism, have struck down or enjoined There have been more injunctions of this sort in 2.5
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Supporters of the #MSFlag argue that its Confederate imagery honors soldiers—not slavery & white supremacy.But the week lawmakers adopted the flag in 1894, they refused to fund a home for
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If it's okay with @AbiLightbody I thought I'd sharethis in English re: #Gàidhlig in #Stirlingshire,exciting plans here for a museum in Fionn Treabh (Fintry) that will hopefully include Gaelic!Though Gaelic
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Self help isn’t really my deal, but I am going to show you how your implicit philosophical commitments are holding you back and preventing you from achieving your potential Certain
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1/ In today's Tweet storm, we are talking about about how the Antichrist might make his "covenant with death" with Israel in the near future. We will be looking at
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TRUMP on coronavirus: "The minimum number was 100,000 lives, and I think we'll be substantially under that number. Hard to believe that if you had 60,000 [deaths] -- you can
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Mr Poilievre’s comments could benefit from a bit of explaining of mortgage insurance, coupled with a bit of recent history, in order to help people make their own assessments regarding
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