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Thread on the oil #embargo of 19731- On this day, October 17, several Arab oil ministers recommended the use of oil as a weapon in retaliation for the Nixon Administration's
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This weekend has seen countless cases of brutality towards protesters. I want to talk about one specific tactic, vehicle ramming, and how it took hold in 1) the American far-right,
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Monalisa - The Breakup 1 Love is a beautiful thing guys.Sometimes you get so filled up in emotions that you lose control of yourself, e kare ba go hypnotaeza
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The Trump Superspreader Tour 2020 comes tonight to Fayetteville, North Carolina. Follow for a video thread. Trump begins by saying nice things about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump's audience isn't thrilled
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Ever wondered how the RAF's Advanced Air Strike Force's bombers faired in the first few days of May?Well you're in luck.... The 9 May 1940 started in a very inauspicious
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An interesting pattern among many Revisionist Westerns is the singer/songwriter or rock musician score. It seems to have started in the 70s but continues to this day. Here's a list,
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1/ A TaskRabbit contractor in San Antonio told me he stumbled onto a warehouse where people were repackaging non-medical Chinese masks so they could pass for medical use and be
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2018 is the 61st year of long term ecological research in Burrishoole #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst. I'm going to pin this tweet here and at the end of every month add some
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A common refrain in our modern religious landscape is that enlightenment is a mental state that is agnostic w/r/t the revealed religion of the practitioner. To make this point, they
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Thread Fireboy 19/20 Diary!!!!Superstar @fireboydml has had a remarkable first (2 years) in the industry. Fireboy’s remarkable last 24 months in the thread below • Fireboy DML 19/20 Diary• Deals
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I keep thinking of Politico's story about some well-known European leaders worrying about how to save Russia's face... After Bucha, after Mariupol... And how people call on Ukrainians to "stop
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@mrwbwinvited me to respond a Q of apologising for the past here are some rambling thoughts not an answer & not a critique of the wonderful @SamSlaterI have inclu @hannahcusworth@MissFolorunsho@Abdul_Mohamud&
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This morning Greece was slammed with a massive 6.3 earthquake, 9 km below the earth. Forget man-made Climate Change! Only the Creator can do this! 3, 6 and 9 on
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Sir Edward Heath - A Traitor and a Paedophile Sir Edward was born on July 9th, 1916, the son of a carpenter and a maid. A grammar school boy, he
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Let's take a moment to take a deeper look at the @CWGC's Non-Commemoration Report.Uncomfortable reading for many.It is also... just the faintest glimpse of a crushing problem. /1#FWW #WW1 #SWW
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We hope you’ve already read LA Banks, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor, indisputably luminous Black SFF writers. But we want to recommend another 50 brilliant Black women, nonbinary,
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