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Schalke is good where it counts: Promoting democracy

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Over twenty years ago, I lived in Ethiopia with my family and this hard carved chess set was gifted to us. When we moved back to the US, all our belongings had to fit into two foot lockers. I sacrificed space to fit this. For twenty years my parents held onto it until I had space to keep it

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Good thread on fascist wriggling "The salutes relieved speech of considerable labors" There's an "I know it when I see it", even if "I was just joking" or "just a wave" is the excuse that follows If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then...

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I'm so fried

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I may not have been able to attend, but I still got the swag I intended

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Arsenal Picking up a season-ending injury on the team vacation week. Sums things up well. And I predict we'll see Miles Lewis-Skelly start at winger over Sterling in one of the next couple matches.

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GREAT NEWS! The city council of Cambridge, MA passed new zoning yesterday that allows four stories of housing to be built ANYWHERE in the city. ...and if there's a degree of affordable units included, it's six stories! Major housing accelerator!

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Duos tossed in just to make sure it was recognized that this is not a new color for Friedemann

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Hundreds of Beavers is wonderfully silly and I love it

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Atlantide is like What if Fast and the Furious was set in Venice and directed someone as intense about image as Noë? So gorgeous.

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My 23andme results: 38% priest 17% European business

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like a poem said by a lady in red

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I've been reading reconstruction/gilded age history recently and these first few days of Trump feel like all of William McKinley packed into a couple weeks. Stunningly high tariffs, business corruption in the halls of govt, opportunistically colonizing foreign land, [...]

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From the pages of the FAECT Bulletin, June 1934 It's no coincidence that owners of FB, Amazon, Google, etc are lining the pockets of the President at the same time their workers are joining the labor movement. History rhymes Source: archive.org/details/the-...

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Call. Call. Call. Even without answers, it lets them know they should be providing answers...and tells them what you want to happen. Sending encouragement to the good ones is helpful, too. Let's them know they should continue instead of caving to potential pressure.

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The practice is ongoing regardless of admin and super (negatively) impactful. It's *structural* in nature. Recent and approachable documentation is in God Save Texas E2, where Alex Stapleton wrestles with her history growing up adjacent to refineries. www.imdb.com/title/tt3039...

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The Master Plan podcast series produced by Lever is absolutely fantastic to understand the level of commitment -- from both major parties -- leading to today's corruption. Highly recommended listen. www.levernews.com/masterplan/

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