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@books_rum

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Okay, I can't help it. I'm going through the recent Stephen Paddock document release. A couple things I didn't know: Paddock had worked for the Postal Service and the IRS. Just gonna post some things I've noticed below. <a target="_blank" href="https://vault.fbi.gov/stephen-paddock/stephen-paddock-p...

@amandalhu

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This woman’s only known diagnoses are autism and ADHD. She was assessed for MAiD 4 times by 5 doctors and now has been given approval. <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

@sasnagarpolice

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Special meeting held in Mohali for internal police reforms, SSP Mohali gets special honour! Retired DGP Telangana and Retired ADGP Gursharan Singh Sandhu, who is the State Supervisor, held a special meeting with SSP Mohali (1/3) #CommunityPolicing #LetsBringTheChange ...

@HindolSengupta

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The Bengalis are very proud of being civilised and cultured. Indeed many are. But there is a bit of myth-making in this. The Bengal Renaissance was an elite project, and almost all its products were Kolkata-based elites or 'middle class'-es. The culture at the bottom remained...

@Real_Am_Patriot

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Now reading a John Quincy Adams bio: 📚 🔗: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20183/20183-h/20183-h.htm" color="blue">gutenberg.org/files/20183/20…</a> ...

@tracewoodgrains

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she used copyright law to do what now this is quite something <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-ruling-487c65dddaeeedc49e3e15edba8bcdb7" color="blue">apnews.com/article/nashvi…</a> ...

@MultipolarPod

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A 🧵 on why Europe's economic, political and social reality makes significantly higher defence spending unlikely, despite the broad consensus between European establishment figures and US analysts (most prominently on X @ElbridgeColby) and politicians. Desire≠Reality. 1/n ...

@Afinetheorem

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I came to U Toronto from Chicago today 10 yrs ago on Canada Day. So a short thread on Canada from an US perspective. And yes, living in Toronto is like living in NYC and talking about the US overall, but I've also been from Tuk to Tofino to rural Newfoundland &amp; Quebec. 1/23...

@tparsi

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The Interior Ministry has not announced it yet, but everything indicates that Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate, has been elected as Iran's new president. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR IRAN AND FOR US-IRAN RELATIONS? A few thoughts: 1. Turnout appears to have been around 50%, which is an in...