from @sbg1:
"The image i'm left with from Pompeo’s vicious, misleading memoir is of a wannabe tough guy, who envisions himself a President while admitting the nickname Trump gave him: 'My Mike.' These self-styled strongmen are so remarkably weak." https://t.co/zVVSL6tb0T
For months I have been investigating how a US Marine adopted a baby girl who was orphaned in Afghanistan, and took her away from her family. This is a story about the battle over a little girl -- and about the fictions we tell ourselves. For @NYTmag
https://t.co/lYvK4xACXo
New Yorkers are about to get a critical commuter service they have waited years for: the Long Island Rail Road will run to Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal https://t.co/g6bmBVkWEk
@michele_norris Can someone explain the risk associated with meth “contamination” in bathrooms? There are potentially harmful chemicals everywhere at trace levels.
Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment. https://t.co/bzrD76k8VX
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That’s how many times the debt limit has been raised since 1960 — 49 times under a Republican president and 29 times when a Democrat controlled the White House, per NBC News’ Charles Herman. https://t.co/VpySgbHfPW
Scores of previously unreported diplomatic cables show US officials were warned expanding NATO to Ukraine would lead to civil war in the country, deteriorating US-Russian relations, a more hawkish, nationalist Russia, and a Russian invasion. A thread:
https://t.co/OZyMwxonNt
The full 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course, taken by our students in their first 2 weeks, is now online. It's a manual of mathematics for those starting uni maths or pondering whether they should. And anyone else, of course.
All 8 lectures:
https://t.co/Akm4HVdsdO