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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Jan 2020

    I have a new feature on the history of neonicotinoids, a widely used insecticide that is pushing butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees and other forms of insect life to the brink of extinction

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  2. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Left-wing activists and journalists (no distinction whatsoever between the two categories) think that publicly defaming friends and colleagues over political disagreements is some sort of admirable virtue. That’s why all their organizations are full of self-immolating trainwrecks

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  3. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    California lawmakers take aim at Amazon over its surveillance & “dehumanizing” workplaces.

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  4. Aug 27

    “Glow On is not a crossover hardcore album that looks to transcend the genre, but one that tries to elevate it to its highest visibility.”

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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    Dear friends! Today we release globally online! As the invisible AI revolution picks up speed it is up to us which way we move forward. Available everywhere: Watch. Share. Let´s ensure we create AI for our common good.

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    Aug 27

    Congressional Democrats’ push to add dental, vision and hearing coverage to Medicare is running into resistance from powerful health industry lobbies

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  7. Aug 26

    Film on the dangers of the AI revolution, , directed by , out on iTunes and Vimeo.

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  8. Retweeted
    Aug 23

    1. They may not be on your TV screens right now, but there’s a generation of Afghan youth in rural areas whose lives over the last 20 years were forever changed by the war playing out directly in front of them—when the American public was not watching as they are now.

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    Aug 23

    Many young people in rural battlefields have never experienced life without war, without U.S. bombings, Taliban attacks, night raids by Afghan forces, kidnappings. Most long for an end to war. It might be hard to understand, but some youth feel they have a shot at a future now.

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  10. Aug 26

    Didn't know this: Afghanistan considered a party-list proportional democracy (like what they use in the Netherlands or Israel) -- but Karzai killed it because such a system would give the opposition too much of a voice.

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  11. Retweeted
    Aug 26

    Some background, if you're just tuning in: The Taliban and ISKP (ISIS) have been at war. Last year, the US even teamed up with the Taliban to fight ISKP by

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  12. Aug 26

    Over 1,659 civilians in Afghanistan were killed from Jan.-July this year, about half of whom were women and children. But there were no viral images, nothing to use to score political points, so virtually everyone in the media and Congress ignored.

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  13. Retweeted
    Aug 26

    A brutal irony that the politician who has been most consistent about the need to exit Afghanistan - since 2009 - may pay the greatest political price for our being there.

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  14. Aug 26

    The war and occupation that cost trillions of dollars, 150k+ Afghan lives, a country turned over to criminals and warlords, collapsed economy w/no future in sight. There was no graceful, perfect exit. It's a media myth.

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  15. Aug 26

    Very easy rhetorically to claim the withdrawal could have been better, but who is actually making this argument w/ detailed alternatives? All the counters I've seen include blowing up the peace deal with the Taliban, more U.S. troops, extending the occupation, more bloodshed.

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  16. Aug 26

    No Labels offered conservative Dems hundreds of thousands of dollars to spurn Pelosi. Intercept obtained Zoom call w/ No Labels, Gottheimer & private equity donors to celebrate procedural vote designed to weaken “human infrastructure” proposal.

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  17. Aug 24

    Whoa

    Virgin vs. Chad meme from Chinese social media commenting on U.S. experience in Afghanistan. Across cultures memes are truly the universal language enjoyed by all.
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    Aug 24

    Walkie-talkies as justification for killings was a widely accepted enough interpretation of ISAF ROE a decade ago that when Australian SAS killed unarmed Afghan men, they often planted radios on their bodies to conceal what they'd done, not guns, according to Brereton report:

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    Aug 23

    Yesterday I attacked by “antifascist” protesters in blackbloc. 
 To threaten & assault members of the Press is not anti-fascist behavior. 

To do so under the guise of social justice is a disgrace. To do so anonymously & from behind is pure cowardice. 1/3

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    Antifascists threatened to "smash cameras" of journalists, and targeted personally. She approached to speak to their group, and they shot paint and mace at her and threw her on the ground. As she recovered, one shot more paint at both her and press helping her.
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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 23

    Whenever you hear some think tank hack arguing that the cost of continuing war in Afghanistan was sustainable should point out the military has spent years blowing up weddings and villages there and shamelessly lying about it as long as possible:

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  21. Retweeted
    Aug 23

    NATO command reported 705 civilian deaths in Afghanistan in April/May of *this year* while the US was still a combatant in the civil war, which has now ended. I don't recall those deaths even raising an eyebrow. So yes, 99% of pundits posturing as "humanitarians" are full of shit

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