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Wellington, NZJoined September 2013

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Victory! The Indiana Supreme Court has found that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination protects against compelled unlocking of a phone, because complying with the order was a form of “testimony” under the Fifth Amendment.
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Ventilation reported to lead to a sharp spike in #COVID19 inflammatory response. contemplates negative pressure ventilation, the old iron lung from the Polio days, as therapy. #TwiV.
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On the latest #TWiV Daniel Griffin's clinical update on #COVID19, dexamethasone trial, two Ebolavirus outbreaks in DRC, clinical and virological aspects of asymptomatic #SARSCoV2 infections, age-dependent effects on transmission, and listener email. bit.ly/2AYTtC6
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Dear teachers/lecturers, as you probably know by now, I am going through all our Honest Government Ads and creating PG versions for you to use in your classrooms. We've had tons of requests to bleep-out our Visit Timor-Leste video. So here it is! #WitnessK
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Pretty amazing that the government of #Australia has gotten away with bugging the government of #EastTimor in order to obtain an unfair advantage in trade deals with one of the world’s poorest countries then, to top that one off, go after a whistleblower and a lawyer like this...
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Steve Bracks is right. As if Australian intelligence officials bugging the Timorese government to obtain trade advantages wasn't bad enough, the secret trial of lawyer Bernard Collaery is absolutely shameful. theaustralian.com.au/commentary/why
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Intentionally killing off his base. You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Trump: When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please.
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This pervades academia, and not just science or virology.
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For decades, the pernicious myth of the scientist as a lone genius has protected the mostly white men on top from competition. In my field, this manifests as the "virus hunter," a dude whose real skill is getting $$$/press without credit those doing the actual work. THIS IS WHY👇 twitter.com/hunterwalk/sta…
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The greatest democracy in the universe.
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Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200 There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live This is going to be a disaster washingtonpost.com/politics/kentu
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