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20 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read
1. "Muslim leaders in France also condemned the attack. "A civilisation does not kill an innocent person, barbarism does," Tareq Oubrou, imam of a mosque in Bordeaux, told France Inter."

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
2. "The Strasbourg-based Assembly of Chechens in Europe said in a statement: "Like all French people, our community is horrified by this incident.""

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
3. The result: strengthening of the far-right in France. It was exactly what the right needed:

politico.eu/article/marine…
4. The question after a terrorist attack is always "who does this benefit". The white supremacist terrorist acts in the US emboldened millions of white supremacists and Trump himself. The beheading of a soft target in France begs the question:
5. ... it hurts the Muslim community, it hurts the public conversation about immigration and post-colonialism, it hurts democracy. Who does it benefit? If the answer is: "the French far-right", then we have a new set of questions.
6. Everyone in their right mind would condemn the beheading of a beloved K-12 teacher, "someone just like us". The beheaded person was not a drooling neonazi, who would have received far less sympathy. Again: why a soft target? Why engage in an act that would inevitably...
7. ... bring about a dangerous anti-Muslim atmosphere, putting thousands of lives in danger?

Questions, questions.
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1. The "mask thing"

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir to my readers here. It might be worth a try, though.
2. This is my collection of sports masks to wear at the collective gym (as opposed to my home gym, where I have my lifting equipment). The valves allow the exhaled air to flow down instead of all over the edges after accumulating in the breathing pocket.
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1. The US higher education crisis doesn't get the attention proportionate to its impact because there are other short term US crises such as the housing crisis, the mass incarceration crisis and now, the police brutality crisis.
2. All these crises have been decades in the making, some even from the "original sin" of the constitutional fetishism. Police brutality has always existed but large scale public rejection of police as an institution has reached ungovernability levels.
3. What does this have to do with the higher education crisis? Everything: the US has become almost indigent in delivering high-quality professionals in essential fields like medicine or economics. The quality erosion combined with the huge student debt was bound to explode.
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the Baffled Immigrant Profile picture
8 Oct
1 / Who won the debate? Nobody: there was no debate. Kamala Harris would have won a debate if there was one. She is a trained litigator and masters the art of argumentation.

Why wasn't there any debate? Not between presidential candidates or VPs?
2 / Who knows. I suppose if one of the campaign managers insisted on rules the GOP side wouldn't have agreed and would proceed into yet another bout of conspiratory whining. Since it's all about perception and the perception of the average American is informed by...
3 / ... the intellectual capacity of a housefly, I assume this is what you get.

However, as someone who presided over more round-tables and presentations than I can count, let me tell you how it is done.
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1 / Some well meaning journalists are confused with the term "steroid" and with the nature of the @Regeneron REGN-COV2 "cocktail".

Please read: some serious claims and even jokes are being made on wrong assumptions.

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1 / The American Coup - day minus 27

There were two options at first:

1. Trump was never sick with COVID19 and he "pulled a fast Bolsonaro" (expression that designates the false allegation of being sick with COVID, ...=>

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- IF the leaked information about his symptoms are true .... =>
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- IF he actually got monoclonal antibody treatment (not approved yet!)
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1. Educação em tempo integral

Na campanha do @zysmanneiman , não sou eu a responsável por produzir material de propaganda eleitoral para o eleitor nas faixas de renda e educação menos privilegiadas, o segmento que tem a experiência completa da exclusão social.
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