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.@Bilal_A_Mateen on the falling #covid19 mortality rate:

“It’s a silver lining in a hard time but it’s by no means an excuse to take your foot off the pedal.”

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The Studio Ghibli classic Kiki’s Delivery Service is a beautiful movie about the horrors of being a teenager https://www.vox.com/21520043/kikis-delivery-service-best-studio-ghibli-movies-where-to-stream?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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Young Latinx voters could be the ones who finally flip Arizona https://www.vox.com/2020/10/29/21529612/young-latinx-voters-arizona-sb-1070-donald-trump?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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Democrats have their eye on flipping two Georgia Senate seats https://www.vox.com/21536826/georgia-senate-race-ossoff-loeffler-warnock-perdue?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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Eek. “There will probably be another major epidemic in the next four years, that whoever is president in that term will also have to deal with,” @edyong209 tells @marysdesk on today’s What Next. https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2020/10/getting-through-the-winter-with-this-coronavirus

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To have a patron saint of the internet is to mark the internet as Catholic space. https://slate.trib.al/0ibnwv4

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Dear Tucker Carlson, to quote the 1990s, you’re playing yourself. https://slate.trib.al/KZTBWb6

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Turner reportedly refused to leave the field when MLB security ordered him to return to isolation. https://slate.trib.al/srC3hHt

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Ways to manage election anxiety this weekend:
1. Vote!
2. Volunteer for Biden's campaign.
3. Be kind.
4. Eat a lot of Halloween candy.
5. And yes, I'm going to add **watch a scary movie** to this list. Here's why:

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/28/horror-movies-good-for-health-pandemic-stress-fear-anxiety-coping/

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The latest episode of @Salon's @ef4podcast is here! Host @KennethAWomack talks to #RENT star Adam Pascal about the #Beatles' influence on his life & work. Listen here: https://bit.ly/2TwAF33 + subscribe wherever you get your #podcasts!

📷: Michael Pitcherilli

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Psychologist Dan McAdams on the case of Trump: "Much stranger than any diagnostic category" https://ift.tt/2JhCUW1

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2020 and the company U.S. voters keep https://ift.tt/2HK6Mdc

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The Duchess of Sussex's trial for her invasion of privacy lawsuit will be postponed until fall 2021. https://www.huffp.st/CpxFzrw

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Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole. https://www.huffp.st/icLNa4T

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“It’s 2020. Lassie is not coming to save us and June Cleaver is not waiting at home with meatloaf." https://www.huffp.st/TewxqYI

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They did not hold back. https://www.huffp.st/9EjUOSn

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🎥 Mark Helenowski@markhelenowski·

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This scoop from @alibreland and @AJVicens is wild:

QAnon is supposedly all about protecting kids. So why is one of its biggest backers hosting child porn themed domains? https://twitter.com/alibreland/status/1321809567647485952

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new from @AJVicens and me: qanon claims it's waging a war on pedophiles, but one of its biggest enablers, jim watkins the guy who owned 8chan, appears to have hosted child porn domains https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/jim-watkins-child-pornography-domains/

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With DACA, the government gave me hope. Then it betrayed me. https://bit.ly/2HInhpJ

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Black voters frequently get treated like a mass of automatic liberals. I set out to dispel the myth of the monolith & understand what would make some Black people vote for a party that can barely contain its contempt for them. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/is-there-room-for-black-conservatives-in-the-gop-when-the-president-is-racist/

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State Sen. @Annette_Taddeo, a Colombian immigrant who represents a mostly Cuban district in Miami-Dade County, said it’s “almost like the Trump people have stolen the Obama playbook, which is be present, be visual, be constant.” https://bit.ly/2TDOH2A

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Behind the claim that coronavirus can cause a decline in intelligence. https://www.mic.com/p/could-coronavirus-really-age-your-brain-heres-what-we-know-so-far-40745313?utm_campaign=mic&utm_content=1603976522&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=twitter

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"Losing" or "gaining" an hour sucks for our bodies. Here's what you should do. https://www.mic.com/p/daylight-savings-time-contradicts-our-bodys-natural-clock-heres-how-to-recover-40720952?utm_campaign=mic&utm_content=1603969223&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=twitter

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Big business don’t limit their oppressive and cruel labor practices to just homo sapiens. https://www.mic.com/p/costco-pulled-a-coconut-milk-brand-for-allegedly-using-forced-monkey-labor-40686658?utm_campaign=mic&utm_content=1603962060&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=twitter

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Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court means Roe v. Wade may be endangered. Here's how you can help. (via @bustle) https://www.bustle.com/wellness/national-abortion-funds-donate-amy-coney-barrett?utm_campaign=mic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=partnerships&utm_content=1603954854

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February 2, 2018

***For your consideration*** here are some #BlackMonuments to erect instead >> https://mic.com/interactives/black-monuments

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San Jose votes to remove symbol of "genocide", Christopher Columbus

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November 26, 2017

5 African-American churches in the same New Jersey county were vandalized in the same evening: http://bit.ly/2Bek5d2

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August 25, 2017

The evolution of Afropunk — here's how a documentary evolved into a global festival http://bit.ly/2vwPML7

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August 17, 2017

How grassroots groups plan to make Republicans pay for Trump’s defense of white supremacists http://bit.ly/2w6Ezpc

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How’s this for an extremely heavy-handed real-life metaphor?
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France has been under high alert for terrorist acts in recent weeks as 14 people suspected of murder in retaliation for the publication of cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad went on trial
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The United States economy grew at a record-shattering rate of 7.4 percent in the third quarter—but it still wasn’t enough to lift the country out of the pandemic-size crater it was sent into by the novel coronavirus
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