"Why tariffs are not an issue:
'Tariff Reform, Free Trade or No Trade? The Fiscal Fraud Exposed' was the front-page headline of the Socialist Standard in April 1910."
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Articles include a critique (and rejection) of the UK Supreme Court's ruling on a legal definition of sex and gender ✊?️⚧️
DT and tariffs
A critique (and rejection) of the tactics of Just Stop Oil
DT Vs Greenland
The monetisation of universities
"Will we get into trouble?"
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“No one was dead, at least not to begin with”
I will probably DNF this. I‘m 50 pages in, and I don‘t care. All the characters except the detective are mean, and the detective needs a backbone. 😬
The mayor told us not to wear clothes anymore.
House Gone Quiet is a short story collection. I bought it on Indie Bookstore Day and am really enjoying it. I‘m reading the story titled Decency Rule today. #FirstLineFridays
IF YOU‘D TOLD ME AT any point in the past seven years that I‘d wind up back in Eureka Springs, I‘d have laughed in your face. There are far too many ghosts in that town—not just the “real” ones tourists pay to hear about, but personal ones too.
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"Those who know me now will be surprised to know how I was a great talker as a child."
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“Maybe I‘d always be broken and dark inside.”
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"It was dusk on a winter day, and from high on the mountain came barking, drifting down above the snow like peals of a bell, one, two, three, four, more, just to say the light was leaving, but that was all right: here I am, I'm a dog, all is well."
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