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Author of Elegant Legal Writing ( | ) and founding partner of Rushing McCarl LLP ( @rushingmccarl )

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Ryan McCarl
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Here’s an extended table of contents and a video trailer for my book Elegant Legal Writing (), which will be published on February 6 by the University of California Press. #legalwriting #writing #lawyers
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@shaneharris @eorden @DevlinBarrett @mattzap Did Mueller miss all this? He must have, unless all of this misconduct postdates his tenure. Maybe the Mueller investigation was less thorough and competent than was assumed.
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Coach Harbaugh did what he came to do — took us from the dark days of RichRod and Brady Hoke all the way to a National Championship, with three straight Big Ten titles and wins over OSU along the way. These are monumental achievements for a program in a cold climate that doesn't…
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@maggieNYT Trump puts more thought and effort into tax evasion than into foreign or domestic policy.
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Rushing McCarl LLP is writing a pro bono amicus brief supporting the University of Michigan’s efforts to block the Big Ten’s suspension of Head Coach Jim Harbaugh. Hundreds of alumni have added their names to the brief. #goblue @UMichFootball @mgoblog
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5 years
@politico Request for all reporters: if you write about statements in a legal filing, please link to the filing in the article.
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5 years
@politicalmiller @Susan_Hennessey Under the Electoral College, land sort of does “vote” in the sense that the College weights peoples’ voting power based on where they happen to live. If you live in California, your vote is worth 3-4x less than that of people who live in Wyoming.
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@Nick_L_Miller I think there is some safety in numbers here. If the US alone were providing direct military aid to Ukraine, that would create more escalation risk. But if it’s the US, Germany, non-NATO countries, etc. all pitching in, is Russia going to escalate against everyone?
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7 years
@thehill Stated reason: he's scared Senate Democrats will be mean to him. Real reason: he wants nothing more to do with the Trumpster fire.
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@RubenGallego @atrupar Some lies are so self-evident as to need no debunking. “The world’s largest military had no ammunition” is one of them.
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4 years
@LisaDNews @BernieSanders Except that he’s not actually dealing with the crisis. Rather, he’s using the crisis as one more excuse to continue his failed candidacy. He’s making it all about himself.
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@DavidLauter @gtconway3d So only non-Americans have the virus?
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@ThePlumLineGS Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and Barr must all resign or be impeached. It’s not just the madman at the top.
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4 years
@brianschatz Democratic Senators and Congresspersons.
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@neal_katyal @SpeakerPelosi Disagree. I am increasingly feeling joy when our leaders act on their duty to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States. I've learned that we can't take that for granted.
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5 years
@RWPUSA Mueller dropped the ball. The special counsel’s office had all of that legal firepower in the room, but they fired blanks. What a shame.
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It’s disappointing to hear that @umich has decided to go along with the B10’s suspension of Coach Harbaugh. The 1,700 alumni who signed our brief made clear how important it is for Coach to be on the sidelines. #goblue #collegefootball #law
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I am so grateful to the 1,700 @UMich alumni who entrusted @RushingMccarl with the task of making their voices heard through our amicus brief in the Harbaugh v. Big Ten lawsuit. The @bigten 's treatment of institutions we love has been inexcusable. #goblue
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4 years
@sahilkapur @pewresearch Blanketing the airwaves with informative, fair negative ads is critical for Biden and Democrats right now. People need to understand that Trump is largely responsible for this catastrophe. The "no politics during the pandemic" crowd is advocating surrender.
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6 months
Our Harbaugh v. Big Ten amicus brief is at 980 alumni signatures and counting. We’ve been flooded with offers of support, many from other alumni attorneys who are excited about the effort and offering to help however they can. #goblue
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Ryan McCarl
6 months
Rushing McCarl LLP is writing a pro bono amicus brief supporting the University of Michigan’s efforts to block the Big Ten’s suspension of Head Coach Jim Harbaugh. Hundreds of alumni have added their names to the brief. #goblue @UMichFootball @mgoblog
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5 years
@Susan_Hennessey Responding to McCarthy: I’m in the legal profession, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine.
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Ryan McCarl
7 years
My op-ed explaining why #Trump 's #MuslimBan is unconstitutional was published in The Independent: @Independent
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5 years
@jemelehill That seems like clear judicial misconduct.
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7 years
I am an education entrepreneur with psoriatic arthritis. Even with insurance, my co-pay is $2,500/mo. #IAmAPreexistingCondition #AHCA #Trump
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4 years
@SenKamalaHarris Please be Biden’s running mate.
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5 years
@brhodes We do have the language to talk about it: “ignorance,” “low-information voter,” “Fox News,” “talk radio,” etc.
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4 years
@cheese93007 @NateSilver538 You must not know anything about his personal history.
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5 years
@PostRoz Can’t make this stuff up.
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6 months
Our amicus brief now has 1,263 alumni co-signers ranging from the @UMich Class of 1959 to the Class of 2024. We're working hard to prepare a powerful brief, and I can't wait to share it with you tomorrow. @UMichFootball #GoBlue #BigTen #FreeHarbaugh
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Ryan McCarl
6 months
Our Harbaugh v. Big Ten amicus brief is at 980 alumni signatures and counting. We’ve been flooded with offers of support, many from other alumni attorneys who are excited about the effort and offering to help however they can. #goblue
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@SabrinaSiddiqui @TVietor08 @JoeBiden How is it outrageous to condition foreign aid on a country’s acting in accord with U.S. foreign policy positions? America isn’t a charity for foreign governments that ignore our interests. Close the wallet.
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Ryan McCarl
5 years
I subscribe to and am grateful for both @nytimes and @washingtonpost for their hard work exposing the existential threat to American democracy posed by Trump and his Republican enablers. Support journalists: quality reporting isn’t free.
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@TimOBrien “The ruler of our nation.”
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@JRubinBlogger You can't be serious. He is unwatchable. Wishing it were otherwise won't make it so.
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5 years
@DavidNir Lesson for next time: significantly raise the debate qualification thresholds.
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Ryan McCarl
7 years
's new Course Mode: Fully individualized and automatically generated language courses. #mfl
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4 years
@emilynussbaum @KevinBankston This is potentially huge, but it’s just one Politico reporter relaying info from anonymous sources. We need confirmation from more sources for this now.
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4 years
@PhilippeReines We should stop calling the tell-all Trumpster “Anonymous” and start calling them “Coward.” They joined the administration and went along silently abetting every travesty and crime, complicit in everything Trump did. Now they are running their mouth for money—just like their boss.
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4 years
@DLeonhardt @jtlevy I know that opinion writers don’t pick their own headlines and that’s frustrating, but how could NYT call this a “complete list”? That’s totally false. What about when he called it a “hoax” perpetuated by the Democrats?
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Ryan McCarl
7 years
@realDonaldTrump Another note to #English learners: this is not an acceptable use of quotation marks. #grammar #Trump
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Ryan McCarl
8 years
The restaurant lobby and government regulators vs. innovative food #startups : #libertarian #econ
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Ryan McCarl
5 years
@fchollet I describe #AI as efforts to perform functions that previously required human cognition or perception. I think it’s fair to say that achievements in classification count as “AI” under most definitions. The human mind performs innumerable acts of classification daily.
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4 years
@CNNPolitics @mkraju This is terrible. Democracy must go on. Wouldn’t Trump love the opportunity to postpone his ejection from office?
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@ElaineLuriaVA @jtlevy It’s not up to the Executive Branch whether or not to pass along foreign aid that Congress has allocated. So neither these entities nor the President have any legal say in the matter.
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@TVietor08 Hiding the call readout in the secret server was cover-up enough to justify impeachment. So is preventing officials from testifying and refusing to obey subpoenas. This is just one more aspect of the criminal conspiracy.
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@JulianCastro Please drop out and find another way to help the cause in 2020.
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@Justinwcomedy Note to #English learners: "surety" is a legal term meaning guarantee for a debt. @realDonaldTrump meant "certainty." #words #language
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4 years
@jonfavs @danpfeiffer @EricLevitz I think the past 72 hours had an enormous effect, and those candidates’ choices were a big part of that.
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4 years
@RadioFreeTom Trump *is* parsing the speech’s sentences for the first time. You think he prepares for things? He refuses to read his 1–2 page intelligence briefings. He doesn’t read, period, unless he’s reading about himself.
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4 years
@JuddLegum Need confirmation ASAP. Very plausible, but this is just one Politico reporter with anonymous sources. Would be a bombshell story.
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4 years
@thejd800 @LisaDNews @BernieSanders That’s true, but votes for Medicate for All and other aspects of the Sanders platform are not on the table. And yet those are what he is focused on. He’s using the crisis as his latest excuse to keep his campaign alive and his name in the news.
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Ryan McCarl
5 years
@nytopinion Bret Stephens acknowledges that Trump’s lawbreaking is “repellent and dangerous,“ but fails to call for Trump’s impeachment. You either stand up for American democracy and sovereignty or you don’t. No partial credit.
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Ryan McCarl
3 years
May an American tech company discriminate against a worker because the worker is an "untouchable" under India's caste system? Cisco Systems, Inc. says yes; I say no.
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3 months
@Alex_Drain On the other hand, you can’t really blame Harbaugh for his hypercompetitiveness. That’s what we love about him and the reason he took Michigan from a decade of irrelevance to winning a national title in six years.
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@Susan_Hennessey Well, Barr is a “partisan hack open to subverting due process rights of Americans for his political gain.” He smothered and misrepresented the Mueller report, then tried to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress.
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5 years
@denisethewriter @JulianCastro Because he is polling at 1-2% and has zero chance of winning.
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2 years
@Nick_L_Miller I don’t follow the point you are trying to make here.
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Ryan McCarl
3 years
I am proud to be playing a small role in a historic legal fight against caste discrimination in the American tech industry. You can learn more about the DFEH v. Cisco case and read the brief Rushing McCarl filed on behalf of @ambedkar_center here:
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Ryan McCarl
5 years
There’s a lot of news and noise right now, so here is what you need to know about Trump’s approaching impeachment. Trump violated campaign finance and obstruction of justice laws by soliciting foreign (Ukrainian) interference in American elections and then trying to cover it up.
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5 years
@nytdavidbrooks That says a lot about the quality of that school and the knowledge and curiosity of its students. It says nothing about the need for impeachment.
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4 years
@tribelaw It seems to me that bribery is essentially a lesser-included crime of extortion. In other words, extortion includes the act of bribery but is worse because it adds the element of coercion.
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6 years
Yes. This is not an ordinary election about policy issues; it is an emergency. People who believe in liberty, tolerance, reason, human rights, and good governance must punish the party of Trump, which has rejected those values in favor of populist hate.
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What a lede: “The fierce battle for control of Congress and the nation’s governorships has turned toward blatant and overtly racial attacks rarely seen since the civil rights era of the 1960s.”
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4 years
@Scaramucci You’re a smart guy, no wonder you didn’t last long in the Trump Administration.
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5 years
@JohnKasich @CourtProf @realDonaldTrump Run for President. This year. I won’t support you, but you would be doing the country a service by giving Republicans a credible alternative to Trump.
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Ryan McCarl
7 years
Are people ignorant enough to believe him? (Apparently so.): " #Trump Tries to Deflect Russia Scrutiny, Citing ‘Croo…
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Ryan McCarl
2 years
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to kill and displace innumerable people for no reason other than Vladimir Putin's greed and insanity. Now the world must cut off Russia from civilization, just as Russia has cut off Ukraine. #istandwithukraine
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4 years
@reedgalen @gtconway3d @ProjectLincoln Cory Gardner went “ #fullMAGA ” when he voted to acquit Trump after Trump hijacked American national security policy for personal political gain while trying to cheat in the 2020 election.
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“A group of more than 900 Michigan alums, dating as far back as the late 1950s, are joining the legal fight to get a judge to overturn the Big Ten's suspension of head football coach Jim Harbaugh.” @UMichFootball @UMich #goblue
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Michigan having to burn timeouts because they are having trouble getting plays in on time is an obvious example of how the Big Ten’s arbitrary, spiteful suspension of the team’s head coach less than 24 hours before game time could affect the outcome of a tight game. #goblue
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@jonfavs Dems need to coordinate their questions and stay out of the weeds—keep tying questions to the big picture. Only lawyers, including former prosecutors such as Schiff, should be taking up airtime with questions.
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2 years
This is a current snapshot of commercial flights over Europe, where it is 8 am in Rome and 9 am in Kyiv. Just like that, Russia has cut off the free and independent country of Ukraine from civilization: not a single commercial flight in its airspace due to the Russian invasion.
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4 years
Kudos to Senate Democrats for rejecting Republicans’ embarrassingly bad corporate bailout bill. The bill would allow the Trump administration to disburse $500 billion in loans as it sees fit. Trump won’t comment on whether it could go to his own properties.
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7 years
@BraddJaffy It's just urban housing policy. What could go wrong? #Trump #LondonFire #politics
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4 years
@JamilSmith @KevinMKruse I hope his next opponent makes an ad about it.
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Ryan McCarl
7 years
Excellent bookshelf snapshot. I have about half of these. #Norwegian has always been one of my favorite #languages to study. #polyglot
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Rich West-Soley
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If you want to be sure no one understands your neural network experiment, include a diagram like this in the article explaining your results. Can’t read it —> can’t question it. #AI
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4 years
@matthewferner @radleybalko Plus maybe we should minimally care about other human beings, even those whom we’ve locked up for one reason or another.
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@jtlevy I think Clinton was just pointing out conclusions that many dialed-in political observers had already reached. People remember the photo of Jill Stein sitting with Mike Flynn at the Russia event in 2016, and people hear Gabbard spouting Kremlin talking points on the debate stage.
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@SethAbramson Trump didn’t warn of a “civil war”—he said “Civil War like fracture.” He just doesn’t know what a hyphen is or how to hyphenate compound adjectives.
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@nytopinion Voters did not elect Trump because of his policy positions. Voters in 2020, as in 2016, will vote primarily based on their feelings about Trump and how aligned they think Trump is with their identities and values. I value good governance, for example, so I'll vote for Democrats.
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@ProfMMurray They thought the shirt was referring to itself.
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Is there any way to know the Germanic equivalent of a Romance word in #English ? #grammar #linguistics
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@NewYorker @JohnCassidy I would say it also reinforces the perception that nominating her would weaken Democratic prospects in 2020. Like it or not, most swing voters are loss-averse and don’t understand or support plans calling for wholesale transformations of the economy.
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@Stowydad @maggieNYT Please drop out before that.
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How to Teach Your Baby Two Languages: #languages #bilingual #education
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@SethAbramson Good luck with that! Let’s not put the system to that test.
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@cworeds You can buy a copy of Elegant Legal Writing for her, then point her to chapter 3 (“Using Plain Language”) #legalwriting
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When I was thirteen, my grandparents bought me a course to study Japanese. If they hadn't bought it for me—if I had just started surfing the Internet for clues—I probably wouldn't have had the experiences of studying abroad in Japan and learning Japanese.
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What are some sites for reading #English to build your vocabulary? #languagelearning #edtech
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I oppose fascism, so it seemed like a good day to donate to @JoeBiden .
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@mattdpearce @latimes I recently subscribed to the digital + Sunday print plan and love the feeling of getting the print version.
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@Susan_Hennessey David Brooks is a joke.
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@Johnubacon Then they should be capable of checking the docket, as I did last night and others have done this morning, and noticing that the assigned judge hasn’t changed. Feel free to reach out if you have legal Qs.
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How to Maximise Google Drive for Online Language Teaching - Lindsay Does Languages #languages #polyglot #edtech
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Maoists for Trump? In China, Fans Admire His Nationalist Views #Trump #politics #China
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@BenjySarlin @jonfavs Cory Gardner is gone in November 2020, so he should try to reclaim some of his dignity and reputation before then. Wish I were still registered to vote in CO so I could contribute to his firing. Join his opponent @Hickenlooper here:
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Ryan McCarl
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@FiveThirtyEight Only 25% of Republicans think that Blacks face discrimination. That is astounding.
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Ryan McCarl
5 years
Democrats in Congress should be thanked for doing their constitutional duty to check a lawless president, and Republicans in Congress should be voted out for continuing to kiss Trump’s ass and do nothing.
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@RyanMcCarl
Ryan McCarl
4 years
@OrinKerr Hard disagree. This has been an unwatchable disaster, in large part because of Wallace’s failure to control Trump and enforce the rules.
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@shannonrwatts And imagine failing at every single one of those tasks, but still being assigned new tasks because of an acute shortage of Administration officials with functioning minds.
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