#Politics

Some random thoughts on the US election today:I hope I don't insult my American friends when I say that, while the world's interest (obsession even) with US politics is testament
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NEW to @NBCNews House Democrats find Trump overspent for ventilators by as much as $500 million 1. They paid 4-5 times as much as the Obama admin did for functionally
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the canadian cpc is not the u.s. republican party, pass it on I mean feel free to criticize them (or the liberals or the ndp or whoever) on their own
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In all of this, an unpopular confession - I was Helen Zille's biggest fan (a mini-thread)Up until a few years ago, I was a huge fan of Helen. I thought
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In my new @IFJPglobal article, I draw from my fieldwork in Colombia to reflect on four ethical and methodological dilemmas of narrating victimhood during transitions from violence.A brief thread summarizing
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Having never previously been terribly interested in politics, after the referendum I got a strong sense that things weren’t right any more, so I started reading books that I wouldn’t
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THREAD: The UCP government is pushing ahead with their plan to create a new police force that no one is asking for and will only increase costs for Albertans. Now,
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Seeing some folks defend this guy because he's a lefty and he was in middle school when he told one girl to kill herself, blackmailed another & circulated her nude
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Any other 'bottom feeders' in Zander? why of course....(part 1 of 2 tweets) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/trump-data-analytics-russian-access Would not expect Risby to miss out? He leaves Spadi Trading same day in
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"Civil society" is just a subject, a thing, a category of analysis. If we merely talk about foundations, ngos, or globalization we can make a partial account of changes in
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Every year Rand Paul does a "festivus report" on government waste, including scientific spending, that gets a ton of uncritical press by media who do not investigate the claims.My request
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In 2019 my mom was hit by a taxi cab in Chicago. Right before COVID hit her car was destroyed by a tornado. Then on Dec 30 she was diagnosed
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Why are countries that are home to the world's largest concentration of vaccine production among the last to get vaccines? My answer had been "because they struck contracts last," which
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We threw out every single thing we know about human nature in order to fight COVID and this is where it led us. Pieces like this crush me because it
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Huge errorOnly 38% still think Brexit is a good idea. "Red wall" seats won't reward Labour for delivering Brexit - they'll punish Tories for Brexit being shit, for Covid and
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I wonder what would happen if there were a vote in the KS legislature on whether to create an initiative process in KS. Would legislators willingly give average Kansans more
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