#Politics

Of course the first "ex-Californian" series at the Chronicle features a tech guy who moved here 4 years ago, hates looking at homeless people, and wishes there were more copshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-
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Been reading a lot of strong reporting and analysis on how Latinos voted in 2020. Here's a quick thread with some highlights. Start with @lfcarrasco's essay on Democrats mistakenly treating
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In this weekend's Sunday TelegraphExclusive: Universities face fines as part of 'twin assault' by Government ministers on cancel culture https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/02/13/exclusive-universities-face-fines-part-twi
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If there's an "announcement as early as next week to quickly reduce the 4500 United States troops still left in Afghanistan," then there'll be a huge difference between going to
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Rant time. In Dublin right now, within 10 miles of the spire, 6 public hospitals are all making their own plan to deal with a second wave of Covid. Simultaneously,
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The Ardern government has overseen increased poverty, housing insecurity and starved public services of funding and resources. It has attacked democratic rights, strengthened the police; demonised immigrants; and intensified preparations
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"Between 2014-2019, CAP received at least $33 million in donations from firms in the financial sector, private foundations primarily funded by Wall Street & other investment firms, & current or
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Back in March we wrote that disasters create shared identity, a sense of community where people act together for the common good. But, we warned, that shared identity is fragile.
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A worrying trend I saw this year was that as a few young organizers gained media attention and went mainstream, activism became a desired aesthetic among zoomers—without any guiding ideological
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn over the last 3 months:-The night of his election-At a political event in December -The day of impeachment Link to NYT story about Republicans using poisonous, incendiary
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To clarify, the anti-mafia trial #ndrangheta #RinascitaScott:Various thoughts (in English)1) it impresses the foreign media because it has 350 defendants. In Italy we are used to maxi trials, even if
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NEW: Arron Banks's LeaveEU & Eldon Insurance vs the Information Commissioner. This is the appeal of a failed appeal against the ICO for finding LeaveEU & Eldon in breach of
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If anyone has access to Saturday Paper, @oz_f goes into detail about what went wrong with Vic’s contact tracing.https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2020/09/12/leaked-sutton-call-reveals-failures-contact-tracing/1599832800104
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A quick thread addressing some feedback I'm seeing on affordable housing ordinance passed by City Council yesterday:https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article248844539.html Critique 1: This won't result in a ton of
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On this #ElectionDay , it is important to stress that politics is another word for power. To not do politics is to not do power. And what happens when we
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The more I think about, the more amazing the dynamics of the left's decline in the west seem. Mainstream social democracy is dead or effectively so in many countries. Hard
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