#Politics

Tonight, following the Biden inauguration, I was asked whether I would ever consider being a politicianI prevaricated - I genuinely believe that those who seek power least deserve itA thread
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NEW: Black policy leaders will play a pivotal role in President-elect @JoeBiden's transition, marking one of the most diverse agency review teams in history. My latest for @AP:https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-race-and-ethni
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Sorry but this is an awful report. All it does is list wealthy Russians in London & catalogues contacts with UK politicians & kremlin. no attempt made to describe their
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This https://twitter.com/TerryBoutonHist/status/1348365425894170626 Because this is no longer about politics, or rather this is not politics as usual. It's about that bloodlust which @TerryBoutonHist saw and described. It evades reason
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1/The way this article talks about Rep. Karen Bass and Senator Kamala Harris is incredibly problematic. The press and @JoeBiden's team are falling back on old stereotypes of Black women.
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A year ago, the idea that you could close every restaurant, café and pub in the capital without a Parliamentary vote or even a debate would have been unthinkable. Today
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One of the remarkable things about 2020 in Democratic politics is that both the center and the left have just kind of assumed that this was an all-or-nothing year, and
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Bernie was the most popular and progressive candidate during the primary, yet Biden, the least popular and most conservative, won the election, picked first-to-drop-out Kamala as his VP & is
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I know you’re afraid of a Trump coup. But you needn’t be. Yes, his behavior is dangerous and corrosive to democracy. But there are several reasons why you shouldn’t let
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This is a shameless gimmick. Trump's decision not to divest his businesses netted him $446 million in personal revenue in 2019—hundreds of thousands of which came from taxpayer-funded payments to
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THREAD: PERSPECTIVE: AMERICA, on the eve of TRUMP'S 2nd Impeachment Trial think about this: Bin Laden sat in a cave & planned & organized 9-11, Bin Laden recruited actors for
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Plug for my husband @oscredwin: as a stay-at-home dad during quarantine, he could use more online pals to chat with *during the day*, like 11-3 EST. I’m throwing it out
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The ascendancy of men like Saul Alinsky as foundational political philosophers marked the beginning of the end of all hopes of truthfulness or decency in politics because his particular brand
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Another aspect of this— As Tapper’s thread demonstrates but doesn’t say, Trump’s claim about Obama is a lie. It was Trump’s tariffs that really hosed the lobster industry. But if
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1. Lincoln Project tweeted out a thread that appeared to contain screenshots from their former partner @NHJennifer's accountUnclear how they got access to themThese exchanges were with journalist @AmandaBeckerThey have
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Oliver O'Donovan once said 'to see yourself as a people is a work of moral imagination'. True of most 'bodies' we belong to. If my party SNP is where we
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