#Politics

With the sad news Darren Grimes has deleted all of his old tweets (can't think why), here's a thread looking back at some of his finest moments on this website...
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This is notable — and a key marker for those who say Trump’s actions help China: The Chinese embassy in the US has retweeted Trump’s fake claim of election fraud.
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There are alternatives laying around all over — land trusts, worker coops, social wealth funds, neighborhood councils, democracy vouchers, public pharma, public banks, municipal utilities, mobile crisis units, and so
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Hidden in the Digital News Report 2020 is a secret blueprint for building a successful online news organisation (in Europe). Here's your ten-tweet guide. #dnr20 1. Distinctiveness and quality of
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Historical context (part 1)To fully understand Hazaras' struggle for social justice, meaningful represenation in gov'nt, inclusion in decsion-makings & to end systemic discrimination, we have to understand the persecution of
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To those studying (im)migration and citizenship, the move by Canadian immigration (IRCC) to drop its Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score cutoff for PR invitation to 75 (from its usual 450+)
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This is great. Sandel’s new book is said to argue that elites need to learn humility to facilitate interconnectedness. In place of such moral orientation, this article shows how infrastructure
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1. A significant chunk of partisans always refuse to accept election results (as with Dems in 2004 & 2012 & GOP in 2008 & 2012) but 2020 is different in
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It's probably not too surprising, but it's still striking how much US & UK politics have mirrored each other the last 40 years: laissez-faire with Reagan & Thatcher, Third Way-ism
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1. My new article out this week "Nature and the International. Towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity" in @GlobalizationsJ argues IR needs to re-include nature, while global environmentalism needs
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I'm going to do a little thread on COVID. Not the politics which we all know are FUBAR. The plague itself. COVID is almost the perfect virus. The incubation period
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Yes, the public absolutely has a right to know about Canberra's culture. Because the people working there aren't just representing us the public as our elected representatives, they're formulating the
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Absolutely fascinating thread as @jsralton & others track down the identity of key players in the Capitol Hill breach. Including highly decorated ex-members of the military.The double wrist ties, tasers,
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Some thoughts this morning on race and politics. I'm far from a pundit but I have worked to push for race and ethnicity data disaggregation and some things are resonating
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Something we didn't have time to do justice to overnight... defence spending. I think most people will be quite surprised by what is going on You'll remember a few weeks
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Let's talk about the racial optics of two Republicans voting against certifying votes in Wayne County - which includes Detroit, the nation's largest Black-majority city.https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/17/wayn
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