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Adam Jentleson 🎈

AJentleson

The de facto supermajority threshold was first forged against civil rights. Jim Crow-era segregationist senators repurposed a 1917 Senate rule to force every civil rights bill to clear a supermajority

Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸

AmmarKazmi_

Thread: it’s hard to keep track, so here’s a list of *some* of Donald Trump’s most destructive actions ↓Withdrew from Paris Agreement and Iran nucleal deal; Muslim ban; US-Mexico border

Team Collins

TeamCollins207

1/ Sara Gideon's climate plan is a laundry list of platitudes, with no concrete plan to get anything done. But Senator Collins has a clear record of actual action on

Simon Stähler

exoseismologist

New paper on the Phobos transit observed by @NASAInSight on April 24 2020 with some surprises.THREADhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/QQGDEE8RSCHX6CQ2AAXT?target=10.1029/2020GL089099 First off: Eclipse or transit? We decided to g

David Fickling

davidfickling

The trajectory of Sheldon Adelson's life tells a fascinating story about how the patronage politics of the 20th century American urban political machine has come to rule the world in

jon ben-menachem

jbenmenachem

going to do some tweets about this algorithms panel happening now >>https://twitter.com/donnakiran/status/1333822833793900549 .@Sarah_Brayne: "For centuries, state actors have translated social processes into metrics in order to

David Dayen

ddayen

Prison phones are the last chapter of my book. The logical end point of our monopolized economy is happening in prisons, where the market is literally captivehttps://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1281711750035968003 And yes, I

dan

3rachaed

if u think about it, 3racha have really distinct production styles- chan takes inspo from videogame soundtracks, changbin takes inspo from books, and tracks produced by han always center around

Pete D’Abrosca

pdabrosca

I believe it is now clear that there is no recourse except for the secession of a few geographically contiguous states, where people who believe in law and order, and

Neil Fawcett

BarristerNF

Starmer and Blair are mistaken in thinking that Brexit has to be accepted to be dealt with. Accepting Brexit will not make its supporters *less* angry. Getting Brexit, instead has

Kanekoa

KanekoaTheGreat

CHINA"We have people at the top of America's core inner circle of power & influence. The Obama administration was easy to manipulate. The Chinese had many friends among the Obama

Jupiter

JudithToday

okay so this should get some discussion going. A lot of the analysis on masculinity is flat and that is because it lacks the context of race So let's talk

Pwn All The Things

pwnallthethings

Will be a v ugly week, but impt to remember, short of the House flipping red by Friday, there's no remaining power mechanism in the U.S. capable of preventing Biden

anna j. is out of the office! 🏳️‍🌈

feministlib

I think what I want all the babyqueers trying earnestly to police the use of "dyke" by people who identify as (among other things) as dykes is this: The language

RayBoomhower

RayBoomhower

On this day in 1913, labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was born in the Hoosier State.In 1959 John Bartlow Martin wrote a multi-part series for the "Saturday Evening Post" on the

megan squire

MeganSquire0

After being banned from Dlive, white power streamers are implementing a host of bubblegum+duct tape solutions, some involving increasingly “niche” platforms. Others are trying to roll their own solutions. This

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