#Policies

Rules are made to be broken and structures are made to be bent. When rules and structures are no longer serving the best interests of people they must be placed
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Quick thoughts and thread on the recent barrage of articles seeking to push the view that all of Israel, and the West Bank, and Jerusalem and Gaza are “apartheid”...implications of
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Julie Parrish is 1) not a scientist and 2) on the board of Timber Unity, which was formed to fight climate change policies. The group is increasingly affiliated with far-right
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For the Sideshow Conspiracy Caucus of Congress -- central platform: "Bleh! Faux victimhood manufactured from disinformation! Bleh!" -- two observations:1) They likely won't pass any bills, even if their party
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I’m excited to share the first report from our @USCPriceCSI @USCPrice #LARentBurden neighborhood survey, “How do Renters Cope with Unaffordability,” led by me, @sdegregorio @angstondeck and @GaryDeanPainter http://socialinnovation.usc
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THREAD on some of the Trump policies the courts, in an *unprecedented* show of activism, have struck down or enjoined There have been more injunctions of this sort in 2.5
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[Thread]Aryan Invasion Theory — A Response to @mkatju's QuestionsA very important thread for all of you! So Kashmunist Brahmin @mkatju writes an article on @TheWeek and asks five questions for
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1) Thread: Why Brooks Brothers, one of the most iconic American Brands of all time, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy today. First I would like to iterate my perspective as
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Of course Rahm Emanuel is on the airwaves spouting off nonsense about retraining and coding jobs. I'd like to give you the perspective of someone (me) who actually tried to
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I am 4 minutes into #ThisIsLife with @lisaling @CNN on the #opioidcrisis. For a decade, I've studied the #opioidcrisis & it's effect on pregnant women & infants. Already, I've heard
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70 years ago today, June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea and began the Korean War - seminal moment that set the course of modern Korean history and marked
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Alito is delivering the keynote speech at this year’s Federalist Society convention. He’s using the occasion to defend the group, claiming its members face “harassment and retaliation for saying anything
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“Kurdishness ends where a Turkish bayonet appears” was a common phrase among the Turkish republic’s early nationalists about a century ago. It captured bluntly the only solution deemed fit for
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It was so, so wonderful to co-host the Trans Histories panel @CGIS_Oxford yesterday!I'm so grateful to the speakers & fantastic audience, and want to be transparent about some issues we
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A very telling interview with Czech PM Andrej Babis textbook illustration for (technocratic) populism.https://hir.harvard.edu/shock-to-the-heart/A shorts thread on technocratic populism using AB quotes to illustrate some relevant aspects of
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Is China socializing its people to prepare for war? H/T @niubi for highlighting a recent meeting of the Central POLITICAL and LEGAL AFFAIRS Commission which uses the term “战” –
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