#Politics

The US will need a Marshall Plan-style initiative to resuscitate and rebuild our economy and society after we come back from this crisis. It will be a generational endeavor as
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While most concerns about the US becoming like Putin's Russia focused on an authoritarian president, I'm starting to worry about an enfeebled Congress with extremist wings like Russia's: Nationalists and
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According to @NoBordersMedia, Montreal’s John A. Macdonald statue has just been toppled. As an historian of settler colonialism in what is currently Canada, let me share some accessible resources to
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THREAD: Pro-Ruto Mps in Mt. Kenya and elsewhere in the Jubilee world have been more prominent in media as Uhuru backers largely remain in the shadows. But now, as Uhuru
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//The last 5 years has me conditioned to expect bad news whenever I see someone trending, so now I'm just sideeyeing the fuck out of Twitter every time I see
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So since Vaughan Gething gets no media attention based on his failings I have decided to create a thread with every crisis he has gotten though. First up is cancer
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The Obama/Biden administration used a drone strike to kill 16-year old American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in 2011.They killed his father, U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, 2 weeks earlier by drone strike.Neither
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Just got told to 'check my privilege' for implying Canadian democracy is currently much healthier than US democracy. Let me state it explicitly: for all Canada's problems - and boy
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Doug Jones is trending but it’s not about the right Doug Jones so I’m here to fix that. Alright, to clear the air: I only tweeted this after seeing the
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The idea that Jesus, in his vicarious life, restorative ministry, penal substitutionary death, redemptive resurrection, glorious ascension, & victorious return - or the gospel that proclaims him - doesn’t confront
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I'm not sure the Democrat leadership has really grappled with the sheer implications of destroying their relationship forever with a huge portion of voters under 40 like, yes, you managed
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Justin Trudeau studied literature at McGill, earning his BA in 1994, followed by a BEd at UBC in 1998. While working toward his degrees, he had several pt+summer jobs to
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How democracy and Abrahamic behaviour are intertwined-Assume you have a populace and you just instituted a government backed by electoral democracy. Now what do you do next? Your goal quickly
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People on that 2018 trip to France, where Trump took the time to greet Putin, but not to honor American war dead, have now confirmed @JeffreyGoldberg’s reporting to the @washingtonpost
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I've seen this criticism of the mooted proposal on level-playing field a lot - that "managed divergence" enforced with tariffs is a recipe for instability. A valid point in theory,
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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard finally released a copy of the demand letter her campaign sent to Hillary Clintonhttps://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1194386961848356866?s=20 Brian Dunne is the attorney who wrote it. He works for Pierce
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