#Politics

everytime i hear about a Coinbase executive claim that politics should be left at the door, i think about one of their old pitch decks in which they (approvingly) highlighted
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Just Trump's opening remarks are lunacy. His first reason for asserting fraud is rally size. He claims 50,000 voters were told they couldn't vote because they already did & 100,000s
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The 3-digit suicide hotline is finally on its way to becoming a reality (thanks to @AjitPaiFCC and team) and the story behind it is one of the most incredible “how
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1) Which names are in the Electronic Communication (EC) Nunes saw: a) Australia and Alexander Downer.orb) Britain and GCHQ’s then-head Robert Hannigan.#JohnBrennanhttps://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/12/the-electronic-communication-reda
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The vast majority of our Anglophone elite is so deracinated and disconnected from Indians outside their South Delhi, South Bombay, and Civil Lines gated communities, that they Orientalise and Other
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On #ElectionDay , here is a thread of some of my reporting on the UFC's influential role in Trump's re-election campaign:1. For The @Guardian, I wrote about how the UFC
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This post misleads. ES&S took over some (I suspect most) of Diebold’s county contracts, which = control. Dominion just acquired IT rights. ES&S, 4 instance, built Georgia’s ballots during the
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While many well-meaning people are siding with the protesting farmers for valid reasons, I disagree with the movement. At Milk Mantra, we work with 70k farmers & I have met
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Looking back, I think it is a mistake to say the rationalist community was better at predicting pandemic-related things. Some of them are good predictors in general, including on this
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Good morning! the @nytimes technology desk is covering today's Big Tech marathon hearings via live briefing. Follow along below for the latest updates:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/07/29/technology/tech-ceos-hearing-testimony here&#
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With most of my end of year control tests set for my classes, and with @GarethWhittaker getting the ball rolling with @ShowmaxOnline to get subtitles for #ChasingTheSun up, I've
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While the primary victories of @MondaireJones, @JamaalBowmanNY & @SiegelForTexas signals that #FutureIsProgressive, it's important to remember that the Democrats have been the party of progressives and of systemic changes for
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A key lesson from #impeachment is that too many of the disciplinary procedures in modern democracies are founded on the assumption that those at the top will enforce an informal
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I’ve taken a break from twitter - possibly I will continue it. Upon my return I responded to some DMs two of which led to discussions of man-splaining. Some thoughts
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Having now read the Telegraph story about possible @UKSupremeCourt reform by the government, I think that several premises/suggestions are misconceived.Here’s a (slightly longer than I intended) thread with some thoughts1/https://www.tele
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Western Anglophone leftists--even self-proclaimed internationalists--really know so extremely little about China, huh? Or even English-language discourse about China. So here's the thing about western Anglophone leftists--there's a
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