#Policy

Six years ago I was deployed to a special operations advisory group in Afghanistan, advising an Afghan special forces aviation unit intelligence personnel. I had been awake for about 36
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A thread on anon twitter accounts (of which I am one).1) I’m anon because it means I can follow/support a lot of GC/radfem accounts. It’s been hugely helpful in enabling
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This will in no way be controversialhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1303494579761459200 What’s interesting, if you read it, is that the first is the most radical because it affects casting and subject matter of films......so
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The populist energy that gave us Trump could've been channeled into big reforms, but congressional Republicans would sooner indulge crack-pot conspiracy theories.I agree @ThePlumLineGS—Ceding economic populism to Dems is a
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Who are the Kurds? [A THREAD] They are indigenous to a mountain region in the northern Middle East. The Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world and the
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1/I guess it was inevitable. I stood up for myself at our local grocery store today - @BriarPatchCoop I refused to completely cover my face with the dumb mask.They called
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An appalling moment at Speaker Pelosi's news conference. After months of stonewalling Trump efforts to pass targeted short-term relief for millions of Americans suffering in the pandemic, she changed her
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This disturbing video is part of Beijing's effort to dilute the Uyghur population by pushing Han-Uyghur marriage.https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1282411911615778819 As I write in my book #BetrayingBigBrother, Xinjiang officials have
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This is a THREAD/Story about politics in Kentucky. It’s about how both Democrats and Republicans have ruled in KY over the decades. I begin with Albert Benjamin “Happy” Chandler Sr.
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With Xmas cancelled for many & all eyes on a new variant, we have an @instituteforgov report out on the way govt has used science advice in the crisis. Ministers
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Today (April 22) we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin.He led the Russian Revolution and developed national liberation and anti-imperialist theory.He was admired by many Black
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this week hundreds of young ppl in westchester & rockland stood up and showed us the future we deserve. they organized themselves & their families & friends, and then they
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More tech bsfckry. In the middle of a pandemic, KLIA decides to roll out facial recognition s/ware linked to immigration databases as travel checkpoints. Why is this a problem? (thread)
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[Thread] In a new working paper for @CEIPTechProgram, I trace India’s response to naturally occurring diseases and argue that India needs a full-time agency to deal with biological threats (1/12)https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/12/09/bi
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Puntland has been experiencing currency troubles for months leading to protests and discontent. This thread explains the cause and provides a few recommendations.Thread: There has been a large influx of
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It's an interesting theory, but I'm not sure I'm convinced that the SNC-Lavalin experience is significantly colouring the Trudeau government's thinking on Meng Wanzhou.I can't prove it isn't a factor,
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