#Politicians

Andrew Needham

A_NeedhamNYU

Two things about this Paul Krugman column today and its historical argument.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/republicans-democracy.html?smid=tw-share 1. I don't understand Krugman's reading of Hofstadter. Krugman suggests

#BlackLivesMatterUK

ukblm

#JusticeForShukriAbdi As once again we see that the justice system is incapable of keeping black people safe from racial violence we’d do well to remember that Shukri’s brutal death illustrates

Noah Macbeth

noahmacbeth

The economic impact of economic crises is unclear to many. Ideas like UBI are often touted as the savior. Rodrik's trilemma is a great tool to better understand the trade-offs,

David McAllister

Dr_D_McAllister

Weirdly, Boris Johnson twice alluded to A Tale of Two Cities during PMQs this week. Both fairly obscure references, neither of which made much sense if you know the novel,

Mike Gibbs🏳️‍🌈

Mikeggibbs

Can we clarify something, because the public has a distorted idea of politicians during an emergency.So we are giving WAY too much credit and validation to people who are VERY

Leonardo Carella

leonardocarella

A word of caution: many aspects of the social, political and informational mess that led to extremists storming the US Capitol are present in Western Europe too. (1) I. Political

Dahlia Scheindlin

dahliasc

Survey update in #Israel - wonky thread based on 3 wknd polls (not mine), in light of elex talk. 1. Talk of "Likud plunge" overrated - that relates to brief

Brian Bannon

SobSax

https://medium.com/@brianpbannon/after-republicans-came-to-power-in-georgia-fox-news-moved-in-to-gpb-6f2e848d55b8Locally, Georgia news coverage is still dominated by legacy media outlets such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB Radi

Rent is Theft

ThatNJSocialist

Yes, yes, the election isn’t over yet. But let’s really start asking the hard question here: why, after four years of chaos, and a year of horribly mishandling a pandemic

Anil

anilsaidso

The Sovereign Individual (1999) is a guide for navigating the current transition from Industrial to Information Age.Remarkably, it predicted the rise of 'digital gold'.“If our deductions are correct, you stand

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist

butchanarchy

The Founding Fathers hated and feared actual democracy and constructed the U.S. system of governance in order to prevent democracy from ever existing here, and here’s a thread of them

L⭕️udCitizen 🉐 老百姓

LoudCitizen

TRUMP is ready to BREAK THE GLASS THREAD Americans are gradually waking up to this MASSIVE electoral crisis. They now see the fraud is HUGE, but not how martial law

John

Johnheretohelp

More and more "politicians" will line up for their public vaccination It's all theater, they aren't getting the vaccine. This is all a public prelude to Forcing the vaccine on

Blair Enns

blairenns

Brace yourself world, I have a THREAD about POLITICS, but it's okay because it's CANADIAN STYLE... (that's it for the caps, I promise) I live in BC, Canada. Back in

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

When we talk about hacking & attribution, it's important to understand that tier 1 cyber nations (USA, China, Russia, & select Euros) can make it appear as if another country

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

This was an interesting read. It’s more complicated than “oh these poor people are financially insecure.” Most of them were doing just fine currently, but interestingly, had a history of

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