#Politics

THREAD: The news of the pending appointment of retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as SecDef has provoked a complex reaction. Here is a thread of @monkeycageblog posts summarizing relevant security studies
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wonderful that the people currently working in the leader's office went in there with so much empathy for the vastly greater amount of shit their predecessors had to put up
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By asking the Fed to return unused Treasury capital, Mnuchin is effectively preventing the Biden administration from being able to use or revamp central bank loan backstops that were made
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The #Openskiestreaty docs published by #Russia yesterday also include the manuscript by S. Ryabkov from the state conference on July 6. His speech (in Russian) includes one surprisingly blunt remark
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I drove to Charlottesville, Va., last week to learn a bit about the city's difficult and complicated history — while touring three large Confederate monuments. My tour was led by
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A small recap of Kerala Politics since Kerala has its Panchayat, Municipality and Corporation elections upcoming over 3 days next week. It will be a litmus tear for both the
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All day today I have been having the vertiginously weird experience of trying to convince Democrats that the fact that the RW has a giant, coordinated messaging machine & they
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On March 17, the Netherlands will have general elections. Two parties - PVV & FVD - want a Nexit, a departure from the EU, in line with Brexit. As the
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It’s really scary to me how many people think that the move to buy Greenland is an incoherent idea. It just shows that people are not paying attention to the
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1. Andrew Scheer is unfit to be Prime Minister. He has repeatedly lied about his opponents, their policies & his background. He has engaged in underhanded tactics, misled Canadians, insulted
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So committed to ‘free speech' the government bailout includes stipulations on what universities will not be allowed to teachhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jul/16/english-universities-must-prove-commitment-to-free-speech-fo
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I’ve been tweeting since the election that all Democrats (and those who caucus with them) need to figure out how to leave room for each other call a win a
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Most of the anti-trans sentiment stems from a privileged class of white women who instead of continuing with their work to tear down patriarchal structures are solely focused on bullying
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Why did Dems lose at least 12 House seats -- despite Biden getting 80 million votes against Trump and winning the popular vote by as much as 7 million?I had
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Israel and Netanyahu are not allies of the United States. Israel and Netanyahu helped get Donald Trump elected in 2016. Israel and Netanyahu created the George Soros and the globalists
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1/ Yesterday the Guardian published a story documenting the long history of islamophobia by David Abrahams, a Blair-era Labour donor who is giving money to the party again after a
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