#Politics

1. Now is time to consider the total failure, epic bluster & side-stepping ineffectiveness of ALL who never summoned the courage to stand up for their country & instead hid
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Yuri Vlasov taught all of us that “impossible” is just a word. He was the first person to clean and jerk 200KG, and he inspired me when I met him
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Good investigation on an important subject; note that at its heart the story relies on confidential sources. Wonder what arrangement the NYT journalist has made with these sources in the
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Facebook really is a shower of shite. The ads are insane. So I decided to do my own investigation on this wild Friday night. The add in the screenshot has
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Canada's Vaccine Task Force says it needs to operate in secrecy: that it MUST be secretive and hide 100% of the meeting agendas, the meeting minutes, and the conflict of
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On Tuesday, I spoke at the @PressClubAust & warned #SportsRorts was just the tip of the iceberg of @ScottMorrisonMP treating taxpayers’ money like Liberal Party moneyI didn't know #SaferSeatsRorts was
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The Green New Deal is more popular than the #CarbonTax. A majority of Canadians want a full-scale mobilization to fight the #ClimateEmergency while putting people and communities first. Maybe it's
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evident from my work but I am a defender of the diner story genre. I also agree w/ the criticism that too many have let voters repeat the same stuff
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All right I need to not spend my Saturday being Mad Online, but I have a couple of short threads to get off my chest. One is about this rhetoric
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Part of what makes so much political analysis so confounding and frustrating is that the deep structural polarization means that almost everything in electoral politics happens on the margins. 1/x
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As a new American citizen (since November 2019, yay!!), I have been thinking a lot about "belonging" and the discourse of, and about, political "polarization". I am about to start
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You Can't Handle The Truth.-2005 Slate magazine expose details how companies create FAKE events, complete with fake doctors, misinfo on the news & more -#COVID #GreatAwakening1/xhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/09/psy-ops-pr
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Few thoughts on what just happened to Tom. We met very briefly a few years back in Maputo when @pl_vezina and I were presenting our work on the consequences of
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Is Trump preparing for an attempted coup in the US? Some are arguing it's just Trump destroying evidence before he leaves. I think it could be a lot worse than
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Excellent story here about how Trump admin used disinfo about antifa to politicize fed law enforcement and put the country at risk of attack from far-right extremist terrorism.Tracks with everything
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I think the left lowers the bar for itself by entertaining discussions about our future as contingent on whims of Labour party, which patronises workers to draw from our pool
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