#POLITICAL

Zac Schildcrout

ZacSchildcrout

THREAD:The widespread effort to equate advocacy for the dissolution of Israel with advocacy for "Palestinian equality" is a clever trick. Here's the strategy: Step 1: Change the definition of "equality"

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/This Black Lives Matter protest happened in the middle of the pandemic and the woke/media/blue-check industrial complex cheered it on.Now they want to close churches and shutdown thanksgiving. I called

Kat

insyncwmyheart

If you idle around, you can't find any job. It's just scaremongering that you can't find a job without so called connections. Don't rely on uni curriculum, learn needed skills

Sanchita Balachandran

Sanchita_writes

With all the calls for diversity work in predominantly white institutions, I quote @andersonpaak: "I'm glad that you finally made it to the future but you're late/And the price is

angrynerdgirl

Miss_Jess03

I hate TERFs for a lot of things, but one thing that infuriates me is them infiltrating queer spaces and convincing kids that "queer" is a bad word, akshually. They

hk wuliff 𓅯🏳️‍🌈 胡勵呼

hkwuliff

this may be a hot take but as a relatively apolitical person, after spending just a year in protest, i honestly can see why there's such strong anti-left sentiment in

David Marcus

davidimarcus

The whole issue with means-testing arguments is that they reaffirm notions that the goods being redistributed--health, housing, education, basic provisions--aren't rights, but gifts of largesse from the rich to the

Thant Myint-U

thantmyintu

What happens next in Myanmar may depend on the answer to a few very different questions. First is whether the protests and civil disobedience campaigns escalate and lead to more

Dr. Karin Wulf

kawulf

Don't use the phrase "revisionist history" when you mean "lying." As in so and so is engaged in. Just say they're lying.Casual use of the phrase by journalists & pundits

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Hypothesis: A lot of people have been past the "all institutional channels exhausted" for years. Decades even. The problem in many places is that "radicals" willing to do this shit

Hope, a Bison

HopeisaBison

See? Welp, marginalized groups know that patriarchy and white supremacy are dynamic threats—pervasive from the 2% down through to the 99% who can't all be absolved as just dupes or

Ole Ryborg

OleRyborg

In todays @Telegraph @CitySamuel write about Brexit and the difference between the purchase of vaccines in the EU and the U.K. Thread 1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/15/britains-nimble-vaccine-taskforce-puts-eu-bureaucracy-shame/

Rowaida Abdelaziz

Rowaida_Abdel

Some reflections: For years, I've reported on the Muslim ban. I've spoken to families in the U.S. and families abroad. I listened to daughters who were forced to give birth

Payton Knopf

paytonknopf

There are a lot of unknowns about the crisis in #Ethiopia.But enough IS known that there is no excuse for anything other than urgent, decisive international action.Inertia cannot be justified

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

Shortly after the election was called for Joe Biden, supporters seemed to turn to the lawless fantasy of the character “Dick the Butcher” in Henry IV for their first priority.

Sarah

sarah_in_ny

“Defund the Police” was immediately latched onto & spun to fear-monger a captive [white] audience, many of whom in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, were for the first time,

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