#POLITICAL

Bridget Gildea

BridgetGildea

In light of the news that the US Senate is looking likely to be tied (with the VP vote as tie break), time for a thread on something I’ve been

getnorthern - “a discrace to Britain”

getnorthern

When I was a kid, I went to primary school on a council estate. Most families were working class. And every single parent of the working class kids was a

erin, Ph.D😷🏡

emfundertaker

We all know this but the Governor of Nebraska J. Peter Ricketts has been and is buying the Nebraska Legislature, a political agenda, and state offices.Just a basic search through

Blake Chastain

brchastain

apropos of nothing, here is your daily reminder that the 1950s-60s model of 'traditional marriage' with a male breadwinner & stay-at-home mom that white evangelicals have tried to pass off

The Goddess of Light

GoddessCru

It’s not like I JUST started discussing politics when Trump took office. But I was not politically engaged when I first joined Twitter 11 years ago. Like, I was a

Malavika

MaLawdy

it'll soon be a year since Art. 370 was de-operationalized in a span of 15 hrs, under the longest ever communication + internet shutdown, while extralegal detentions continued without remedy.collating

Dagomar Degroot

DagomarDegroot

Here’s a hot take (sorry): the term #Pyrocene, which some now favor to describe our current epoch, is just as problematic as the better-known #Anthropocene. Here are two good articles

Roary

GrRoary

Judith Butler claiming that women with more radically progressive politics than she could ever dream of are islamophobic, biologically deterministic and not read up whilst calling for calm discussion about

Franklin Graham

Franklin_Graham

Today the impeachment trial against former President Donald J. Trump begins in the US Senate. I don’t understand why there’s so much hatred for a president who did so much

Michael MacKay

mhmck

On 6 January 2021 the Putin-Trump regime attacked the United States openly. The insurrection was decisively backed by aggressor Russia using MAGA vatniks, fascist titushki, GOP siloviki, and Fox News

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

The discussion on Apartheid, one state vs two states, sends us back to the question of partition and its origins. Why was partition originally proposed and by whom? 2/ There's

Scott Ferguson

videotroph

I wish someone would hook you up with some good eats while I explain that this folk theory of MMT is incorrect. It is a common mistake to presume MMT

Michael Riordan

michael_riordan

Most facemasks discriminate against deaf people who need to lip read. @NicolaSturgeon knows — her advisors told her. She could have worn a see-through mask (like those made by Edinburgh’s

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Key detail in this @NYMag story on the pro-censorship movement inside NYT by its own employees: NYT tech reporters were angry that the anti-censorship posture of NYT editors would impede

Steven Wedgeworth

Wedgetweets

Because of the return of the Grudem, people are talking about eternal subordination and social trinitarianism. I have been a longtime critic of the latter and a more recent--only bc

Schona Jolly QC

WomaninHavana

One of the strangest things about the terms of this Brexit is our apparent adoption of a collective national shrug to the prospect of serious economic damage and job loss,

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