#POLITICAL

Karl Grubaugh

kgrubaugh

A story ...In 1994, I was teaching U.S. history and American government at Oak Ridge HS in El Dorado Hills, California. I had three bright students who were my TAs.

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Peter Thiel styles himself a defender of liberty, and every time he does, someone points out this article he wrote in which he said that democracy is incompatible with freedom

Center for the American Way of Life

CenterForAWL

The Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life has officially opened its doors. Read our opening statement by Executive Director Arthur Milikh in @RealClearPolicy. A new conservatism must

David Barth

davebarth

My local ANC Commissioner in ANC 2B09, Ed Hanlon, is running for reelection. One of his “achievements” has been getting fellow Commissioners sanctioned for a retweet that Ed claimed was

True North

TrueNorthCentre

#EXCLUSIVE: Peter Nygard, the Canadian fashion executive accused of sex trafficking underaged girls, has donated numerous times to the Liberal Party of Canada, a review of Elections Canada records shows.

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5For over 15 years Chinese regulators have implemented one reform after another aimed at taming the wildly speculative Chinese stock markets in an attempt to make them converge with more

self-made debtor ☭

babadookspinoza

This is some chilling rhetoric from House Republicans. I’m hearing echoes of the kind of “lawfare” tactics behind the US-backed 2016-18 soft coup in Brazil and some other countries. Despite

Simon D. A. Clark

Sunkensie

the dog-whistle here is the reduction of LGBT+ identity to sex; a misunderstanding of where -phobia comes from & a common trope in -phobic rhetoric framing LGBT+ folk as a

Equity Scientist 🦋

BmoreDoc

History is repeating itself. After the Civil War, the North largely stood down (except for a soft Southern occupation thru 1876).Former Confederates ratcheted up a campaign of massacres and terror.

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

Ah you are a very naughty man Richard.You know I can resist anything, except temptation. We've learned from bitter experience that showing the Pol Plot, as Graham likes to call

Nate Cohn

Nate_Cohn

Sometimes, American politics is complicated. Right now, it's extremely simple: the public has reached a harshly negative judgment of the president's handling of the most important issue facing the country,

Gabrielle Aron

arongabrielle

I need to say a few words about the tenor of the public statements made by the UN and “Western” nations following the military coup in Myanmar. This is part

Katrin Tiidenberg

kkatot

what a treat from @unc_citap. As @shannimcg said: "all the information in the world couldn't have countered this (01/06), this was not about misinformation or not having facts." Stellar line

Andrew Connelly

connellyandrew

All the chatter of rebuilding prisons on Lesbos and western European states evacuating a handful of children from the island still seems absurd when they still have to make a

Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸

AmmarKazmi_

THREAD: On this day, 47 years ago, Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile’s democratically elected socialist President—Salvador Allende—in a US-backed coup.The coup was years in the making, and its ramifications were widespread.

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Part two. Explaining where the plutocracy’s beliefs and values of treating people like pawns to be sacrificed at a whim originates. It’s fascism. NOTE: These threads are meant to be

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