#POLITICAL

Learning more about environmentalism and environmental justice has led me to political ecology. And how fvcked we are in the future if we do not deal with climate change in
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I’m just a simple unfrozen caveman academic/non-lawyer, but I get confused by demands for “transparency” (on nebulous 1st Amendment grounds) that never take the analysis to its logical extent: demanding
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Quick rant on #SecretPolice term:Politicians describing @CBP as #SecretPolice do so, in part, to disassociate their political party's complicity in decades of overkill funding to an agency that uses militarization
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This is true, and I'll add to it one point I think is quite important.Because one side supports a corrupt fascist bully, and refuses to engage with reality on pretty
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in Ireland, the extinction crisis is green:1) green fields are sterile and simple. each was created through the destruction of a complex wood, bog or meadow that came before. their
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WHY THE BEIRUT EXPLOSION WAS AN ATTACK, NOT AN ACCIDENT.This is not another superficial "bad things are happening in this part of the world" thread without any context of imperialism,
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1. This morning I woke up at 3 am to the sounds of shooting. They were coming from the nearby military base in which dozens of armored vehicles of the
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I have been pretending to cite various sociological reasons for my belief that Biden will beat Trump for a while but it’s time to come clean - Biden will win
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My tuppence worth: while Magna Carta 1215 excluded much of the population & was soon annulled, it's worth noting that later legislators in the reforms of 1258-9 sought to fix
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Waldman's book review in the New Yorker got me thinking about genre trends in narrative and about how much of what they feel fiction has lost is still held sacred
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President Joe Biden has issued his Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/memorandum-on-restoring-tr
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It's really weird to see people freaking out about the postal service right now when the postal service couldn't get them to worry about the fact that they couldn't borrow
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Democrats know they need a new political insurance policy for November, so now they’re pushing yet another unhinged conspiracy theory. This time, it’s that President Trump is using the U.S.
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For a long while, all the #veepstakes activity on the left was in support of Warren. Now suddenly, it's shifting to Bass. Why is that?Because... ...the left doesn't think Biden
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A brief summary of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s public meeting with the representatives of the far-right "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) in Moscow today. Thread. 1/10 Lavrov: Happy to see
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‘I have to be honest and say that none of this was easy for me. Donald Trump had spread racist lies about my husband that had put my family in
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