#POLITICAL

Thread - The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two
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Landmark UK free speech case redacted in legal text book for A-level students because it might cause offence... This case was key in helping define how free speech is policed
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If the most visible Black people in media can't be trusted to know their own history, how do you think they gained their position to begin with? If representation matters,
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so Scott Morrison has chosen argumentum ad passiones for today’s fallacious blithering has he. by the way appeals to emotion fallacies often signal campaigning. Military, advertising, political, wherever there is
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Today is a good time to talk about better governance and political literacy in Nigeria! We are excited!!! 1. Political literacy; a set of abilities considered necessary for citizens to
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On the memetic nature of conflict: A THREAD on #memetics The framework of a conflict, that is, the narrative in which it fits, is a memetic object. There are differences
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New @IpsosMORIScot Scottish Political Monitor poll out today - https://bit.ly/3qkMYyE . Headlines and a quick thread on party trust ahead of #Holyrood2021. Main take out = SNP still streets ahead. 55%
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The hostile takeover of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe totally destroyed a Library of Congress NRPB project I had been working on for about three years. Covid also
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“Clarity matters: Woyanism is not a political party. It is an ideology and way of life most if not all Tigrayans adhere to. To be Woyane is to revolt against
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Every society’s moral cohesion (asabiyya) rests on a set of myths that have a basis in political reality. China = CCP/Confucianism, France= French Revolution-Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, US - Founders/Declaration /Constitution1/
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1. On @neasa_neasa & @joefingalgreen's vote and abstention on the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill: from 2016-2020 the Green Party introduced legislation & amendments preventing evictions. Hourigan voted in line
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Many media outlets are responding to current economic challenges in a self-defeating way. As advertising revenue falls, outlets struggle, and journalist jobs disappear, the economically rational thing for outlets to
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How people like @BabarSattar become part the judiciary? This question speak to one of the most fundamental questions in economics and political science: How and why judicial independence arise in
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President Trump has sent 1,375 tweets in response to things he saw on his television since September 1, 2018. Of those, 1,289 came in response to Fox News or Fox
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Why do cities matter? This is a question @EdgarPieterse is addressing in an input to the @UN Senior Management team today on The Future of Cities. Answer:• Central to new
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1. WRT Wales, since 1928 when sufferage was given to all aged 21 or over, we've had 46 years of Tory govt that never gained a majority here. Whilst Labour
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