#Cronies

Feels like the right thing to do is for baseball writers to elect nobody, then refuse to participate in future votes, dumping this mess in the Hall of Fame's lap.
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Look...objectively, if it were any other person in any other job, if 1,000 experts in that job write an open letter telling you, a person doing the job for the
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I don't want to do this. I'm on vacation, but frankly, I don't see an alternative. In 2016, misinformation helped elect a man with zero qualifications. 3 and a half
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Hundreds of videos like this coming out of Russia today. Putin has spent 20 years building up the security forces and looting the country while Russia stagnates. They come out
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Zanu PF is a revolutionary party, it is a liberation party. It is premised on the liberation war principle of fish & water. Leadership seems to have departed from this
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I really hate the way things work in the fight-wing disinfo sphere, where Trump and his cronies can make up something about Democrats "manufacturing ballots" and repeat it a bunch,
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Things we knew about @realDonaldTrump before yesterday:* He tried to delegitimize a Black president with a racist trope.* He called for the execution of Black teenagers who were innocent.* 26
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Five lessons from #Venezuela’s election: 1) Maduro's elections are not about creating the illusion of democracy. That ship has sailed. They are an exercise in personnel rotation, a means to
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A soft coup? For scholars of fascism and Latin American military dictatorship such as myself, it is hard not to think that Tump and GOP are testing the waters..this situation
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1) Biden saying it himself and 2) his saying “Putin” instead of “Russia” or “Russian government.” Capo to capo, it matters. Putin has been dictator for 20 years and is
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“Why are these farmers protesting?They are obviously misled. Isn’t free markets a better solution for farmers?Don’t these bills allow them to sell anywhere?”asked an IIM Batchmate of mine. He is
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Trump, in his final hours, just announced plans to sell the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to his fossil fuel cronies and campaign funders. To make it harder for us to
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When a corporate house suddenly begins to exhibit servility to a party or leader, does it mean degeneration of that one house or distortion of capitalist logic? Small and medium
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I want to see an analysis of who is on the board. I met a staff person years ago who was part of the team prepping for the opening of
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Having fought literal fascists in their youth, South Korean liberals internalized the idea that democracy is "mutually reinforcing expectation" - a bargain, as it were. And they sensed the conservatives
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We knew from day one that farmer protests will end in violence. Reasons were simple. 1. They refused involvement of supreme court monitored committee. 2. Govt offer of suspending laws
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