#Rights

Bit of an understatement here @benyt + not for lack of warning from lots of us: "While we were refining the new practice of social media at BuzzFeed, we were
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Three MLK Day Thoughts: (1) If it weren't for MLK, I would not have graduated from 3 schools I attended and would not have my current job. That's how recent
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I am a federalist and think Blair made a mistake in creating an unbalanced devolution settlement across the UK but devolution in Scotland itself has not been a bad thing.
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1/15 You'll hear a lot of talk today about how what happened yesterday is extraordinary and antithetical to our history. It's important to reject that idea, not out of cynicism
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It was tweeting about this story that got my account and several others blocked on Twitter.It’s about Bill Gates, and why he refuses to support calls to drop patents on
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1.) Privately owned media platforms banning people who incite violence is not a 1st Amendment violation2.) Impeaching & removing Trump will not “further divide the nation;” him remaining in office
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No. It's not about a book. It's not even about Hunter Biden. It's about ethics.GOVERNMENT ETHICS. What may be perfectly ethical for you or me, may very likely be UNethical
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The truth is that around the age of 23 I by and large became a libertarian because of the type of abstract epistemological principles that James C. Scott talks about,
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The same people who don't see Critical Theory anywhere, see Christian Nationalism everywhere. Whenever someone brings up Christian Nationalism, ask them to define it carefully. Currently, the culture uses "Christian
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"She was not able to take many possessions with her before leaving her four young children in the care of family members, but packed two items – cash and battery
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We have been needing to brace for that since the Sarah Palin Klan-style rallies where people screamed “kill him” regarding Barack Obama, the tea party rallies where President Obama was
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Why to fight for Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump as President for the United States of America!?:Do they will by any means necessary lie, cheat, and destroy!The United Nations is a
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Tulsa didn’t become “Black Wall Street” because a bunch of Black capitalists worked through Jim Crow to make a large amount of profit and found ways to build wealth in
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Fascists often misuse the concept of freedom to defend their ideology & they do so in several waysThey defend fascist governments by claiming the government represents the nation-state & thus
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Going through my footage from the Capitol riot and remembering how omnipresent anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric was. Here a mob badgers cops arriving on the scene:“Stop defending the CCP!” “Y’all
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The right-wing responses to @PeterBeinart's article are very telling. They show a striking inability to engage with the arguments the article actually makes. They reflect the intellectual exhaustion of Anglo-American
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