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Ilmi Granoff
theilmatic
So here’s a thing I’ve been thinking:These stimulus packages change the rules in a way not yet acknowledged. UK/EU fiscal stimuli alone are approaching 15% of output, this doesn’t include
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Scribulatora
Scribulatora
My sister, while in a long term care home that my parents could have easily afforded, got a monthly govt disability cheque which went entirely to said care home.I used
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jccraves
JCCraves
From the Irish TimesApril 25, 2020By Fintan O’TooleTHE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY ITOver more than two centuries, the United
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Ben Pooler
benpooler
QUESTIONS FOR @CyrilRamaphosa #PresidentialImbizo 1. Covid has exposed gross corruption and service delivery failure. From schools & entire towns not having water to a collapse in the EC health services.
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unseen1
unseen1_unseen
1. The speech by Pres Bush this week was an prime example of the non-reality based thinking of the elites. Let's look at some examples from the speech: 2. First
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Yuen Yuen Ang
yuenyuenang
My latest piece on #COVID19 is out @NatureHumBehav, part of @nature + OPEN ACCESS When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power The debate over whether autocracies or democracies are better at
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Max Blumenthal
MaxBlumenthal
Tonight, Biden said he told Xi that China "must play by the global rules."Meanwhile, the US has unilaterally imposed sanctions on China that violate international law, and effectively kidnapped a
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Mark Fenster
mfenster21
This thread by a North Korea watcher, which I will presume is both accurate and insightful, is a perfect distillation of how we analyze government information (including of presumptive democracies):
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Adam Kinzinger
AdamKinzinger
1) Thread about the need for sanity: Politics was invented to take differences in beliefs, argue them out, try to convince, and compromise when able. Not an end in itself,
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lesbian wasteland
lesbianwastes
"There’s a burnt body in front of my office. Then I’m playing Scrabble with friends. There’s bomb smoke rising in front of the mall. Then I’m at a concert. There’s
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Steve Gilmore
SteveGilmore17
THREAD. It's clearly popular short-term posturing, and holds a degree of moral weight. But rejecting a pay rise won't make our politics more effective, or our democracy more durable. 1/6https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/13148
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Michael McDonald
ElectProject
It is National Voter Registration Day. Register if you must, but get mad doing it knowing that you have to do this busywork because someone wants to suppress your vote
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🎶Alone In My Principles
AlonePrinciples
Doing a deep dive into John Adams’s Defence of Constitutions, and it is getting way too real. I’ll lean on C. Bradley Thompson’s excellent summary: 1/8 First, simple democracies are
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Kevin Carrico
kevincarrico
I am really shocked that there are still people who are naive about the CCP and the challenge that it presents to the world.Imagine how the last few years will
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Patrick Porter
PatPorter76
Unimpressed by the hooligan tone & general righteous swagger of some critics of Charles Glaser. I don't share all of Glaser's assumptions or judgements - and have something in train
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EthicalRenewal
EthicalRenewal
Democracy takes power from rulers and gives it to voters. (That’s it’s point.)Voters then vote, based on the information at their disposal.1/24#media#democracy If the information is corrupted, then the process
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