#Electoral

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MunchmahQuuchi

Since I keep getting shit on by so many Bernie supporters, let me spell it out for you:Warren was/is my first choice. I am fully in support of progressive policies.Unfortunately,

Noel Sebastián

ns_arroyo

Puerto Rico is voting on a referendum on statehood this Nov. With widespread support among elected Dems, and after decades of debate, #PRstatehood really feels closer than ever to becoming

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

Here are some questions I have about a post-Trump world.1. I would describe the Trump presidency as a national trauma. The trauma has involved *humiliating loss,* one of the most

Yilan

redxyl

Biden supported the Iraq War, worked with the white supremacist Dixiecrats, wrote bills that laid the groundwork for mass incarceration, opposed gay marriage, is a literal sexual predator, does not

Ava Bosco

AvaBosco

The Republican party has done some irreparable damage to our electoral institutions in the United States of America. These are the sort of responses I hear everyday at my job

Ken Schultz

KSchultz3580

The "not a democracy" crowd is engaged in a dishonest bait and switch where reasonable limits on majority on rule are used to justify more expansive assaults on democratic rights

marxist-leninist perspectives on black liberation!

queersocialism

ppl always disingenuously asking “what’s your solution then?” when i tell them i don’t vote as if opting not to engage in lesser of two evilism every election or refusing

Dana Vachon🥭

danavachon

Re the "debate" on socialism -- it’s here one way or another. Trump is a national socialist of the 1930s Italian/German model, brow-beating Google to make him a website, yelling

Sara Gibbs

Sara_Rose_G

For all the brave souls who have been up all night pretending to understand the American electoral system, here are a few factoids about the British system you might not

Alaina Macaulay

AlainaMacaulay

One thing I notice when I scroll through my timeline is people's inability to see how American systems are built on racism and white supremacy ideologies. I've created a short

Chaminda Jayanetti

cjayanetti

I don't think the actual levels of public spending Labour is pledging are politically costly - if you're *that* bothered by public borrowing and deficits, you probably didn't vote Labour

tychē

antepone

my sister today:Alaska is a state???A verb is an action??? now she’s trying to teach me how to twerk while i’m taking my midterm — i really got all the

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Pause the Trump-is-losing narrative by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/pause-the-trump-is-losing-narrative?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. You have probably heard speculation that Joe Bid

Andrew Neil

afneil

The most explosive charges in the Bolton book on Trump:Trump urged China's President Xi to buy US farm products to help him win re-election: “He stressed the importance of farmers

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GhostsSeeHumans

Alright y’all, it’s time to talk about Hamas. [Thread]Recently, I was slanderously called “anti-Semitic” and a “Nazi” for making the factual statement, substantiated within the scholarship, that this organization de

James S Murphy

James_S_Murphy

This is a flawed story from the NYT because it makes a basic logical mistake: it does not distinguish between necessary and sufficient conditions.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/14/opinion/politics/covid-school-reopening-guideli