#Legislation

Think @katielmcinnis got the ball starting, but the #COPRA commentary is really flying now. I'm gonna start collecting them in a thread for, um, reference next week:https://twitter.com/katielmcinnis/status/1199325720339718146 (1) @CRAdvocacy'
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Alright now that the jokes have calmed down, I’ll have a serious conversation about politics with y’all. Progressivism is popular on Twitter and THATS it. Defunding the police is not
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On the topic of legislation for state policing capable of facing terror. The last time states or regions were allowed to control a fighting force during the 1st republic, Ojukwu
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1) Another short thread on #Lesotho's colonial history and how it helped shape southern African history:So #Lesotho was a Crown Colony. This is often mis-represented by authors as Swaziland and
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The Gov has just published its draft UK-EU trade agreement. Follows the EU draft agreement published in March.Some significant differences on labour and social standards that are relevant for #ukemplaw.Some
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Onye Nkuzi leans left. You can tell from the way he frames his rhetoric on geopolitics.It's not a problem, really. We all have opinions and biases.But him trying to play
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When I rule the world, the phrase 'this is ridiculous' will be reasonable grounds for hanging somebody.Your professional services staff aren't coming up with policies every day to make your
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Sigh. I guess I’ll have to say something even though I’m way over my COVID019 quota for today. OK, here goes... First off, a bunch of people have been retweeting
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THREAD: I’ve been tweeting all morning and I need to step away but it’s been so hard to capture in words what I’m feeling. Gonna try to channel my energy
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A story from the memory hole: In 2013, Republicans threw a huge fit over "court packing" when Obama tried to simply fill three existing vacancies on the eleven-member DC Circuit.
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There are LOT of, um, takes out there regarding CA #Prop24. So, here's my POV on this very confusing, very wordy, and very important ballot initiative.TL;DR I'm voting YES even
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News coverage of protests like the one in Minneapolis is essential to informing the public & understanding the concerns of our communities. But, protests remain one of the the most
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The same-sex marriage law draft in Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens is alarming. While we just filed an RTI to get hold of the copy, it is still
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THREAD: Phoned the student loans company the other day only to find out that I’m nowhere near paying my debt, 14 years after graduating. That in itself is infuriating, but
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It's not yet time to celebrate, folks, the new EU AI legislation falls WOEFULLY short of protecting our communities against the unacceptable roll out of facial recognition for mass surveillance
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What's interesting about opposition to defunding police is the loudest complainers are such hawks other publicly funded agencies. Any Medicaid dollar my work ever took I had to justify --
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