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Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

There are a number of reasons that officials behave like this. It's very common in autocratic regimes. It's more jarring when a flawed democratic regime performs sycophancy so quickly.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/943569022263709696 So

Rebecca Lissner

RebeccaLissner

If Joe Biden wins on November 3, the Trump-to-Biden presidential transition will begin one week from today. Even in normal times, the transition period is the most perilous moment in

Josh Daws

JoshDaws

I'm seeing a lot of people on the right share this meme. While it may be a strong satirical response to those who get lost in nuance, it fundamentally fails

Frank

FrankBullit67

#Pakistan - why Paranoia is ETERNAL(My apologies to the Roman author of the phrase "war is eternal") Thread The partition of India has been discussed ad infinitum. I've done

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)While Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) describes herself as a “journalist,” some research shows she parrots the talking points of #Iran’s regime & is quite fond of dictators.Let's dig in. 2)Johnstone is

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

LONG THREAD: COLD WAR IIEverything changed. We are in Cold War II. Read this full thread. It will leave little doubt in your mind. You will understand why I announced

Fidato

tequieremos

On this day in 1959, the legendary Mullah Muhammad Omar was born. He established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in September 1996. No leader of 20th century was surrounded by

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

VAMPIRE STARS!Yes, you read that right! Vampires and zombies do exist in the real Universe, atleast in the form of some weird Stars!The stuff I'm going to show you is

McJulie is writing the next book

mcjulie

It is... interestingI'll give it thathttps://twitter.com/CursedBoomers/status/1277703131539714048 Has the USA cornered the market on covid bizarrity or do other nations have people buying into stuff like this? Brazil and Russia, the

Joe Lockhart

joelockhart

1. Welcome to today's edition of the White House Daily Shadow briefing. The White House briefs but the answers are almost always untrue. We do something different here, we use

Jon Bounds

bounder

Here's the story of how we made a book. A good few years ago, I was getting the tram to Bilston to watch Half Man Half Biscuit and @craigfots told

Nico Pitney

nicopitney

In Jan 2017, a week before Trump takes office, Obama staffers run a pandemic response exercise for incoming senior Trump cabinet officials that warns of critical shortages of PPE, ventilators,

Asfandyar Mir

asfandyarmir

[THREAD] Today, a year since the Indian government's removal of Kashmir's autonomy, I read three important reports on the politics surrounding Kashmir since the Indian government's decision. Some highlights from

F R I E D H E A L T H

0ntosMagnificus

Finally got around to watching Hellboy II, and damn. Just damn. The way Del Toro builds a world that was, a world of great works and great things gone away...

Wes Finalle

wfinalle57

China 1994, when the Clinton Crime Cartel began selling America's secrets for profit.And the @TheJusticeDept & @FBI just stood there with their teeth in their mouths... from 2016"As president,

Juicybackmeat

juicybacktweet

Why we gotta argue over cartoons? Anime and 'toons can be great and can learn a lot from each other. OP is right. It's tiresome. But I agree that a