#Political

BUDGET THREAD: if you want to skip ahead while the Treasurer’s talking, here’s a hastily compiled Budget summary thread. Headline: govt really has changed its stripes. Big ticket spends: aged
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Now the atmosphere around media in Vic is slightly less shouty, I'm going to say something about it. Perhaps we can now move beyond the binary of "all journalists suck"
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Purely as a practical matter, a police force without legitimacy can not enforce the law. Anyone who has taught high school (or saw a teacher lose control of a class
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A few thoughts re shame/shaming in the national political discourse:To begin, democracies rely on the concept of shame. What I mean is: They rely on ideas of decency & fairness
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We'll be live-tweeting a couple panels this morning about the local news crisis and local news innovation. If you're signed up, tune in to #FTFutureNews starting at 10:50am ET for
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Good evening, my name is Daniel Cameron. I am 34 years old and the first African American attorney general in Kentucky history. It is an honor to be with you
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Nasir @elrufai has caused to be issued on his behalf a tissue of untruths, #halftruths & falsehoods concerning his brutal persecution of his critics as @GovKaduna. To help his memory,
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The Acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly -- whose sum total qualification for his job was that he was once a junior helicopter pilot who became an investment banker
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3/ thread. We'll simplify it by just sticking to Turkish drones. So this will consist of UAE and Syrian Pantsirs vs Turkish Operated drones in Libya and Syria. We'll start
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Thread: How Far Pakistan Has Come Under The Leadership Of PM Imran Khan?A continuous pictorial depiction exhibiting how PM Imran Khan has changed socio-political culture of Pakistan aka #Tabdeeli.Despotism
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For those who don't mind being informed fans, this will be a thread of articles on Khabib Nurmagomedov's affiliations with Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov. #UFC254 Feature: How Ramzan Kadyrov
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Thread/ stream of consciousness/ possible rant incoming: I identify as a dominant. I enjoy dominating submissive women.I think submissive women are amazing.I do NOT think that women are inherently submissive.Nor
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Wild first year at Insider for me. I’ve steered experiments like Mark Bowden’s narrative re-telling of the Mueller report: https://www.insider.com/mueller-report-rewritten-trump-russia-mark-bowden-archer-2019-7 + @ev_rat's heart-breaking story on
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Discursively, the right is trying to conflate “critical race theory,” “intersectionality,” “woke,” and “cancel culture” as this one conglomerate belief held by the median Democrat politician. It’s intellectual dishonest an
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Having seen so many double standards on #remdesivir and #hydroxychloroquine result, I decide to start a thread to share how I read a scientific paper.While I only expect 1% people
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Today many countries have an interesting #paradox. Do we continue #lockdown for a very long time and wipe out our economies or let a few people die and keep the
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