#Political

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Later this fall I’ll tell the story of Addie Hunton confronting Alice Paul in 1921, asking Alice to invest in winning the vote for Black women too. +How Addie spent

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

Do you all want to see a personal story about how Michael Bloomberg's political/philanthropic giving exerts influence over liberal Democratic institutions? In 2011 I was working at the center for

Simon Boyi Chen

simonbchen

A persistent theme of modern Chinese history is the constant tensional tug-of-war between tendency of provinces and regions pursuing local interests, versus authoritarian centralization. Long Yun, reigning warlord and Governor

Torrance Coste

TorranceCoste

Some context for the ongoing debate around old-growth logging in BC. @WFPCompany, the biggest and one of the most controversial logging companies on the coast, made $53 million in the

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

There is one very clear message from this week’s elections. It is that politically the UK is in a very confused state. This needs some discussion. A thread follows..... Scotland

PDX Frontline Alerts

pdxfrontline

Thread with info for tomorrow (Saturday, Sep. 26):A violent far-right group will be holding a rally at Delta Park in North Portland, beginning at noon.In response, multiple counter-demonstrations are planned

Dave Pickering

goosefat101

Revised and expanded for people looking for audio to help them through these times.Tried to cover a lot of different angles to cover different tastes & needs. I didn’t do

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Corky_Brexit

Covid-19 a long thread. Facts speak for themselves. Lifted from youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZ-DW5LVCsFact: the mainstream scientific establishment has determined that 85% of cases remain undetected and with minimal or no symptoms. How

alan

alan27808766

1)Kamala Harris (KH) claimed that her grandfather P V Gopalan (PVG) was an Indian freedom fighter and had worked as a diplomat for the Indian Government. PVG worked for the

Vignesh Raman

vigneshr11

There cannot be too many threads about the disastrous 'professionalism' paper @JVascSurg.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074152141932587X?dgcid=coauthor Problem #1. The premise of the paper is that patients are tr

Bar & Bench

barandbench

[ #SupremeCourt SUO MOTU HEARING TAKING NOTE OF #MIGRANTCRISIS ]A 3 judge bench led by J. Ashok Bhushan begins hearing the suo motu case. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was asked

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

TweetFor @TimcastIt's good that you add the qualifier the worst YOU'VE ever seen.Because we've had FAR worse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mue58f1TnNw In the Watts Riots of August 11 to 16, 1965, SNIPERS shot at

WE ARE THE NEWS NOW

QANONRealNews

I'm guessing most of you know about Jeffrey Epstein (his island, what it was used for, who he “entertained”, his creepy eugenics baby farming ranch in New Mexico, the entire

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Arguments about data, confidentiality, consent and masks.Interesting couple of days.Data on VOC were released later than usual, B1.617.2 outbreaks are occuring in education settings as government seems set

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Timotero2

Fascist Italy – Thread 1/3Heroic Capitalism (1922-1932)“The factory is the typical expression of industrial capitalism; it is the period of large profits, and therefore the law of free competition and

Stymie

xSTYMIEx

FBI Raids in Cleveland & Miami!!A developing Ukraine thread...w/Ties to Geoffrey Berman (the Manhattan DA that Barr asked Trump to fire a week before the Maxwell arrest).h/t @M2Madness https://youtu.be/EMnQqh2y65g FBI