#Political

Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

DrAlakbarov

Well, well, well...Russian-British media magnate Yevgeny Lebedev has been appointed to the House of Lords.He owns Britain’s Independent and Evening Standard newspapers. His father, Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, is co-owner

Peter Frank

PeterFr89977258

1/11Probably one shouldn't be obsessed with a single opinion piece but @APosener 's one in Zeit magazine https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-11/eu-hausthaltskrise-polen-ungarn-corona-hilfen-deutsche-ratspraesidentschaft is just

Karol Cummins

karolcummins

How Iran Used an International Playboy (Reza Zarrab) to Launder Oil Money On May 3, Halkbank – and by extension the Erdoğan regime – goes on trial in New York

Roadside Mum

RoadsideMum

This will make me illegal, at all times, anywhere. Even with landowner permission. Even roadside. Even as clean, quiet and respectful as I may be. My home can be destroyed.

JAIPUR WALA

jaipurwala1947

PILOT VS GEHLOT ( part 2 )13 Jan 2014 - Sachin pilot was appointed as Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee chief by Rahul Gandhi himself after massive defeat of gehlot by

Caleb Israel Wait

calebwait

Cecile Cone, James Cone's brother, critiqued his brother's project, saying that it ultimately failed to help the black community because "*The confessional story* of black people's relationship with the Almighty

Tiffany Green

Tiffany_L_Green

Thank you for writing this @itsafronomics, though you shouldn't have had to. I keep seeing some wringing of hands of non-black economists on what they can do, as if we

Thiemo Fetzer

fetzert

So why I think the #GE2019 is really not done yet. A short thread. The summary: I think a hung parliament is still a very likely and a desirable

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

PLEASE. Tell people about this.I'm going to provide some history of Neo-Confederate, white-identity, apocalyptic evangelicalism, what I call the Cult of the Shining City.This is who Donald Trump was messaging

Alex Howard

digiphile

"In Nambia, the President compared a lawful whistleblower to a spy, & called for the person who told Congress about his abuses of power & efforts to cover them up

Stephen McIntyre

ClimateAudit

1/ in 2008, historian Mary Hershberger re-appraised John McCain's statement that "I’m an old Navy pilot. I know when a crisis calls for all hands on deck" in connection with

Natalie Mendoza

mendozan21

Final projects for my fall courses focus on how history matters to the present: MexAm history students will propose public site of historical memory while WWII class will examine HS

Amina Patel-Khan🇿🇦🇮🇳🇨🇦 (Bawa Amra Bhaiyat)

aminapatelkhan

I hope this inspires solidarity. A lot of people don’t know South African Indians, privileged over Black South Africans, played & continue to play a massive role in a newly

Jack Margolin

Jack_Mrgln

A short thread on Yevgeniy Prigozhin (Of Internet Research Agency/PMC Wagner notoriety) and COVID-19 grifting in Russia, Sudan and Syria:1/ Prigozhin-associated enterprises have taken advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to

Mother Jones

MotherJones

1/ @LelandNally called every name in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book. Here’s what happened. (CW: Sexual assault.) 2/ First, some background: Epstein’s little black book is a compilation of all

Mark Murphy

DrMarkMurphy

Wading into the debate on the public-takeover of our private hospitals. It cannot and should not be simplified into a #keepthecontract V #cancelthecontract dynamicIt is a luxurious fallacy to believe