#Political

One of the most exhausting aspects of being a leftist in American politics is being told “we’re all on the same team” constantly by people who are clearly and obviously
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Shorter Basecamp:"People of colour and their ability to function safely and effectively at work is no longer our concern. It's gotten difficult and awkward, so we're taking off the table."https://world.hey.com/jason/change
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Given speculation since the summer of the Tories looking at radical tax cuts - HRT to 80k; IHT abolition; slashing corp tax; abolishing stamp duty to £500k - final tax
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this netflix documentary 'the social dilemma' was bland and uninteresting, with an acute, hyperfocus on social media companies to evade any structural analysis of capitalism and how it has historically
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POLI SCI THREAD WARNING: So I’ve just finished reading Daniel Hopkins’s “The Increasingly United States” and it’s given me a lot to think about. I believe the topic will be
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On October 15th 1987, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated. As a teenager, Sankara joined the new military academy and honed his political education through books
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Out today - a new report by @cjtenove and me. Thread on our findings:https://democracy.arts.ubc.ca/campaign-trail/  We wanted to know - how bad are incivility and abuse during political campaigns in Canada?
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Political coverage focuses too much on what the candidates are saying and not enough on what voters are hearing. A new @crookedmedia/@ChangePolls poll looks at what voters are hearing down
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Sanders is gone. Forever.He will never influence national politics again.The leftists have been successful exiled from political power. Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota will never be hired by anyone
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Over the last 5 years I've had such a heavy heart for diversity issues it's made me angry. People just don't care. Police beatings and murders. White chicks not minding
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In 2000 I voted for Ralph Nader. I despised the corporate-friendly Dem Party.Nader had no strategy to win or to build political power.The Green Party still has no viable strategy.Organizations
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A thread: Obtained this memo from @RepTurzai to all #PaHouse members informing them that House schedule had been altered to add 4/13 (Mon) as a non-voting day, and 4/14 as
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On Friday, a battle broke out between @Facebook & researchers at @nyuniversity about efforts to boost transparency about how voters are being targeted w/ political ads ahead of US election.
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You may have seen this claim from a report by right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange doing the rounds - it's total demonstrable bullshit. Here's why (THREAD) It's very loosely based on
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non-american oomfs in case u didn’t know, m*ke p*nce is the vice present of the u.s. and also one of the worst people to ever existhttps://twitter.com/darthswift13/status/1249452261962547201 i’ve been trying to
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Worth repeating: The vast majority of journalists are functionally innumerate and have almost no understanding of, say, science or engineering. Most political journalists only know a bit of political history
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