#Political

(((David Shor)))

davidshor

Thought I'd dig up some of my old British politics takes - this one holds up pretty well - the pro-Brexit bias in British constituencies is roughly as large as

KB

KijanB

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the Tivoli Incursion. Over 200 Jamaicans lost their lives. Tivoli Gardens is my field site. There I learned difficult lessons about the afterlife

Great Oracle

AbdulMahmud01

The Great Oracle will continue to ask the hard questions and speak to the uncomfortable truths. Like this:Where is Atiku? What is he doing in Dubai? No serious opposition figure

Andrew O'Brien

SEUK_OBrien

A little thread inspired by @daveainsworth4 and @davidsocialsp pieces on #charities and #socent lack of gov support. 1/ I have to start by declaring that influencing policy and public relations

Rick Freeman

RICKFREEMAN1960

"La Chiva Loca"In various investigations, testimonies of protected witnesses, information analysis and data tracking, bank accounts, call log, etc. The code name "La Chiva Loca" has been repeated several times

Andrew 🌐🥁

A_M_Dolan

I will do a couple election takes: 1. The Biden team understood its electorate better than anybody and, with the support of allies, executed a very good campaign strategy. 2.

James B

piercepenniless

A few years ago I remember saying to a friend that I thought one of the key differences between the contemporary moment and the collapsing polities of the early to

Mr Demos of Pnyx

gem_ste

Thinking about where the UK is now politically and thinking how 1971 currency decimilisation would have been absolutely impossible to implement now. There would be a complete culture war meltdown

Alh Tajudeen Adefisoye

SmallAlhaji_

It undoubtedly takes the strongest determination to win an election on the platform of an opposition party. Anyone that's today aspiring to swim against the political tide in 2023 had

Jerry Bolton

boltonjer

It's bizarre to me how much of Western Evangelicalism has mixed their gospel with a Nietzschean Will to Power - that is, a desire to subjugate others to their own

Adam Roberts

arrroberts

A lot of gloom on my lefty-peeps timeline this morning, for obvious (UK political) reasons. But I’m more optimistic, at least medium term. I don’t see we’re facing another generation

Dana R Fisher

Fisher_DanaR

We are 5 days into the #IndivisibleCensus and, while data keep pouring in, here are some preliminary analyses based on the first 13,000 responses (that puts the response rate at

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

no words for how wildly disrespectful this is.https://twitter.com/notyanwi/status/1313907172057772036 the BPP was much more than mutual aid, and their mutual aid efforts were rooted in political education intended to bring Black

Russell Bates

RussellBates

Paranoid conspiracy-mongering isn’t only a problem on the right. I understand the frustration of supporting a candidate who fails, but tantrum threads like this only encourage the kind of cynicism

Josephine Hoegaerts

Singingarchives

My chapter in Men, Masculinities and Careers(the last one in the book) deals with the professionalization of politics in C19, and its connection to #gender #MMC2020 @MenCareers #twitterstorians It looks

Aaron Burr

TheRealAdotBurr

(1) In the presidential election of 1800, Burr and Jefferson tied in the Electoral College, which threw the election into the House. There the Federalists offered Burr the votes he