#Politicians

Does media understand that one reason politicians never stop lying is that even after they've proven themselves to be unreliable sources media keeps reporting on them as truth-tellers—making actually *telling*
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Chris Whitty's statement today on the need for social distancing to remain in place for the rest of the year at least must surely put an end to all the
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1/ For Boris Johnson’s eight years at City Hall, it was my job to watch him carefully and, frankly, hurt him. First for the Leader of the Labour Group, then
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Iain, that’s where I believe journalists have gone off the tracks. The purpose of a journalist is to report news, facts. Not opinions, not to hold government to account that’s
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Trump wants to ban TikTok for the same reason he wants to postpone (cancel) the election.He's afraid.Young people despise his outright bigotry, and how he empowers others to spread hate.We're
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Cassandra Fairbanks deleted her tweets which shed a light into her true persona as opposed to her public persona. Here's our tweets in orderPay attention to her response (label 9)
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What is happening to the SNP and where do we go from here? I genuinely can’t see independence coming anytime soon and all the talk of we’ll do this then,
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Gee, I can't imagine why the vast majority of the country keeps telling Trump and MAGA to shut the hell up about reopening before it's time.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1252719543790776320 People might eventually want
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The noticeable thing for me about free school meals discourse is how children are treated as the property of their parents. It’s “parental responsibility” to feed children, so children starving
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Before you joined Social Media did you ever think how could a country the size of India, with its economy, its army, not be able to handle Pakistan & most
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President Michel Aoun's live speech kicks off. He is addressing the nation with "complete honesty" on the difficulty of the coming stages. #Lebanon Pres. Aoun: "Reform remains a slogan that
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I am a career retired peon from the DOJ. As a military rank comparison, I was a decorated Major (GS-13 Step 10). I can speak for most of my peers
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It’s clear that some members of #SAGE (as well as many others) advised the government to #lockdown earlier. They didn’t because other experts, advisors and politicians didn’t believe that the
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--THE SCIENCE & POLITICS OF COVID-19: A THREAD OF THREADS—For the convenience of my readers, I am posting a compilation of threads I have composed on Covid-19, in the hopes
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If you've ever said something like "these protests are playing into trumps hands!" This ones for you. Because your take is just... the worst thing ever.In Portland, right now, there
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-leaders-seem-clueless-about-covid-d3gl8mxgk i have thought for a few months that failings in the Covid response are failures of public communications as much as they are of policy decisions and shown t
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