#Politicians

The "techlash" has always been overblown and COVID exposed what Americans truly care about. A quick thread on my latest piece in @realclearpolicy https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2020/08/12/covid-19_killed_the_techlash_501
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So it's July 3rd, almost July 4th and we're now 3 months from the election. I just watched Hamilton and am listening to the Hamilton Mixtape. I'd like to pose
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Revealed: World renowned surgeon ‘hoarded thousands of body parts over 25 years'https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/derek-mcminn-surgeon-body-parts-edgbaston-hospital-birmingham-b647226.html How Birmingham hospital staff stayed
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They’d Charge Us for the Air We BreatheA thread https://thousandwordworker.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/theyd-charge-us-for-the-air-we-breathe/ There's a clichĂ© that, if capitalists could, they'd find a way to commodify the air we b
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tw pedophiliadebunking this thread point by point; a threadhttps://twitter.com/r2_still2fe/status/1293689549617496064 1. Both "aren't a choice"While this might be true, pedophilia is a disorder. Being in a "relationship&q
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1. You are watching a Movie...JoeM gave us the trailer for this movie a long time ago. Go back & watch Plan to Save the World, then turn on your
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Some of the best advice I could give Dems is to publicly denounce the DSA wing.When people see that, they know you're serious. If they don't see it, they tend
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Really struck by the explicit religiosity of this #TDoR2020 display in Oxford yesterday. "Trans lives are holy." Since it also featured this statistic I feel obliged to point out
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Mob minds could do with some psychological distancing. I’ve pondered the Thielean anti-democratic turn for a few years now. Trump’s victory in 2016 struck me as both the most democratic
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THREAD. This is odd. Yesterday the Times criticised an old column of mine. Today it’s the Daily Mail. Apparently I dismissed the @HenryDimbleby national food strategy which proposed the same
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Kansas State Rep. Stan Frownfelter, the incumbent senior Democrat defeated by @Aaron4KS37 in the primary, voted to criminalize second trimester abortions, also voted for resolutions supporting the Keystone XL &
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About Us (1/12 thread):For 10 years we’ve been reporting on the failures of our #MN criminal justice system (CJS) that continuously spins repeat and violent offenders through the revolving door—often
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What do all great and sustainable neighborhoods and towns have in common across the world? What makes for a humans scale? Here's what I have found and it concerns these
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Government is institute for the common goodness of the people. for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people. Not for the profit, Honor, ego or private interest...¶ John
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So Supervisor Mandelman is introducing his “A Place For All” legislation on the 21st, requiring SF to build enough safe sleep sites for every unhoused person within 18 months. We’ve
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I think I need to put this as plainly as I can, and I apologize for shouting: PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE LIVE PERFORMING ARTS AREN'T JUST 'NOT WORKING' –
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