#Politics

Sharon Yam (任萃言)

sharonyamsy

Thread: Notes for scholars writing about social movements and politics that are not theirs #TeamRhetoric 1/ Citation politics matter: amplify local voices, voices from people who have real stakes in

Owen Jones 🌹

OwenJones84

If there'd been a leaked report revealing senior left wing Labour officials willing its electoral destruction, engaging in horrible bullying, and failing to act on racism, it would be front

John M. Talmadge, MD

JohnMTalmadgeMD

#Presidementia Liar’s Club Update: Prevarication (lying, gaslighting) is a symptom of diseases like #Alzheimers—runs in families & destroyed Trump’s dad. Confabulation (bullshitting) & confusion/memory loss (calf splatter) are also signs

Habiba Choudhury

HabibaChoudhu

There you have it. Obama likely was behind it all. “Former President Barack Obama played an active, albeit private, role in the Democratic pres. primary that effectively ended on Wednesday

Socialism isn't State subsidy for private corp

MaatMHI

I kinda get why people like this piece: "We Are Living in a Failed State: The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/ But IMO

Prof. Chris Ashford

lawandsexuality

Meanwhile in East London... My take on the election results - and these awful scenes from London typify this - is that the challenge for all politicians is to show

Jacob Soboroff

jacobsoboroff

NEW: Federal prosecutors who ran a 2017 family separation “pilot program” determined kids should be given a maturity test to confirm they could find their way back to parents on

Kenneth P. Vogel

kenvogel

SCOOP: @SBAGov awarded a $50M contract for coronavirus loan processing to a team including @RocketLoans.* ROCKET LOANS owner DAN GILBERT donated $750k to TRUMP's inauguration & $67k to the '16

Alice Evans

_alice_evans

far too much attention is paid to individual leaders, omitting their support bases, & structural forces - generallybut leadership clearly matters in the case of covid & forced closuresin SF,

Shane Goldmacher

ShaneGoldmacher

NEWS: Joe Biden entered September with nearly half-a-billion dollars in the bank — and $141 million more than President Trump.Biden + joint DNC operations = $466 millionTrump + joint RNC operations

Prof Kate Williams 💙

KateWilliamsme

Give 16 year olds the vote across UK, in all elections. It’s their future. They can marry, enlist in the army, work full time but not vote. When people say

Katie Glueck

katieglueck

NEW: Biden's remark last night that Trump may attempt to "kick back the election" amounted to a warning shot - and an effort to frame what may be the ugliest

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. Vice-presidential picks, unless they are truly disastrous (Eagleton, Palin), don't count much in elections. But they are important for unifying parties and allowing them to function as coalitions. 2.

Lenore Skenazy

FreeRangeKids

1/3 Article that keeps making me nod: "Politics tends to make us hate each other….We tend to view political debate not as reasonable disputes about how to best achieve our

Amanda Carpenter

amandacarpenter

So. The first governor to start re-opening his state is the one who said last month that he didn't know COVID could be passed by asymptomatic persons? Do I have

Wear Your Voice Mag

WearYourVoice

It seems so many have lost any and all faith in the electoral process, but aren’t sure where to direct that energy. WYV has you covered. If your direct interests