#Politics

I have gotten emails from folks who are worried and want to cancel their mail ballot requests in KS. My advice: Don't do it. Get your mail ballot, vote it
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Gonna try to do a thread on MT and the obsession with the “evils of liberalism” today. Class analysis is fairly important in getting through this topic without blunders as
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1/ While doing research for my essay on the negative externalities of the petrodollar, I learned a huge amount. Much of it was shocking or surprising.Here's a thread with a
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1/10: A win for #JoeBiden in the #USElection next week would be good for the overall interests of #UK but problematic for the #BorisJohnson government. How would the arrival of
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Hello to TV anchors and journos in general -- CCTVs are *not* the beginning and end of 'women's safety'. It's good that you're having discussions and asking questions -- but
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THREAD: Zimbabwean journalism is dated and needs a major facelift. Some easy and notable improvements could be: 1) Not EVERY front page of a newspaper needs to be politics and
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Twitter enables a certain kind of discourse – extreme & immediate opinions, sly tweeting, in-groups. The edgiest tweets receive the most attention & nuance is lost. The Mahima-Utsav controversy has
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On the surface, this story about #COVID19 testing is about bureaucratic failure. But if you understand how government works and look a little deeper, it’s actually about a lack of
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A thread on race and sign language interpreting for my fellow white deaf people. Dr. Ford highlighted the centrality of race in the work of black interpreters. And how important
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In outright defiance of Republican-led fed gvmt, southern DEMOCRATS formed orgs (ie KKK) that violently intimidated BLACKS & REPUBLICANS who tried to win political power..responsible for 1000s of deaths &
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White suburban college-educated women have shifted DEM in the last ~10 years. GOP establishment faults Trump. The conventional wisdom is: “We can win WW back with a nicer candidate, preferably
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are you aware of china's footbinding tradition? this is absolutely fascinating to me, my impression is that the average person doesn't know much about china, and I thought footbinding was
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Well surely our norms will protect us I’d say my top priority right now, as a voter, is the norms Hold on, about to get in a big fight with
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Black Lives Matter is a principle, not an organisation. Lots of groups have tried to adopt the name to claim they're the 'real' BLM and speak for the campaign as
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This is how lazy farmers are and I really don’t know how @Sarah_k_mock and @SarahTaber_bww deal with this on a daily basis. A thread:Google didn’t index the entire internet because
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Did you know that most of the people in our jails are innocent? Under America's cash bail system, if you are rich, you’re innocent until proven guilty and you prepare
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