#Politics

1. A long time ago now, less than two weeks after I was admitted to the bar, I went to court on behalf of a man on death row with
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Effort thread on the Japanese Communist Party 日本共産党, the largest non-governing Communist party in the world, still have their own News Media institution (Shimbun Akahata しんぶん赤旗 10th most read paper)
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That phrase - "...we’ve never known before" frustrates me deeply.Let me start here: Ray & I, as best I can tell from his tweets, see Christian faithfulness in 2020 in
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WHAT IS GOING ON IN NORTHERN IRELANDI will explain the recent rioting includingthe context behind the growing tensions in the province.As usual with Northern Ireland I will warn that people
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Police brutality and similar abuse of authority thread#1(Boy is this thread gonna get big, I suspect)This is a sex crime, and was illegal, therefore every guard involved should have to
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#ModernMonetaryTheory is an economic lens for understanding how money works. It starts from the commonsense assertion that national governments are money-issuers, and the rest of us are money users, and
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Long ass thread Thread: Progressive Vs Centrist and racism in the Democratic Party. we all know the Republican Party is full of racist goons. Unless you’re a republican, you’re not
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Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even
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Books I've read "recently" (like, probably this year? time is hard) in no particular order, a thread: I liked all of these books - I don't finish reading books that
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G THREAD GI put together a timeline on the events that have taken place during the Trump presidency in regards to 5G.As news continues to surface, I believe the
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Time for a brain dump thread on the casino/sports betting industry at present and the future. You know, for my 68 followers (half of which are probably bots, but whatever).
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Went on a research spiral about mass-psychosis and Dancing Plagues, and I hadn't realised we had a specific explanation for exactly what caused the outbreaks in Germany in the 16th
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Our new study examines @AOC|@EdMarkey's GND resolution & @BernieSanders $16.3 trillion GND. We address 2 questions: (a) How can we pay for the #GND?(b) In what ways do social welfare
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A key value for those who take up the change-harvesting approach: "keep it running". This is actually a direct result of human, local, oriented, taken, iterative, and argues against many
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Remember three weeks ago, when the UK government was mad at those unis who had moved online? Said they weren't following government guidance of "business as usual."Those dying now got
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In light of what we've recently learned about CrowdStrike's involvement in the probe of the DNC hack, I revisited Donna Brazile's book. She makes several revelations given what we now
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