#Politics

How did stereotypes of criminality influence state policy towards the former “criminal tribes” (“CTs”) – now known as “denotified tribes” – in the years after Indian independence in 1947? How
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A comprehensive US-#China thread.Following @realDonaldTrump's first SOTU, I watched @staceyabrams open up @TheDemocrats' response with, "Happy Lunar New Year."https://youtu.be/3eRh1cS739E Struck, I thought "why the hell di
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1/POTUS spells out P-A-I-NInvoke the "P"A-head instead of headI-n instead of OfTaNk spelled as TaMk.P-A-I-NNow comes the PAIN—-23!!!They thought it was coming yesterday.They were wrong. https://twitter.com/Sun_Q_Tzu/status/12449664629236408
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A lot is going on in 2020’s America. But for Black women right now, we are out here trying to live in the fullness of our humanity, a humanity too
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1/12. As of yesterday, 509 Texans have died from the Coronavirus. Governor Abbott’s decision to reopen the state is foolish, dangerous, and logically flawed. 2. According to researchers at the
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!!DECODE (11/21/19 1:10 PM EST)This Decode is based on a POTUS Tweets T-10305, and T-10374TimeStamps: Nov 17th @ 12:26 PM, Nov 19th @ 2:49 PMTime Deltas: 1m, 22m, and 2
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#OnThisDay 1998, a group of Nigerian politicians dared the Nigerian maximum ruler, Gen. Sanni Abacha. The Group of 18 which metamorphosed into The Group of 34 or simply G-34, aka
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A growing number of people have been expressing outrage at Larry Mead’s racist commentary in Society. @ZParolin helped draw attention to the piece and pointedly noted that “U.S. poverty research
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I am humbled that my paper w/ S Babb received the Best Article Award in Global & Transnational Soc.A personal thread–hopefully helpful for junior scholars–on what I learnt about academia
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A thread of my views:What do I think of Taqlid?It depends on the individual and his circumstances. Learned people making Taqlid of an opinion they know to be weak is
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There are over 300 Ramayanas.In the book "Ancient Geography of Ayodhya", Ram was born in Herat, Afghanistan.The book "The Vedic People: Their History & Geography" also says that Ram was
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!! Thread on p!n-up mod€l of radica| l€ft - SΩr0s!!Wonder why liberal media doesn’t talk about the sufferings of minority H|ndus in Paxtan or in Myanmar.Their plight isn’t interesting enough
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1/4 Both many on the right and many younger people have mocked the #coronavirus as only a danger to old people.Even if that was true, that should be enough to
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Snyder & Ballentine (1996) had Yugoslavia in mind, specifically, when they wrote "Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas," but I can't help but wonder if we're not caught in the
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Thread: Alternatives to police response. 1st up: CAHOOTS in Eugene, Oregon. https://www.eugene-or.gov/4508/CAHOOTS “This town of 170,000 replaced some cops w/ medics & mental health workers. It's worked for over 30 yrs.”#Po
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My God I'm just looking at the "Great Reset"They wanted to implement it 5 years ago Jul 31, 2015They never thought Hillary would loseWORLD ECONOMIC FORUM‘Build Back Better’"Shape the Future"New
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