#Authoritarian

Flute Person

ComradeFlute

It seems like a majority of people in the mainstream political spectrum are not just ableist in that they hold some unstated biases toward people with disabilities, but militantly, vehemently

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Trump has shown blue states dont have a president. He allows west coast to burn with barely any action but insulting dems. He wages war on dem cities. He threatens

Jamil Dakwar

jdakwar

Israel's normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain will not bring peace to the Middle East. If anything, they will only embolden oppressive regimes and encourage abuses of international law.

Lumière

0_Lumiere_0

Fascism & The Jewish Question: A ThreadFascism is the most misunderstood political stance ever. Left-wingers and right-wingers keep accusing each other of being fascists while no actual fascism exists and

timethief (retired paralegal judicial assistant)

timethief

1. Have you noticed when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they double down in the teeth of overwhelming evidence against them? The

Cobble King of Calderdale

JohnBaker1975

1/ Mini thread on restrictions to cycling during the CV19 lockdown. I have heard 3 main reasons for restricting the activities of cyclists during the lockdown: 1. If they crash

Scott Berkun

berkun

1. The fallacy of "seat at the table" is often decisions are made before the table meets. I know this because much of my career was controlling tables. The more

Fred Martin 🇫🇷 🇭🇹

fred_connection

So I see this clip is being shared on Twitter , even by mutuals who usually know better.It’s a 22 second clip, conveniently edited to remove context, mislead people about

Chrissy Stroop

C_Stroop

Republicans have been calling Democrats weak, communists, and godless since forever.How is it that Democratic strategists have, after all this time, failed to learn that “No we’re not!” is extremely

staimed clams latitude

DrJACameron

Kinda puts the Eleanor Crosses in a new light when you realise that the shrine to Little St Hugh (d.1255) endorsing Blood Libel was probably built and funded as part

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Trump's attack on the Postal Service is yet another attempt by a Republican to destroy government in order to consolidate power and expedite profit.There's a disturbing history of this.Here's what

Daniel Addison 🇺🇸 ⚔️

derocrates

1. There’s been reasonable resistance to the analogy, but Trump’s speech, with the NYT’s response, does cast the 2020 election squarely in a 1968 mold: then as now the political

Mindful Primate

MichellesDude

Guide To the #ImpeachmentHearings - a short THREAD.Tomorrow will begin a series of public hearings that will determine — to paraphrase Lincoln — "whether that nation, conceived in liberty and

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

Billionaires weighing in against Warren/Sanders and getting into the race as spoilers isn't an indication that billionaires think a progressive message wouldn't beat Trump, but rather that they think it

Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

The problem with positing that social liberalism & prosperity are symbiotic, in order to bolster the argument that the rest of the country should become more like London, is that

PEG

pegobry

Recently, a friend recommended a book about Russia in the 1990s. We're all vaguely aware of that country's collapse in that period, but we are scarcely aware of the scale