#Contempt

This will be a thread of all of round 1 of the British prime minister tourney (bracket found here https://challonge.com/BritPM ) I will post a random fact from each PMs wiki
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I feel like I have Curious Cat for this, but why not: 1 like=1 unpopular opinion. I dislike Trump. He's a manner-less, blowhard who has done nothing in his life
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Flynn hearing on Motion to Dismiss.We're waiting for the hearing to begin. /1 Judge Sullivan's clerk is announcing that the Judge will be out shortly; asking live participants to mute
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Kageyama Tobio: A Threadkageyama is a very divisive character i have learned. some people love him, some people hate him. some relate to him, some see him as nothing more
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The illustrated #Johnson timeline: Northern Ireland.Or the depraved timeline of mendacious political deceit.Both are accurate.And while certainly, I have nothing but contempt, I believe the timeline to follow is verifiably
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[TW: miscarriage, pregnancy loss]I miscarried more than once, but there was only one that became common knowledge among my family because it was serious enough I had to go to
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"The truth is you're not quite real to me. And yes, I would kill you."https://twitter.com/wearenorth99/status/1134198687872225290 From this excerpt from "The Only Average Guy," which I've been ruminating about to
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Self help isn’t really my deal, but I am going to show you how your implicit philosophical commitments are holding you back and preventing you from achieving your potential Certain
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.Thread 1/22.The Labour party: how we got here and why:."Blairites raise £250,000 War Chest to fight Corbyn".https://thetimes.co.uk/article/blairites-raise-250-000-war-chest-to-fight-corbyn-xdnvxjmv9."Anti-Corbyn Labour offi
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1. Land distribution in South Africa was modeled after land distribution in US during the Revolution. New Yorkers created local committees to deal with the Loyalists and the legitimacy of
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My book “Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia” is now available!Please take a min to read this thread abt it & why we should pay attention to anti-Muslim
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Attenborough makes a number of highly misleading statements in the first few minutes of "A life", and implants a trope that humans and their technology is at fault. It's irksome
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I was thinking a bit about how Fox News covered the Benghazi attack vs. how it has covered the pandemic. When I did a little digging into the numbers, it
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The Republicans do not fear Trump by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/the-republicans-do-not-fear-trump?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. There’s a presumption at work among members of the
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I debated about saying much of anything about the events in the US but after seeing all the bad takes might as well have mine. Couple points of background about
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Just so we’re all clear, “people behind the scenes secretly funding and controlling things” is a big antisemitic trope. And, one presumes, here, a dogwhistle to the people steeped in
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