#Polarization

A THREAD on the political links between religious liberty and nationalism. In public opinion there are clear nationalist links to religious liberty, suggesting that impulses are often about the preservation
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The Left's expectation had been that Trump would "send in the troops" in major cities and cause or incur casualties, thus taking a huge political hit. Despite the clamoring for
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#NEW We have matched up county-level preferences for music genres with 2016 election results and have found the key data that capture the cultural currents that made Obama supporters
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(Thread) Let Them Eat TweetsI just finished reading and I’m ready with a Twitter Book Report.Bonus: It explains Barr's extremism and the Barr-Trump partnership.Spoiler: Trump [and Barr] are part of
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“sometime in the last 24 years we know they did SOMETHING inconsistent with (incoherent) US “zero-yield” interpretation.”But...if you don’t know how many or when or even what then how can
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Disinformation is when content -- correct and incorrect -- is presented to lead people to draw a particular, often incorrect or misleading political conclusion. The Fair Deal Panel is an
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America is not Weimar. We have not lost a World War or been forced to pay war debt; we’ve had 250 years of democracy, not 25; Trump isn’t Hitler, and
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The extreme right seems to be gaining ground in Portugal, and from my viewpoint, the media seems to be (knowingly or not) helping them on their way. A thread about
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1/ So I got this question earlier on today and I think it is a good opportunity to shed some light onto QAnon and the environmental factors that can lead
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Everything that is wrong with Indian Political Twitter (a thread) I've been on Twitter since the time I was barely 16 (regret it very much) and I miss the time
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A long thread on #COVID19 prevention and face masks (which we should use) and sending the RIGHT message. Why? I worry about the unintended consequences of hardcore face mask advocacy,
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How I know Dems are still getting bad campaign advicehttps://twitter.com/Jaaavis/status/1285564623928918016 This will make my 2022 forecasting easy 1. Happy to elaborate. In this environment, if you can not win over
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This is a disturbing development.Last Friday, Facebook sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers (@LauraEdelson2 and Damon McCoy), demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and
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One of the most loathsome genres in this election cycle: the "people on both sides think the other is going to steal the election" — also known as a "dueling
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Why does it seem impossible to engage in good faith debate online? I think a phenomenon I call "disinterpretation" can help us understand why that's the case. (Thread) A couple
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10 Minute Countdown The video Q&A with @ChrisEvans + @MarkKassen starts in this thread! #AskASP @catenbake @ChrisEvans answers your question about ASP endorsements #AskASP cc: @MarkKassen https://twitter.com/catenbake/status/12834487716
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