#Elected

Today #Chile votes in a once-in-a-lifetime referendum that could make history for women & indigenous peoples, among other groups. A quick thread on why you should care & what you
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HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE: “He threatened the press, joked about ruling for life, bullied everyone..When an investigation threatened to reveal his financial corruption and complicity to criminal acts, he destroyed democracy
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1. Why do so many people want to ban #fracking & #oilandgas production in their communities?Read this @grist story by @NaveenaSivam to understand. @PennsylvaniaDEP promised to keep an eye on
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Kamala Harris Fact-CheckMyth: Kamala Harris locked up parents of truant childrenFacts: FalseBackground: Kamala Harris became District Attorney for San Francisco in 2004 and in her book “The Truths We Hold”
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Was the Oslo agreement designed to achieve permanent Israeli occupation over the West Bank and Gaza, to prevent meaningful Palestinian sovereignty, and foil a meaningful two state solution? (A thread)
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My blog 'The transformation of India' in twitter format.Blog post link:https://wp.me/p8Fpl7-8u  It is not a pleasant job to write about the negative forces and characters that usurped power with the
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My great-grandparents, Gladys & Harold Page, were living in Kuala Lumpur when WW2 started. Harold (right of photo) was a veteran of the First World War where he'd been seriously
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Today's a big day in Argentina - it's the 15th anniversary of the National Campaign for Legal, Safe & Free Abortion! I wanted to do a thread about what's going
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This is so rich ... with this one lie, he can just sit back & watch the sheep believe they're participating in a battle against evil for voting for him.
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Friends, after my first session in the #NELeg, I wanted to share reflections about the highlights that come to mind for me. It went by in an a flash, with
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In bizzaro @DNC / #FakeNewsMedia world abortion clinics are essential and I am not allowed to do cataract surgery. In bizzaro world:1. Abortion is essential and I can’t do cataract
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@BBCWeekendGMS was talking this morning about how we pay for social care, and saying that, basically, income tax is the only way @scotgov can raise more money (before independence). I
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Nice picture of the Wuhan Virology Lab scientists handling bats. Especially the dude without a mask.And really, all of them for not being in their full garb.Would be a shame
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I grew up in a military, conservative, Republican household. My dad was very conservative. I am grateful for my parents, who, by all accounts, raised me well. There are some
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Thread: The article was making the rounds among my friends in the student worker space yesterday. Thought I would talk crudely about the contingent factors in these relative successes to
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And with this 80% of the funding for the Church has fallen down in India.They can use the money only for the intended purpose they registered and rest of the
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