#Political

How to own your family TERF at Thanksgiving, after you have thrown the turkey at them or smashed a bowl of mash potato in their face.1. Conflate sex and gender.
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[Thread] Had the pleasure of listening to NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg deliver a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at @GIGA_Institute, expertly hosted and moderated by @AmritaNarlikar. A brief rundown (and thoughts).https://www.giga-
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1. This is what I'm talking about. I don't want people to be forced to wear rainbow flags. That's just too authoritarian for me.https://abcnews.go.com/US/workers-sue-kroger-claiming-fired-refusing-wear-rainbow/story?id=73100744&
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I have a readout of yesterday's Facebook's all-hands w/ Mark Zuckerberg. I've followed a few of these now, and this was the most eye-opening. I'm sharing key pieces here word-for-word.
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Came into the office for the final 0745 news on @abcsydney this morning. The only fanfare to mark this occasion was the theme that has heralded its start for 80
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Coinbase has me thinking a lot about NASA in the 1960's and 1970's. In particular, NASA's approach to women and Black Americans during a deeply politically charged era of this
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1/6As the Chinese government has grown in economic dominance over the last 30 years, its power has become more difficult to check. With the world depending upon China, there is
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1) Unfortunately I have something to say about the 2+2 = 5 affair, or perhaps more about love of learning and love of knowledge and attitudes most conducive to these.
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2/Since the start of this crisis, @DeptVetAffairs health workers -- who care for 6 million veterans -- have been forced to come to work without proper protection and with few
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Since everyone is thanking Jeremy Corbyn, the thing I’d like to thank him for is making the nature of British politics absolutely crystal clear. I think they tried explicitly to
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I really don't understand how or why a subset of seemingly conservative Americans have (what seems to me like) this weird suspicion & anger toward the idea of wearing face
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Trump tried to bluff the virus away, because he was afraid it would make him look bad leading up to campaign season. That didn't work. The virus spread anyway. Pretending
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He served as Chief Minister for 23 years 4 months and 17 days from 1977 to 2000. #JyotiBasu of @cpimspeak , the red terrorist who oversaw not less than 5
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Practical considerations are also the self-interest of a certain class with caste dynamics. Let's at least have the honesty of acknowledging self-interested politics is not so much an innocent ignorance
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America failed Bernie Sanders:In a time of crisis, with over 10,000 Americans dead from a pandemic, Americans across the country have decided that universal healthcare, free college, ending wars, and
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We need to honor the memory of #GeorgeFloyd by demanding & creating change. What happened to him should never happen to anyone. Peaceful protests are one way to bring about
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