#Political

This is a good piece. It is grimly funny that Australia's worst science deniers at the moment are left wing broekns who refuse to accept that we've done a great
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1/OK, so I said I would do a thread on this and here it is. This is a wider thread, with charts (because I love visuals) and supporting articles about
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1/ A thread on what Ontario golf needs to do other than post pretty pictures in tweets#golfissafe #LetUsPlay That is an undeniable scientific fact.It's about money & votes. Let's be
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If you work in politics or media and aren’t familiar with “boogaloo,” you should read this.https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/ In the 1990s a lot of people who should have been aware
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Two more days of work hooooorayyyy for three day weekend. Plans: get drunk, watch Hamilton Me, approaching a 3 day weekend, knowing I have two grueling days of work and
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THREAD: I’ve been trying to maintain some separation between COVID and my thesis, which focuses on an early 20c disease called Encephalitis Lethargica. But this morning I saw this headline
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was eye opening. Moving forward I picked up on how in general, sensitive terms, are substituted either by pinyin shorthand (eg: zf for 政府 "govn't", gmd for 国民党 “KMT". but
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The merger of fundamentalist apocalypse eschatology and conservative totalitarianism fetish has been complete for a while, now they‘re just comfortable enough to talk about in mixed company.https://twitter.com/RepClayHiggins/status/131971
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Silicon Valley was always a promise, never a place. In both the United States and India, a particular pattern for reform, as espoused by design and tech corporations, was adopted
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Thread 1/4The only way not to lose a rigged game is not to play.Far too many #Covid19 sceptics are bogged down playing the game. Obsessed with mask effectiveness, false positives
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1. Yes, MAGAism/extremism has infected the GOP at the local/grassroots level badly. Its a lesson in what happens when brush fires are left to turn into wildfires. As the party
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There's this very strange political idea in America that coming to the center is the obviously reasonable position, for no other reason than that it's the center. It's especially true
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Voters don’t talk like this. It makes a political party sound like a cult. Lots of staunchly left wing people make variations of this statement without any sense of how
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I encourage people to read this speech for themselves. It is a speech on the model prosecutor, for whom the Attorney General has the highest respect. Aggressive in pursuit of
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being perfectly honest & I don't say this to dump on anyone volunteering for a candidate, bc y'all are doing the lord's work butI have *no* idea why Democrats rely
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Been mulling this over since speaking to Care Minister Caroline Dineage @LBC yesterday. Conservative view on Labour Brexit policy is that it shows no leadership, is cowardly, on a defining
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