#Political

K A Armstrong

ProfKAArmstrong

Having substantially reduced my Twitter activity of late, on return today I am really struck by the gap between the the official channels of political discourse and what we find

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Great piece by @davies_will on the centrality of the housing market to the UK’s political economy.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/26/boris-johnson-tories-economy-rising-house-prices-wages This bit is spot on. The housin

Amaryah S. Armstrong

amaryah_sa

Angela Davis is making a materialist argument for voting for Biden which is different from a moralist one. If you don't buy into voting as the romance of representation and

Miz Donna⭐⭐⭐

mizdonna

#FridayThoughts For those that want to see the hammer come down in a mighty way, I have a question for you. What have you seen over the past 3 months?

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

This video went viral. Everyone loves it. Except me. I hate this video. It's bad, & not for what it says but for what it doesn't say. And I think

Matt Round

mattround

Any free-text survey like this that doesn’t have clearly defined standard categories should be treated, at best, as weak evidence. The person doing the categorisation decides the shape of the

Dr Suresh Muthukumaraswamy

DrSureshMuthu

1.Don't for a second believe that NZ drug classifications are based on science/risk/harm. In studies I have been involved we have administered all classes including, LSD, psilocybin (mushrooms), ketamine, alcohol,

Dr Sunanda Bal🇮🇳

Drsunandambal

#MamataBurnsWBWith so much hue & cry in SM abt Bengal&Mamata, we are all missing a very imp.point How much outrage is there in WB itself?Practically none.Would any politician with national

R. Volney Riser

RVolneyRiser

I LOVE unequivocally to see any author or voice at any time reaching back to the important civil and voting rights history of the pre-Legal Defense Fund era. I do

Peter Jukes

peterjukes

I’m sorry but if I was a commissioning editor, and wrote a deceptive piece about the ‘comical uncertainty’ of lockdown with my No 10 political adviser husband, and then let

Ussama Makdisi

UssamaMakdisi

Some historical context for #Lebanon and its sectarian system.1. The initial sectarian system was introduced in mid-19th century in Mount Lebanon when the Arab East was under Ottoman rule.

Shouting into the void #3Point5Percent 🇬🇧 🇱🇰 ⚒

JanAltendorff

This is the full text of The Russia Report.This thread contains extracts. It is truly shocking and very scary. Our government and security services have been 'asleep at the wheel'.

Wilma Schrover

wschrover

Highly educated people often share the social bubble of quite sensible people who are convinced that they are well informed with their subscription to @nytimes, @washingtonpost or @guardian and their

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. I use my knowledge of Shakespeare as a resource to analyze leaders. If I step back for a moment and match Trump to a tragic character, I would start

Adam Wagner

AdamWagner1

We need to talk about the impact of the newest coronavirus regulations on the right to free speech, peaceful assembly and protest. This relates to major changes which quietly came

🥺Sadboi Kris🥺 #BlackLivesMatter

sadboi_kris

This guy told me “fuck Newsom, letting people starve during this fucking pandemic”, today while I was at work. And I was kind of bothered by this statement. A thread