#Political

The political crisis that is coming to the US is utterly predictable and if you don't see a really bad version of in the set of plausible outcomes you need
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Trump has nearly started a war with Iran multiple times now. He's threatened to "end" Iran & bomb its cultural sites. His jingoism may appeal to his nationalist base but
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There's an interesting tension in MMT-style advocacy of big deficits alongside price controls to constrain corporate profits. A government deficit must be matched by a surplus in the private domestic
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The faux "AOC wore expensive clothes!!!" outrage is a classic reminder of the way people love to attack women for "frivolous" femininity. It's a trap: women are forced to adhere
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@jwhandley17 I've been working on a building up a comprehensive set of @BESResearch demographic variables, so I can run dredge-regressions without "attitudinal/behavioural/political" variables displacing everything./1 On this chart
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If any journalists want to know exactly which parts of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 the @ElectoralCommUK have broken, it's at the very least this part on
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1. Every crisis has an easy target upon which all frustrations are vented. That Obadiah Moyo is struggling as Health Minister is plain. But the man failed long before the
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Infinitely more interested in collective organising and collective politics than any discussions around collective language. BAME, BIPOC, POC, whatever... But, if we really want collective language it should start from
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One of the biggest mistakes ”we” (actually a partner made the error) have made is not to look at the future of a market and realize what will become a
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Dear Queen's Park Press Gallery,I revere your tireless work during the most important period for Ontario since war and Great Depression.I must raise an alarm, and ask you go even
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Today was something we've been dreading for a while.The Proud Boys bragged that tens of thousands of people were coming to Portland from across the country for the purpose of
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So, how many people who follow me are actually interested in talking about collapse? Because I have some big feels and thoughts about it today. A thread. When I learned
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Mehdi Hasan is an interesting case study. He went from 10 years supporting Wikileaks and appearing with Assange at events to denouncing him to ignoring his show trial. That and
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For Republicans, the impeachment of Trump is not really about impeaching Trump. With some exceptions along the Barr-Nunes-Jordan Axis of Vile, they loathe him personally. Stands to reason they are
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So - I see @MarkRuffalo's tweet regarding people #onhere preferring 3 other people with the same first name over one of his co-stars is still up. Disappointing to be sure,
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He isn't in charge of "re-opening" anything.https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1248698773963972616 There is no federal "stay-at-home" order. These are all things being done at the state level.The only thing he can do is use
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