#Political

I'm sitting in on the @demsoc @digidemlab Webinar exploring Digital tools for citizen participation. I'm going to do one of my mega-threads again. Feel free to mute for an hour!
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Re: the still-murky -provincial $ deal to help municipalities announced yesterday. I'll hold off on detailed comments until there are actual details to comment on. But for now, I'll note
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Here vs. there. Vermont vs. Vietnam. Vermont’s COVID-19 success so far has been attributed to leadership (VT Governor is a Republican), social trust and roles of the media in preventing
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Ted Chiang isn't just a fantastic writer, he's also a fantastic thinker about the world (these don't always go together, surprisingly). Here he is being incredibly smart about this current
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Interesting psychology in No 10’s reckless defence of Mr Jizz, where most of the cabinet are having their remaining credibility sandblasted to dust by being forced publicly to declare their
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Political advocates for both the Right and the Left devote great energy to criticizing ”moderates” and “centrists” as people who are “selling out” to the culture and refusing to take
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Thread:1/7 I see a growing number of @mdczimbabwe supporters on these streets suggesting that @nelsonchamisa is a weak leader. While I respect their right to express their opinions fully; I
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PKK-KDP tensions. 1. First and foremost, this is a Kurdish-Turkish dispute with Turkey trying to string along other Kurdish parties. Kurds shouldn’t make it a Kurdish-Kurdish issue.Turkey neither cares about
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Love the bants in an office, yeah. Love a stilted, awkward joke in the kitchen. Love when a conversation starts about something political and you sink down in your chair
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Someone DM'd me that I m not from Kano & I am taking the #Covid_19 issue in Kano very personal. I blocked him after I told him my mind. Truth
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Today’s #GOPCThread is all about #legacycities, the international edition In June, GOPC had the opportunity to participate in “Legacy Cities and Left-Behind Places: Comparative Analysis, Policy, and Practice,” an
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People Democrats should blame for the Federal Courts?1. Harry Reid. He was arrogant and stupid, and didn't realize that when you change the rule, the other team always gets an
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Predicting developments in technology over the next 10 years (thread)... I foresee software development becoming quite commonplace for young people, who grew up in the past decade where computing was
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To explain the absurdity of this I need to tell a story. When I was a Trainee Intern on my surgical run (final year of medical school) my role was
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1/6: I suggest separating mitigation commitments, with strictly no substitution between them! For example:1) CO2 from energy use2) CO2 from industrial processes3) CO2 form land use etc (LULUCF)4) non-CO2 GHGs
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@GovTimWalz @Tim_Walz #COVIDー19 @FOX9 @kare11 Mr. Governor Walz, So as of May 18th my kids can go to a mall/summer day camp/retail stores/walmart/daycare/the big yellow candy store BUT they can’t
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