#Politics

Whenever I think the power of journalism is waning, this middle-age white male is cheered by the superb, courageous & incisive work from female journalists like @lzsmitty @sjdemas @PubRadioTracy @RubleKB
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Partisan politics aside, the idea of a 62 percent tax rate in the United States is literal batshit insanity. Even more insane is the fact that people will call this
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The Supreme Court is now the legislature, the executive, administrator of cricket and the only functioning police station in India.https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1045222898430926848 Also, the supreme arbiter of religious questions for Hindu
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A funny thing happened on the day of the Tokyo gubernatorial election - CDP politicians suddenly felt compelled to tweet about Utsunomiya, a city famous for gyoza, with the hashtag
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Investigation of vaushism a thread pt 2 The primordial seed from which vaushism springs from is a general contradiction that attempts to be mediated.It is Vaush’s agreement with the libertarian
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Hello I am gaining new followers so wanted to say hi and drop a few things as an intro for ya! -I’m an OT7 gal and have no room in
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Having had a chance to gather my thoughts, some considerations on the political dynamics coming out of the Apple case below.TL;DR: It’s about to get First off, there´s an
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1. OK, it's been a couple weeks since my last Trump thread. Time to down some Pepto Bismol & jump back in.First: the US intelligence services that Trump alternately insults
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On FLORIDA...A few more thoughts 1/http://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/florida-trump-biden-2020.html I spoke to voters in Venice, Sarasota, St Armands (just across the water) and Longboat Key. Mostly retirees.The bulk of the conve
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This wasn't a joke. A history of women being sidelined in imperial institutions has made some women justify manipulation as "women's power." It's not power but powerlessness. Yano was saying
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THREAD:1) I'm running for Congress, but I'm not up against a McConnell or Nunes, who everyone wants to help defeat. I'm up against a guy who voted against the coronavirus
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A prominent Lebanese journalist scored a job offer in the UAE, with a media outlet that is said to be funded by KSA. He tweeted about it. Twitter users reposted
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Ever so briefly coming out of Twitter Vacation. I really shouldn't, but today's contretemps are just too contre to pass up. In short, I think The Letter is fine. I'd
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The nation does need healing but we need to be clear about what that means. It does not mean forgive and forget. It means recovering the rights lost and moving
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what’s your favorite (NOT POLITICS) wild-ass thing that happened during quarantine which we all forgot about a week later and now feels like a fever dreammine is still Neil Gaiman
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Been thinking a lot about the racial and social determinants of health disparities with COVID19 which are not one bit surprising for those that have been paying attention to economics,
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