#Politics

So I think it's time for a thread.This was very frustrating to watch develop in real-time. The media overwhelmingly dismissed very real possibilities as conspiracy theories and helped China avoid
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"Oh sorry we seem to have agreed and signed an international treaty by mistake not realising that what everyone in Northern Ireland was telling us was actually true so now
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SPAC Dynamics: An interesting turn in SPACs are those SPACs being raised by Venture Funds, Growth Funds or Crossover funds in the hopes of working with an existing portfolio company.There
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I find it so funny that the same handful of people living in reliably blue states feel the need to announce that they're not voting for Biden because {insert sanctimonious
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settle in, make some popcorn, crack open a non-denominational cold one, and get ready to hear the sordid story of the end of American federalismthat's right, folks, I'm talking about
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One of the highlights of my teaching career was teaching Cabral (who paved the liberation of FOUR countries), including his moving tribute to Mondlane in which he thinks through what
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I unfriended zero people over Trump. Growing up in Missouri, that was just part of the deal: There are Republicans everywhere. I was one, once.But ...I've had to #unfriend 9
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A tweet by @LifeMathMoney made me think, if I had to outline the most important things for each decade of your life until 50, what would it be. It's interesting
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Hi there! I have gotten a lot of new followers this week from being featured by Twitter. I just wanted to say a few things about that. For those of
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Obama is jumping in the race to make sure shahid doesn’t beat Nancy Pelosi. This man is a piece of shit. He will attack progressives. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/chaotic-disaster-obama-hits-trump-s-coronavirus-response-warns-disinf
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if you're an adult telling teens that they should "stop worrying about politics and enjoy being a kid" then fuck you. how can you tell us to enjoy being a
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THIS WEEK IN CORRUPTION: We saw the Ohio Majority Leader arrested for his role in a $60 million dollar bribery scheme where a $1 billion public bailout was extended in
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Heaven and hell are real, but they’re states of mind and a state of beingWe can live in hell, or we can live in Heaven on earth, depending on our
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Let's talk about the greatest science fiction story of all time... Growing up in NZ, we didn't get a TV until I was almost 10, so my first exposure to
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Uber and Lyft's threat to pull out of California is a "capital strike" - the opposite of a labor strike. It's one illustration of why concentrated private wealth is undemocratic.
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The benefits of the CPSA and the size of the Canadian Poli Sci community seems to be that 'tight-knit circles' aren't so tight: 'Oh, someone else is also working on
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