#Politics

Brian Schaffner

b_schaffner

There are 17 figures in my new @CUP_PoliSci Element, but this is the one I keep thinking about because I think it can say a lot about what we've seen

Blair Welsh

blairwelsh_

The call for #LGBTQ+ people to sell their experiences of #torture to @HouseofCommons tells us that, even in a “specific commitment” to banning #conversiontherapy, the Govt can never eradicate the

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

sadydoyle

Not really, because the candidate isn't a woman.https://twitter.com/jerrysaltz/status/1300438125550985216 The intense scrutiny to the point of running non-stories as front-page items for months, the sexualized repugnance for his person,

Jothimani

jothims

Yesterday I decided to walk out of news7 Tamil debate show on migrant labourers after BJP panellist Karu Nagarajan made distasteful, personal remarks against me. #I_standwith_Jothimani Evidently the BJP could

T. Greg Doucette

greg_doucette

As folks around the country celebrate #Juneteenth , did y'all know North Carolina has a career politician who has insisted (repeatedly! ) that Abraham Lincoln was worse than Adolf Hitler?This

Nic Garcia

NicGarcia

Well, we’ve officially gone one trip around the sun since I moved to Dallas and started at the @dallasnews. Under other circumstances, I’d say it has gone by faster than

Onye Nkuzi

cchukudebelu

1945 ended 500 years of European domination. Before then, a small nation like the Netherlands could control the destiny of Indonesia. Post 1945, it was no longer tenable.And neither was

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

AbdulElSayed

I interrupt your regularly scheduled #COVID19 programming to offer some reflections on @berniesanders, @JoeBiden, and beating @realDonaldTrump. THREAD.First, there's no way around the disappointment that Bernie Sanders won't be President.

Dr. Ellie Lockhart, When All The Nerds Died

BootlegGirl

OK, please don't @ me until I finish this thread, and please keep in mind that my mind is made up and I'm mainly sharing this to talk with other

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

Just wanted to put these two snippets out here. One - Kissinger's recollection of his conversation with Brezhnev, May 1973. Brezhnev: "Look, you will be our partners, you and we

rachel

nershly

seein a lot of 'UK politics is shit' defeatist sentiment and, like, it kinda is. but i want to push back a little:we are inches away from having potentially the

Corentin Sellin

CorentinSellin

Scène hallucinante de la nuit US: #Trump traite le chef de la minorité républicaine #McConnell de "fils de p.... crétin" devant 1 parterre de donateurs, élus et cadres républicains lors

Kevin Tucker

gatheredremains

We can’t spend three months saying we, as anarchists, aren’t behind the uprising and then say we need to switch tactics because someone got shot back. Watch your wording, they

Maya Forstater

MForstater

A bit more on the pickle that the women's prize has got itself into. The Women's prize is a charity whose object is restricted to promoting literature written by women.

Anna Livia Diakena

LDiakena

One thing I miss about some of the reading I used to do was that it was largely useless, in the sense that I was just reading for personal interest

Lucy Hampton

ClearlyPossible

So today someone talked about people manufacturing their outrage with the implication that it was at Cummings' behaviour. And the general hypocrisy that abounds.And I've realised they're right I'm not