#Politics

This whole article & exchange by the check-Mark media, is truly ignorant & frankly arrogant. Having used CIMS myself when I was a riding director, years ago. It’s not some
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I've done electoral organizing in the past, and with a lot of progressive people tossing their hats into the ring for local races, I've been asked about who to support,
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I’m striking such a melancholic tone on twitter rn but Starmer becoming leader doesn’t mean socialist ideals have to be sidelined. Perceived pressure from the membership meant he tacked to
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This is too wildly specific to be an accident. Like, they did not just happen to use the same symbol to demonize leftists that Nazis used.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/trump-campaign-runs-ads-with-marking-once-used-by-n
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In my life, I have realized that business has 4 modes.1. Struggling against obstacles mode.2. Breakthrough and money-making mode.3. Stability mode.4. Sinking and losing money mode.1 and 4 are somehow
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Divisiveness in American politics really started accelerating when Facebook introduced these bad boys ahead of 2016. (1/6) FB has always offered visibility and ease in expressing unfiltered, often under-developed opinions
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i have to say mxtx's improvement from svsss to tgcf is really impressive. compared to the other 2, svsss was a relatively light read despite the tragedies, chara development was
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So at @braverangels we commissioned a poll from @YouGov to survey American's thoughts about the possibility of violence following a contested election, and the possibility that the election may in
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I wrote a thread about the rush to paint victims of police violence in positive lights to support why their lives matter. Folks will ignore rape and DV convictions, child
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Keir Starmer taking the fight to Boris Johnson today is welcome, but after months of the leadership not commenting on policies, Keir Starmer’s speech was a missed opportunity to show
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This is a superb history & analysis of Manchin from @awprokop -- a must-read for everyone. It helped me realize, on a deeper, more informed & nuanced level, that I
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Placetas, Cuba in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Kid in the front row with the dark circles under his eyes is my father's much-loved primo-hermano, Maximino González Gutiérrez. A few years
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Recently I have heard many who are conservative theologically say that any talk of structural sin or ‘embedded’ injustice in society is Marxist and anti-gospel. As a person with degrees
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i just ask someone who read it already if it has shit i don't like in ithttps://twitter.com/GemOfAmara/status/1330011066718433280 i don't read a ton in subgenres i find tend to have upsetting
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Who are your favorite African scholars who are African? It doesn't matter the discipline. Let's get to know them.I'd like us to learn more about Africans producing knowledge on Africa,
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What bothers me a lot about pro-CCP Western tankies (as opposed to pro-CCP 'new left' folks in China) is that their Utopian idea of socialist China is only made possible
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