#Politics

1/x The polls weren't wrong, you just read them wrong.The spread in a poll matters some. But a 50-47 lead (+3) is FAR MORE ROBUST than a 46-40 lead (+6)People
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A very short thread on some interesting stuff around population growth that I think is worth talking / thinking aboutI read the article below recently and...it's great. It's a pitch-perfect,
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The true swing voters and the general election case for @KamalaHarris. A thread /1 I have talked a lot about how middle class white women are the only swing voters
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There’s a lot of gloating today directed at Trump as a specifically infuriating individual. I think we should keep in mind that Trump is partly the American incarnation of the
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1/ I’ve got to be honest, I’m mortified by the “trust me I’m an epidemiologist” and other disciplinary flexing and strutting I've been seeing on social media. 2/ We’re living
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A new friend, who generally has good, thoughtful politics and is actively engaged in social justice work, just delivered a lengthy monologue about how disgusting it is to be fat
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Been trying to avoid this platform and *intend* to do so again but I want to have some sort of a say on this. This is good news for a
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puritanism is all about one's internal moral state, the inevitability of sinfulness, & competitiveness, where - to put it cynically - heroic white males compete over who's best because they
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I don’t know if anyone will ever read this. I’m a new account with very few followers. If anyone sees this and considers it worthy of an RT I’d be
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Ananda Chakrabarty, biotech pioneer, died July 10. Working for General Electric, he developed a micro-organism genetically engineered to eat oil. This led to a landmark 1980 Supreme Court decision, Diamond
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My issues with radfem i usually address nothing . im not here to address/justify my opinions/experiences but some of my beloved mutuals asked me to explain the points i made
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Yes! This is a much-needed point to raise. As much as the Avatar universe "critiques," one of its biggest pitfalls is depicting anti-establishment movements or figures as antagonists alongside tyrannical
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With his corona coup, Orbán abandoned any pretense of being a democratic leader. Given that his electoral autocracy was already secure, why did he risk inflaming tensions with the EU
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THREAD: I’ve not said much about the #LabourLeaks (mainly because I’m helping get supplies for a Food Hub in Tottenham). Firstly, it doesn’t make me want to leave the party,
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#LFC can't channel Bill Shankly, be proud of Jürgen Klopp's politics, sell 'This Means More' and slap it on the tunnel at Anfield - then hastily betray all of that
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KEY ENGLAND ELECTION TAKEAWAYS (thread)1) Brexit realignment continues2) Tory Party now hegemonic in much of England. 3) Elections put pay to the theory that Labour's problems were just about Corbyn.4)
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