#Politics

1. Having run big rallies in my previous life in politics there were a few big issues here...a perfect stormFirst, you never, ever brag about ticket reservations ahead of an
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Please let me tell you - as calmly as I can, despite this driving me insane - why making misogyny a hate crime is such an utterly terrible idea for
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 150Today, 150 days since I began my Covid tweets, Iā€™m going to do something odd: write the speech that Trump should give. I have no
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DOJ Found ā€œNothing of Significanceā€ Not Considered Significant:1) ā€œMembers of Italian Intelligence Were Approached by Hillary Clinton, the Obama Administration Deep State in Attempt to FRAME TRUMP By PLANTING EVIDENCE...@POTUS
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NEW ESSAY from @Lindsey_Brink: The flawed ideology of the free-market movement is the belief that a ā€œfree-marketā€ will be successful when itā€™s completely unregulated.Free-markets need government regulation to thrive. 1/https://www.nis
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I don't think people on here fully understand what a threat Fox News is to public health and safety.So here's a thread of the worst of the worst of Fox
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Flashback - Obama as Shiva upsets some Indian-Americans (2010)https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsweek-depiction-of-obama-as-lord-shiva-upsets-some-indian-americans Shiva represent goodness, benevolence and serve as the Protector but he also has a d
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The willingness for Some evangelical Christians to lay aside moral decency and common courtesy towards addressing their political opponents and characterize any appeal to such as leftist PC culture or
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Iā€™ve been watching some sports docs in lieu of my usual fix. Some recommendations below. Still available on All4 (https://www.channel4.com/programmes/diego-maradona)the @MaradonaMovie is outstanding film making. Incredible new footage and devastating
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I can't argue with you my child @mkoirala. I have always treated you as my daughter. When you invited us for the premiere of 1942-a Love story, I did not
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One could almost see a connection :/ Scalia Vacancy Puts in Play US Pledge to Paris Agreement. https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/scalia-vacancy-puts-play-us-pledge-paris-agreement Justice Scalia's unexamined death points to a problem https://
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Breitbart, Ben Shapiro "bridged the gap" between Fox News and Stormfront for this pair of white supremacist terrorists.That's the purpose the alt-right was created to serve, y'all. It's literally the
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Folks burned Bibles last night in Portland.A couple thoughts:Seems consistent with some anti-Christian sentiment Iā€™ve seen in PDX. Just yesterday I saw a ā€œban Christianityā€ tag on a walk.As an
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The prevailing Corbynista narrative all along is that antisemitism 'has been weaponised' against Jeremy Corbyn. But this is flawed for several reasons. 1/10 First, antisemitism can't be 'weaponised'. It's already
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1/ Iā€™m an ordinary wee Glesga granny. Iā€™m not a radical feminist. Iā€™m not an academic or an intellectual. Iā€™m not a lesbian. Iā€™m not an activist. I donā€™t hate
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You are an unbelievable liar, Melissa.Randy Rinaldo was asking for "balanced" reporting on restaurant closures in @BobKronbauer's piece. I pointed out that it was an op-ed; it didn't have to
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