#Political

As many parts of the world settle into the COVID winter of our discontent, it's worth thinking critically about public health messaging. As I've said for months, despair-based messaging (of
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I spoke last week about why you shouldn't believe that the Gantz/Lapid split will do anything to their poll numbers. But here's a new poll from Smith showing their total
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THREAD Varieties of FascismSee definitions of fascism in our pinned TweetCommon theme is classic interwar regime fascism was *syncretic* - it borrowed from both left & right.Postwar fascism has
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Glady. This flag was the original motto of the Continental Marines when they fought the British. It was a statement against the king, that has been since co-opted by the
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NYC “Health Commissioner” Oxiris Barbot on Feb. 7th: “We’re telling New Yorkers, go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life” Barbot on Feb. 2nd: "There is no
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Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin was a SNCC and BPP member who hijacked a plane to Cuba to evade prosecution for allegedly trying to kill a KKK leader before being extradited from
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always telling people na they wouldn't like the past me without realizing na the current me pala is nowhere far from the past i'm resenting for. i tried to change
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Over-financialization lead to the dotcom bubble, GFC and the great unwind now. While debt-fueled booms support growth, they disincentivize optimal allocation of resources within a nation’s borders, leave little time
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CDC Chief wants me to watch my summer bbq but won't come out and condemn mass gatherings like the protests or Trump's Tulsa rally.https://radio.foxnews.com/2020/06/12/doors-opening-under-the-cloud-of-a-pandemic/ Credibility is preci
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Also it's important to note that the way we tell the history of Damien, who is the subject of several popular biographies in the 20th century, has actively underwritten colonial
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I've read a few things about Mandelson and his 'Jewishness', and there's quite a lot to unpick...He isn't halachically Jewish, and even though progressive movements accept patrilineal Jewishness, it's clear
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Warning: this is straight talk. It assumes people can handle hearing hard truth and nuance. If you’re up for that, keep reading. Throughout this pandemic, everyone has leapt for the
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1/ #MayDay in Montreal. Know your protests. Support anti-capitalist, social justice-based resistance; reject anti-science, far-right, conspiracy theorists. Here is a somewhat long protest primer, with both (really) bad news, and
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Founded in 1996 by Paul Richards, Liam Byrne and Derek Draper, the former aide to Peter Mandelson. Progress has received more than 122 times more funding than any other members'
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"Reconstructing Justice"Excellent new @NiskanenCenter report from CUNY's Michael Fortner unpacks the generational divide behind calls to defund the police, and the "complex, and sometimes contradictory, internal politics
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Let's talk about the Shmoo, and how it's become part of multiple fields of science & medicine as well as being a global cultural phenomenon.It was a creature invented in
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