#Political

As we watch scenes from Harrisburg echo protests across the country against shelter-in-place orders, seeing lots of derision & name calling of protesters as 'morons,' 'idiots,' etc. Obviously they are
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With Israel achieving peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates & Bahrain, and unprecedented ties with Oman, Saudi Arabia, Morocco & Sudan, the chief advocates today of the Arab
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Absurd to get all panicked about this. 1) Social media didn't exist in 1950. "Speak your mind" meant something very different then.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1289333770370203650 2) The article is clear that people
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While other state Governors would send you away or simply ignore you, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has showed solidarity with protesters in Enugu two days in a row now. It leaves one
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PCR false-negative rate is not insignificant Plaquenil data gets less whelming by the dayrapid serology tests may help provide important answers, but come with their own pitfallsnew COVID framework of
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Today I decided to do a county bellwether analysis of the 2020 elections based on data from 2000-2016 (5 elections). This data can be downloaded from https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ This thre
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THREAD: I've repeatedly highlighted that you need #Chinese language literacy for analysing Chinese politics. . The below-quoted thread is an example of why. The author argues that the use of
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Interesting story from ⁦@benyt⁩ - it shouldn’t be a revelation to people that‘s a tension between new and legacy media. That campaigns need both. Some misunderstood #CambridgeAnalytica affair: mourning journalism’s
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The Q Review For You 10/4/19: My Name Is Michael Weston, I Used To Be A Spy (AKA: Welcome To The Clown Show Australia) 1. Hello Australia and welcome to
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My big find of the day. 1970 film showing a U.S. Navy patrol boat in Vietnam flying a Confederate flag. I say "find" advisedly; because the flag is noted in
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Handmaid's Tale is becoming real. Trump's Aunt Lydia Scotus pick will help destroy Women's Rights, including bodily autonomy, for all . And forget racial and LBGTQ rights. They'll be gone
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Why don't people listen to smart people? And they call their wisdom as "Bookish Impractical Knowledge" ?? A small answer in this 2 min thread. Read on. Generally speaking, I
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At risk of arousing as little interest & agreement as my earlier material on this, I'm posting a few more thoughts on the Jean Castex issue: France's new Prime Minister,
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Gonna reiterate something I said after super tuesday - voting is not a spiritual act, it is a material act, and you should treat it as such. Thinking about "the
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No-one ever grasped the entirety of politics in a day. Hell, I'm still learning.If you're worried about your lack of knowledge, just learn at your own pace. But when it
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Missouri #Prop2 passed on the strength of overwhelming urban and moderate suburban margins. The rural margins for "No" were not large enough to overcome that.The reasons behind this divide initially
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