#POLITICAL

The great irony is these actions will do nothing to help maintain a free & open South China Sea. Embroiling the US further in disputes among China, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia,
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Why is @DanielAndrewsMP still popular? Who are the #IStandWithDan crowd? Questions that kept many media segments occupied for months and so many experts had been offering their two cents worth
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The biggest joke I’ve seen is people lauding Trump for standing up to China. The asinine trade war aside, Trump’s handling of the election loss, touting conspiracy theories, and claiming
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Trump pardon fest begins. Among those at head of the line: two ex Republican House lawmakers convicted of federal crimes. Other pardons include George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign aide who
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I actually thought about this more...here goes.What is going on is this: mainstream media and tech are co-creating an illusion. The illusion is this: the entire Left has gone stupid,
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I’m incredibly sad to see the new statue covered with an emblem of the anti-trans movement. Something that was created by the local community for their own community, has been
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Since life is such a wild ride right now I'm going to tweet out all the things I love about Twitter and my followers (i don't give a shit about
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13 years ago, Imad Mughnieh was unlawfully assassinated in #Damascus. Both the CIA and the Mossad claimed credit. Haj Imad managed to survive for 25 years away from his killers
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Thread: The argument on the merits of the farm reform bill are anyway compelling, and validated by experts. Self described “Pro-reform” people in commentariat have hence latched on to the
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This fall I shamelessly borrowed @DPolisciprof 's great idea to have students make memes about something they learned in the course. So, here is Pt. 1 of Intro to American
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I thought that the lack of interest in addressing the peculiar Nigerian condition- unemployment, hopelessness, poverty - stemmed from inertia until I began calling up youths to organise around #TPACT
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“Neither a fascist nor a communist”. https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1353070957728944132 Whether one can call Salazar’s regime *stricto sensu* or *lato sensu* fascist is an open-ended question and I’m not here to solve it.
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Time for another short thread. I frequently rail about a couple of things: a) Galaxy Brains don't actually know the nuts and bolts of what they are talking about b)
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In previous years I tweeted about prisoners of conscience while I was travelling home. This year I sadly cannot go home and see my family. Nevertheless I plan to tweet
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Sometimes academic disciplines talk past each other & miss relevant conversations in adjacent fields. This thread is for the Middle East & Iranian Studies folks who may have missed this
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Johnson's deal bears little difference to no-deal, so it is Brussels that has everything to lose if negotiations fail. EU leaders risk snatching a Brexit defeat from the jaws of
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