#POLITICAL

1. President Trump, Fox News, and other pro-Trump propaganda outlets created an impermeable information bubble for the Republican base. 2. Within that bubble, it is canon that the 2020 election
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Long thread, but bear with me:Our country isn't doing well, is it? What with Covid, Brexit, and so on.We haven't covered ourselves in glory lately.Sorry to be negative - and
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(Thread) Lordy, There Are TapesWe learned that Bob Woodward has tapes of Trump admitting that he knew in Jan. that the world faced a health emergency on par with the
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Biden Will Escalate Aggressions Against China While Republicans Call Him A Beijing Puppet"Team Biden is soft on China," Ted Cruz tweeted the other day, echoing a common accusation leveled against
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Awesome to work with @CarbonWrangler on this paper and thanks to our colleagues @ColumbiaUEnergy and beyond for their thoughts and feedback as we were writing it. Some thoughts below https://twitter.com/ColumbiaUEnergy/status/13265468278443
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THREAD: I know what I'm doing. Some reactions to this tweet -- which I thought was hilarious -- suggest I'm a hypocrite and my daughter selfish. I'm inclined to ignore
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What I'm missing from this discussion: (thread)How did Twitter & Facebook define and decide which tweets to remove and why?Did Trump say anything explicitly illegal?Did he share a link to
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When we remember this important piece of legislation, it's also important to note that, to a significant extent, modern American conservatism drew much of its energy from the *backlash against*
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The first round of local elections in Brazil are tomorrow. Hundreds of thousands of candidates are running for over 60,000 different elected positions. Bolsonaro, having failed to register his new
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This is an insane criminal case out of Ohio that illustrates all of the problems that inevitably arise from unlimited secret political contributions (aka “dark money”). Some notes from the
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Three common misconceptions about freelancing.> You should never offer your work for free.> Don't use Upwork or Fiverr.> Use value-based pricing, not hourly or fixed pricing.Let me explain why these
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In case others need an Explain Like I'm 5 version of the power outages: - Texas Republicans decided to make their own power grid separate from the rest of the
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Well before critical race theory and white privilege (see @JamesEWrightII ‘s thread) became the latest political attack by right-wingers in the U.S. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/910053496/trump-tells-agencies-to-end-trainings-on-white-p
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THREAD:I've reviewed Senate Intel's Vol. 5 report on Russian interference & am concerned something important was missed:On 6/1/16, former Rep Bob McEwen & Rep Robert Aderholt met w/ two Manafort-connected
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"Even the best propaganda can't conceal constant political failures." Quotation from Nazi propagandist Schulze-Wechsungen https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/polprop.htmTrump's Tulsa crowd size after gett
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The Biden family connection to Chinese investment partnership runs through Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi currently serving in the Politburo and as the Director of the Office of
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