#Politicians

Each night before I go to bed, I read about fascism (yah, I'm fun) - how it evolves and overtakes functioning democracy. This is why I am no longer amused
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The appointment of @MakisVoridis as the new Greek minister of interior in the New Democracy government today is indicative of the worrying presence of the far right in the Greek
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*THREAD*So @PaulaYacoubian suggested a Currency Board. While in theory it's a nice idea, it would simply not work in #Lebanon now.Why? 1) It requires that every LBP is 100% backed
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Quick thread on Ossoff’s TikTok content: so, you might have seen the video (or not!) where Ossoff said something about the “TikTok family”. And it seems he has a pretty
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1/ Today's takeover clickbaity article is Angus MacNeil MP's letter to to Liz Truss (Trade Secretary) telling her to block the takeover. Quite frankly, it makes no difference, Oliver Dowden
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1- Today historian Benjamin Stora one of the world's leading authority on Algerian history submitted his report on "the memories of the war of #Algeria and colonization " to Emmanuel
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Many seem to think it is "unfair" to say that #entrepreneurs who didn't foresee the #pandemic "should" lose their businesses, because it is an unforeseeable event. But this completely misses
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A charter update thread!Yesterday, the Minneapolis Charter Commission voted that their charter amendment, which removed MPD’s staffing requirement, will not go on the ballot in November.This is good news; we’ve
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On 4 January 2021, the #UK will decide on the extradition of @wikileaks publisher #JulianAssange to the #USA. It could radically alter the landscape of global media freedoms & undermine
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THREAD:The irony of it all is that Hachalu was bullish on @AbiyAhmedAli . He publicly criticized the critics of the latter when they started to get chummy with TPLF early
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Ok, not a "yeah, America" thing, but a "pull one's head out of a hole" thing--In the wider global scope, America IS exceptional: We deal with less terrorism, disease, govt
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Next step in the Danish gov's sexual surveillance of Muslim women: banning women's right to receive a dowry.Apparently, its oppressive for Muslim women to receive gifts from their future husbands.The
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So on Tuesday the government are going to sneak through #CETA, the “free trade” agreement between Europe & Canada. Putting the flaws aside, this is being done without proper scrutiny
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Indian news channels are doing a repeat of the Aarushi Talwar case in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. Back then, scurrilous source based stories were spread about the young girl,
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In light of the news that the US Senate is looking likely to be tied (with the VP vote as tie break), time for a thread on something I’ve been
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I love EFF foot soldiers. Every time they get into a mess they look for affirmation from @ThuliMadonsela3 & myself. Cute!Anyway I was busy engaging another group of conservative ideologues.
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