#Politics

There have been a lot of stories from various outlets including @propublica @latimes & @washingtonpost about COVID contracts. I wrote about the absence of gov't oversight on them. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-g
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1) Nothing President Trump today undermines even a single fact in the stories we published over the weekend. The truth remains that the nation's top health advisers concluded as of
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Something really interesting is happening in Liverpool. In the past week public health officials noticed a surge in cases in one ward - so a few dozen streets - Princes
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OK. Here's the thing: I think it's important to talk about how "bend the knee," and a strategy premised on cruelty, dominance, and humiliating one's enemies ultimately failed, because it
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Yesterday I tweeted that someone I've known my whole life, who is just now opening their mind to radical politics, has been DMing folks a video w abolitionist takes on
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Consider the following: Scheer speaks for about five minutes, but doesn't actually say anything good Sir John A actually did.https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/scheer-other-conservative-mps-met-by-protesters-at-john-a-macdonald-rally-in-re
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All Syed Jagirdaars from Faisal Saleh Hayat to Abida Hussain & all their Syed relatives, ruling dozens of villages situated at Jhang Lalian Road including mine 4 decades. I just
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To chime in late to the Contrapoints 'Voting' video discussion, I want to make the point that she is arguing against a complete strawman the entire video, rather than engaging
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A person is not closer to Fela in spirit simply because they can sing about Nigeria and Africa's problems. Anyone can sing about problems, but not everyone can RENOUNCE THEIR
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BREAKING—holy crap—White House’s power grab last month of vaccine approval from FDA now being used—WH is blocking strict FDA guidelines for the emergency release of a coronavirus vaccine. Basically WH
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"COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory...the sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that 'patient zero' worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in
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As someone who grew up around evangelicals there’s nothing surprising here. This sort of thinking isn’t uniform but it’s perfectly easy to find.https://twitter.com/publiusorperish/status/1307295121583599616 That’s a moot follow-up q
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New Q (27 May '20). Yes, we know. It's never been about the virus. Would be nice if those behind the unleashing of the virus were rounded up and held
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The NYT story yesterday on how Trump had hundreds of millions of dollars in loans tied to his Chicago tower was filled with fascinating detail, but there's still so much
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A call to Labour members in Wales. We have more than the 9 CLP seats to vote for, we have to elect for the first time an NEC member to
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The planning system desperately needs reform. I’ve sat in so many planning meetings at Tory, Labour & Lib Dem councils. The system can be grubby, convoluted & I’d even say
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