#Politics

Electoral Reform Society

electoralreform

The government can treat different parts of the country differently as first past the post makes whole swathes of the country electoral deserts for themhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-burnham-tier-2-3-lockdown-manchester

Byomkesh Bakshi 2

SjoyMaity

Two political disasters, Singur and Nandigram, hit the CPI-M. And the communists haven’t yet recovered. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee now resembles the tattered CPI-M of the mid-2000s, with

Rick Morton

SquigglyRick

Very interesting yarn in @SatPaper tomorrow. Fits a few pieces of the puzzle into place. If you can, might be worth a subscription. And I have MUCH more to come.

Fatuma

Fatumaabdulahi

Today I want to acknowledge the doors @ygaraad has opened for me in accessing, previously inaccessible to me, internal Somali political dynamics. I wandered into his Bush House office as

James Crisp

JamesCrisp6

EU diplomatic sources have warned Boris Johnson to call the bloc’s leaders in the capitals if he is serious about savlaging the trade negotiations. They accuse the PM of being

Oliver Willis

owillis

old timers can remember @ron_fournier from 8 years of "obama should just go play golf with john boehner, and that will stop republicans from being crazy and demanding his birth

Andrew

WeirwoodRaven

Trump on Marines who lost their lives in battle: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred

L.D. Burnett

LDBurnett

Some commenters on this article don't understand why Trump saying the Constitution is the culmination of "1000 years of Western Civilization" is, in my words, chilling. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/white-house-h

Yann LeCun

ylecun

I'm an immigrant.I came first to work at Bell Labs on a J-1 visa, because I thought I'd stay only a year or two.But I stayed longer and got an

Charlie Savage

charlie_savage

A nugget in John Bolton's book may explain a war powers q that arose in 2018 after Trump's strike on Syria: what was the admin legal team's analysis for how

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

The number of attempts by the GOP in recent years to pack or shrink the size of state supreme courts is incredible.https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6705&context=faculty_scholarship 2016: Along a party line vo

FOOL NELSON

FOOL_NELSON

Footnote 350 could be referring to the January 2017 Mark Lyall Grant Communique questioning the credibility of Christopher Steele. #FISA https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446050-did-brits-warn-about-steeles-credibility-before-muellers-probe-con

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

Man. AOC out here responding to left-punching with "be more good at politics, whiners." You honestly love to see it.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324694301234921474 And if you want to know what AOC thinks about

Ari Berman

AriBerman

Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black

JJ

JennJefferys

you don't have to agree with her politics - but for the love of God could the men on here please stop harassing Michelle Rempel Garner. please. just stop. cc

The Black Emma Frost (Read Pinned Tweet)

iwritecoolstuff

#AutismAcceptance #BlackLivesMatter #ActuallyAutistic'“The entire ad screams that I am a Black candidate whom white people ought not be afraid of,” said Hakeem Jefferson, a professor of political science at