#Politics

.@maggieNYT claims fraud by mail is "exceedingly rare."Why doesn't she go back and read her own paper?The @nytimes pushed back against mail-in voting in 2012: "As more vote by mail,
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One of the great schisms in conservatism and GOP politics - a key difference between passive and active conservatism, peacetime vs. wartime - is whether or not the Left is
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"Politics shouldn't interfere with friendship. Just because we disagree, doesn't mean we can't be friends."I've heard this before. You've heard it before. We've all heard it before.Here's a thread on
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So it took a few days, but the media seem to be realizing that the anti-quarantine protests aren't a real grassroots uprising; they're Potemkin populism staged by right-wing billionaires 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-co
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Between the gas filled jars found in alleys and the people driving around handing Black people bricks and now people with no license plates and expired cop IDs rolling through
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I get asked a lot about the theses where history always bends to the left forever, with some people triumphant and some people depressed about that concept. I think it's
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No-one ever grasped the entirety of politics in a day. Hell, I'm still learning.If you're worried about your lack of knowledge, just learn at your own pace. But when it
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It's time to have a talk about electoral politics.Bernie Sanders was a fluke. A once in a generation lightning rod for economic angst and anxiety. He's done more to build
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serious political time: police brutality and racism are all serious issues but ppl are just now waking up and have been ignoring for awile. ppl especially white ppl are just
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1. how did Obama know the contents of the Flynn conversation with Russia Ambassador?simple:the British Spy Agency GCHQ was spying on Flynn & Trump using the NSA tools, since Aug
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This is a dangerous work of misinformation. The medical community is NOT divided on #chloroquine. Some may be giving it to patients, but this is Hail Mary compassionate use. Repeat.
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Starting *last November* US intel warned that a contagion was sweeping through #China’s #Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population.This was
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Well, here's Gordon Brownwell's letter to Harry Dent. Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Here's Strom Thurmond who stumped and strategized with
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THREADCall it "corona-federalism": the coronavirus pandemic is surfacing a distinctively Trumpian form of federalism, & it's rotten to its core.Here are its key features. /1 1st, "corona-federalism" blames the states
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1. I want to talk about this @DouthatNYT column, and why I think it's wrong — mainly, that it misunderstands what "authoritarianism" ishttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/opinion/sunday/trump-election-authoritarianism.html 2.
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Confused about the Pros of vaccine passports? Here are considerations & what I think about them:1. Communities "have the right" to protect their members. But this is often used to
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