#Politics

I think we should be straight about the fact that we lost and it’s bad, but while I understand the appeal of hysterical nihilism I just don’t think it reflects
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A question I sometimes ask myself: If I were the Welsh Conservatives what strategy would I adopt to win the 2021 Senedd election? (yes maybe I'm sad I know) 1/
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Oklahoma governor whose also the next Republican governor to announce plans to start reopening state economyAnyone noticing a pattern here? Yep you guessed it, only Republicans are opening back
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On @MattHancock bad half-hour.... 1/ The UK govt is set to extend the lockdown by 3x weeks. Good, because it’s working. But what is the strategy beyond lockdown? That’s a
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Okay, thread time. I know this isn't exactly a new take, but it needs repeating. For a while, anime fans wanted their hobby to be accepted by the public. They
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Drones, arresting people for gathering peacefully, arresting people for not wearing masks, tracking peoples phones, telling people who is essential and telling the non essentials to stay home, and way
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Like many of you I spent much of yesterday on here. I have read the EHRC report in full and the reaction to it. I confess that I had expected
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Research by Jacob Rugh, a sociologist at Brigham Young University, has found that the foreclosure crisis depressed voter turnout in the 2012 and 2016 elections among Black voters in swing
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Imagine there was a script INVENTED FROM SCRATCH BY ONE MAN in the 20th century, now used by hundreds of thousands of people and becoming the defacto standard for a
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Maybe as a historian you should understand that more clearly and try to expand your worldview and understanding of how politics actually works. And no, during debates and town halls
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Joe Biden supported racial segregation, didn't help Anita Hill, supported Bush's war in Iraq, bragged about racist crime bill executions, opposed LGBT human rights, bailed out Wall Street, deported millions,
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1/ With the medical emergency in Australia being managed well, Governments are now looking at which construction projects to build in order to stimulate the economy. 2/ As pointed out
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i owe so much to @BrennanCarley. im not sure he realises just how important and instrumental he has been in my career as a writer. in 2017 i was floundering
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I am so, so tired of diaspora Indians, and the few US-based academics who study India and are talking about the current crisis, focusing all their efforts on technical interventions
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Fasten you’re seatbelts, Ohio results won’t be known for at least 10 days after Nov 3.—Trump is likely to lead the Election Night in-person vote —Mail ballots accepted for 10
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This is a letter signed by bunch of rich "intellectuals" alongside the most vocal transphobes in the world, and it is designed to silence the voices of marginalized communities that
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