#Progressive

I donโ€™t like to rant on social but I canโ€™t say it enoughIf we wanna change this country we have to act and make the system work for us.Twitter is
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I joined the Liberal Democrats 21 years ago under Charles Kennedy. I was proud to be a member. Proud to be against concentrations of power & wealth, against tuition fees
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Dear @AndrewScheer,I've always thought you were a decent man whose ideology was disagreeable to me but whose character was intact.I'm watching you literally running a campaign designed to tear apart
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.@KamalaHarris as VP candidate is bad news for Biden because she is an electoral liability, but even more so for the American people since she is a corporate authoritarian. A
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This is VERY timely right now:1/ "Most Christians cannot imagine power in any other way than toward what finally leads to political domination. Thus, it is not surprising that, in
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This is an incredible investigative piece by British Broadcasting company Channel 4 News about the voter suppression tactics deployed by Cambridge Analytica on the @Facebook platform. Financed by the Mercerโ€™s
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Apple Doesn't Care About Augmented Reality: Here's Why #augmentedreality #AR #VR #MagicLeap #spatialcomputing #MixedReality https://shodu.net/apple-doesnt-care-about-augmented-reality-heres-why/ A post by @Scobleizer tipped me off t
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I support @uchicagoenglish's decision to prioritize Ph.D. applicants interested in Black studies for this year's admissions cycle. Reading their department's statements made me think & gave me pause. 1/https://english.uchica
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Stream of consciousness thread: What are conservatives conserving? I really want to know. Why do people accept their flawed premise that โ€œliberalโ€ is a bad word when it has the
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I'm careful about "You're not a true goth if you're racist." I've been going to goth clubs and shows my entire adult life and have met folks who have shockingly
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โ€œThe Jacobins are having their moment, courtesy of a pandemic...or, better, of the panic and chaos of a crisis that must never go to waste. It is a time of
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This looks like brown fragility to me, @AOC. Tut.https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1275149336884756483 Listen, @AOC, I know you're a Congresswoman and a progressive and workin' it and think you're a senator or something, bu
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Biden supporters try to convince people to vote for him entirely on the presupposition that "Biden is still better than Trump," but frankly, I haven't seen a piece of evidence
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Poor people benefit much more when Ds are in control; lots of studies show this. Black ppl have even more impressive gains (see the recent book dangerously divided.) Glenn is
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Lukewarm take: but replacing ableist vocab with other words that will become ableist in the future because you use them as synonyms (linguistics 101) is a failure. Rather, you must
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I was really struck by this from @MrNishKumar talking to @sadia_azmats_ and @meMontyMonts on #nocountryforyoungwomen (26th march this year): (1/7) Nish was talking about people failing to recognise him, randomly
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