#Elections

Having substantially reduced my Twitter activity of late, on return today I am really struck by the gap between the the official channels of political discourse and what we find
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Angela Davis is making a materialist argument for voting for Biden which is different from a moralist one. If you don't buy into voting as the romance of representation and
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BIG NEWS: the #Recount campaign has won our court fight in Wisconsin, overcoming the final obstacle to a groundbreaking examination of voting machine source code by defeating voting machine vendors'
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So on this #ConstitutionDay what do we see :1. Nearly 10 lakh people in JK denied rights to access 4G internet despite SC pronouncements on proportionality principle.2. Discussions about bringing
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Thread: I am often asked "what one arrest/indictment would change the Country the most?" I am now prepared to answer that question. My answer may surprise you: John Podesta. Why
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Been thinking a lot about 1972 lately (sorry, insomnia produces extra-nerdy thoughts). Richard Nixon, having gained office with a less than a 1% popular vote margin and riding a national
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As citizens of Zimbabwe, we must never set a dangerous precedent by sanitizing the breaking of a Constitution for any reason by anyone.It's fact that @nelsonchamisa's appointment as president of
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Ok. I will bite1) Pragmatically -- As someone who spends a lot of time with "totally disengaged people", they are generally lower income, minorities, & in theory the voters progressives
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Flashback Saturday!https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/26/us/2000-campaign-voters-independents-elderly-lift-gore-florida-poll-says.html?smid=tw-share "Mr. Gore's strength among the elderly could be particularly important if the overall turnout i
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On Friday, a battle broke out between @Facebook & researchers at @nyuniversity about efforts to boost transparency about how voters are being targeted w/ political ads ahead of US election.
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Just checked the early voting line and it’s way shorter today — only about a block long. I’m still gonna wait for a week day, but don’t let fears of
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http://wisdems.org/donate Help this link go viral tonight. There are 25 hours and 17 minutes until the end of quarter deadline. Let’s blow this up. We win Wisconsin, we win the White
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The polls are closed in Humber-Gros Morne. Here are the results of the first poll on the Elections NL web site. #nlpoli Two polls reporting: #nlpoli Four polls reporting: #nlpoli
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Get the facts about mail-in ballots!Will the media, and @Twitter, acknowledge these real concerns with mass mail-in voting?THREAD In NV, excess ballots sent to inactive voters piled up in
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One thing that makes Biden & Harris’s respective political instincts & experiences such a liability right now is that “law and order lite” doesn’t work. You can’t thread the needle
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Thread.This is Telnipara, a town 25-30 KM away from Kolkata, which has become the epicentre of anti-muslim pogrom in West Bengal. This is incidentally the same town, where a Madarsa
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