#Foreign

Molly McKew

MollyMcKew

So, something a little odd.Today is the anniv of the Welles Declaration — when, in 1940, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles basically went rogue & stated the US would

Ani Chen

ani_a_chen

Some quick thoughts on one point in yesterday’s Agnes Callard op-ed concerning Aristotle on women 1/ The passage in question is Politics 1.13: "For the slave wholly lacks the deliberative

Matthew Masterson

mastersonmv

Last day @CISAgov & I wanted to reflect. Over the last 3 years we worked with the election community and federal partners to build an unprecedented whole-of- nation effort to

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

The fact that Zhou Li, a former deputy director of Beijing’s International Liaison Department, is complaining about the “unprecedented” coronavirus stimulus in the United States shows just how confused many

GOP Eating Their Own

DelendaGOPEst

Stepping back from the ledge - a thread. The military and veterans have been mythologized far too long. All are infallible heroes regardless of their service record. 1/ Yet on

Katrin Bennhold

kbennhold

“We were following it like a soccer match.”When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, far-right extremists across the Atlantic cheered.Jan. 6 has put the spotlight on the transnational links of the far

Tracy Beanz

tracybeanz

THREAD: Oh, what a tangled web we weave. In 2012, SVS Holdings (who owned Sequoia) was in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. They owed Smartmatic a large sum of money.

Daniel Edelstein

Turtlestein

I've found Armenian Twitter's internal discussions on identity & "who is a real Armenian" interesting when comparing to the Jewish community. According to Jewish Law, you are Jewish if you're

kim 🏹

spariaswift

biphobia is real and harmful: a thread bc i'm tired lets define biphobia, wikipedia states "Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality and toward bisexual people as a social group or

Joshua Flippo

JFlippo1327

On Jeopardy the other night, the final question was: “How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the Tomb of the Unknown?”All three missed it.Tomb of the

James

agoodfireburns

I just wanted to share a couple of excerpts from the US Military's counter-insurgency field manual which are particularly relevant at this time. Won't be a long thread, but one

Waël Atallah

wael_atallah

1/Thread: Lebanese emigration 1860-1929Today Lebanon is faced with the threat of massive emigration. This is very reminiscent of the second wave of emigration from Mount Lebanon post WW1. Emigration driven

vakibs

vakibs

It is such an important historical fort and landmark, which is defaced by a stupid road for motor vehicles. We in India are really exceptionally dumb in how we ruin

CA ANKUR AGARWAL

unstoppable_AP

George Soros is not just a person.He is the 21st Century Avatar of a phenomenon that India is sickeningly familiar with but has apparently learned nothing from it.He is a virus

Rágnár Ván Töndérsön

Slipcatch

"A whopping 51 percent of the public tells pollsters they support “black lives matter.” Most of these people, I suspect, don’t even know that there is an official Black Lives

George Conway

gtconway3d

"President Trump’s conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and most unequivocal terms. This is not a partisan matter. His actions directly threatened the very foundation on which all

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