#Politics

@chrislhayes and @Trevornoah have both brought up the Columbus Police Departments corruption and lies tonight on their show. Here’s a thread of how corrupt they are including the Stormy Daniels
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So this seems to have provoked quite a lot of, eh, debate. 900 mostly angry responses and still coming thick and fast. A reasonable proportion are just variations of "fuck
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As Christians prepare anew to celebrate the Incarnation, I revisit early church history as a reminder of the devotion to the common good Jesus can inspire and lament how this
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Mary Trump's book on Donald Trump and his family—TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, a phrase related to child abuse—underscores why we don't often read bracing psychological portraits of presidents while
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Dear Dr. Berman, I’m tired of populism, disinformation and false accusations made to legitimize your beliefs and behaviour.I’m tired of being lumped in with neoliberals because I am not adopting
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Who else wants to know when Lev Parnas gets to bring down Rudy Giuliani, Devin Nunes, William Barr, and Donald Trump? Who else wants to know more about that four-year
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Last night on #QandA we spent most of the show arguing about politicians' bad behaviour. At a time when so many issues need attention, this was a miss. Every minute
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This is a long thread meant to be read as one contiguous stream of consciousness. It addresses my dire concern for our democracy in #Alberta.I fear @jkenney is a false
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By coincidence I was reading an article by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy when I learned that a QAnon believer is likely headed to Congress. It reminded me that to grasp the nature
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https://news.yahoo.com/venezuelas-guaido-colombia-meet-pompeo-lawmaker-151618255.html https://www.mic.com/articles/172936/trump-tied-businessmen-met-nsc-officials-bannon-over-venezuela-sanctions-sources-sayI must go back to pull it all toge
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1/ We can't wait for the @NSERC_CRSNG fellowship stats release to start this discussion:In 2018, 2019, & 2020, PDF success rates for Ecology & Evolution were 30%, 37%, & 26%,
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Education has become one of the chief fault lines in American politics. This NYT piece this week by @JedKolko looked at how those divides have widened even more since 2016.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/upshot/election-red-blue-economic
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The @GOP has responded to catastrophically to #COVID19 because over the decades their party has been reduced to little more than holding voter attention through culture wars and social wedge
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Commissions & carry for civil servantsIf the mayor & economic development team of a city bring in prosperity, they should get a cut of that after citizens do.For example, if
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Smart @thomaswright08 piece on what an ineffective climate-focused approach to China could look like. I’m perhaps naïve/optimistic, but I would expect the incoming team to be more strategic than the
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The Entertainment Industry, the Pentagon, and the Lies We're ToldA THREAD: I'm watching season 4 of House of Cards. The central arc so far is that Russia is in a
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