#Politics

fatima (she/they)

JustDerby

The way IAAF treatment of Caster Semanya reminds me of some tweets I drafted after TERF twitter unleashed themselves a couple of weeks ago. I think now is a good

Nick LeRoy

NickLeRoy

Today marks 6 months (+1 day) since I went out on my own, full-time, as a freelance SEO consultant. Some thoughts on my experience so far. [THREAD] 1. If you

Elliott Ash

ellliottt

“In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins.” -- Drew Westen, The Political Brain.Interesting idea! What do the data say about that?New working paper: "Emotion and Reason in

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

15/People say the media is biased, it can't be trusted, and that they push and agenda. Some people say we are in an age of "narrative warfare." Others say people

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 150Today, 150 days since I began my Covid tweets, I’m going to do something odd: write the speech that Trump should give. I have no

Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

montie

Trump’s many faults are well known (and close to disqualifying for high office) but - despite what you constantly hear in the UK media - he really wasn’t all bad.

Alexander Davidson

alex_davidson82

Why then do "the squad" refuse to do anything about Medicare for All? Why is there an entire media eco-system of youtubers, leftist magazines, alleged jouranlists and failed actors making

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

I think civil discourse is great.However social media itself encourages outrage culture. Without a concerted effort by social media platforms to discourage this, outrage culture will continue.Thread1/n And responding to

Osita Nwanevu

OsitaNwanevu

Again: An entire block of moderate House Dems ran explicitly on replacing Pelosi last year. But Public Enemy #1 is the chief of staff for a progressive that defended and

Cyril Sam

cyrilsam

Q. What stopped Indian news organisations from doing the story on Ankhi Das and Facebook that WSJ pulled off?Clue: Follow the money Ankhi and her team have been around screwing

Noah Berlatsky

nberlat

math is a pretty rigorous truth system. within that system, there are strict ways to solve particular problems.https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1289224929536143361 the question is whether those systems are applicable in other cont

Катюша

DornerStan

A pattern worth considering: -Newly-radicalized ppl, many of whom are v young, engage in radical political action for the 1st time & subsequently experience mass police brutality for the 1st

R Kakar

rafiullahkakar

Thread on #chamanborder situation1. Chaman is the most imp border town along Durand Line in BAL. Social setup here is tribal. The DL has divided villages, tribes and relatives. There

Michelle B. Young 💛🐝

MichelleBYoung1

THREADI’m back! So the W Lefties flagged my Eldridge Cleaver tweets & I’ve been in TwitMo. Most people who read those tweets know they didn’t cross the line, they were

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

Fatuous. Based on a fallacy. Indefensible. David Brooks once again complains from his protected perch at the NYT that right-wingers like him have been silenced...then lists ways in which they

Jake Hamby

jhamby

IDEASHow Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American Politicshttps://apple.news/A-SW362mLT3a3Qft349guhw "As America enjoyed the glories of a postwar boom, what had been a serious, hardworking nation began a radical transfiguration. The

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