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THREAD: These brands all support #BlackLivesMatter .But their ads appear on – and therefore inadvertently fund – racist anti-BLM websites. We’re calling on all these brands to #DefundRacism. Join us.
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9 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #PardonFlynnNowThe Question Has Always Been InnocenceWhat makes an innocent man plead guilty? There is a lie in America. The lie is that Judges, Courts, Prosecutors are
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Mayoral forum on housing has commenced. Follow along for live thread. First Q from @TweetBenMax to @cmenchaca is how would you deal with @NYCHA and specifically your position on Rental
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Iran was a democracy--of sorts--for a brief period in the 20th century. Were relations "stable and peaceful"? Not exactly. Thread 1/https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1337460347033141248 Iran's period of constitutional governme
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1/ Hey guys, remember that time Steve Bannon ran an army of game virtual currency miners in Asia, for sale to westerners at discount prices, arbitraging attention for profit?That was
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Apologies for a rant:Has a professor or someone senior to you in any way ever unfollowed you online or even figuratively ‘blocked’ you offline? #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academia #sciencetwitter #anthrotwitter
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1. Donald Trump won the GOP primary and the presidency because campaigning on whiteness-first messaging still has potency in the 21st century. Plenty of people don’t want to directly engage
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1/ How do we prevent the next grifter-in-chief and stop Congress from enabling criminals in government? 2/ Trump and McConnell are both pushing pardons. Trump wants pardons for his criminal
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The Fantasy of Carbon Offsetting - my first peer-reviewed journal article - is out now with Environmental Politics. How does carbon offsetting retain its seductive appeal, despite all its problems?
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While we wait for news, here's what's on the line if the Brexit talks fail... 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-05/the-cost-of-failure-what-s-at-stake-if-brexit-talks-collapse?sref=yMmXm5Iy Tariffs. This is the big o
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You need to decide now what you'll do if they try to cancel the election.https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1260348322281381896 October 27, 2016 Trump told his rally in Toledo, Ohio, “I'm just thinking to myself
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Some interesting details emerging from the tragic helicopter accident belonging to William Ruto which killed five people, including DP's own favorite pilot in Turkana. Four Americans died in the crash.
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Those of us who have been around a while forget that there are people joining Twitter every day.Welcome! Learning a new platform takes time, and political Twitter can be confusing,
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There’s this general dismissiveness over the past decade or so over the plight of the Al-Arabi football club and as a life long fan, it has been morally paralyzing to
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Must-read investigation of @FTIConsulting, a key group of propagandists-for-hire working behind the scenes for Big Fossil.(Mini-thread)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/climate/fti-consulting.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&
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Because of the awful @WSJ piece & the editor’s doubling down of its sexism, I thought we could use a reminder about some research that exists showing that women are
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