#Politics

Levi McLaughlin

mclaughlin_levi

The power of Soka Gakkai voters in Kansai is evident in the results of the Osaka referendum. Numerous factors at play here (short-ish thread):https://twitter.com/osakatokosono/status/1322944828401876992 Commentators point out that Corona is

Richard Hanania

RichardHanania

How much has our political culture changed in the last decade? When Obama won the 2008 South Carolina primary, he gave a speech to a crowd excitedly chanting "Race Doesn't

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 108I’ve done a ton of media in past few days (eg, @NPR: https://n.pr/3inIcfK ) re: how CA fell off the rails. As I’ve thought hard about

ClearingTheFog

clearing_fog

Trump and the GOP use language instrumentally, to achieve goals, rather than to inform.This isn't limited to the political realm - it is an important distinction, and learning this can

Matt Sheehan

mattsheehan88

Big story today from @theintercept on Google's plans to relaunch a (censored) search engine in China. Let's take a tour of Google's history in China and many attempts to get

David Frum

davidfrum

1) The point of the electoral college as designed in 1787 was to entrust the selection of the president to a small group of eminent persons. That plan went moribund

Dr. Kyla Wazana Tompkins

kwazana

Phew I'm catching up on the critique/postcritique stuff. Tempest teapot etc. But I guess here's what I have to say to the delightful promise of unproblematized white pleasure. Your pleasures

Aurelia V

senjatanuklir

Dalam karya fiksi spekulatif, ada Cyberpunk sebagai sub-genre yang cukup terkenal belakangan ini. Tapi lain dari Cyberpunk, ada pula beberapa turunannya.Masih ada steampunk, solarpunk, nanopunk, dan lain-lain. Yuk, kita lihat

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Susan B. Anthony taught us howI’ve argued that MAGA means “Take America Back to the days of robber Barrons & white male supremacy.” If you missed it, seehttps://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1070708168949346304The que

American Compass

AmerCompass

LIVE NOW: What Now? A Conversation On Where Conservatives Go After the Trump PresidencyCo-hosted with @WSJ and featuring @GeraldFSeib, @oren_cass & @GeorgeWill Tune in:https://www.wsj.com/live-qa/wsj-live-what-now-where-conservatives-go

Philip Stafford

staffordphilip

LSE and Refinitiv make commitments on derivatives trading and clearing to secure EU approval for deal. Story w/ @JavierespFT A thread. 1/nhttps://www.ft.com/content/1170dc7c-7002-4af6-ad63-a6b3416dcea9 The LSE is betting on selling Borsa It

Dirk VanderHart

dirquez

Lots to watch for this election day, obviously, but allow me to make a case for why you should take interest in Oregon's legislative races... The heavily contested ones at

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

OK, so now I will stick my neck out and make a prediction for the next four years and not one that I am happy to make. I predict that

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)#China’s threat is real in military/economic deal with #Iran-$400 bn from China-Sino-Russian bombers, fighter jets & etc. to have unrestricted access to Iran's air bases-China gets privilege, discounts on all

Andrew Rei

AndrewRei15

Thread 1/ From what I've seen online lately, I need to debunk some BS about Authoritarianism & its four yucky "flavors"...Authoritarianism is the umbrella term that covers four types of

Ben Coates

bencoates1

Thinking a lot this morning about Dutch attitudes to government failure today (given the news that having made bold pledges about delivering covid vaccines, preparations for actually doing this are

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