#Politics

Benjamin Wittes

benjaminwittes

A thread with some thoughts on Merrick Garland, whom Politico is reporting has been selected as attorney general by President-elect Joe Biden... /1/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/biden-to-tap-merrick-garland-for-attorney-general-4

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docrussjackson

How long before it's illegal to support any left-wing Party or criticise capitalism? US libertarian billionaires scapegoat & demonize ‘Big Government’, 'identity politics' & the Left, using propaganda to manipulate

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Here are some of the most interesting books that changed my mind in 2020:Thread Peter Turchin tries to quantify history in "secular cycles" using demographic data.TLDR: As population expands, wages

Anthony Q. Farrell

aqfarrell

1// Can’t focus til I get this off my chest. Buckle up. Since moving back to Canada (summer 2017) my main goal's been to diversify writing rooms here. They’ve been

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

I've a hard time talking to ppl who are against vaccinations, but I try to articulate it this way: 1) I say I don't understand. Not that I hate them,

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

The ACLU in NYT on why the union of Silicon Valley monopolies -- Apple, Google and Amazon -- to remove Parler from the internet is so problematic. While ACLU is

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

The thing about the objections people are throwing up to the combat wheelchair is that almost all of them (and I'll get to the exceptions) fall into the pattern I

John McDermott

mcdermott

Next time the Hollywood establishment lectures you about politics, please consider that a STAGGERING number of high-profile entertainment figures were/are 9/11 Truthers.(A thread.) Kevin Smith (@ThatKevinSmith) called LOOSE CHANGE, the

Charles Grant

CER_Grant

The EU is getting fed up with the Brexit negotiations, saying the UK has wasted all the talks in July by not offering any real compromises. They wonder if UK

Comrade Fudge

HNIJohnMiller

1) Late night musings here.The Weimar Republic in Germany. It’s fall. Who it fell to.The order of occurences in which it fell.You know, that kind of thing. 2) The first

John Ghazvinian

JohnGhazvinian

Did you know: The very first newspapers published in America (way back in the 1720s) were obsessed with Iran. But not in the way you might think. A thread.... Week

Hannah 🌻

ChamoMeHannah

As promised, here’s a round up of my favourite funny/positive news stories from the year Thread... Starting with one of my favourite pieces of comms work - this

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

LONG THREAD1)Why did #Iran’s Mahan Air flight make headlines on July 23?Why did the pilot nosedive the plane in such fashion?Why did Tehran’s state media launch a propaganda frenzy?There are

sure, curious george...

mercuriusgeorge

note to self: never announce an epic thread, just do it. i kinda regret tweeting this because i accidentally put a lot of pressure on myself (and i tend to

Vanessa Wills

vcwills

We need to stop imagining the Jan 6 fascists are purely "brainwashed," misguided, etc. Neither are they guided by white supremacy *only*. They are largely a vanguard of principled petty

Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

ON WHO NEEDS TO LEARN MATHEMATICS: A THREAD. The pic features a quote from RG, one of the most prominent proponents of changing mathematical education. Though she has no degrees

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