#Democracy

1. THREAD: Like all of you, I found out from news reports that I — along with five other Hong Kongers currently overseas — am on the wanted list for
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Its sad to see most of us including journos are playing along in this power game. No one is questioning the basics. And busy in calling out each other instead
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A great deal of time has now passed since Sir Keir was elected leader of the Labour Party and after all the vote was quite close.Is it not therefore time
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TEXAS SUPREME COURT: We take no position on whether it is “good” to let people vote by mail during a deadly pandemic, or whether we should force people to choose
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S.Koreans are voting in general elections April 15 amid #CoronavirusPandemic. Let's unpack: Why, how, & what it means for S.Korean democracyTopics determining votesImpact on foreign policy & inter-Korean relationsN.Korean efforts
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Folks who want to use AI/ML for good generally think of things like predictive models, but actually... smart methods for extracting data from forms would do more for journalism, climate
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US Sanctions Malevolance/Evilness: Thread1/ Madeline Albright said that even if the sanctions had killed half a million Iraqi children, "the price is worth it". In their vileness, suffering & death
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.@AdamSchiff & @SpeakerPelosi: “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has informed us that it will no longer provide briefings to Members of Congress, including the House and Senate
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For years Donald Trump, Republicans, and Fox News have used tensions to raise money and consolidate power. They created a hyper-divided reality where cops are soldiers against the threat of
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You know, once upon a time — maybe even last year — the WTO ruling that the centerpiece of Trump's trade policy was illegitimate would have been considered major news.
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For ten years, women, LGBT people and people of colour have been threatened with death and serious harm on your platform. You’ve done next to nothing.Men abusing women. White people
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Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-PepysMay 23rd 1665Up betimes, and for childcare reasons carried the boy Bridgen to Durham where I discoursed with Duke Cummings about a message
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OK. I’ve been reluctant to use my platform as an artist for U.S. electoral politics. But I’ve decided that this time around, I can't afford *not* to. This isn’t about
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Tweeps, 1 year ago, I made predictions as to what a Trump presidency would look like. I wanted to be wrong. As a psychotherapist, I had a strong sense of
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Feel like it's more accurate to describe the Proud Boys as "anticommunist" rather than "white supremacist" (these people idolize Pinochet after all.)The issue with using that label is most Americans
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What's the worst take? This has to be a contender. (Sorry @FredericHof, I need to be a bit brutal):https://twitter.com/AtlanticCouncil/status/1194555597221486594 Essentially, Hof is arguing that because Nasrallah took the side of
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