#Democracy

1. I took 2 hours off last night to celebrate my adult son's birthday. I came back and the world was literally on fire. And I am furious about what
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The Cummings revelations were a triumph of journalism, in all its messy glory. But the UK government response marks the ascendency of anti-journalism, with the Trumpist jibes of “fake news”
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Any aspect of local government that confers power to citizens outside of voting in regular elections is undemocratic and probably regressive https://twitter.com/emayfarris/status/1198660481222946818 exhibit Ahttps://twitter.com/JakeAnbinder/status/11
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I'm amazed how many people think "separation of church and state" is in the US Constitution, or that it was the theory behind the 1st Amendment, or that it was
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1) Why so little focus on China's more than impressive community response to #COVID19 in the English-speaking media? Multiple reasons, but here's a few thoughts as to why this might
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I've changed my mind about progressive politicians appearing on independent news shows like mine. Let me explain why.A thread:I once thought our shows were just echo chambers that wouldn't help
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GAME THEORY: STATE OF PLAYYou might want to listen up for this one. I’ll be touching on the subjects Trump, the GOP and the Global Mob have been avoiding on
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We might not agree with @BernieSanders' beliefs on harm reduction, but he's changed the political landscape forever thanks to us and our belief in him. He basically ruined the establishment's
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Reform & Alliance were offshoots of a Social Credit past in Alberta. Subsuming the federal PC party in 2003. Peter MacKay selling out to libertarian influence & a desire to
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BRACE YOURSELF for the most cataclysmic #JobsDay of all of our lives. This chart has monthly job changes over the past 80 years. We lost more than 20 million jobs
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UPSC (dhaaga)All this nitpicking over UPSC misses the central point that the whole system has to be dismantled. Lateral entry is inadequate. Gov. jobs should be short term, specialized, based
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ESTIMATES: Earlier today, I had a whole 11 mins to interrogate the Environment Dept on Adani, managing conflicts of interest, New Acland coal mine and the Browse Basin gas pipeline,
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Big-brain thread on the Qanon phenomenon. At first glance, it's just a stupid fantasy for boomers and MAGApedes that there are good guys in the American government, not borne out
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An #EasterSunday thread: Easter, not only this year, but every year isn’t just about a victory won. It isn’t a good guys vs bad guys, winner take all, we’ve triumphed
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still got a whole left, polls close at 10PM! going to share on this thread some stuff I put on insta. here’s my face for a start: website @
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For my fellow brethren and sisters:This has happened a few times, so I need to address it.This the most important election of or lifetimes. Black people in general know that,
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