#Policies

"You lost, get over it." But Brexit's not a football match. It's deadly serious, with very long-term consequences!Maybe greater understanding might bring greater empathy. THIS is what we're trying to
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Private schools are engines of inequality. Their promotion of individualist identitarianism is a way to distract from their role as pillars of class society: a way to make everyone feel
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We were listening to WNYC/NPR this morning, right? And they had a roundtable of white women across the U.S. political spectrum talking about whether they support Biden or Trump. There
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Completely support a “MMT UBI,” for many reasons.https://twitter.com/frfriedpotaters/status/1277776595948834816 The history of printing money for government spending goes back at least as far as late Rome, and is particularly common in
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Entirely predictable (and widely predicted by those pesky experts) that food / agriculture would become a huge issue for the UK in talks with the US - and one which
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Thread: Why do technocrats swoon over mechanistic policies like the EITC but almost ignore unions as an anti-poverty tool? Because technocrats don’t actually trust poor people. The EITC protects workers
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After immense prayer & reflection, I'm announcing my candidacy for US Congress in Virginia District 1.I have conviction in people, not corps, & seek your support to build a more
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Last night, I was at a Christmas party, and this nice gentleman struck up a conversation with me. Asked what I do. I told him. He said he works in
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THREAD - Let’s destroy this radical claim.There isn’t a single shred of evidence for this radical position, in fact the opposite is true. The costs of a Green New Deal
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We often hear from Greens, including very senior ones, that #HS2 is a climate disaster because it won’t be CO2-neutral for a long time. “120 years!” is quoted, “HS2’s own
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This is a memo to white folks who have gotten activated to fight for social justice over the last four years, as part of resisting the agenda of the current
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So I removed my thread last night that quote-tweeted the guy spitting all over the elevator buttons in his building - so as not to encourage the pile on. Because
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L Slattery's has a dig at Bono's endorsement of capitalism at Davos "There was no word on how much poverty capitalism has actually created, but maybe he’s saving that.."Sadly the
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Q DROP THREAD 6.26.20People actually believe those responsible for the attempted coup [coup attempt] of a duly elected sitting US President will go unpunished?End to our Constitutional Republic?We The PeopleWe
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I'm legit worried about Virginia Democrats (elected and activists) making the #ERA the goal post and not the starting line. We have both majorities and all statewide offices. This can't
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A Man Disrupt Banking System with his Gut.Those men that had great discoveries were known as the crazy ones. Such is the story of this middle age man from a
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