#Policy

We effectively do not enjoy freedom of speech if we can get fired for the kinds of speech the first amendment was intended to protect. & it does get tricky.
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1/There are people who are genuinely trying to talk intelligently about cryptocurrencies, but can’t because they don’t have historical background. This thread tries to correct that by suggesting required reading.
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1) This week #Macron warned Iran not to interfere in #BeirutBlast - but this may be too late‹IRGC Gen Salami:“All [#IRGC] capacities have been mobilised to help the Lebanese people
we
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sweden eschewed lockdownsome have claimed it is a disaster and the horror of scandanaviaothers that this was wise and that it's mostly the more aggressive swedish counting for COV that
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The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 was a four month event that ended the ‘colour-bar' at the Bristol Omnibus Company, ensuring that there would (officially) be a no discriminatory hiring
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1/IRI rejects anything coming out of DC...basing analysis on this lacks serous understanding of Iran's foreign policy.In this,I'm going to explain why Iran prefers Azerbaijan over Armenia,basing my argument on
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Long post/thread on 'national security'. (2 threads)I've been teaching & researching ‘national security’ for over 15 years now & for most of my career I have believed that the traditional
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A thread on human rights.Recently, I've been following the online conversations of @GreenwoodOutlaw and the various quasi-communist hangers-on he seems to attract. I wanted to make my thoughts on human
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ugh i guess i have to watch the contrapoints video now i made it exactly 30 seconds in before my left eye started rapidly twitching "voting biden is the single
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(1/12) Big thread with 16 diagrams to investigate the “dry tinder” hypothesis (mild preceding seasons affecting future mortality). We begin with a deep dive into the Nordics – in short:
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Oh boy, people are talking about @NCAA scholarship limits and I am excited because they don’t get talked about often enough and it’s easily my least favorite NCAA policy as
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As commentators predict a 100 seat Tory victory, Churchill is jeered and cheered by thousands, with one boy throwing a firecracker at him. In Blackburn, Barbara Castle is wary about
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Veritas Odit Moras – ‘Truth hates delay’. A Roman saying that’s very apt to describe the often overlooked background of Jagmohan Malhotra. He was a morally bereft, islamaphobic and had
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#DVAM2020: a thread. This #DomesticViolence Awareness Month, I wanted to share some of the anti-violence work that I'm most excited about. @freefromorg is putting money directly into the hands of
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Ok folks its time to talk about overbuilding renewable energy as the quickest and cheapest way to a low-carbon future for Australia.THREADhttps://twitter.com/adamlmorton/status/1246199614002188288 Firstly if you're thinking about both the economi
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China is interested in Nigeria and the West is MAD !! But why? In 2018, the White House criticised Chinese engagement in Africa, claiming that China was using bribes, opaque
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