#Political

I will lay out my understanding in this thread.First, intel officials were initially barred under our constitution and laws from capturing innocent Americans on wiretaps and surveillance of foreign officials
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The U.S. Administration's decision to fire the heads of four news organizations under the U.S. Agency for Global Media agencies is deeply concerning. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/media/us-agency-for-global-media-michael-pack/index.htm
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It’s too bad that leftists haven’t been able to take a more proactive stance during the pandemic. Instead of standing up for the working class they’ve broadly landed on the
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Seriously. I tried to help people who wanted to leave after 2016, but there was like, resentment that white Americans can’t just waltz in and get all the nice things.
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SUPREME COURT REFORM 101: As a law prof who came up w/ Scotus reforms discussed by multiple pres candidates, I often get asked what proposal is best. So for the
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Illiberalism on the left is a real problem. But voting for Donald Trump to stem the rising tide of illiberalism would be a huge moral and strategic mistake.My latest @TheAtlantic.[Thread.]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/ha
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#HK One of the first editions of new “textbooks” under the controversial overhaul of liberal studies subjectThis part discusses about cultural globalisation & suggests “the spread of US values” by
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Why is proportional representation a good idea?1. It means that *all* votes matter in elections, not just those for the candidate with the most number of votes. Why is proportional
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“Another woman famous in the trade union sphere was a Muslim from Slave Island, Maimoon, who worked at Hendersons, and was a CTUF activist. She was a popular platform speaker
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Twitter made me mad today. Must be time for an #RVAMayor Campaign thread!Incumbent Mayor Stoney says "I choose Richmond." WTF does this mean? Lots of things. But it also suggests
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1/n Everyone! I want y'all to imagine, in some day not too far off, you have a good Democratic POTUS candidate: a sensible, logical, not-too-classist (i.e. the exception),
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This pandemic is exposing the fundamental problem with our current devolution settlement. No one can answer the fundamental question of Who Governs with any consistent hierarchy. It's a mess. Council
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IDGAF what people think. #AmyCooper is a scumbag. Don’t feed into the political narrative and excuse this racist piece of sh*t’s behavior. Also, don’t “what she did to her dog
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When are we going to confront the reality that countless “Left” media personalities are directly and indirectly complicit in perpetuating the narrative that there is no way out, simply by
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Reading this letter from Timothy Klausutis, the widowed husband of Lori—about whom Trump keeps tweeting vile conspiracy theories to hurt one of his media critics—distills the central reason I oppose
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The recent events in America are about basic human rights and not politics, and nobody should stay quiet about this. Some people however make a point out of this that
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