#Politicians

What’s always missing from the conversation around the 1994 crime bill is how hyper violence and a life of crime was marketed to young men of all races specifically after
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What will be the impact of Trump's 4 years, Biden's arrival and COVID-19 on global politics, over the next five years or so? A few thoughts in a thread. @CER_EU
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Catholic friends have been urging me to read Waldstein on the common good. So I finally did. I won’t comment on the theology. But as political theory this essay is
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Sometimes you have conversations that just stick with you. In 2006, I went to lunch with @EricFlint at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim; we got to talking about
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With Naheed Nenshi and Jagmeet Singh talking about how the anti-lockdown movement is (clearly) a white supremacy movement, let me take you through a year of knowing about this (thread)
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I think the constant narrative since 16 that Trump voters aren’t *really* racist misogynistic authoritarians who mean everything they say & if left puts everything aside to understand & nurture
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As crude oil prices fall below $35/bbl, recent abuse of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund framework including the illegal transfer of $1.76bn to Governors during election campaign & illegal use of
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It’s tempting to dismiss the protesters in MI, VA, TX, CA, and MN as irrelevant wakadoddles. That’s a mistake. Social science research suggests continued protests could effect the 2020 US
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Last weekend our local Qld, Australia farmers market, which is in a semi-rural sort of area,was thriving.Possibly the busiest that I have seen in a while.Maybe the people in the
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Remember when I wrote the thread asking why Canadian mainstream media isn’t doing its job? This might be why.Because it’s no longer Canadian. An American hedge fund owning >60% of
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1/ thread: The #Lebanese Political Class is Killing Our Parents, Again Today’s political leaders in Lebanon are mostly either civil war warlords/criminals or their (mostly male) relatives & lackeys. Between
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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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Antisemitism in America 1654 - 1938Thread. 1654- New Amsterdam Governor Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel the 23 Jews fleeing persecution who had just landed in the colony. He called them
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Ruth Hunt in conversation with *Compassion in Politics held on 22 September 2020 - the day the UK Government announced its decision not to reform the GRA. *Compassion here really
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didn't I say something just today about how Roberts is a libhttps://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1331826974432649218 reading now https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a87_4g15.pdf The majority: Cuomo's restrictions violate
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004 been busy with this. RICO cases last few years slowed things down for a time, but also means less gang leadership around. 2016, King leadership targeted, Melrose Park all
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