#Politicians

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1. How To Find Out If You Are Being Lied To By MSM When It Comes To CovidI realise many people come on Twitter to get alternative viewpoints to what

Evan Weber 🌅🔥

evanlweber

The past few weeks have brought more & more evidence that we are in a drastic, catastrophic, & urgent #ClimateEmergency.It’s also more clear than ever that most US politicians, yes

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Neoliberalism's starting gun went off on 1973, when a US- and UK-backed fascist military deposed Salvador Allende, the incredibly popular, democratically elected president of Chile. 1/ The coup embodied Peter

Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal PhD

DrDannielle

4/10/2020 - let's do a thread about the media. NBC News, 10/2/2017: "Trump's Right: His Media Coverage Is Mostly Negative"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-right-his-media-coverage-mostly-negative-n806681 This is

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

Some thoughts on the Sandy Hook father, Jeremy Richman, who committed suicide, and the potential interplay to the political climate (thread): 1/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-word-that-sandy-hook-dad-jeremy-richman-lost-at-the-end For ov

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Grifts feed what was called the politicians syllogism is Yes, Prime Minister:We must do somethingThis is somethingWe must do thisUsually the utter mismatch between problem and supposed solution is obvious

Gwynn Compton

gwynncompton

Not unlike George Lucas, I haven’t been able to leave a good thing well enough alone, so...Here’s #nzpol as Star Wars! 1/n Jacinda Ardern - Jyn Erso"We have hope.

David B. Cohen

CohenD

There are a couple of good points in this column- if you're wiling to tolerate omissions, hyperbole, flawed assumptions, problematic generalizations, oversimplifications... [long thread follows] #caedchat https://twitter.com/joemmathews

Ajay Dave

ajayrdave

A thread on gems from our tax bureaucracy.. Original document here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MmHbWhSQPH3LWJLvwlGAC2_zN6Pm6v2u/view Be prepared for tax terrorism.. They are pretty clear in their head.. pura desh chor hai.. and than FM

Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal PhD

DrDannielle

BINGO: “The public health expert and physician [Rick Bright] is currently represented by the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks–which famously represented Dr. Christine Blasey Ford...”https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/another-whistleblowe

#SHIFT

TheGentYYC

Rightwing "conservative" Australia is getting its lesson right now. The lesson comes for all of us. They used to say "there's no atheists in the foxholes". The new version is

Dr. Jens Foell

fMRI_guy

1 Like = 1 genuine German insultThey’ll all sound funny, some might only be known regionally, and I might not know the underlying meaning for all of them.Please use irresponsibly.#LetsDoThis

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 108I’ve done a ton of media in past few days (eg, @NPR: https://n.pr/3inIcfK ) re: how CA fell off the rails. As I’ve thought hard about

ClearingTheFog

clearing_fog

Trump and the GOP use language instrumentally, to achieve goals, rather than to inform.This isn't limited to the political realm - it is an important distinction, and learning this can

Liberty Times & Politics

dmills3710

Thread On #Corruption Part 1 2020: Saudi Arabia Detains 298 Public Officials in New Corruption ProbesIncludes Military & Security Officers on Charges Involving Bribery, Embezzlement & Abuse of Power@POTUS https://www.reuters.com/art