#Politics

As a human being, Donald Trump is appalling. As a leader, he’s dangerous to global security. What the President of the US says and does means and enables a lot,
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It's too early to say anything about the effect of "opening up" on COVID-19 cases in Georgia from reported cases. It's been just barely over 2 weeks. Incubation can last
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Trump mostly likely knew on Tuesday that he was sick & Covid-positive when he debated Biden. He likely got infected at the ACB super-spreader event at the WH last Saturday.
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Recall:“Secret Service agents expressed their anger and frustration to colleagues and friends Friday, saying that the president’s actions have repeatedly put them at risk. ‘He’s never cared about us,’ one
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the fact that so many people take p**** g*** seriously rlly concerns me,, why don’t u look at shit that’s actually proven and documented. not to mention the conspiracy has
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1/ I am enraged. Excellent reporting from WSJ's @dseetharaman and @EmilyGlazer finds that Facebook engineers—with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @Mo
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John Bash, the US attorney in El Paso who implemented the early family separation program that is the subject of this report, recently left DOJ for a yet-to-be disclosed job
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1/ Violent protest often backfires on you. A few observations from a social movements researchers. 2/ On Friday, I reviewed some of the evidence about how violent protest often decreases
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1. I think there is a real issue with the memeification of politics on the left. A lot of folks (not everyone of course) got into leftist policies as a
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Now that I’ve had time to process this a little more, I wanted to come back to this article. I keep landing at this conclusion - there are too many
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NEW: Financial disclosures reveal USPS chief Louis DeJoy's business entanglements, which experts say are likely a major conflict of interest. He has a $30m stake in a USPS contractor, and
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Over the last 2.5 years, I've been a part of disinformation research clusters on Russia, Turkey, Iran & the Gulf.To understand disinformation *from* illiberal regimes, we must understand disinformation *within*
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1/ After we wrote a piece about police departments using dangerous "warrior training," Minneapolis' mayor banned it. The police union offered it anyway.https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/05/bob-kroll-minneapolis-wa
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BREAKING—Now VP Pence’s team is breaking earlier agreement and now *refusing* even a transparent plexiglass divider for the VP debate!Earlier Monday, Commission on Presidential Debates said dividers had been agreed
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How many times does TRUMP have to LIE to you before you STOP listening to HIM? THIS IS #COVID! Don't send your kids to school. You are not safe. You
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Had an urgent request from my elder teenager for a copy of Tintin and the Congo for her politics class on imperialism yesterday. Obviously, it's the only one we don't
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