#Politics

Saying "we should keep politics out of sport" both misunderstands and diminishes sport, in my opinion.I've been thinking about this a lot lately so here's a bit of a thread
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Absolutely, turn the hero talk into votes for blue wave candidates that respect science and know first hand the challenges we all face in this crisis.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/politics/doctor-politicians-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share #It
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What can the teacher strikes tell us about the ongoing COVID-related retail and grocery worker walkouts and strikes? @snaidunl, Adam Reich, @pnyoungblood, and I are in the @monkeycageblog with a
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The people who know Donald Trump best are sounding the alarm: our country cannot survive four more years of a Trump presidency.In our latest ad, a former member of his
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I want to repeat, as someone who has worked in politics and political comms on campaigns: you don't just get to delete all of your official social media accounts tied
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Managing Workplace Politics: If You Don't Play, You Will PayI had two bosses of mine who wanted me to work with them directly in 2002. Both bosses were highly competitive
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NEW: Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas is willing to tell Congress about meetings Devin Nunes—the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee—had in Vienna last year with a former Ukrainian
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Reading more about Enigma (what Bletchley was grappling with) it seems the German military refused to admit it was being broken due to a terror of making their superiors look
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“Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame #Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. #Republicans have used **similar talking points** to defend @realDonaldTrump in #impeachment proceedings.”The @GOP is doing
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Establishment Dems’ obsession w/ uniting w/ GOP—an obsession Republicans don’t share at all—is still fundamentally about whiteness & a need to redeem the white identity politics that have shaped the
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Latest on #Taiwan's humanitarian assistance mechanism for #HongKong people: Chief of #Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said the office for the special task force to assist #HK people coming to #Taiwan
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A short but really important thread about musicians, free movement, and the Swiss border.I went canvassing today in my local constituency, and was very honoured to be warmly welcomed into
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I'm sick and tired of MAGAs acting like abusers and the rest of us have to tiptoe around them and pretend they're not lying, pretend they are informed, pretend they
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1. There's a lot of news today, but as Americans vote, they should keep in mind that Trump tried to intervene in a criminal investigation to please a foreign leader.
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In a hail of presidential comments this week, pay some due attention to this one: Trump saying that a terror plot to kidnap @GovWhitmer (for which a dozen men have
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Lalu's rule irrevocably broke the stranglehold of Brahmins, Bhumihars, Rajputs & Kayasths on Bihar politics. It provided a sense of dignity & equality to tens of millions of people, which
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