#Politics

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BoltzmannBooty

Guy who advised the CIA that waterboarding was chill & that inflicted pain only qualifies as torture if it presents the risk of organ failure or imminent death will now

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

1) Boris Johnson's use of the term "bunny-hugging" speaks volumes about the background he comes from and his utter dishonesty. It is used by those with a background in shooting

Air Bud and the Winter Soldier

DefinitelyEmile

I appreciate the degree of brain-brokenness where our society has much higher expectations of fiction than reality. Like, we want complex and ‘realistic’ villains in our fiction, but in real

Rick Hasen

rickhasen

All of a sudden from @BartonGellman's excellent @TheAtlantic piece, people are learning that we only get to vote for President because state legislatures give voters that right, and they can

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MegLFlower

OKAY SO as I’m sure you all know, I’ve been working hard on writing my first policy, regarding mental health and birth control. I’m not really ‘into’ politics, I don’t

Sahil Kapur

sahilkapur

Obama is skewering Trump in Philly, saying he’s “incapable of taking the job seriously,” bashes him for failing on Covid relief, saying only billionaires better off than 4 years ago,

Blair McDougall

blairmcdougall

Worth going back to the start of the Edinburgh outbreak story. The First Minister was very clear that she chose not to tell the public about the outbreak at a

Carl Gustav

CaptYonah

I feel like I’m at a breaking point with all this. Portland has been basically rioting for over a month while the media still glowingly cheers on their “protest” and

Peter Ward

Peter___Ward

Ever since I started following politics there has been an underlying bias that goes all the way through every institution in the U.K., from schools to the police, that’s that

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. Workers were suffering in 2016. But the politics of grievance will likely make no sense in 2024. Someone should tell GOP politicians. My latest Bloomberg column: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-22/republican-attac

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

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

WarNuse

WarNuse

Could The Deep State's Corona Virus Pandemic Potentially Force President Trump To Cancel The November Election?Does President Trump Have That Power? What Would Be The Consequences? 'The President Does Not

Bryan MacDonald

27khv

Fantastic detailed report on the strange collusion between some Western reporters in Moscow & a small Navalny-linked band of medics to weaponize Russia’s Covid-19 battle. This small 'union' being misrepresented

Sloane ✨

SloaneSays

Do yourself a favor and stop caring about the opinions of miserable people I know this sounds easier than it is but next time you find yourself upset about someone’s

Angel E. Alvarez

polscitoall

We are in the middle of such radical changes that none of us know what will be normal for us in the near future and how our societies will reach

Refugee Action

RefugeeAction

This is immoral and inhumane, not a serious solution to a humanitarian crisis. Offshoring desperate and vulnerable people to "Ascension Island" would actually represent the Home Office sinking to its