#Democratic

1/ For whom do we run transit? Are students “normal” transit users? Should they?A thread about students as core transit users in Italy versus North American’s dedicated iconic "yellow" school
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March 2017@RealDonaldTrump confronted Bill Gates on the safety of vaccines when he was considering a safety commission headed by @RobertKennedyJr to look into the ill effects of vaccines.Gates said, “No,
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Extremely difficult negotiations. For the simple reason that the Taliban want to alter the current Afghan state to a Sunni Afghan version of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Whereas the
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Tweeting from the “Do Black Lives Matter un Public Education?” forum—@DisuSami facilitating, sharing how he was one of 3000 adjuncts laid off @CUNY. So many radical groups coming together for
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Current reading. A bit academic looking but every book on the decline of liberalism and democracy I’ve read in the last few years has referenced it in some form so
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Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 106 today.Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession. and blog
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The Washington Post ran an op-ed on Aug. 12, 2020, titled “Barr wants Michael Flynn’s charged dropped. Judges should be able to question that.” It is a perfect example of
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Well, this was a feat. @NolanFinleyDN trotted out an entire parade of straw men in this morning's column. He misstates the law, obfuscates the issue, and makes a mockery of
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Thread: I know this article is a couple of days old, but it's been an open tab since I first saw it, and I've going back to look at it
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Just arrived at the airport where Trump’s rally is being held. Long lines Chants of “four more years.” Over the loudspeaker, attendees were just told that if they see a
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It seems like Trump is the end of an experiment with government that started with the Founding Fathers: a thread. While the Constitution and the Federalist Papers outlined a system
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Thread:While racism tends to be our umbrella understanding of how the left interacts with and enforces the idea of 'race.'The left has turned the word itself into a controversy preventing
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Entrenched Political Workers have gotten good at manipulating Social Media platforms to marginalize domestic dissidents,with energy driven either by Ideology or Political Party they follow. What’s gotten less attention is
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An extract from #LabourLeaks: HQ staff set up another organisation (p.92), based in another building, to divert party funds & secretly channel them to the campaigns of their favoured right
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There has been a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament since 2011. If this is repeated in today's election (as pretty much all the polls predict), what happens next? (A
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Tucker Carlson doesn't need to be fired or resign. Fox needs to yanked off the air, forever. They're a national security threat.When racist Tiki torch marchers chanted "Jews will not
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