#Populism

Yellow Vest America 🦺 | Obi

america_vest

I want to say something really controversial about my former political leanings that I have been wanting to say. I think it will shine some perspective on where I'm coming

Alex Thompson

AlexThomp

NEW: Why are right-wing FB pages so popular?A Facebook exec argues the msg is just more visceral: "Right wing populism is always more engaging...Nation, protection, the other, anger, fear. That

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Yep, this is well known amongst historians.The most favorable thing I've ever seen anyone say about him re: antisemitism was "Well, he wasn't *much* more antisemitic than the average WASP

CygneNoirFemelle

ThePeeCee

Married parent demographics: a thread. Many believe married parents of children under 18 are mostly Repubs and make "middle class" 50-60k a year and work for small businesses and that

Joel Bocko

LostInTheMovies

Lots of thoughts about this. Here's two: 1) This really puts the minimum wage fiasco of a couple months ago in sharp perspective; 2) Bernie & others should rally in

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

Whither Global Britain.https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12540103/chancellor-axe-foreign-aid-pay-covid-19/?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=720bab29b6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_31_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-720bab2

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1renist

I have argued before that abortion is such an overriding issue, and control of the Senate (to prevent Court packing) so uncertain, that Catholics should vote Trump. However, the Holy

Marc Owen Jones

marcowenjones

1/ [Thread]Let's Fact check @defundbbc. The #DefundtheBBC is a dis/misinformation operation (doesn't mean Russian), I mean there are repeated falsehoods that either indicate malice, overwhelming ignorance or selective bias. The

Matthew Gertz

MattGertz

When my mentions weren't distracting me I wrote kind of a lot this week. Thread. "What the Republicans call a 'working class' agenda is just a revamped Fox News culture

Jessica Pishko

JessPish

Let's talk about this letter. 275 sheriffs signed a letter spreading false propaganda about immigration.We can fairly say now that sheriffs are organizing.https://twitter.com/mhildreth/status/1380172972368011267 The instigation appears

Alex Good

goodalexander

Fintwit uses words like "beta", "Factor exposure", "value", "rotation", "momentum", "yield". The funds who use these words are happy with 8% a year that doesn't correlate with

Jonathan Smucker

jonathansmucker

Honest thread. I find myself being more snarky and sarcastic the past few weeks. And I realize it's because it's hard to hold the heaviness of this moment. We're in

SD | Maundu

SDMaundu

My colleagues and I parse words for a living. We haven't written the Great Kenyan Novel (yet), but the more experienced of my seniors have a clarity of language that

John Hayward

Doc_0

One of the great schisms in conservatism and GOP politics - a key difference between passive and active conservatism, peacetime vs. wartime - is whether or not the Left is

Anne Schulz

annisch

I think we must be halfway through #ica20 ? There are so many interesting presentations on that platform. Below I collect a few that I thought very interesting so far

Esther Martinez ☂️

reclaim_esther

Hot on the heels of US sanctions against the ICC Prosecutor, Israel's Deputy Defense Minister announced yesterday that he will sponsor an anti-ICC initiative in Israel too. 1/https://twitter.com/reclaim_esther/status/1301223965663399937