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Omar Wasow

owasow

One way to make sense of the last 24 hours — the historic victories in Georgia and pro-Trump siege on the Capitol — is as a long-run contest between two

Colin Woodard

WoodardColin

(Thread) The US pandemic response is tragically playing out along the regional lines identified in #AmericanNations, with the regions with traditions emphasizing individual liberty failing. Here’s the data via @pressherald:https://www.pre

Martin Fiszbein

MartinFiszbein

Rugged individualism may be the backbone of American innovativeness and resourcefulness, but it can also be dangerous—particularly during a pandemic that desperately calls for collective action. 1/n These dangers were

Tammy Bruce

HeyTammyBruce

Struck by how breaching of Capitol bldg by jackasses is portrayed as the worst thing that’s ever happened. It was awful but not even close to the years-long destruction of

Samia Errazzouki

S_Errazzouki

I’d like to add to this with anecdotes of what it was like reporting for international news agencies in Morocco as a Moroccan-American citizen.https://twitter.com/aidaalami/status/1288947324585152512 Security officials frequently question

The State of Things

state_of_things

2020 marked The Carolina African American Writers' Collective's 25th anniversary. In May, we talked to them about their anthology "All the Songs We Sing" from @BlairPublisherwith CAAWC founder and poet

Andrei Cherny

AndreiCherny

The following is a true story. It's an American story. Maybe the most American story. Stick around to the end. In the spring of 1945, in a Nazi slave labor

f*male b*tch

Ahhmandah

although racism is strongly embedded in NZ I believe we could never achieve the kind of racial segregation that I hear some white south african immigrants yearning for & which

BDW

BryanDeanWright

America’s greatest threats are 1) China & 2) the denigration of American Exceptionalism.The China threat is clear.The latter less so.Let me explain.https://twitter.com/immatthew_davis/status/1335733171711746049 We used to understand t

JerseyCraig #Science

Jersey_Craig

I don’t know if Lindsey Graham is gay. Nor do I care. Its not who he loves that makes him evil, it’s who he fucks, and that is the American

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Ah, yes, the (white) American way: thinking of myself as an individual with rights, entitled to do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it—not as a

Steven Klein

stevenmklein

I've been reluctant to wade into the Trump-fascism debate, in part because I'm not sure I have a huge amount to contribute. It always seemed obvious to me that the

hannah anderson

sometimesalight

In convos about Christian nationalism, it's important to define terms clearly. "Christian nationalism" is a specific ideology that ties the future of the Church to the future of the State.

Stephanie Ruhle

SRuhle

THREAD: Let’s dig into Biden’s econ proposal. I know there are a lot of numbers to dig through, but I wanted to note something:The American Family Act, Child Tax Credit

L Harris

ladyduckpojok

Neoliberal countries with limited materialist, feminist and socialist cultures (US, Canada) seem to be the most completely captured by genderism at population level. In Europe, everyone knows De Beauvoir or

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

This is racist pseudosciencehttps://twitter.com/CJR/status/1273011468728807424 The word "ethnic" means "relating to a population subgroup... with a common national or cultural tradition"The notion that the people we call

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