#GOVERNMENT

LONG THREAD1)Why did #Iran’s Mahan Air flight make headlines on July 23?Why did the pilot nosedive the plane in such fashion?Why did Tehran’s state media launch a propaganda frenzy?There are
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1/ Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Tetlock, Gardner)"Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of
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Been struggling with what to say since this was reported yesterday. For those who haven’t read @ClaireTaylorACA’s reporting, the Lafayette Public Library Board voted 5-2 to reject a grant to
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I’m in Minneapolis. First place I stop, most of the block is still boarded up. This grocery and tobacco store is owned by an Iranian, neighbor tells me. “They took
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Freedom of Expression under @INCIndia ever since @RahulGandhi joined active politics (2004) and had the power to intervene and stand for his belief that Freedom of Expression is a fundamental
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Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: A Russian mega-hack is further damaging Trump’s cybersecurity legacy largest known Russian data theft in half a decade and is a sign Trump administration efforts
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Shawn Henry’s recently declassified HPSCI testimony and @IvanPentchoukov's fantastic recent @epochtimes piece have once again brought attention to an important question in the Russiagate saga: What sources did the US
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Looks like it is my turn to add to the #PAscholarstrike teach-in. This effort is part of a mass action of higher education professionals protesting racist policing, state violence against
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Issues of Sikh Identity: Sanatanist-Sikh Debate (Sheena Pall): The earliest known leader of Sanatan Dharm movement in Punjab, Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri did not show much concern with Hindu-Sikh identity
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The Year in Review with Visual Investigations A thread highlighting the 2020 work of our growing @nytimes team ↓ In January, Iran denied it had shot down a civilian
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NO ONE WILL LISTEN? In this thread you will find over 30 media, ethics and public corruption watchdog organizations, who NEED & WELCOME your TIPS & LEAKS. SPREAD THE
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Why is the EU's farm policy, the CAP, so stuck in the past and hard to change? Probably because powerful and vested interests are at play in shaping the #FutureofCAP
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1/ In the full audio, Trump claims—insufficient to overcome the "willful ignorance" doctrine, of course—that "crowd size" proves he won Georgia. He also falsely claims "a couple hundred thousand forged
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It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that August 15, 1992 changed Indian cinema forever. This was the day when Mani Ratnam’s Roja was released. More importantly, this marked the
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ALERT ALERT ALERTThis thread about JFK’s assassination and related events occurring shortly thereafter, might cause me to get suspended. Let us begin. April of 1961, “Bay of Pigs”
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I promised you all a thread on the state of modern American healthcare from the unique perspective of both a pediatrician and a father of a gravely ill child undergoing
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