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Andrew L. Seidel

AndrewLSeidel

Glad to see so many people waking up to threat #ChristianNationalism poses to our republic and our pluralistic democracy.If you've just recognized this existential threat, welcome to the fight. It's

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

One of the very last events I attended before the lockdown was a thing in Silicon Valley attended by many old friends, but the best moment of all was the

Jay Nordlinger

jaynordlinger

That man who said "white power," in the video that Trump circulated? He got me to thinking (again) about "identity politics." Obviously, not all expressions of identity politics are equal.

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Unless you're a certain kind of conservative, you probably haven't heard of Robert Bork, but he's one of the most important people you've never heard of. The best way to

Marie Lagouste

MLagouste

I'm disgusted and disappointed that @AbigailShrier's book was removed from Target's website. This bullshit keeps on happening, and I'm really over it. Are we really going to sit back and

Matthias Goldmann

MattHGoldmann

The BVerfG deserves harsh words for its PSPP verdict. However, AG Tanchev seems to be carrying it a bit far. 1/https://twitter.com/eucourtpress/status/1339505264072994816 Admittedly, Tanchev voices the concerns shared by many

Adam Tranter

adamtranter

THREAD: A thread on research and sampling, and how the media use data and polling.I can safely say from a decade of working with media, it is *highly* unusual for

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

US law enforcement has literal centuries of shameful history of infiltrating and spying on politically disfavored activist groups, from trade unionists to suffragists to abolitionists to civil rights advocates to

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

With the deplatforming of forums where trumpists and right-wing figures congregate, there's a lot of chatter about whether and when private entities have the right to remove speech, and what

Krutika Varu 🇮🇳

VaruKrutika

THREAD#Tweet4Bharat #SocialJustice Social Justice simply means equal opportunities & equal justice for all.Social Justice is one of the highly discussed & debated topic on various platforms.Here is my thread on

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ A thread about what we know, for certain, today.Forget the polls for a minute. Forget the punditry. Forget the campaign hype men (and women) telling us what we (or

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

I'd rather live in a society containing vestigial racism than in an aggressively antiracist one. Hint: Only one of these choices provides a path toward less racism. It's the one

GFroese

GinaFroese

Thinking about the future inevitable puts you in position to think about what value your research offers the world. What does it matter whether or not a couple of 12th

Kent Bye VoicesOfVR

kentbye

FTC + 48 states are suing Facebook:"The FTC alleges that Facebook engaged in a systematic strategy to eliminate threats to its monopoly, including the 2012 & 2014 acquisitions of Instagram

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING This is a long-ass thread, even by my long-ass standards (82 tweets!). If you'd prefer to read it on the web, here you go:https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/05/trusting-trust/#thompsons-devil0/ Security rese

Omar Wasow

owasow

In close races, no matter who wins, ~50% of voters will see their votes wasted. ”Our system of single-member plurality-winner congressional districts has accelerated polarization, made most voters irrelevant, and

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