#Politics

My post at @monkeycageblog applies a comparative perspective to US politics: breaking ties between politicians and armed actors can be hard - but monitoring, consistent enforcement, & political sanctions, ideally
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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has been pushing back on President Donald Trump since 2019, which is important context for today’s firing, senior administration officials tell CNN. 1/ 2/ Esper
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NEW w/@akarl_smith: Republicans see an opportunity to begin winning back the suburban voters they lost under Donald Trump's presidency by capitalizing on widespread frustration with pandemic life and directing it
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THREAD: A small syringe company, Retractable Technology Inc., left lawmakers and industry insiders wondering: how can you be a small biz in need of PPP AND a manufacturer able to
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I feel obligated to respond to yesterday's bullshit. In general I avoid politics with Vampire Step-Dad, because I want to be a source of positivity for people, an escape from
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While I enjoyed the @pchh discussion a lot, I have to point out a glaring misstep at the end. There’s a huge difference between saying that Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels
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Normalization was the greatest danger: underestimating what was happening, denying the threat, and building fertile ground for pathology to spread. The greatest antidote to this (and the first step to
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1. I have had an evolving view of Kejriwal.My initial response to him was scepticism. This was beacuse of the Jan Lokpal Bill: http://nagarikmancha.org/images/1244-Documents-Jan%20Lokpal%20Bill.pdfThis envisaged the creation of an authority
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NEW: Biden is facing rising pressure to go big, maximize this cycle-Texas Dems made their case on conf call w Biden brass Thurs-Sherrod is banging the drum for OH-IO-Schumer says
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the idea that democrats "struggle with religion" is a myth the media pushes and too many democrats embrace. democratic leaders like joe biden, hillary clinton, barack obama, effortlessly speak about
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In October my podcast considered a scary post-vote scenario: Trumpists manufacturing certification crises to justify illegally sending dueling elector slates to the House—knowing it votes by delegation. Read this, then
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Throwing White kids under the bus because they aren't 14/88 and might still buy into conventional American politics is the dumbest thing that a pro-White movement can do. Ffs, I
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Interestingly, my timeline has exploded with support for Layla Moran over Ed Davey in the last few days, and just before ballot papers are issued at the end of this
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How the Republican Party Became White: The Lily-White Movement "White voters in the Outer South were more willing to vote for the Republican Party based upon a visible change in
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1/ Happy Valentine's Day!I'm announcing a new project that I've spent the last few months working on with @socialistdogmom, @chick_in_kiev, and @LCRWnews.It's called Deplatform Hate, and the goal is to
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"The restoration of Pell grants for incarcerated students is something of a watershed moment for the criminal justice overhaul movement as it unwinds decades of punitive practices in favor of
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