#Rhetoric

Airwars

airwars

Short thread: When it comes to post 9/11 US counter terrorism actions, the tone a president chooses to set can significantly impact civilian harm, new Airwars modelling for Somalia suggests.https://airwars.org/conflict/us-forces-in-somalia/

Hugh Brechin

HughRBrechin

one like = one Scottish Labour hot take, let's go 1. Oh boy. 2. I like Richard Leonard. I voted for Richard Leonard. But he wasn’t doing a very good

ગૌબ્રાહ્મણપ્રતિપાલક

Rohits_17

A great thread on how the Christian missionaries distorted Hindu intellectual traditions, trained Hindus to hate them (themselves) and created a trove of literature perpetuating colonisation of Hindu minds. Responding

DSA Communist Caucus

DSACommunists

We need to take seriously the political economy of our moment: an age of relentless economic stagnation. Mainstream economists call this "secular stagnation" and Marxists describe it a number of

📍ISOLATION CABIN

maliyahomer

today is day 43 of the uprisings in Louisville...it hasn’t stopped. local media just got bored of covering and they’re actually fairly racist in their programming anyway. they were posting

ClaraFerreiraMarques

ClaraDFMarques

Looking back over the past year in Hong Kong, it’s hard to fathom how much has changed. Pandemic, arrests, National Security Law, cancelled elections. Here’s a gallop through 2020 with

Academic Foxhole | TrooperSJP

AcademicFoxhole

Remember when I mentioned that assignment I give in my History of Rock’n’Roll class where students would have to pick a song they hated and describe why that song is

Gregory McKelvey

GregoryMcKelvey

Thread time. This one is important but complex, bare with me. I swear this is good info if you are a protester, live in Portland, or just want to resist

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

1. Let’s not be naive about American politics. The truth is the Democrats are as self-interested and calculating as the Republicans are. The difference, however, must be said. 2. While

Amani Hassani

Amani_Hassani_

. @LamiesNassri and I wrote two articles unpacking why the Danish 'ghetto' law is inherently a racist policy targeting specifically non-Western residents. The articles are in Danish, but here's a

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

When an elected official - a white man - calls another elected official - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Latina - a “fucking bitch” on the Capitol steps, it is indeed

Ben Chu

BenChu_

Is the new India Enhanced Trade Partnership a “big win for Britain” and a “golden Brexit bonanza”?Thread…. It’s been described that way in the UK media. See (anonymous) government sources

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

The primary purpose for the existence of multiple mainstream media outlets is to give the consumer the ability to choose his own narrative.The facts do not change.The outrage does not

Axios

axios

The blunt lessons of 2020, via @JimVandeHei:There's no bigger crisis for media, politics, society than the growing number of people who don't believe facts and verifiable figures. If we don't

🚨Tier 5🚨 National Logdown

lllogansays

Can we talk for a bit about looking (and being) "ethnically ambiguous"? .This is a thread I've been wanting to write for a while, but I have been afraid of

Andrew Levi

AndrewPRLevi

Whatever else you’ve heard about vaccines thisremains unavoidably true. Those who deny it either (a) had an idealised view of the EU they’re now shocked to find is wrong, (b)

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