#Activists

A thread. Ten years ago, critical thinking peaked. The organised skepticism movement was successfully imported from USA to UK (mainly by me) and the UK media was getting pretty good
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The intra-jihadi dynamic in #Idlib is rapidly intensifying, as #HTS is seeking to re-assert itself vis-a-vis (1) the opposition, (2) local civil society, (3) #Turkey & (4) increasingly exasperated #AlQaeda-leaning
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My piece co-written with @TedNordhaus is now published in Foreign Policy! We examine how the main drivers for pending nuclear phaseouts in Japan, Korea, Taiwan are longstanding pushes for political/economic
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1/14 West Belfast seems to be in a perpetual cycle of car violence. These problems have never been addressed structurally by fixing our streets and neighbourhoods instead money is squandered
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Mayoral forum on housing has commenced. Follow along for live thread. First Q from @TweetBenMax to @cmenchaca is how would you deal with @NYCHA and specifically your position on Rental
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Ring - Amazon's surveillance doorbell division - has 4,000 "partnerships" with US police ("public safety") orgs. The company has lied about how these work for years, but the basic deal
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Many people are picking up strong new habits during Covid *despite* themselves, many involving significant skills. My own breakfast burritos are now so good, I doubt I'll be eating them
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hi i guess it’s time to talk about what transphobes in general, and TERFs in particular, get consistently wrong when they use trauma survivors to prop up their agenda!!! first
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It's #GivingTuesday + #GivingNewsDay!As you're thinking about the causes you'll support today, I hope you'll consider @19thnews, a newsroom that is dedicated to investing in serious, nonpartisan reporting that
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My friend makes an excellent point and truly dives into the freedom of speech issues surrounding Trump's twitter ban, as well as providing a perspective on free speech that is
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A researched thread on why police should NOT be in our schools, anywhere in America. Police in schools harm Black & Brown kids & students with disabilities. So don’t come
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Something that I keep seeing come up is confusion and concern about @geo3550’s anti-policing platform, #DisarmDemilitarizeDefund. The question “who will keep us safe if there are no police” might seem
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FLASHBACK: This is going to be a thread about how major liberal news outlets have promoted, rationalized, and glorified the violence Antifa, a left-wing domestic terrorist organization. Let's start with
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As we race towards the end of a really tough year I thought I’d do a thread for the campaigners - the people who believe we can organise our way
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Young #lesbians are part of the reason I resist the trans ideology. As a lesbian who came out in the 80s I have seen trans activists co-opt our struggles and
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Our new report shows why we can't trust Big Pharma to deal with #Covid_19 fairly. It’s an industry driven by sky high profits. While public money has produced vaccines in
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