#Political

1. My grandmother left Austria in the 1930’s just before the Anschluss - when Germany took over. She felt the political climate was darkening and didn’t want to be a
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Happy to announce the publication and public examination of my dissertation titled "Beyond Populism: From Scholarship to Politics in “New” Turkey."It's available at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-6486-5 and the defense
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Oh dear, I’ve just dipped into UK “General Election world”. Wish I hadn’t. I see Labour are already blaming their inevitable loss on BBC bias rather than their unelectable, anti-semitic,
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Maybe, just maybe, Israel doesn't make us any safer???https://twitter.com/YairNetanyahu/status/1312486990529454080 Maybe a settler-colonial project at the behest of Western Imperialism and predicated on the negation of hitherto existing
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Counter proposal: When you allege that all relevant experts (say all virologists) are lying because most have reached a conclusion you (a non expert) disagree with, then your ‘conspiracy hypothesis’
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1/6 The future relationship negotiations with the EU appear to be in difficulty. It’s all very well the two sides trading warnings with each other, but that isn’t going to
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Umberto Eco's 14 Common Features of #Fascism (+1 more)Famous Italian author Umberto Eco (Name of the Rose) grew up under Mussolini, & certainly knows what fascism looks like. #ThursdayThoughts The
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Every time the PAP salutes its Malay agents as role models, or trots out the first Malay colonel or executive, this powerful passage of James Baldwin comes to mind.A thread
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@josecoraiMay 27, 2020 | 02:15 PM EDT DOUG KASS Goodbye to My Little Blue Bird* I have sold the balance of my Twitter holdingsI continue to whittle down my long
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I think it’s good and appropriate that Biden is being projected as the winner. I also think this is a different thing than actually *being* the winner. We do ourselves
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OSCE Mission to BiH has published a report on the responses of the BiH judiciary to corruption. The report outlines the the lack of transparency and the impunity surrounding those
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i just think trans women should stop saying words and having opinions. obviously i am not transphobic but someone's gotta hold these problematic troublemakers accountable right? i mean come on
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In her #SOTEU speech yesterday, @vonderleyen reaffirmed @EU_Commission commitment to rule of law & said EU money would be “protected against any kind of fraud, corruption & conflict of interest.”
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A (long!) thread about a tweet that raises many of the questions that have been central to http://SciBeh.org 's concernshttps://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1314148449244319745 SciBeh started with attempts to prompt discussion on
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Quick thread: I complimented @MattHancock last week for his handling of press conference, but his over-reaction threatening tone re closing parks/banning exercise is unhelpful & counterproductive. He has pre Corona
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What would you call a man who spends the Fourth of July in Moscow? You’d call him #RussianRon. Call @ronjohnsonWI and tell him we want Senators who don’t spend Independence
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