#Power

the discourse sommelier

funnierhandle

liberals typically reserve systemic explanation to exonerate individuals willingly carrying out the functions of a rotten system only when they see themselves in the subject ("a decent person doing their

William Sturkey

william_sturkey

1/ Thread on black voters and GOP: The GOP narrative about black voters is that we’re stuck on the DNC “plantation,” but black voters are actually rational actors who vote

Joe Smyth

joesmyth

There are now at least 65 insurers with combined investments worth $12 trillion – likely more than 40% of the industry’s total assets – that have either adopted a divestment

Jake Hamby

jhamby

This GIF has meme potential…https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354115019504373760 Sort of like the “Dem Bones” cutscene from Secret of Monkey Island II.https://youtu.be/kHgRlsOvN3M I linked to the original MS-DOS version so th

Kelebogile Zvobgo

kelly_zvobgo

New from me and @meredithloken in @ForeignPolicy!Editor @j_tepperman asked us to write on race and IR, so we did. We discuss raced and racist intellectual foundations, sidelining of race (&

Residing with yo daddy’s money

FeministaJones

Begging white people to support BLM and related work has diluted the integrity of true revolutionary work. I still don’t get why folks were so focused on getting mainstream support

Kristin Bowen

CoMo_Kristin

Due to alarming spread of COVID in our state capitol, @MomsDemand volunteers listen from home to #moleg committee hearing on 2 extremist #nullification bills. Both allow #Missouri to refuse to

Aaron Bady

zunguzungu

The episode of The Crown with the unemployed guy who sees his life destroyed by Thatcher isn't perfect, but it's a really surprising thing for the show to include, given

Mark Brown

MarkOneinFour

This makes me think about how 'end of history' the war on benefits claimants stuff from 2007 or so onward feels. The idea that everything was going so well that

Land of the Free

trustrestored

Trump showing them mountain of evidence of fraud collected so far. If THEY’RE convinced it was a rigged election, they can declare Trump winner or defer to GOP statehouse. This

Julia C Carreon

juliaccarreon

Thread on what $GME & $AMC madness signals about the future:Me in late 2017: Over the next ten years we will witness the largest turnover of generations in our lifetime.

M Mabeuf

mmabeuf

It kinda sucks that we still talk about "MK ULTRA" as these discrete, unfortunate psychological experiments that happened, and not as the 50 year campaign to create and deploy an

David Hines

hradzka

This is a good thread full of very fair points.I am fairly one of the anxiety-inducers, but in my defense a few years back I made a whole essay about

Andrew Bennett

andrewjb_

On the face of it, this is a story about atrocious content. Everyone should want a robust approach to protect victims of revenge porn, rape + CSAM.But it's also about

Echo Voice

ReachEchoVoice

Ummm...Fact-checking the fact check (THREAD)https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2018/10/05/no-george-soros-isnt-paying-kavanaugh-protesters/?utm_term=.2d74b36cd4bb&__twitter_impression=true WP clearly states, "No, Georg

The Original Straw Smuggler

ethebuilder

A friend of mine has sat very close to the seat of political power in this country. He has been the bodyguard for a couple of governors, he has spent

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