#POLITICAL

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ Florida governor Ron DeSantis says that he won’t put into place a mask mandate because people in blue states that have used mask mandates are still getting infected. His

Elliott Ash

ellliottt

“In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins.” -- Drew Westen, The Political Brain.Interesting idea! What do the data say about that?New working paper: "Emotion and Reason in

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

15/People say the media is biased, it can't be trusted, and that they push and agenda. Some people say we are in an age of "narrative warfare." Others say people

Alexander Davidson

alex_davidson82

Why then do "the squad" refuse to do anything about Medicare for All? Why is there an entire media eco-system of youtubers, leftist magazines, alleged jouranlists and failed actors making

luminatus

luminatus1

Fantasy of unveilingIn 2017, Trump reportedly had a change of heart about his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan after being shown an image by National Security Adviser HR McMaster of Afghan women

Cal Chelcicky

Cal_Crucis

While tmrw has an ominous glow around it, I don't think anything will happen. Neoliberalism is about min-maxing, control through manageable chaos, & stabilizing global-markets. They're parasites infesting nation-states. Joe'

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HereToHandleYou

“The liberalism underpinning the activities of the mob contains no fixed principles. It is a willfulness writ large. The left-wing totalitarianism toward which the mob is headed will eclipse the

David Reaboi

davereaboi

There are a tiny number of legit psychotics in Democrat leadership who believe the “insider attack” threat narrative. But that’s it.But that narrative is intended to further radicalize the Dem

Adam N Weinstein

AdamNoahWho

1. Declan Walsh’s “The Nine Lives of Pakistan” distills the complexity of Pakistan in page turning prose. It isn’t intended as an academic work so at the risk of nit-picking

John Ganz

lionel_trolling

I think the total divorce from reality evinced by these efforts to overturn the election are not a positive sign for the country's political life and I really don't understand

Prof Nic Cheeseman

Fromagehomme

Final thought. Another truly worrying thing about tonight is how many smart and well meaning academics and politicians - including @JoeBiden - are saying “this is not America” or “this

shon faye.

shonfaye

Globally 62% of trans people murdered are women in sex work. Almost all the other trans people murdered are trans women who are killed by their own male partners. As

Ali Abbas Ahmadi

AliAbbasAhmadi2

Over the last two weeks, I’ve monitored @firstdraftnews election misinfo for both the US presidential election and the state election in Bihar, India. One thing that's striking: the discrepancies in

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

This Labour and the flag debate must be fascinatingly new for goldfish, but very few Labour leaders have believed that national flags or the armed forces were the property of

Gordon Pennycook

GordPennycook

New working paper! "On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs" https://psyarxiv.com/a7k96 Read this thread if

John Hayward

Doc_0

I worked late into the night on Election Day 2016. I remember the shocking news of Trump's victory reaching Clinton campaign headquarters, her supporters howling in anguish and sobbing. Many

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