#POLITICAL

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Political Scientist here:Yes, that is political violence.Yes, this is an attempted coup.Yes, the US Polity score will take a hit. To elaborate:- "electoral violence" to be exact.- military wasn't involved

American Security Matters

US_Sec_Matters

Authoritarian Ideologues Have Infiltrated American Society1) In the past, the ideologies of fascism and communism were viewed favorably by many in the political elite and academia before WW2. Following the

Elon Mask

ShadowMusk

[Theory of imaginary progress] I do not know if you ever thought about this, but we are in a phase were there are really few people that really accelerate progress.

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

New video on the UK Climate Assembly's "recommendation" that meat and dairy consumption be reduced by 20-40%.In fact, just ten people made that recommendation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mKV-PAKpR8 This is quite a complex

Campbell Rhodes

CampbellRhodes

Now that @SecBlinken is confirmed as the US Secretary of State, here are some things I found out about the job. For a start, it's the oldest Cabinet post. There

All On The Line OH

allontheline_oh

Hi, Ohio!With the 2020 election (almost) behind us, let’s talk about our next big fight - getting #FairMaps for Ohio.TL; DR: we deserve adequate political representation and we’re gonna get

Andrew Follett

AndrewCFollett

I won't sugar coat this...this is a disaster.If Nov. was Pearl Harbor...we got hit again and lost all carriers. Our retaliatory options are limited and better employed as shields than

The Minnesota Wild

lets_go_wild

The tumultuous past year inevitably leads to harsher state responses. We must be incredibly wary of their normalization through repetition, and more importantly, the attempt to legitimize them by deploying

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

Now, even as the #CoronavirusVaccine dominates the headlines, we should take heed on the three detrimental 'undercurrents' that are converging to a 'Perfect Storm':1) Financial instability.2) Economic fragility.3) Political

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Once again I'm reminded that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The recent push by a large number of autistic people to 'own' their diagnosis and try to

Clossington

Clossington

“Progressivism has no enemies to the Left. It recognizes only idealists whose time has not yet come” -Nick Land The Left is notoriously anti-fragile because it is always at war

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Polity's measurement problems have been known since the 90s. Vdem was made bc of them. The new score is below 1800s levels which is impossible. So what are we supposed

James McEnaney

MrMcEnaney

So since tomorrow will involve ill-informed "debate" about the school summer holidays in Scotland, allow me to just pre-emptively contextualise them with the rest of Europe The attempt to cut

Patrick Wyman

Patrick_Wyman

No idea why anybody thinks that any book, no matter what excerpt or pull-quote appears in major media outlets, is going to do the slightest goddamned thing about the president

Amro Ali

_amroali

Since 2011, I’ve noticed anti-Semitic books, eg Protocols of the elders of Zion etc have greatly decreased in popularity among Cairo’s book sellers. This is not to mention anti-Jewish conspiracies

Joe Mathews

joemmathews

(1/) My Zócalo @ThePublicSquare column today is about the rapid growth of Medi-Cal (what we call Medicaid here) into the most important program in California, the closest thing we have

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