#POLITICAL

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

Are you kidding me?????Borat is nearly the most racist movie in history, overtly degrading the pple of #Kazakhstan. Yet many get "cancelled" for misusing a certain words out of context.So

Sana Khair

SanaKhair1

THREAD:"Political lesbianism" that emerged in 2nd wave of feminism, embraces women to be a lesbian. It claims that every woman who lives/f**ks a man contributes to oppression of her sisters.The

Robert J. Hansen

robertjhansen

Some years ago Webb County, Texas asked me to look at a primary election where they had some strange reports from people. It was done entirely on ES&S iVotronic electronic

Ahmed Baba

AhmedBaba_

Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, and the rest of the Trumpism caucus are making a really dumb (& depraved) political bet.I

Hasaan Khawar

hasaankhawar

1/ @anticorruption announced its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2020 today.Pakistan's ranking fell by 4 points. It came down from 120 to 124 out of 180 countries.Our score fell from

Dirk Ehnts

DEhnts

"COVID-19 and its economic consequences for the Euro Area" - That is the title of a paper that Michael Paetz and I wrote and that was published last month. Let

Michael Sobolik

michaelsobolik

.@TheEconomist is wrong. 1/xhttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/genocide-is-the-wrong-word-for-the-horrors-of-xinjiang This editorial makes three arguments:1) Atrocities in Xinjiang aren't genocide because they don't consti

Niccoló Machiavelli

italianswag1469

It's time for a lightning round of my favorite monologues (thread)Frank Underwood Monologue https://youtu.be/Adq6gTzGvS0 via @YouTube Included for Varys and his riddle towards the end of the cliphttps://youtu.be/pMLa4IeFKHM

James E. Gierach

JamesGierach

@McNamee54 @arneduncan “2021 Goal: Cut Violence by 20%.” I wish it were so, but Arne, like @MichaelPfleger @selwyn_rogers @GSlutkin @TioHardiman @jensludewig — media favorite “experts” re homicide/violence reduction can’t say/se

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

Assuming Biden +5: No, Dems didn’t blow it & a big repudiation was probably never realistic. Partisanship, patriarchy, & white Christian nationalism don’t leave much room for change in presidential

Matt Walton

themattwalton

Let’s clear something up. This isn’t fun for us. The Right has been convinced that the Left relishes “cancel culture, hating Trump, & political correctness.” We don’t. We hate it.

Sandra Cuffe

Sandra_Cuffe

Today could be a make-it-or-break-it day for the future of #Guatemala and it encapsulates the last 2+ years of borderline constitutional crisis. Just as the current unrest isn't really about

Jonas Čeika

PhilosophyCuck

Imagine how different popular political opinion would be if people were taught real working class history. If they knew who fought for what. That it was, for example, mainly socialists

Mystery Grove Publishing Co.

MysteryGrove

Spain, 1936. Five years of escalating political tension explodes into widespread violence. Though mostly ignored or distorted by popular histories, the bitter struggle that followed would set the stage for

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: This is another very bad NYT article by the metro desk. Almost everything in here is worth criticizing, include the idea to write the story. But a few high-level

SETH WEATHERS

sethweathers

This is the most personal I have ever been on social media…How @RealRLimbaugh saved my life when I was in my teensLONG THREADI have never met the all-knowing El RushboBut

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