#POLITICAL

Jake Hanrahan

Jake_Hanrahan

Spent a week reporting in #Karabakh / #Artsakh, covering it from the Armenian side (Azerbaijan refuses entry to independent journalists: https://rsf.org/en/azerbaijan ).Some thoughts on the frontlines...My first impressions were just h

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

This article is correct about the importance of history and the urgency of a more historically-informed public debate. But it erects a series of straw men in its attack on

Vana T.

VTsiapou

Somalia and Turkey1/1 Somalia’s leaders failed to break a deadlock over the country’s elections .The country is likely to miss the 8 Feb deadline for choosing a new president after

Benazir Shah

Benazir_Shah

Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to introduce electronic voting in Pakistan for the next general polls, but a 2018 confidential report by NADRA and ECP warned that e-voting would be

Benjy Sarlin

BenjySarlin

You can already see 2016 re-enacting itself in real time REPUBLICAN 1: He won't get a free pass this timeREPUBLICAN 2: Damn straight. Ok, go attack himREPUBLICAN 1: After youREPUBLICAN

Kevin Liao

KevinLiao_

This NY Times piece + other analyses are justifiably raising lots of discussions about the right-ward shift of immigrant communities' voting patterns in 2020 and what progressive groups must do to stave

claudia

claugomzzz

Nicaragua was hit by hurricane Iota today, almost 14 days after Eta left a trail of destruction. Please consider donating to the many orgs that are on the ground coordinating

Astra Taylor

astradisastra

Today I've been thinking of 2020 less as the year of unexpected shocks & catastrophes more as the year predictions came true. For decades concerned people have studied the likelihood

Tom Williams

shirleymush

While the blue ticks circle the wagons to protect a journalist who claimed that Brexit and Corbyn gave him a heart attack, it’s notable that when someone from outside that

Julia Hartley-Brewer

JuliaHB1

A helpful message for Remoaners and #FBPE folk:One of the strangest things about our Brexit battles is the willingness of those on your Remoan side (ie. not the vast majority

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

BREAKING NEWS: Senate Releases Final Volume of Trump-Russia Report, This One Focused on Counterintelligence Evidencehttps://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1295710499322159104 UPDATE: As predicted, this Senate report is as damning as Vol

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

In the controversy around Modern Monetary Theory, both its advocates and its critics (for the most part) take MMT at face value as a theory of money, and so go

Alex Newhouse

AlexBNewhouse

What we've seen now several times is that communities (and even individuals) can hold both of these beliefs at the same time:- Right-wing violence is good and right and Congress

Jeff Carlson

themarketswork

1) "Funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other high-tech interests, activist organizations created a two-tiered election system"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20428534/hav

Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen

alixabeth

The resistance of segments of the US population to doing what they can do to get the US to the point other countries have gotten re COVID has many sources

Joshua Skewes

JCSkewesDK

This month in DK :Two parties suggest MPs could vote to deny citizenship, despite legal eligibilityAnother suggests people pass a test of "Danish values" for citizenshipImmigration dept creates "office of

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