#POLITICAL

TW child abuse/rape/rape culture/law—1)Child sex abuse by family is framed as “incest” in French law. Incest isn’t illegal. Currently there is no minimum age of consent. The onus of
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Corbyn's case should wait for the independent process not least because whatever the result will be extremely controversial but also because elected, political NEC members should be no where near
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This @SohrabAhmari piece gets at something that unfortunately afflicts both the Catholic left and Catholic right: providing support and justification for movements that you have no ability to control once
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Thread:- please RT(1/n)Mind set of Leftist-1:- They want 2 front war and big defeat of india with loosing kashmir. Just to let down Modi.2:- They want to destabilize the internal
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Matt Hancock needs to be pushed further on the 50k spent by his department at a Filipino takeaway restaurant in two months, the 350k further of taxpayers money they received
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Psychosis on Twitter?Curious about a realistic delusion that my patient has regarding government surveillance, I found myself scrolling in fascination through Twitter feeds and Facebook groups full of borderline-believable content,
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Everyone Was Wrong About TrumpTrump's term has revealed that virtually everyone, all across the political spectrum, has been wrong about him. And it's a testament to the power of echo
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As someone who listens to many conservative podcasts (including Trump critics like Goldberg) I’m consistently impressed by how distorted their understanding of “the left” or “liberals” is. It’s like they
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I understand looking at this map is disheartening if you’re from the states that leaned red. This is not me saying come together but this is me saying understand what
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Tens of millions of Americans are now actively speculating on ever-rising stock prices. In a system skewed for the “haves” and against the “have-nots,” we’re forced to participate in a
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On Friday night, I chatted with @CBCNews about independent public health leadership in emergencies. No surprise, I disagreed with the conservative strategist on the panel. Their arguments might soundbite well,
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THREAD – 1/20: Unfortunate that @ForeignAffairs chose to run a dubious piece full of speculation & uncorroborated claims. At its core, the piece & its authors (@Fromagehomme & Yohannes) are
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2020 was a shitty year for most things, but it was a banner year for books about fighting monopolies, and for the fight itself. It started (in Dec '19) with
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#NowReading The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America by Eric Kaufmann (HUP) Contra the contemporary popular imagination of the American Revolution, most Americans were not animated by liberal rights' theorists, but
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1/ Been following $BABA comments on FinTwit, not an expert but some observations and thoughts:(1) Lots of ppl selling seemed to have bought the stock speculatively; assuming it'll go up
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@Isaac_Schorr has a new piece up at @NRO, in which he takes issue with our (@SpencerPiston, @EGolberstein, @Sarahgollust, @DanielEis7) recent @PNASNews article on ideological change in college: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/16/
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