#POLITICAL

Hayden Hewitt

HaydenHewitt

It's looking like 6% of Covid19 deaths were without co-morbidity. That means out of the 62,033 people who died WITH Covid19 and 3,721 FROM Covid19 (although it is believed the

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zewari7

the popularization of words like "junta" & "fascist" as coded instruments of reactionary political expression in ethiopian discourse is being exploited to emotionally brand the masses into "safe" ways of

Joyce

Joyce_OO4

One of the worst aspects of what's happening is that most Whites, even the angry ones, seem individually ineffectual without a figurehead. Trump was useless in a lot of ways

vidhya

kid_vidh

the unfortunate reality is any work that will get us out of this mess of neoliberal isolation, politics as optics, conspiracy theories, and rampant white supremacy, will take a lot

David Roberts

drvolts

Nothing is more fundamental to the worldview of the Very Online, over-educated, hyper-verbal, A-student left than the notion that WORDS ("messaging") are the skeleton key to politics, the answer to

Reuters

Reuters

Trump sought the world's attention and got it. Now the reality show ends. He cultivated a political base by sharing his thoughts, creating an omnipresence of sorts that dominated the

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

People who call the Great Reset a "conspiracy theory" exhibit a rhetorical strategy known as "Reset Fragility," which is deployed when one knows there is a fascist conspiracy afoot and

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LTrotsky21

Hitler claimed that "anarchists and communists" were the source of "disorder" in the Reich, and suspended in 1933, among other rights, the right of assembly *for all Germans.*/Today, Trump is

Justin Sandefur

JustinSandefur

Can deliberative democracy overcome the resource curse?https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/deliberative-democracy-resource-curse-nationwide-experiment-tanzania.pdfWe finally have a paper based on Tanzania RCT with @nancymbirdsall, Jim

Boarding Soon

boardingsoon

If we are serious about stopping political corruption, here’s some ideas:1. No more private campaign donations. Not from individuals or corporations. Public campaign financing only, same $ to each party.2.

Will Stancil

whstancil

Republicans' goal is to create a permission structure for not wanting to impeach Trump, so that it can be included as one reasonable point of view in the eternal Crossfire

Mark Curtis

markcurtis30

In case the penny hasn't dropped yet about the true nature of British power and political system, some thoughts based on recent case studies. My contention is that UK democracy

Robert L. Reece, PhD

PhuzzieSlippers

We talked about colorism in my class this week.Inevitably, they asked me how do I think we can fix it.I definitely do not have a complete answer to that question,

Douglas Lukasik

DouglasLukasik

There is a great deal of talk about a "crack up" in the Republican Party, but what really seems to be at issue in the party is the question of

Melanie Marlowe

profmarlowe

No one wants a simply partisan removal vote, but even with 5 or 10 Republicans, it must be done. Removal requires 2/3 of those present. It can be done with

Sheldon Whitehouse

SenWhitehouse

With dark money groups stoking mob rally, SCOTUS takes case where dark money cabal plans to create dark money right. Sometimes evil rampages, sometimes it creeps.https://www.law360.com/compliance/articles/1232799 I’m going to go

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