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Political theory, fraternity, wine, piano, cats. Lambing in the spring. Quaker tendencies.
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The Bush admin regularly gave partisan radio shows full scripts of leading questions to ask top officials. Some of those were pure propaganda, as I outlined in 2006. The NYT never mentioned it. But now the Times is v concerned Biden is planting the occasional question about his accomplishments!
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Seeing even this small snippet put in plain language is just devastating:
NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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My favourite joke about political scientists is that they try to predict the past but usually get it wrong.
Couldn’t the same be said about social science too? It’s the human condition to make sense of events you did not expect.
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Amazing chart tweeted by Hugo Touzet at the other place. Left voters really did put a lot more into the Republican front that right and centre voters.
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Gardeners: a small creature is making a home in the front garden, leaving small holes in the grass about 6-8cm across. Any guesses about who/what it might be? Curious about the local fauna.
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Just back from beautiful wedding between Labour and Tory candidate. (Neither won). So refreshing and hopeful to see left and right dance together. Rather unexpectedly, the academics had a particularly good showing on the dance floor.
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Just back from beautiful wedding between Labour and Tory candidate. (Neither won). So refreshing and hopeful to see left and right dance together. Rather unexpectedly, the academics had a particularly good showing on the dance floor.
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"If the RN wins...the abolition of the right to French nationality of those born in France will introduce a profound break in our republican conception of nationality, since people born in France, and who have always lived here, will no longer be French, " their children will not be French either."
The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent | Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and otherswww.theguardian.com We implore voters not to turn their backs on our nation’s history. Go out and defeat the far right in Sunday’s vote, say Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others
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Francis dusting off those old club-bouncer skills from his pre-holy orders days again
The Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, exacting a severe punishment on the most vociferous internal critic of Pope Francis for refusing to recognize the authority of the pope and liberal reforms made by the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Viganò for refusing to recognize Pope Franciswapo.st In a rare trial, the Vatican acted against Carlo Maria Viganò, a former ambassador to the U.S. and one of Pope Francis’s most vociferous internal critics.
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‘Bees: An immersive experience’ 🤔
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Which of these people is a working-class voter? Which is an identity politics voter? The conventional wisdom's answers to those two questions is the root of much confusion about electoral politics in the US and Europe these days.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.
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How I imagine Philip Larkin would have written about election day in the UK
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On way to polls, OH and I had classic tactical v principled voting argument. On way home, bickered about how late to stay up, and how many bottles of Prosecco to buy given early morning commitments on Friday. What joyful arguments to have!
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We come today to vote, not in praise of the Labour Party, or to bury the Conservatives, or even to be amused by the antics of Davey the Clown. Instead we come to annihilate the most corrupt, venal, even murderous set of Tory scumbags who have ever served in government. 🔥🔥🔥 Get the popcorn ready.
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I read on Wikipedia that "Larry has served during the premierships of five prime ministers: David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak", and suspect that this sentence will be updated pretty soon.
Larry (cat) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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Hear me out: supreme court robes covered in sponsor decals like NASCAR cars so we can see who all bought them
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US foreign policy in 1990.
now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him
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If you look carefully it’s the Christian Right handing them back.
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Yes! This is an excellent demonstration of the politicization of the administrative state and overbroad authority that Roberts' ruling has made possible that *also* is basically just. Decent policy. Biden should do this. No doubt.
if Biden announced that he was ordering the IRS to end all audits of people making less than $100,000 and ordering audits of all billionaires that would be something he could do
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The difference between modernist and postmodernist US literature is
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