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Kagiso Lesego Molope / "Politics and the Pen"
Being made to leave a gala dinner for talking about Gaza.
"My words were met with a lot of heckling & swearing. Afterwards, I went to take my seat thinking “well, at least now we’re talking openly.” ...
"But just as I started to sit, a man came to my table & said, “Excuse me ma’am, please take all your belongings & come with us.” ...
“You’re being thrown out and you know why.”
#Gaza #PoliticsAndThePen

😅 Research suggests darker side of being politically confident
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Research suggests darker side of being politically confident
Could being well informed about politics mean you are less tolerant of differing political opinions? The answer might surprise you and be cause for pause before your next political conversation.

⏲️ Term limits aren’t the answer
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Term limits aren’t the answer
Very few Americans believe Congress is doing a good job. Some of them have a simple solution: Throw the bums out and institute term limits. But that creates more problems than it solves.

🗳️ Americans Across the Political Divide Want a Federal Job Guarantee
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Americans Across the Political Divide Want a Federal Job Guarantee
A look at all the available survey data on public support for a job guarantee shows consistently strong support for the idea. It’s a winning idea for the Left.

#Politics

Right, "unscrew the country" all the way until the screw falls off. 🙄
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#usa #politics #uspol

Aliens 👽 invade:
"EARTHLINGS, WE HAVE KILLED YOUR LEADERS, DESTROYED YOUR ECONOMY, AND ARE HERE TO TAKE OVER YOUR GOVERNMENT."
Humans: "oh thank fxcking god"
Aliens: "wait what?"
👾 👾 👾 👾 👾 👾 👾 👾
#Politics

🔫 The Anxious Anti-Politics of Counter-Strike
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The Anxious Anti-Politics of Counter-Strike
Real-world warfare continues to disrupt the internet’s biggest first-person shooter.

Right, "unscrew the country" all the way until the screw falls off. 🙄
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#usa #politics #uspol

Every politician ever:
* We’ll fix the police, NHS, economy, local government, education, housing, transport, environment, families, crime, health, energy, business
* We’ll make you better off in every possible way
* The other parties have ruined everything and you can’t trust them
Well I call b*llsh!t and I’m sick of it.
#politics

🏦 The Case for Capital Controls
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The Case for Capital Controls
Globalization is a project of class war whose destructive effects have driven many US workers into the Trumpian right. The Left needs a real response to the problems raised by global capital mobility — and that should start with capital controls.

Think about the image the jury will likely have of Michael Cohen by the end of cross examination: "Lying liar who lies about lying".*
It does *not* pay to "hitch our wagon" to a liar, especially when we are making a case against another for lying.
*as Dana Bash just said on CNN
#usa #politics

💣 Political elites take advantage of anti-partisan protests to disrupt politics
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-political-elites-advantage-anti-partisan.html

Political elites take advantage of anti-partisan protests to disrupt politics
Protest movements that reject political parties have an unintended consequence, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame: They empower savvy politicians who channel them to shake up the status quo.

Every politician ever:
* We’ll fix the police, NHS, economy, local government, education, housing, transport, environment, families, crime, health, energy, business
* We’ll make you better off in every possible way
* The other parties have ruined everything and you can’t trust them
Well I call b*llsh!t and I’m sick of it.
#politics

contemporary politics:
red = progressive
blue = conservative
#politics #altright #noafd #nsafd

📣 Are most political talks performative?
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Are most political talks performative? - ~talk
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📣 Are most political talks performative?
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Are most political talks performative? - ~talk
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🐦 Sri Lankan Tamil parties debate tactics in the presidential election
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Sri Lankan Tamil parties debate tactics in the presidential election
Workers and poor in the North and East must reject the sordid political manoeuvres of the Tamil parties which represent the interests of the Tamil elites not those of working people.

USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism (Arp Laszlo/What Was I Doing Again?)
https://whatwasidoingagain.com/notes/9a42a0bdb1/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p75#a240430p75

Trump found guilty! However, if he wins the election he can probably pardon himself 🤔 #trump #politics

🍺 Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time
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Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time
The evidence is overwhelming: workers are abandoning the Democrats and center-left parties around the world. Class dealignment is radically changing politics, and the Left needs a program to win the working class.

📣 Our political debates may not be as antagonistic as we think, study shows
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Our political debates may not be as antagonistic as we think, study shows
Spend any time scrolling through social media or news sites and it feels like America is a nation in constant argument. Off-hand remarks often spark fierce screaming matches. Partisanship is up, Gallup tells us, while trust in institutions is down.

🍯 They can do it. Positive Authoritarianism in Poland and Hungary
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They can do it. Positive Authoritarianism in Poland and Hungary
It is often assumed that right-wing authoritarian and populist parties appeal primarily to negative feelings such as frustration, fear or alienation, and that positive sentiments appear in their discourse mostly in the form of nostalgia. Our hypothesis is that this description fails to apply to leaders in power. This article employs a mixed-methods approach, using a novel dataset of Viktor Orbán’s (Fidesz - Hungary) and Jarosław Kaczyński’s (PiS - Poland) speeches. After grouping positiv…

✊🏽 Regents and UAW bureaucracy seek to contain political rebellion of UC academic workers
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Regents and UAW bureaucracy seek to contain political rebellion of UC academic workers
The powerful movement for a political strike is already confronting both the intransigence of the university authorities and the UAW bureaucracy.

👑 Should we cancel political parties?
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Should we cancel political parties?
Traditional political parties are increasingly seen as dysfunctional, or even dangerous. But can democracy live without them?

😿 Nearly a quarter of 20 million removed from Medicaid have no health insurance
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Nearly 5 million removed from Medicaid still have no health insurance
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation said on Friday that nearly one-quarter of the 20 million people removed from Medicaid rolls during Biden’s “post-pandemic unwinding” of the program this year are now uninsured.

I disagree with you. So, *you* are fascist.
SMH
#usa #politics #uspol #fascism

It is not *Happy* Memorial Day but go on...
#usa #politics #uspol #MemorialDay

Alright, alright, alright. ⚖️ 🇺🇲
#usa #justice #politics #uspol

American TV pundits' unprecedented use of the word "unprecedented".
#usa #politics #uspol #tv

Regular "legal scholar" this one. 🙄
(He means "Advice of Counsel Defense")
#usa #politics #uspol #buffoon