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In 2014, I read a political science paper that nearly convinced me to quit my lifelong career as an activist: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," published in *Perspectives on Politics*:
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Hey @duolingo , why can't I complete my unit 52 review in Spanish? I've completed all the lessons in the unit.
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We all take photos - and increasingly videos - of our kids off to their first day at primary school.
One week later Israel killed Siwar along with her entire family.
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NEW: Hannah is my ex-step daughter. And when I was in middle of my Cambridge Analytica investigation, she had a stalker. Stalkers. A whole cast of characters making her life hell. In 2021, I approached the BBC: could we try & nail the perpetrator(s)?
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Key chart to keep in mind as the Conservatives suffer their worst ever defeat:
The Tories didn’t lose this election because they were too right wing on some issues or too left wing on others.
They lost because voters of all stripes judged them to be incompetent and dishonest.
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This is a FM MAG 7.62mm machine-gun with a rate of fire of 12/second. It’s meant to fired in short, aimed bursts. Here an IDF soldier sprays a whole belt of unaimed ammo into a neighbourhood.
You can see it’s not the first belt because the breech is already scorching his fingers.
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#Infographic| Statistics on the Israeli Genocide in the Gaza Strip (07 October 2023-03 April 2024)
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As of Oct7, Israel has killed a higher share of population in Gaza (1.1%) than that killed during the Russia invasion of Ukraine (0.2%) & the war in Iraq (0.8%). In much shorter time. No war in this century comes even closer to ISR’s extermination campaign in Gaza.
#CeasefireNOW
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Quick thread on inheritance tax:
Something that is massively under-discussed in this debate is how the “it’s unfair” argument is completely flipped on its head when you consider it from the perspective of the next generation instead of the person passing on the inheritance.
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What Asians, Latin Americans, Africans (with the exception of many Indians) realise in the wake of this bloodshed: when the climate wars come, this lot & their weaponry will absolutely genocide you. Today Palestine, tomorrow the rest of us.
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More horrifying testimony from surviving civilians about torture, torment and humiliation. These survivors are residents of eastern Gaza city neighborhoods who were taken from their homes by invading Israeli soldiers. I will translate highlights of some stories in this thread 🧵
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The UK has cowardly voted to abstain on the ceasefire vote at the #UNSC.
We as a country have inflicted over 100 years of pain & injustice upon the Palestinian people. From our illegitimate iron rule over Palestinians as an empire to allowing Zionists to take their homes & land.
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people keep asking me about israel's plan to "flood the tunnels with seawater" and/or pump saltwater into the soil in the Gaza Strip to render it uninhabitable. The latter is plausible, but also needs a bit more context. let's talk about the gaza aquifer. a quick thread 🧵:
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Before Johnson gives his evidence we should consider a few things:
1. Just how bad was the UK pandemic response?
2. How much could Johnson have affected this?
3. What was Johnson’s intent?
4. Was there any overt maleficence?
Thread 1/n (buckle-up!)
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a couple of months ago i went to a yacht show in a tax haven and asked dozens of people how they felt about their carbon footprints 1/
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I watched this video a hundred times now… and it still breaks my heart every time I watch it.
One day this child will grow up to be an adult and he will watch this video and ask: why did the world allow this to happen?
How are we going to answer?
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Whenever I tweet about the immense suffering being inflicted on Gaza, I get replies from pro-Israel accounts demanding that Hamas release the hostages. Here's a quick rundown of what's happening on that front. Tl;dr: Netanyahu doesn't care about the hostages
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is currently removing 1/10th of a millionth of carbon a year out of the 60 billion tones per year the world emits
In the words of @GlobalEcoGuy, “it’s worse that worthless” to focus on CCS
It’s just giving big oil a PR license to delay action
