Esha

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Someone cool. Until there is more traffic, it will be just a repost of my tweets.

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Obama gives retroactive immunity to telecom companies that spied on us for Bush.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/politics/02fisa.html
Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity

Thousands of Barack Obama’s backers are using the online organizing tools his campaign created to protest his recent support for expanding government surveillance powers.

The New York Times
Obama could have swept all levers of government if he could just use it
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obamas-consolidation-of-t_b_100783
Obama's Consolidation of the Party

This piece relies on rumors going around donor and activist circles. It is cross-posted at

So, I'm still feeling very sick but I'm trying my best to write through it; this *will* be re-posted later on Patreon if you hate Facebook, but in the meantime my latest is up on the dreaded BookFace:

https://www.facebook.com/NinaDotCom/posts/2379636895632933

What the mainstream liberal media misses about the real threat behind the Gaetz Gaggle stunt

NinaIllingworth.com

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/house-republicans-trump-scif-protest-902884/ My how quickly the worm turns; it was only a couple of days ago that I was praising Rolling Stone for...

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Obama plays the states' rights card when arguing for the death penalty!

This case involved killing a man for child-rape.

Even the rather rw scotus got it right back then: If you kill someone for rape, what is their incentive to leave a victim alive?

Obama opens his campaign in 2008 by praising .....

Ronald Reagan!

Why didn't grown-ups see this as a red flag?

The Obama years: Hopefully in a better organized and more detailed manner than my twitter thread.

I'm also trying to figure out how to make this into a book that people will read.

It's been difficult to capture the energy of this thread in written format.

Maybe, Mastodon's longer format will clarify that for me.

I will redo my Obama years thread on Mastodon.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/peru-student-roxana-quispe-collantes-thesis-inca-language-quechua?fbclid=IwAR0PxrFqMhKF6iYT4dpr3WmpLesEZi31EGEVP9RYRFyC4dBpL1BM7Efnyck
Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language, Quechua.
Scholars say it is the first time in the university’s 468-year history that a student has written and defended a thesis (answering questions from examiners) entirely in the native language – even though it is the most widely spoken indigenous tongue in South America, used by about 8 million people, half of them in Peru.
Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language

Quechua is still spoken by 8 million people across the Andes, but Roxana Quispe Collantes hopes she can give it added value

Money, Power and Politics with Miguel Arjona Sanchez

Listen now (58 min) | People have always thought that money is a mere tool for facilitating exchange. But, they don’t realize that money itself is a tool of power and money creates social relationships. The way a government uses and defines money creates inequality and class, poverty and misery.

The VP of the Bolivian tribunal decides to resign because the rest of the electoral board decided to suspend transmitting the results and he thought that discredited the process.