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Met so many people who follow #SansadWatch during the @themediarumble.

Realised that this experiment has the potential to become a platform for non-policy background folk who are interested in the field to just gain a further understanding of public policy! What fun!
And in all seriousness I want to thank these enthu cutlet bunch of people (much like me) for being so upfront with feedback and give suggestions about what direction #SansadWatch should take.

Please keep the feedback coming! We have a lot of work to do!
Probably the best way forward is to turn this into a sort of an open-source project and hand it over the the community. The idea would be to provide a platform for policy enthusiasts to just mess around with everything Parliament.

Sort of a fun place to discuss Parliament!
Started a thread on @redditindia to discuss the #SansadWatch idea and how to scale it up further. Do give it a read and tell me what you think (here on Twitter, over DM or there on Reddit)

Let's do thees!
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So many responses to this 👆 thread and suggestions to build up the #SansadWatch project!

Power of the interwebz, I tell ya. Love it.

It's so heartening to see people are still interested in positive volunteer-based projects in these cynical af times.
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ALERT!
Supplementary List of Business in Lok Sabha is out.

Two bills listed for introduction, including the Constitutional Amendment Bill for 10% Quota. What's more, it is also listed for consideration and passing TODAY!
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They seem to be in the mood to bulldoze this bill through. It's a super important Constitutional Amendment, mind you.

No time will be given to MPs for filing amendments. The Bill was circulated TODAY! Parliamentary practice is being thrown out the window.
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In his interview to @smitaprakash, PM Modi had said that there should be deep discussions in Parliament on every aspect. But when his Government introduces and pushes through bills at such short notice, what they heck is he even talking about?

Whattay farce.
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Lok Sabha resumes with hearty Happy New Year cheers.

Slowly and steadily they get replaced by random JUSTICE JUSTICE chants.
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Can't quite figure out which party is screaming in Lok Sabha. INC MPs are asking supplementary questions & you can see their MPs sitting quietly in the background.
House adjourned to meet at 12 pm.
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Aadhaar Amendment Bill to be introduced in Lok Sabha today. This will probably be cleared and certified as a money bill.

Because, you know, who gives a damn.
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Reports indicate this Bill circumvents the SC Judgment. It will again allow private companies to use and exploit Aadhaar.
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This bill has not been introduced yet. A draft should be available to the public but... well, it isn't. After introduction today, sufficient time needs to be given to MPs for filing amendments.

If it is bulldozed through shamelessly, it's fraud.
Pure and simple.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

1/n
CW: #Transphobia, #ConversionTherapy, #Zucker, #Religiously #driven #zealotry

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

3/n
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Right, so the veil between the living and the dead thins, as Halloween approaches. As a break from pics of Sexy Handmaids and the like, I thought I’d give you a 101 on ‘How To Die In The Middle Ages’. You never know, it might come in useful one day… THREAD 1/
The Middle Ages - or Medieval Era - stretches a thousand years, and customs varied across the European Continent, but I wanted to give a kind of quick overview of some of the major themes and ideas that surrounded death during this time - apologies for skimming! /2
There are 2 things that you need to know about the medieval idea of death. The first, they earnestly thought it could strike anyone, anytime, through any one of a thousand causes - hence the popularity of symbols like ‘The Wheel of Fortune’ and ‘The 3 Living & The 3 Dead’. /3
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It's quite astonishing how quickly "Venezuela isn't REAL socialism, and it's disingenuous to say otherwise!" has become the conventional wisdom.
I predicted this when I wrote the commie book, but I didn't expect that process to be completed BEFORE the book's publication.
The commies ALWAYS do this whenever yet another socialist experiment collapses. Been at it for 100 years.
We can, of course, argue forever and a day about the "true" meaning of socialism. But the point is: It wasn't us baddies who said Venezuela was socialist. It was THEM.
"The staunchest opponents of neoliberal economics [...] have been winning election after election. Hugo Chávez, running on a platform of “Twenty-First-Century Socialism,” was re-elected in 2006 [...] creating a zone of relative economic calm and predictability"
-Naomi Klein, 2007
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At dinner, I learned more about corruption + racism built into society by our masters. A book we discussed (Zinn) was used as part of this "Left" resource's bibliography. I had to share. [A thread]

@BlackSocialists - thoughts on this resource?

historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html
It very simply lays out the case that we are all being controlled. It covers hidden history of the United States including their (and, due to the systems created by our masters, our) racism. 

#racism #systemicracism #history
If you haven't been in school for a while (or are in a terrible school), some of the words might trip you up. Dictionary.com and Wikipedia.org are two good resources to help you.
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1. Last week I ran a twitter poll for about 3 days to get an idea how many people overseas follow #Qanon, and to get an idea as to how many countries are represented. I connected with a lot of patriots all over the world, and I was encouraged to see how many actually follow Q.
2. #Qanon posted a couple of weeks ago that there are 350 million with eyes on Q posts, and around 58 million tracking Q posts; it was awesome meeting some of those individuals on twitter...Total votes: 6,256; 78% of the people who took the poll follow Q in the USA
3. 15% are outside the USA and 7% don't follow #Qanon. Several countries were represented...people identified as being Q followers from the following countries: Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Scotland, UK, Germany, Japan, Guatemala, Kenya, Macedonia, Greece, Nigeria...
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Many times we decide to do something, or that something is right, on the basis of too little information.
Often this leads to wasted time, wasted money, wasted energy and wasted confidence. Not to mention being wrong, disappointed or even dead.
Obviously we are not omniscient, able to know everything that happens everywhere. But we can observe the things around us, and we can read.
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