#DEMOCRACY

CllrJeanieBell

CllrJeanieBell

Thread -Some of the things I have learned the hard way in politics.1 You are not elected to make easy decisions.2 No matter what you do some people will intensely

Rick Perlstein

rickperlstein

Pelosi's mot that the chose "their whiteness over democracy" disappoints me. 1/ It disturbs me when liberals recourse to racism as a universal explanation for everything bad the right does.

Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA

BrandondelPozo

Populism is never sufficient justification for regimes that govern all citizens. It doesn't take pluralism & liberalism seriously. It relies on a majoritarianism that routinely tramples minority rights. Bureaucracies that

Jim DeFede

DeFede

The move by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley to demand a Congressional vote on the electoral college results is very bad news for @marcorubio and @CarlosGimenezFL, as they will now be

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

Reading recommendation: Rand Corp, "The Russian Firehose of Falsehoods Propaganda Model," includes advice on how to counter a rapid and continuous stream of lies.https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html1/https://twitter.c

Britton Jobe

BrittonJobe

1/ How Omaha saved democracy: a thread. Omaha’s single electoral vote blocked Trump’s path to the White House that would have existed had the states been called as they were

Rene Denfeld

ReneDenfeld

I've gotten to know Portland police well in a decade plus of public defense work & journalism. The level of contempt they have for authority and oversight is intense &

Comrade Corbyn ☭

ComradeCorbyn6

A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her Mothers blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam.16

Joshua Potash

JoshuaPotash

Trump, Miller, Barr, etc. are working to make sure there is no democracy left BEFORE 11/3. The more power they consolidate, the fewer ways to check them, the easier it‘ll

Jon Saxon

jonsaxon67

Twitter and big tech are the enemy of freedom and democracy.Its critical that more people understand this, because more and more people are getting sucked into the blind trust in

Beige Shiba ♔

BeigeShiba

> Wake up> Mentions are entirely full of people beating their heads against a wall for hours on end of arguing with people who are completely emotionally incapable of changing

words are weapons ⚡

vimoh

When Ayurveda doctors are allowed to perform surgeries, the people who they perform surgery on will not be ministers and industrialists. It will be those in smaller towns and villages.

Wes Boling

TNsWesBoling

One final thread on this week’s events, and then I’m leaving this tragic moment for others to discuss.I’m seeing lots of people compare the invasion of our Capitol building to

Julia Ioffe

juliaioffe

On this July Fourth, I am thinking about immigrants, people like my parents who came to the United States seeking freedom from persecution and a better life for their children.

The Witness BCC

TheWitnessBCC

Here’s the thing: When Black people say “We been told y’all”, it’s not because we take pleasure in being right about the state of our country and where it’s headed.

Richard D. Sky (Snr.)

RichardDelaSky

If these documents are - without more - anything to go by, then it does seem that the real claim of ⁦@JDMahama⁩ is NOT that he was cheated & or

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