#DEMOCRACY

Emmett Macfarlane

EmmMacfarlane

One of the people I thank in the acknowledgements of my new book on the Senate reference (coming this April! https://www.ubcpress.ca/constitutional-pariah) is @acoyne, who in past Twitter chats and with

Peter Ward

Peter___Ward

I’m going to have to do a rambling thread on Trump and his unwillingness to accept he’s lost the election. Only because it reminds me so much of what happened

Jennifer L. Pozner

jennpozner

#medialiteracy thread: These are not "protestors." They're violent, avowed, white supremacist, domestic terrorists. The only accurate word news outlets should use is "terrorists." It's not a "demonstration&q

TONI CHILDS STAN ACCOUNT.

DSEDaniels

Democracy, or America's version of it, is fragile. All 50 states have certified the results of the 2020 election. But Trump and 126 Republican Representatives attempted to overturn those results,

Phil Quin

philquin

1/ A word that makes me cringe when we debate the performance of the @WgtnCC, and local bodies generally, is "governance". 2/ We use the term as if can't bring

Brennan Lee Mulligan

BrennanLM

Hey friends! I hope you are doing well in this stressful time, and I wanna talk about the election, and what I think is at stake. What seems clear to

𝒲𝒶𝒾𝒻

LadyWaif

Anybody who says the word "Should" when referring to politics is a fool. Politics are the maneuvering of power and systems of power. No political system in the history has

The Panda Chronicles (aka Paul Bowers)

Panda_Chronicle

1/ EU-AZ contract row: a disturbing episode.UK Brexiteers appear to be using health & lives of other human beings to manufacture a situation which they can mischaracterise to discredit the

Shannon Watts

shannonrwatts

Every Republican who’s left the party must understand and admit that the NRA should have a place on this list: a wealthy, powerful special interest that lined its lobbyists’ pockets

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

Read my report for the @thegwpfcom on the UK Climate Assembly, which was an obvious and deeply flawed attempt to circumvent democracy.https://twitter.com/thegwpfcom/status/1355116451619889152 The Climate Assembly was convened by six parliam

Jake Anbinder

JakeAnbinder

A project of common interest to liberals and leftists alike over the coming years should be to grapple with the problem of ~35-40% of Americans being ok with fascism. Not

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

RabbiGoldberg

1/14 As a rabbi, the moment something significant, if not historic occurs, there is pressure to weigh in, put out a statement or write a post. The luxury of time

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

If the GOP keeps moving right at the same pace as it has for 20+ years, that would mean that by 2025 Marjorie Taylor Greene will be a GOP moderate,

TED

EpicureanDeal

I’m old enough to remember when one of the key planks of the Republican Party was law and order. Now, the @GOP is stacked with politicians *and* voters who just

Ale

aliasvaughn

1) Here I go, bc I've had enough. So the 2016 election, in which WE CHECKED different counties in different swing states (I remember keeping an eye on three in

Andre Vlok

vlok_andre

In all of this, an unpopular confession - I was Helen Zille's biggest fan (a mini-thread)Up until a few years ago, I was a huge fan of Helen. I thought

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