#DEMOCRACY

Anna Soubry

Anna_Soubry

.@TimothyDSnyder accurately links the demise of local news to the rise in populism & extremism in the #USA Today’s #Times leader takes up the debate Snyder so elequently advanced on

Mike Signer

MikeSigner

THREAD: For @realDonaldTrump's insurrection, re-upping my October @DemJournal essay titled "Encouraging Domestic Terrorism": "In the last Federalist Paper #85, Alexander Hamilton urged Americans to “put them upon their

Monica Drake

Monica_Drake

When I see people defending #TrumpsThugs & the #PortlandKidnappings, there's a heavy reliance on the word "they": They're antifa, they're rioting, they're out of control, they don't deserve Democracy. "

April Falcon Doss

AprilFDoss

This is terrific and important work by NYT. The fact that many Americans won't believe it is a testament to the multi-pronged challenges we need to tackle in today's information

Cassey Lottman

CasseyLottman

idk about you but weekends have been hard for me during the pandemic. pandemic weekends where I am also feeling bad about democracy might be extra hard. So, it's friday:

Hood Communist Blog

HoodCommunist

Thread about what's happening in Haiti right now. TL;DR is that the US government is propping up a dictator that is brutally repressing the African people of that nation. As

eigenrobot

eigenrobot

most important empire in history most important religion in history most important army in history most important navy in history most important company in history is boring because too easy

Psych Central

PsychCentral

A lot of brands will be making statements today about what happened at our nation's capital yesterday. Most will run the range from "insincere" to "oblivious." We debated if we

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

This is what happens when your entire media apparatus treats white supremacy as an idea to be debated rather than a movement to be defeated. We've seen a million versions

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

The Trump era is coming to a close. Whether the @GOP is able to recover it's soul depends substantially on whether elected GOP officials stand up for democracy and the

Josh Gad

joshgad

I don't want to do this. I'm on vacation, but frankly, I don't see an alternative. In 2016, misinformation helped elect a man with zero qualifications. 3 and a half

Judy Wu Dominick 吳曉青

judydominick

Excerpt, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by MLK, Jr., 1967. Ch. 3: "Racism & the White Backlash":"It is time for all of us to tell each

Andrea L. P. Pirro

AndreaLPPirro

There’s an ongoing debate on the use of the term ‘far right’, so here’s a #thread to hopefully clarify. Most of my colleagues & I use the term as an

Evan Weber 🌅🔥

evanlweber

The Green Party is not a serious political party & they don’t deserve your vote—in WI, CA, or anywhere. Don’t support them, don’t legitimize them, don’t prop them up.Here’s their

David Roberts

drvolts

Twitter is so painful to read right now. People want the merits of the impeachment case to matter so badly. They want the anguish & eloquence of those whose lives

Christina Larson 可心

larsonchristina

So much of China’s recent intellectual history is crystallized - and mourned - in this moving piece by @LiYuan6. “Has the difference between Hong Kong and Beijing come down to

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