#DEMOCRACY

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Hope is a double edged sword. We need hope tempered with reality. False hope is just unrealized despair. Personally I find reality, as difficult as it can be sometimes, is

Helen Armstrong

HelenArmstrong5

NYT has a great article out today explaining why Trump still holds power in the GOP. For those who aren't subscribers, I'll extract and interpret some of the major points

Stephen Spaulding

SteveESpaulding

Today is the 11th anniversary of Citizens United, the case where SCOTUS ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited corporate funds influencing elections. Here's how #HR1

Awais Aftab

awaisaftab

I think the real issue is not whether antipsychotics work or not (they work), but:1) whether patients should be forced to take them (which is a complex ethical issue, not

mar

vogueheroine

Fashion has and continues to empower colonial and postcolonial structures through orientalism and other forms of oppressive methods. A THREAD: *This first caught my attention by a story posted on

Aya Burweila

burweila

A surrogate for Islamists, Stephanie's Scam exposed in all its glory 5+5 agreement was a blow to #Turkey-#Qatar as it stipulated the removal of all foreign mercs from #Libya, the

Bryce HammerSickle

BryceHammers

4 years of Trump tells Dem voters that our problems are a result of Trump and the far right, instead of a product of capitalism. A Neolib presidency will help

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

One thing I kept thinking about as I was writing this was just how much normalcy bias there is in media. There's this aversion to describing things as they are,

James Palmer

BeijingPalmer

This is a bad piece, and the dumbest kind of whataboutism.https://www.theverge.com/21355465/tiktok-us-china-information-nationalism-online-propaganda?fbclid=IwAR35wunrhendHFI3fyAxN_oOYr6VTnZXA4_w1mdxacYxQl5oQYAOhjSSKLo it's notable that

Young Labour Moderates

YLM_movement_

I’ve received a lot of abuse since posting this yesterday, which I kind of expected after seeing similar pile-ons to other young Labour members last week. I’ve also had a

Carmen Crincoli, but Fhqwhgads

CarmenCrincoli

Fellow MSFT employees: I’ve written a proposal on what to do with the Microsoft PAC. The attempted sedition by many in Congress last week was funded in part by Microsoft's

Ricardo Lopez

rljourno

State Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake: "Elections are about people and the voters… they have a right to ask question. It is certainly appropriate for us to be able to

Carrie Levine

levinecarrie

It's Election Day, which means it's the last day to vote if you haven't! Find information about where and how to vote where you live here: https://www.nass.org/can-I-vote It's also time to

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

Winston Churchill said that “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” If only he had known the members of the House Judiciary Committee, he

Jen Bartel

heyjenbartel

My reaction to the words “Make America Great Again” is always to recoil because there has never been a time in this country where things were great for everyone, but

Paul Watson

paul_c_watson

After last weekend’s frankly disastrous CONIFA AGM, I’m going to do a thread about non-FIFA football, CONIFA - the non-FIFA version of FIFA - and why it is no longer

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