#DEMOCRACY

Andy Baio

waxpancake

Substack's unwavering commitment to neutrality, and an unwillingness to set content guidelines beyond porn and hate speech, makes me think they're headed for an ugly place.https://www.cjr.org/special_report/substackerati.php Substac

Terri LeGrand

LegrandWSNC

On this day before election day, I wanted to take just a few minutes to share my thoughts with you. This campaign has been quite a journey. I am grateful

Bishop Deeley

BishopDeeley

1. Every day we should thank God for the blessings of liberty, freedom, and democracy. These are the characteristics of the American experience on full display today in our nation’s

Alex Dukalskis

AlexDukalskis

Military rule is back in Myanmar.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage "All authority has been given to the top army commander and a o

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

Wanted to make a small announcement today on a couple of things. First, I have a new small business. Well it's an old small business, the oldest children's shoe company

Musa Okwonga

Okwonga

In future Sky cannot platform these liars. US democracy, already long corroded, is in such a dangerous place at the moment.https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1326215616693407746 I worry that the debate culture in which so

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Facebook is to our political culture as lung cancer is to lungs.https://twitter.com/robwdavis/status/1304964015483957253 To be more precise, FB can't control what happens on its site now because the right wing bullshit

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Pence: "Today was a dark day in the history of the US Capitol ... we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms ... to those

Sally Gimson

SallyGimson

On being European: someof my earliest memories are of going to Church of Scotland German/British reconciliation services in Edinburgh 1/12 My parents who were born in the early 1930s were

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ America is confronting a crisis like we haven’t seen since 1930, and, just as happened during the Republican Great Depression (yes, that’s what they called it in the 1930s),

Erin Millar

erinmillar

I cannot stay out of this debate anymore. Newsmedia Canada, the newspaper lobby group that represents chains like Postmedia, Torstar, Black Press, has really outdone itself. @klaszus nails it: these

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

One of the scariest things I've read.Respected historian Nancy MacLean contends that James McGill Buchanan's influential philosophy is behind the dramatic, unnerving & profound changes we're seeing played out in

Justhipper

Justhipper

As an American living in the UK for over 20 years, there are some fundamental things about American culture and the American mindset that Brits don’t really understand. It’s obvious

Gary Koekemoer

Gary22k

Expect the pattern to repeatIn the desperate search for relevance post Trump the populism enablers will trawl Pres Biden’s comments for gotcha soundbites. Ignoring context & know-howIt’s a doubt-merchant top

Bridled Scold

BridledScold

I see the neo-nationalist Matriots of Ireland are escalating their jingoism by shaming working class Irish women who don't have the privilege of being Gaelgoirí. In 2005 David McWilliams predicted

Corporate Machiavelli (Attending To Final Matters)

corporatemach

THREAD:America is not a Democracy. America is a Plutocracy. Disclaimer: This topic is complicated. If you are half asleep, come back to read it later. Plutocracy = Oligarchy, where the

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