#DEMOCRACY

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

The embedded thread is a warning and quite accurate. Please read it all.While it is an imaginative attempt at prediction, it accurately captures the political ambitions of the GOP in

All On The Line OH

allontheline_oh

Today, we saw Republicans revealed to be at the center of a staggering corruption scandal at the Statehouse. At the heart of the issue is that under gerrymandered maps, politicians

Athena 🦉

athenaforall

A thread for Joe Biden's @Transition46 team #BuildBackBetter is not appointing Amazon lobbyists to oversee Amazon.#AmazonWhiteHouse https://twitter.com/EAlsbergas/status/1350558138005676032 Building back better means a White House for t

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

I cannot stop thinking about this.https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-from-facebooks-ceo-saved-the-2020-election We just survived four years of a plutocrat gaslighting us about being the solution to the problems of wh

FCPUI

Rnb129

The #SupremeCourtofIndia has of late drawn a lot of flak for being anti-Hindu, anti-Dharma, anti-democracy and a lot of other things. But which of their recent judgements has been anti-Government

Prasanna S

prasanna_s

Now that BJP has also joined in (again) in the chorus against EVMs, it is time for another electoral integrity thread.In my mind, broadly, election process integrity can be modelled

Prasanna S

prasanna_s

This is not easy. Thread.https://twitter.com/arungiri/status/1326192869628018694 I speak as someone who witnessed first hand the process of tallying EVM counts with VVPAT slips as a counting agent for an independent candidate

Brandon Richards

BrandonRichards

Editorial Boards around the country are rightfully slamming the frivolous & absurd lawsuit brought by indicted TX AG Ken Paxton.While the Texas Editorial Boards aren't holding back, Republican AGs in

Anya Martin

AnyaMartin8

This is wrong. You cannot solve the housing crisis without building more homes. Scrapping housing need targets would be playing into the hands of NIMBY homeowners at the expense of

Jeffrey Pugh

JeffreyCPugh

@simonbarrow @Ekklesia_co_uk Some thoughts on Fintan's piece.Can Joe Biden make America great again?https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/16/can-joe-biden-make-america-great-again?CMP=share_btn_tw Since the day Trump was elected Am

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

We are a center left nation with a Democracy problem. On issue after issue - taxes, guns, climate, abortion, and so many more - strong majorities of Americans prefer center-left

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

The truly violent nature of the US neoliberal bipartisan political establishment is revealed in its commitment to funding racist, militarized police forces above funding healthcare & housing. The same ones

Manu Sebastian

manuvichar

Some contempt cases.In 1968, Kerala CM and Marxist leader EMS attacked judiciary by saying "judges are guided by class prejudice and serve the interests of ruling class and are weighted

Tade Thompson

tadethompson

From a thread strand with @clacksee we come to this: where does 'no politics in my fiction' come from?Glad you asked.It comes from the CIA. Here's a nice picture of

🕷️Scribbler Griff #JeSuisEuropéenne #InsideOut

Maxmycat

Thread Why is #ReleaseTheRussiaReport important? Well, aside from the dark ads, murky money etc it is possibly the greatest opportunity to influence UK voters. A big claim I know.

Wear your damn mask

lfbensimon

1/8 - Let's not kid ourselves, Trump’s attempted coup of 1/6 was not just a minor event. Trump AND the Republicans have a well-thought plan to overthrow democracy and install

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