#DEMOCRACY

Gokul Sahni

Gokul_Sahni

I remember reading this in the excellent book 'Letters for a Nation'- it is true Nehru said this, but context is essential . 1954 was 7 yrs after a bloody

josie duffy rice

jduffyrice

some interesting news these past few weeks about defunding the police. austin is using money form the police budget to help fund a new wraparound services initiative for the homeless.https://theappeal.org/austin-cut-police-budget-supportive

Durham Miners' Association

DurhamMiners

The Durham Miners' Association was founded #OnThisDay in 1869.Pictured is the first generation of the union’s leaders, among them William Patterson & Thomas Ramsey who spent the following two years

KVSarmaJ

kvsarmaj

Unpopular opinion:The confrontational attitude of Jagan against the judiciary is strategically very advantageous to Hindus in general. TDP likes to show it as a "dent to democracy" etc., because they

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

HC_Richardson

The problem is not necessarily the Electoral College; the problem is that in the early 19th C the EC changed from a deliberative system to a winner-take-all system. Both add

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numbr_uno

Our political players as Worlds biggest TerrosristsA thread.አማራ/ኦሮሞ etc ልዩ ኀይል White supremacistsThe soon outlaw/terrorist to be. Heavily armed groups mostly concerned with keeping their respective tradition than the

Eric Geller

ericgeller

Senate HSGAC hearing on 2020 election starting now: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/examining-irregularities-in-the-2020-electionChairman Johnson, kicking things off, says, “Much of the [fraud] suspicion comes from a lack of understanding of

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

@JonathanTurley suggests the founders would not react so quickly against a president who led an insurrection. Washington led an army of 13,000 people against a small group of farmers who

Richard Poynder

RickyPo

On 3rd December, the founder of Open-Access publisher MDPI, Shu-Kun Lin, posted a controversial message to a public mailing list. This led to some pushback. See the thread on the

DoubleIndividualSpeculator

x2IndSpeculator

I hoped Trump would fade away to oblivion. But, regretfully, internet bans are forcing us to talk about him one more time. Now, it's probably expected of everyone to express

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li, gender godmother

perdricof

i see some leftists on here calling for senators and other democratic politicians to start acting like street activists--barricading doors, blowing up normsi want to take a moment to explain

C.L. Lynch

lynchauthor

Dear America. Apropos of nothing, I feel like telling you about the decline of the Roman Republic and the ineptitudes of a famous coup, called the Cataline conspiracy. First let

Dr. Joanne Freeman

jbf1755

1/ I've been off Twitter for most of the day, and dipping back in, I'm struck by what a strange, fascinating, revealing, and timely July Fourth weekend we're having.There was

Aleksejs Dimitrovs

ADimitrovs

The @Europarl_EN and @EUCouncil have just agreed on the rule of law conditionality regarding the EU budget.Main elements of the deal: 1)Scope – the mechanism covers the rule of law

Geoff Shullenberger

daily_barbarian

It sometimes seems that partisans from both parties increasingly see elections as structurally unwinnable for their side—yet the turnout numbers this year suggest that far from despairing and giving up,

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

The next few weeks will be historic in this country. You will remember them. Plenty of people at Fox News are doing the right thing. But the far right wants

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