#DEMOCRACY

Emily Ramshaw

eramshaw

When we started @19thnews, we knew we wanted to name it for the 19th Amendment — but struggled with the fact that its passage excluded so many from the franchise.

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

Thank you to everyone who spent the last five years warning that yesterday was a tomorrow away. If you're just now getting on the boat of recognizing that Trump is

#BOOM #BOOM #BOOM

BOOMBOO99565009

Ron @CodeMonkeyZ is giving us a sign of the Dominion Voting Systems. Time Stamp of TW 12:20 AM · Nov 12, 2020https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems#:~:text=Dominion%20Voting%20Systems%20Corporation%20is,in%20the%20U.S.%20and

Benjamin Wittes

benjaminwittes

Ten thoughts on the situation: (1) The last line of defense of democracy is the hearts and minds of the citizenry. Where is your heart? Where is your mind? (2)

@RQueeninc Jim

RQueeninc

Is this our moment in time? Here we are, and here is not that good for us. We are at the end of our Republic. The mechanism that controls our

Imperium Press

ImperiumPress

The election was not unfair because there are no fair elections. Democracy is an inherently fraudulent process and to expect fairness of it is to misunderstand it. Best case scenario

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

This is an excellent article by @davidallengreen. Whatever the merits of a written constitution, it's not going to happen any time soon. So we need achievable changes that can be

Musa al-Gharbi

Musa_alGharbi

In my latest for @CJR I demonstrate that cable news media has essentially been covering Trump with 2015-6 campaign level intensity for four years straight. Exhausted? No wonder: https://www.cjr.org/politics/cable-news-trump-obsession.php It

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

These military/intelligence purges are worryingFeels like people are way too complacent and keep-calm-and-carry-on mode It is tempting to think GOP only wants to milk the uncertainty for Georgia runoffs and

James O'Malley

Psythor

Just had a 100% definitely real conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They were grotesque caricatures of my political opponents and they told me

rupi kaur

rupikaur_

india is targeting young women to silence dissent & muzzle free speech. 21yo climate activist #DishaRavi was arrested for tweeting a benign google doc about the #farmersprotest. bjp ministers have

Phil

phil0073

Short thread. Am #GradedFailure but hope for better days for the earth and those that live here.Hoping in better societies that care about all the ones as well as the

Naunihal Singh

naunihalpublic

It doesn't matter what we call the January 6th attack on the Capitol. "Coup" is not a magic word, nor is it a legal definition with consequences. I understand others

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

Any new laws would be a catastrophe and there are plenty of existing laws that could have stopped the chud invasion I also find it fantastical that there is a

Sarah Fischer

SarahFischer__

Free speech is not only necessary to criticize and challenge ideas, it’s a requirement for the process of thinking. If everyone had perfectly formed thoughts and were flawless speakers, then

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

***We may be thinking about speech - #freespeech and #hatespeech in an analog, retrograde way. Here is a very long thread that I am too lazy to turn into an

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