#DEMOCRACY

Hey @HawleyMO @SenHawleyPress - I presume, given youre willing to throw America into chaos simply because Trump screams "fraud" with no evidence, you will also take on these. The "fraud"
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When democrats say republicans don't care about our democracy, they miss how large of a role misinfo played here. Trump voters really do believe what OANN, Brietbart etc tell them.
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The 10 Commandments of African Cognitive Dissonance1. We want to trade more with each other via the AfCFTA, the AU passport and someday a common currency.We want to trade less
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Somaliland #Thread1/8#Somaliland (then NW region) has indeed suffered greatly under the military regime, especially in 1988. What took place was one of the most brutal cases of crimes against humanity
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Weekend thread: @JoeBiden has hit the ground running to well-deserved applause from liberal social/MSM. He has rapidly taken action addressing four key crises he’s named, the good news. The bad
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Punchbowl AM: This is how it ends.With an attack on the U.S. Capitol. With a woman shot dead by a police officer and three others losing their lives in “medical
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What’s going on in #Myanmar?A thread. (1/12) On 1st February, #Myanmar’s military, led by Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, seized power. The coup follows the defeat of military-backed candidates in the
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FINE I'll explain the Business Plot to you guys.In 1933 or thereabouts, a bunch of wealthy businessmen who were afraid the Democratic Party was going to introduce socialist policies that
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Since people wrongly mention US as the oldest Democracy in the world, I am just writing a very short thread, making it clear that India is the Country which had
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When someone behaves badly, I don't think it's cancel culture for the person they wronged to tell other people about it, & then for other people to think 'eww! gross
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Industrial economies depend on markets, and markets are necessarily global, now more than ever. Supply oriented industrial economies like USSR are not sustainable; Marx himself recognized communism was only viable
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I'm hearing rumours that some in the government want to kick start the economy by liberalising (ie weakening) the #planning system. A reminder: this has been tried umpteen times before
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This wasn't a "guardrail": it was dumb luck."with much of the GOP’s leadership class...empowering Trump to lay waste to the country’s foundational democratic norms, an obscure lawyer from west Michigan
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A Friday thread of niche digital government issues I worry about in the 2020s, from a digital policy lens. In no particular order: 1) How to double down on democracy,
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If you think Snowden should be pardoned, you don't know all he did. He disclosed secrets to China: our surveillance for gathering info on its nuke program was instantly destroyed.
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My mom and brother (now a principal) are social studies teachers. We’ve had some convos over the past few days about our current state of affairs being a result of
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