#POLITICAL

I had to take a day off from Twitter yesterday, but here's my story from Sunday's @SpokesmanReview/@Report4AmericaRep. @cathymcmorris was 1 of only 2 House Republicans to change course and certify
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NEW: A must-read essay by @petermshane on the many executive tools that President-elect Joe Biden can and must use to bypass Mitch McConnell and rebuild America after four years of
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Thoughts on Biden's climate proposals.First, this is the largest climate package to be proposed by a presidential candidate in American history.It's being tagged at $2 trillion, which is at least
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ICYMI, a thread on today's coverage of the #RussiaReport 1/ And so, the #RussiaReport has finally been published. It didn’t say the Russians had interfered with the Brexit referendum. It
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Situation Update, Jan 6, 2021 – America’s Day of Reckoning arrives… Trump must now play his handWith America’s day of reckoning having now arrived, President Trump must now play his
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Hi CNU friends!! I wanted to bring something to this conversation about how we can actively work to make progress at our university this year. This (long) thread will be
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1/ People who think they can reinvent the state make me laugh.In countries such as the UK or France, the state is a social construct that was thousands of years
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Guess I've been inspired to finally make a thread on this SSR the discourse on which has sabotaged collective intelligence.(A thread) The overwhelming majority of current #ssrian accounts on twitter
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If the recent history of social media has taught us anything, it's that not dealing with a problem when it first arises can lead to situations that are unstable and
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THREAD: With #Election2020 less than 8 weeks away, a new report on CA’s pre-pandemic voting reforms suggests expanded #VoteByMail could increase turnout, though some groups likely need special outreach. (1/10)http://ow.ly/8iBY50Bntpk 
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In case you were wondering, yes, all the arguments against #DCStatehood are bad faith, blubbering nonsense.You can't make a good faith argument for disenfranchising 700,000 people. "But you can just
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Thread: @henryfarrell and I have a new piece in @IntOrgJournal on global politics of information. Key takeaway: disinformation is a feature not a bug of the liberal information order. Points
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Here is a thread in support of #AmbassadorPeteUN. For the videos, I include very brief summaries. Common themes in his foreign policy speeches and conversations are: 1. Climate change is
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1/ I wonder if Donald Trump and his supporters will reconsider their antipathy toward #Section230 in light of recent events. 2/ As the controversy over the tech giants cracking down
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How could this have happened, you ask?It already did. In Michigan. Nine months ago. 1/8https://abcnews.go.com/US/convoy-protesting-stay-home-orders-targets-michigans-capital/story?id=70138816 Let's not forget: "The Michigan Conserv
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Watch the entire discussion if you have the time to do so. But if not, please make sure to watch Edhem Eldem summarizing ~150 years of democracy in Turkey in
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