#COUP

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

Elizabeth Picciuto 🦃🍠🥧

epicciuto

1. People are treating this coup-ishness as Manichean. Either Trump will illegitimately seize power, which is obviously terrible, or Biden will and we can all rest easy. 2. That’s worth

Buubu Ardo Galo Maasina

Ardo_Galo

#Mali- Les militaires veulent rester aux affaires. Le #M5 qui réclame la paternité des événements veut un civil à la tête de la transition (peut-être un de ses leaders). D’anciens

Fabio Rojas

fabiorojas

1/ Comments on pro-Trump protest from a professor who studies protest. Step #1: These protests are more performance, less coup. 2/ Protests vary in their goals and tactics. While pro-Trump/MAGA

Ari Melber

AriMelber

Many believe Trump's implausible lie that he won,"because it takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or

Brendan Nyhan

BrendanNyhan

As always with questions of Trump and democracy, we're bogging down in a false binary."Coup" language is too simplistic to describe violating the norm of accepting the results of an

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babadookspinoza

This is some chilling rhetoric from House Republicans. I’m hearing echoes of the kind of “lawfare” tactics behind the US-backed 2016-18 soft coup in Brazil and some other countries. Despite

Gabriel Piemonte

gabrielpiemonte

The bizarre Cracker Coup at the Capitol really bothered me, and I was struggling with it for most of the day. I do want to make sure that it is

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

This is not a popular point but the real specialists on historic fascism are actually divided on whether Trump is a fascist. Robert Paxton says he is while Roger Griffin,

John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈

aravosis

Amazon, Amex, Delta, GM, Google, Home Depot, Merck, Visa, & the NFL are among the groups that financially-supported the election of 120 Electoral College coup supporters in Congress.165 American companies

Gregory Brew

gbrew24

“Using the Cold War strategy of rolling back the Soviet Union as inspiration, senior Trump national security officials believed that destabilizing #Iran within its borders would force the regime to

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

For some reason, I'm really disliking "is this a coup or not?" twitter -- either side of it. It feels like everyone is rushing into this debate to justify their

Institubeur

Institubeur

« Mais du coup Samir, toi, t’es Charlie ou non ? » « Et du coup pour la pièce de théâtre il nous faut quelqu’un pour jouer le voleur » « On va passer au

ArtOfWar

DemsGotTrumped

New 17The coup was massive. The socialists, satanists and deep state traitors have been infiltrating our government since WWII.17 reviews the compromised positions at all levels of government. 17 gave

Amy Erica Smith

AmyEricaSmith

Yesterday's coup attempt or putsch was not unexpected. And it was pansy-ass and ineffectual.But here's what hit me in the gut: how DEGRADING it was. Watching a mob scramble over

Terence Lee

tcllee1972

(1) Some rudimentary thoughts (or questions) on the coup, from a non-Burma watcher, but a Southeast Asianist and a student of civil-military relations. (2) Apparent that the Tatmadaw is concerned

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