#Coup

Kim Jolliffe

Kim_Jolliffe

THREAD ON POLICE JOINING CIVIL PROTESTS#Myanmar military has kept police under direct command since it's first coup 1962Due to attempts by civilian government to use mil police as defence against

Louis Evans

louisevanswrite

It was a lynch coup.1/ Since Trump’s attack on the Capitol last week, people have not quite been sure what to call it. Terminology has been amorphous, from “protest” to

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

People keep using the word insurrection to describe the Cap Hill melee, which was a group of angry crackpots LARPing in the building. They didn't even have real weapons. It

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Was the attack on the US Capitol an attempted coup? Rather than debate that question here (or in another forum), I'm making it an assignment. Specifically, I'm asking my Quantitative

nothings monstered

nothingsmonstrd

"Coups d'état are one of the main ways in which new dictatorshipsare established. ... A coup d'état is a rapid seizure of physical and political control of the state apparatus

Equity Scientist 🦋

BmoreDoc

I predicted in my upcoming book that America was at risk of falling apart:“The nation is currently teetering on its axis as American Apartheid threatens to tear the nation apart.

Max Blumenthal

MaxBlumenthal

This is a tactic the CIA tried unsuccessfully in Venezuela. Incidentally, both Leonid Volkov and Navalny were fellows at Yale's Maurice "Hank" Greenberg program.While overseeing AIG's illicit practices, Greenberg reportedl

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

There’s some confusion about the meaning of the word “effective” in the vaccine trials. I tried to clear it up in today’s edition of The Morning.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/briefing/vaccination-myanmar-coup-rochester-police.h

Little Russ, Son of Big Russ, Son of Salvatore

RPG_volley

Since I have yet to see any message of the like from anyone I'd hope would say it:An insurrection against the government of the United States was attempted on Wednesday.That's

PropOrNot ID Service 🇺🇸

propornot

Dear @maddow:Your segment about Trump's "screwball" natsec appointments last night did not analyze the possibility that Trump is installing them to support a coup.The "QAnon" "plan" is focused on military

American Values

Americas_Crimes

On Sept 11 1973, a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende & worked to install Gen. Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, who killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands &

Mikael Nilsson

ars_gravitatis

Thread: this article by @RichardEvans36 is a great read! However, I find it a bit myopic in certain ways, which make the conclusions flawed, IMHO. Let me explain. I think

Jen Bartel

heyjenbartel

I feel like I'm going insane. Trump incited a literal insurrection on our Capitol, the insurrectionists came with IEDs, weapons, and zip ties. They erected literal GALLOWS outside the building.

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"We are still under an attempted coup. He won't concede, public officials are being threatened, he blocked the transition. Don't sugarcoat it. Every coup reflects its own cultural and political

Gennady Rudkevich

grudkev

FYI, an attempted coup is still an attempted coup even if it fails (quite a few do). And here's a definition of a coup from the primary dataset on the

Hillary Monahan

HillaryMonahan

Fuck the @nytimes for firing a queer Jewish woman for being relieved she no longer had to live under a regime that glorified antisemitism and homophobia. The people who want

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