#DEMOCRACY

Garry Kasparov

Kasparov63

Trump's plan is Putin's: Never concede & treat Biden like an illegitimate leader. Dictators like Putin don't like having their illegitimacy pointed out. Now he'll have the former US president

David Burge

iowahawkblog

I guess false accusations of an election stolen with ballot fraud undermine our democracy, kinda like how false accusations of an election stolen by Russian Facebook memes undermine our democracy,

@amuse

amuse

FORTIFICATION: Twitter users regularly point out that if they tweet the same election claims that Democrats tweeted after President Trump won the 2016 election they would be suspended or banned.

Rodney K. Rogers

Pres_Rogers

Yesterday afternoon, people witnessed a violent and chaotic riot at the United States Capitol Building to protest our democracy at work and obstruct the certification of a lawful presidential election.

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

I surveyed my 16 very bright first year college students about impeachment & Jan 6. Only 2 had watched any of the trial. A few knew who Eugene Goodman is.

Brianne Suldovsky

brisuldovsky

Listening to prominent social scientists @brossardd and @mcnisbet discuss building science engagement in a disrupted democracy live. Highly recommend tuning in if you have a spare moment: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/how-to-bu

Steve Schmidt

SteveSchmidtSES

It is essential to understand what we are watching. (1) Joseph Robinette Biden of Delaware has been elected the President of the United States of America. (2) American democracy is

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. With the impeachment trial resuming, it's worth reflecting on the huge differences between the House managers (professional, focused, convincing) and Trump's lawyers (meandering, incoherent & threatening). But also that

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

The radical left talks about "democracy" in a way inherited from the communists, who insisted that true democracy isn't possible where oppression exists in any capacity except in service to

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist

butchanarchy

The Founding Fathers hated and feared actual democracy and constructed the U.S. system of governance in order to prevent democracy from ever existing here, and here’s a thread of them

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Big shoutout to everybody who hyped up the phantom threat of voter fraud to justify ID laws over the past two decades, laying the groundwork for a sitting president to

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

For Republicans who are confused about this, some pointers. GOP leader Donald Trump governed by making war on the so-called blue states. Supporters got cash and assistance, opponents got punished.

Patrick Dillon

mpdillon

There’s more than a few reporters who get cranky with me in DM’s or texts whenever I do some tweet complaining about campaign coverage, and we go back and forth

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

I am thinking of Fannie Lou Hamer tonight. 20th child of Miss. sharecroppers, kicked out her home for attempting to vote, founder of the the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that

Stephen Clouse

sclouse2

A lot to unpack in a small sentence. But I'll say this: cancel culture is far from the rule of majorities. Social media distorts our perceptions so greatly that the

Indivisible Guide

IndivisibleTeam

We defeated Donald Trump and his cronies. We won in Georgia and demoted Mitch McConnell. Now we have a short window to repair our democracy.Here's what we can do next

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