#DEMOCRACY

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

If our president and the GOP were not insane and menaces to democracy, we might now be discussing how Biden could win the popular vote by more than 7 million

Samuel Moyn 🔭

samuelmoyn

1/ There is a difference between due caution or salutary fear, on the one hand, and self-confirming and -fulfilling paranoia, on the other. Whether we stray from one to the

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

So yesterday I'm on the phone with @matthewstoller, asking him deep questions about his life, when the Facebook case drops.Which is like texting with the pope when the Second Coming

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

rasmus_kleis

Facebook is "real and present danger" to democracy (Guardian editorial, July 2020), a "danger to democracy" (2018).It's "destructive ethos imperils democracy" (Observer editorial 2018).What are readers to m

EveJustWantedToKnowShit⏳

myfinewords

THREAD:Dominion Voting was used in California, too.And people need to understand that Dominion Voting isn't just a machine or a piece of software.It's an entire suite of optional services.Michigan and

Prof Tanja Bueltmann

cliodiaspora

Dear America,As a German & historian who knows where this story can end, let me tell you that Trump wants to push you on the path of fascism. This is

Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance

nickreeves9876

After a Nazi referendum victory in 1933 Goebbels said the "will of the people is the will of the government and vice versa". The "Will of the People" is a

Shibani Mahtani

ShibaniMahtani

Hong Kong woke up this morning to ~50 arrests under the national security law, netting the city's most prominent pro-democracy activists, voices like Jeffrey Andrews who have long fought for

Pam Keith, Esq.

PamKeithFL

When the GOP uses the term “democracy,” they don’t mean what we mean. They mean the right of white people to impose their will & control government. That is why

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

Roger Stone is suggesting the same thing. As a practical matter, it can't happen. Trump would need the armed forces (won't happen) and even then, this country is vast.Military coups

Eitan Hersh

eitanhersh

Hey there, @McDonalds . You're one of the biggest donors to Rep. Bruce Westerman, who recently tried to have courts overturn the free and fair election of Joe Biden.What's your

Rep. Don Beyer

RepDonBeyer

Kevin McCarthy should resign. Hawley and Cruz deserve to be held accountable, but they are back-benchers.What Kevin McCarthy did was just as bad, but he is Minority Leader. Every House

Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷)

JoyAnnReid

I think what we learned ... or rather re-learned to day ... is that @davidfrum's aphorism that "if conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not

Hal Singer

HalSinger

Too bad “protect our democracy” isn’t the default filterhttps://twitter.com/lam_barrett/status/1325541191795019793 When the filter is set to maximize profits, Facebook elevates conspiracy sites over legit news sites to serve up clickb

Chris Schroeder

cmschroed

1/5 May I end the week with two brief, hopeful observations shared with me representing dozens I have heard? 2/5 I spoke to many entrepreneurs, investors and journalists around the

Sanjeet

sanjeet38

Unpopular hot take: Kant's comment on too much democracy is a run-of-the-mill neoliberal musing on the difficulty of painful structural reforms in India. Invariably in a democracy, interest groups at

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