#DEMOCRACY

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

The courts aren't going to install a dictator (which is what ignoring the vote would do).Lawsuits require evidence.Moreover, federal judges with lifetime appointments have no motive to install a dictator

Alexander Wuttke

Kunkakom

Questions of measurement and conceptualization are often rather dry.Still, they are necessary conditions for meaningful statements about the world. And they are consequential.Two studies discuss whether a "third wave of

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

The Black, Latino, Muslim journalists relegated to the “race” and “ethnicity” beats should have been leading political coverage these last 5 years. They are the ones who saw this for

frog

filthycattle

1. Just a quick thread for any people who don't fully understand what's happening hereWhy the sudden obsession of politicians with Facebook and "Hate Speech" 2. Basically your entire democracy

Ben Ritz

BudgetBen

Have some thoughts about bipartisanship I've been sitting on for a while and want to share now. Specifically, why I soured on it five years ago but will probably be

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

One thing I see a lot of people on the right pointing to in defense of Trump's continued attempts to undermine democracy: "No state has certified its results."That has nothing

nuckers

naqoobaqoo

We predicted exactly this scenario. This isn’t to say I told you so, it’s to make you listen now. So that you are prepared for what looms ahead.https://link.medium.com/NkbiHCM8abb “Trump has

TRHL™

TRHLofficial

Making the police stand down as violent crime rises is how they plan to further justify militarizing the police over the next 4 years or just replacing them altogether with

Ron Steslow

RonSteslow

To our followers, listeners, and friends—I’m thrilled to continue learning, listening, and discovering with you all on the SAME podcast feed, under a new name: @PoliticologyPod. 1/7 When I cofounded

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

Please everyone understand that both these things are true at once:1) we came razor thin close to the installation of a Trump dictatorship 2) we are not out of the

Diane McLeod 🇨🇦

Dimcl2

Thread: Reading about the woman shot and killed in the Capitol building yesterday has reinforced a theory I've had for a long time. As a Canadian, I'm always amazed at

François Chollet

fchollet

Turns out that if you put an authoritarian in power once, it's pretty difficulty to get rid of them -- and it gets exponentially more difficult the longer they stay.

Joseph Brown

Joseph_M_Brown

I’m going to keep tweeting about this because I wrote a dissertation, ⁦@ColumbiaUP⁩ book, and ⁦@IntOrgJournal⁩ article on the topic and here it is in the news. (1/)https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/25/nashville-e

Matthew J. Peterson

docMJP

The failure of Republicans to argue make the particular case about corruption in the 2020 election is due to the fact that many in that quarter are submerged in just

Van Jackson ✊🏾

WonkVJ

I taught at a DOD think tank for a while that used to bring in foreign military officers as students, including from Myanmar. At the time the genocide was underway

Shannon Watts

shannonrwatts

Today our organization unveiled a new policy plan to eliminate armed intimidation from politics by prohibiting guns at Capitol buildings and grounds, sensitive government facilities, polling and vote counting locations,

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