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1. Lord Sumption Supreme Court justice on Government by Decree.. Did Government break the Law?Should we follow these #Covid19UK restrictions? Follow Thread 2. Lord Sumption Supreme Court justice on #Christmas

Citizens for Ethics

CREWcrew

Congress needs to enact federal legislation securing every American’s right to vote Start with uniform standards for state voter registration, including online registration systems, longer periods for voter registration, same-day

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

Stacey Abrams is amazing.DEMOCRACY is something worth fighting for.https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1324457879865237504 The point of democracy is not to elect Democrats. It's to give everyone a voice, however small.It's to give

PeterSweden

PeterSweden7

THREAD - My thoughts on what happened at the Capitol.Please read EVERYTHING before commenting. The violence we saw was unacceptable and must be fully condemned. It has no place in

Sam Denney

samddenney

I really enjoyed this from @JimGoldgeier & @BWJ777, and while I may not agree fully with its main take on the summit, I think it embodies the perspective that America

Steve Schmidt

SteveSchmidtSES

The passage of the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 allowed for the westward expansion of slavery. It’s passage broke the Whig party and gave birth to the Republican Party. American

Michael

michaelsoftinc

Perhaps a bit galaxy brained here, but the old refrain that a the war on terror was doomed to fail because it is impossible to wage war on a tactic

Timothy Snyder

TimothyDSnyder

1/10. Whatever happened to protecting monuments and federal property, which seemed so important to our government this summer and fall? 2/10. The idea of protecting property was used to beat

Ben & Jerry's

benandjerrys

Yesterday was not a protest—it was a riot to uphold white supremacy. (1/8) It was allowed to happen. The mostly white insurrectionists roamed freely and without consequence through the heart

Elizabeth Warren

ewarren

This is a straw man. The problem isn’t the ads. It’s Facebook’s unwillingness to regulate those ads and their inability to control organic disinformation on their platform—which they’re now letting

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

Having tech oligarchs exercise political control is the wrong way to address a democracy crisis. The tens of millions of radicalized people aren’t going anywhere and without changes to the

grogu

afadjato

There are some independent institutions that are important to every democracy, eg. the media, CSOs, and academia. When functioning free of threat, these groups provide adequate checks for the Executive.

Michael Kingsbury

Celtic_Films

Accelerationists have a fantasy of standing on their front porch with an AR-15 which is an ego boost only.The 2nd Amendment hasn't kept being updated in 200 years. If the

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Here's my @JoeBiden foreign policy "to do" list in the first year. Day One: rejoin the Paris climate agreement. THREAD. 2. Extend the New START Treaty for five years. 3.

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

For a long time, GOP elites imagined “they cld exploit racism & conspiracy theorizing while remaining focused on a plutocratic agenda. But w/ the rise...of the Tea Party, then of...Trump,

Jean-Michel Connard

torriangray

No matter how far into the fringe you are there’s always a way back. You don’t have to be part of this madness. There’s something so liberating about just letting

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