#Democracy

KC Is Not Fucking OK

strychninelove

Thread/In addition to these so far unsuccessful hacking attempts, the article reminds us that “the FBI stepped in to warn Facebook that Russia’s troll farm was parading as a nonprofit

Brendan Nyhan

BrendanNyhan

64% is a staggering number. Consider: Who runs for office and who retires in the coming years? Who ascends into leadership or moves to higher office? Easy to imagine pro-democracy

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

The GOP is actively trying to purge its pro-democracy, anti-coup members. We should wonder how much worse the last three months would have been without effective gatekeepers in the rank-and-file.

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

According to the @Telegraph "Boris Johnson has speeded up plans to curb the judiciary". We must not be fooled by claims that this is about restoring "the sovereignty of Parliament".

Matthew Gertz

MattGertz

A thread of some things I wrote that are newly relevant today.Sept. 17: "Trump will likely respond [to Biden gaining ground after trailing] by trying to delegitimize the vote in

Ryan Schlegel

r_j_schlegel

so many profound failures of policy and political imagination led us to MacKenzie Scott personally dictating the allocation of >$5 billion in tax-subsidized private spending for public good this year

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solarpunk_girl

Today excited to join CitizenLab's "Democracy as commons: European landscape of new forms of citizens co-creation and participation" to speak about co-creation, sensemaking, new collaborative forms of organising. Key question:

Tom Clark

prospect_clark

1. Trump is today disowned as an aberration In truth he is the culmination of how the US Right has been going for yearshttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/us-dc-capitol-riots-donald-trump-republican-party 2. Pence, McConnell and Cruz d

Jonathan Alter

jonathanalter

This isn't your father's Grand Old Party, to put it mildly. Republicans used to believe in democracy. In 1976, President Gerald Ford was locked in an extremely tight race with

Ben Rhodes

brhodes

1. As Republicans have (so far) shown no willingness to break from Trump, it's worth considering how much worse things could get under Trump if he continues to have this

Tom London

TomLondon6

BEWARE "doublethink"In 1984 George Orwell defines "doublethink":To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, 1/? to hold simultaneously two opinions which

Dan Farbman

dsfarbman

A few years ago I wrote about a radical experiment undertaken by some idealistic Yankees during reconstruction where they tried to replace the pre-war system of county courts in NC,

Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊

Stand_with_HK

Jimmy Lai, China’s Lie “In today’s Hong Kong, promoting democracy makes you a criminal. And when a billionaire becomes a dissident, the takeover of Hong Kong is complete.”By @WSJ Editorial

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

The interesting bit here is that it's true, strictly speaking, but the democracy is dysfunctional for opposite reasons depending on which side you're on. If you don't understand this and

Jon Weisman

jonweisman

Republicans spent the past four years ruthlessly maximizing its use of power without any regard for anyone who was not part of their party. That continued right up to the

Trinh

Trinhnomics

We know with absolutely certainty that we will be 30 years older by 2050. And guess what? The world is going to be pretty aged except for few pockets such

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