#Insurrection

My live-tweet thread for impeachment trial coverage will start here. @CourthouseNews https://twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS/status/1359903966419640324 Senators are arriving, President Donald Trump's impeachment trial for incitement of insurre
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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." - Montesquieu Today is #NoPoliticsDay,
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I live in two worlds: Appalachia and not-Appalachia. I lean left in Appalachia, and it’s an extremely challenging double consciousness. 1/10 WEB DuBois described double consciousness in terms of black
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As I’ve had time to reflect on Wednesday’s traumatic events (and they were traumatic, so we all get time to reflect and have insights on this one) I’m especially troubled
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To celebrate #MLKDay & the last Sunday of the Age of Trump, another #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work from the last week. Happy reading! #twitterstorians
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1/10Three days ago, we saw the putrid runoff of what’s been stoked, distilled & fomented by Trump since the beginning of his term. The riot in service of an attempted
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My two cents on this important article from @David_Philipps. I've been trying to tell people for years now that SOF has absolutely no special ability to resist attacks on their
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The fact that these 10 former Secretaries of Defense felt the need to unprecedentedly sign this letter should absolutely be a cause for alarm.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1345854068678385664 2/ Why would Cheney, Rumsfeld, Mattis
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The emergence of many new hypocrisies typically heralds an emerging new cultural synthesis.Are you disturbed that you agree with one of those viewpoints? Or perhaps that other people you respect
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Something I think so many people don’t get about the R’s who still back Trump, vs the ones who are now shocked, is that Rs have long shared an understanding
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So, Trump tweeted something now. Which is good. He had to wait until AFTER his followers had pushed past police and entered the Capitol building and there was a face
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We hear a lot about Facebook as a platform for manipulation - using machine learning to bypass our critical faculties and trick us into believing things that are bad for
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An organization at @CatholicUniv, Cardinals for Life, has invited Abby Johnson to speak next week at an event: "What It Means to Be Pro-Life."This is in contradiction to CUA's own speaker
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about big corporations (eg, Amazon, Verizon, Comcast, etc) deciding to stop giving $ to House & Senate Republicans who voted to overturn @joebiden’s
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1) Looks like Trump KNEW what the coup plotters were plotting on the 6th, so he arrived an hour late to the stage, and talked longer than he intended, before
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A final set of thoughts on 1/6 and what we might want to call it. Thread: A lot of emphasis by coup scholars has been put on how this was
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