#Authoritarian

Sam Greene

samagreene

We need to recognize how remarkable this is./1https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/supreme-court-election-texas.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Part of me, of course, wants to see this as mundane --

EJ Watson

ejwatsonjr

Something we keep forgetting in this debate about queer Mormonism is that Mormonism =/= the Church. The Church consists of a group of well-meaning but bigoted, queerphobic, authoritarian men. Mormonism

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: Law schools play a central role in the normalization of mass human caging. A few thoughts:https://twitter.com/YaleLJournal/status/1350080294934732800 Yesterday, the Yale Law Journal celebrated the greatest human caging force in mode

Bill Cooke

BillCookester

A short 'tweeticle' in honor of this great journal thanks to @SimmsMelanie for her tweet prompting me 1/https://twitter.com/HR_TIHR/status/1356156800568086528 The name 'Human Relations' was proposed by the Rockefeller Founda

Lindsey Simmons

LynzforCongress

I let this go yesterday because I’m trying to ignore the blithering nonsense that rolls out of this counterfeit senator’s mouth.But I want us to take a few minutes and

Maximillian Mørch

max_morch

1/n At least 426 people have been arrested since the coup on 1st Feb, but what are conditions likely to be for those detained? A thread on political prisoners, prisons,

Jessica Drun

jessicadrun

Has the Quincy Institute not found a way to criticize the United States without painting authoritarian states as completely blameless? All right, on the China/Taiwan section. https://quincyinst.org/2020/12/03/a-new-direction-a-foreign-poli

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Elizrael

Interesting. Îlham Ehmed, the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council, the political body of the SDF that controls NE Syria, calls for the establishment of "a joint project with the

Jo Fobelets 🤓

JoFobelets

The attacks by the Erdoğan regime against Turkey's LGBTQ+ community are instensifying:the newly Erdoğan-appointed rector of the Boğaziçi University, Melih Bulu,closed the university's LGBTQ+ students' club. #LGBTİHaklarıİ

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

An important @BuzzFeed piece by @RMac18 and @CraigSilverman uses leaks and insider accounts from @Facebook to paint a picture of a company where morale is in freefall, as techies are

Feminist Proper Gander

dappergander

Lots of hay has been made of QAnon’s affection for Russia and Vladimir Putin. One seemingly obvious conclusion is that QAnon is secretly funded by Russians, who use the movement

Steve Faktor

ideafaktory

Platforms shouldn't enforce or elevate government truths, "authoritative sources", or certain voices above others. You'll never save the stupid from themselves by weakening freedom of expression - or the tools

Summer Whitford

FoodAndWineDiva

Our fragile Democracy has always relied too heavily on the assumption of scruples and integrity of elected and appointed patronage rather than tested, proven career professionals with impeccable qualifications and

Dr. Lemayian Njenga Karugia J. PhD.

johnnjenga

DARK BBI FORCES IN KENYA1. Dark forces are about to capture Kenya. It is not a time to keep quiet. Uhuru and Raila are holding 50 million Kenyans hostage. It

Aubrey

TheAlbertFlash

The funniest bloke on this platform has been banished.What many don’t know is that all of our accounts have a score. The more you are blocked, reported or use certain

Pamina in a Pear Tree

pamina_q

In the new You're Wrong About episode about Tipper Gore's crusade against "porn rock", @RottenInDenmark observed that media oriented moral panics like this often collapse the context of the things

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