#Autocrats

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Why They Kiss Trump’s RingIn @ruthbenghiat's excellent article, she addresses (among other things) how people like Lindsay Graham’s abruptly converted from fervent Trump critic to staunch Trump defender.https://www.nybooks.

Thomas Lecaque

tlecaque

History is not an endless loop that just repeats over and over and over. It's not a spiral, where nothing is the same but everything rhymes. History is not a

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Autocrats fall and democracies emerge in many different ways. No one model. Splits in ancien regime usually critical. So too are peaceful mass protests. External actors can play negative and

Peter Frank

PeterFr89977258

1/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-existential-crisis-rule-of-law-hungary-poland/This article contains a lot of true statements - and still is fundamentally mistaken and wrong. Thread. 2/The article takes autocracy in the East as a g

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

MUST READ THREAD:A damning indictment of the “medical-political complex” & “state corruption on a grand scale” over Covid, by @bmj_latest British Medical Journal Executive Editor @KamranAbbasi:My summary: we’re being *robbed*

Holly Brewer

earlymodjustice

1. When I read this tweet from Pence’s daughter, sent during the coup attempt on January 6, which includes the excerpt about Pence’s deliberations about the history of his role

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

EVERY TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY SCANDAL IN ONE TWEET.It is impossible to summarize any of Trump's complex foreign scandals in just 280 characters—key pieces will always be missing—but Twitter urges us

Maureen Fitzsimmons

mojos55

#BMJ lashes out at UK ‘state #corruption’ and ‘suppression of #science’The highly-respected medical journal hit out at the "politicisation of science" in an article lashing out at #Tory cronyism.Henry Goodwin

Ethan Gardner 🎅🏻🎄

ethanhgardner

Anakin Skywalker’s individualistic focus on the principle of due process clashed with Mace Windu’s systemic diagnosis of the erosion of checks and balances in the galactic republic that left the

Ruth #BLM

FullofRuth

Let’s carry this fiasco onto the world stage and look at the damage unfolding there. The visible destruction of American democracy and the rise of fascistic thinking in America legitimizes

Luke McGee

lukemcgee

While EU is no stranger to perpetual crises, the past few weeks have shone a light on the bloc's inherent weaknesses. No one is suggesting it is going to collapse,

Abdulla

KarakMufti

THREAD. It's a good day to talk about Mariem Hassan's music, and this track in particular, released in 2010 with an album bearing the same name. Mariem Hassan was among

Jarrett Blanc

JarrettBlanc

1/ This is is generally a good piece of analysis from @ewong @stevenleemyers @nytimes, include great quotes from @ryanl_hass. But this one paragraph reflects some of the worst journalistic traits

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Reform & Alliance were offshoots of a Social Credit past in Alberta. Subsuming the federal PC party in 2003. Peter MacKay selling out to libertarian influence & a desire to

Albert Samaha

AlbertSamaha

This is some audacious spin. What actually happened: Pompeo endorsed the results of a rigged election in DRC after a private security company working for a Congolese autocrat back channelled

Jen.Anne.Campbell

JenAnneCampbel1

Here is a thread in support of #AmbassadorPeteUN. For the videos, I include very brief summaries. Common themes in his foreign policy speeches and conversations are: 1. Climate change is

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