#Democracy

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

“ .. if a demagogue has the skill and the cheek to build a dominant majority’s latent insecurities into a persecution complex, he can build an impregnable base. See, for

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Yesterday, I discussed how powerful narratives are. But the thing about narratives is: we all use them to make meaning of our lives and the world.Very many on the left

Carroll Muffett

cmuffett1

From March to August this year, we supported @fairdealguyana and other partners as Guyana teetered on the brink of autocracy for 5 months because a wannabe President-for-Life refused to concede

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

Another look at the vaccine situation. Western nations can only take care of their own vaccine needs. Burden of vaccines of the rest of the world lies with China Comprehensive

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

KendraWrites

Working for The New York Times.https://twitter.com/historyofarmani/status/1290484329580130306 I became a journalist because I wanted to tell stories that held truth to power, that punched up not down, that provided people with

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

TomLevenson

Just read an @radioopensource email on their "cancel culture" program in which Yale professor David Bromwich displayed a level of historical illiteracy that made me wonder if Clio herself appeared

J.J. Abbott

jjabbott

TODAY: Angry at being held accountable in court, PA Republicans seek retribution with their judicial districts scheme.This constitutional change would destroy the courts and disenfranchise 9 million voters in PA.

Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary)

SpockResists

The religious right in America is nationalist identity, it is not a faith expressed through practice. What I mean by this is a reflexive religion-nationalism. It has nothing to do

Jennifer Taub

jentaub

It's on. Day 2 of the Trump Impeachment Trial 2.0. February 10, 2021. We will have a dinner break at 6 p.m.1/ Manager @RepRaskin says this is about truth. This

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Understanding GOP-Trump-Putin love Oh, pick me! @MarkSZaidEsq !I can answer your question about why Trump remains so popular with the GOP.Richard Hofstadter, in his classic work The Paranoid Style

Nervana Mahmoud

Nervana_1

Thread on #Egypt’s Sisi visit to #France, in light of the joint press conference of the two leaders in Paris:@AlsisiOfficial @EmmanuelMacron 1/ Judging with warm body language, it is clear

Jack Zylkin

usbtypewriter

THREAD: I've been reading about Texas' #SCOTUS filing to overturn the election results in PA, MI, WI, GA. The suit claims there was a "one-in-a-quadrillion" chance Biden could possibly have

Martha Kinsella

Martha_Kinsella

Highlighting an important part of the president’s Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking, issued today: the section on science advisory committees.https://www.whitehouse.go

Shreyas Hariharan

HelloShreyas

Wikipedia is such an interesting case study on how to build a productive community.It is a public space. A lot of thought has gone into the design of the systems,

Akiva Cohen

AkivaMCohen

OK. I promised you a thread on the Wisconsin dissents, so here it is. Tl;dr: They are bad and their authors should feel badFirst, a quick spin through the majority/concurrences

Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷)

JoyAnnReid

Attention MAGA faithful ... your king, @realDonaldTrump, has only been tolerated by Republicans because he has what Grover Norquist in 2012 called "enough working digits" to sign tax cuts for

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