#Democracy

Voices of Wentworth

VoicesWentworth

@DaveSharma misses the point. The entire world has just witnessed a shocking attack on #democracy. All the #freespeech noise is deflecting focus from the far more important discussion about the

PanAfrican Child🌍

MooreNejat

[Thread]A LETTER TO THE WORLD FROM MALAWIBy now, I am confident that you have heard the good news from Malawi. I will just emphasize and confirm that it’s true: We,

Kate Hammerberg

kate_hberg

There is going to be a lot written about what happened at the Capitol so I wanted to talk about what it felt like to be a DC resident last

Norman Ornstein

NormOrnstein

I want to be realistic here. The opening for Democrats is not likely at all to be by altering the filibuster rule, although adamant Republican obstruction could change that calculus

Peter Kalmus

ClimateHuman

For everyone saying the cops let the insurrectionists go because they're white, you're not wrong but there is an additional layer: it's because they are white fascists, just like the

Kyle Becker

kylenabecker

You can invade a free country with information easier than standing armies. America's enemies realized this. Russia appeared to have surrendered after the Cold War. It didn't.U.S. declared "mission accomplished"

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The President of the United States is sitting in the Oval Office floating the idea of a full-scale military coup.He probably won’t try it, but we’re primed for an authoritarian

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manobhavaalu

fascism thread :Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of largecapitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy.Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in orderto

The Analysis

teamanalysis_

The Constitution of India gives its citizens the right to freedom of speech & expression, assemble peacefully and without arms, under Article 19(1).But whether it includes the "Right to protest"

Omair Ahmad

OmairTAhmad

The problem with much of the media today - globally - is not the amount of negative news (that's the nature of news); it's the amount of negative news that

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) Since this piece is generating a great deal of discussion in and about Sweden, I'll say something obvious: The intl press have an obsession with Sweden. From refugees to

AFP News Agency

AFP

#BREAKING Aung San Suu Kyi detained by Myanmar army: party spokesman "With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup," said

Stephen Spaulding

SteveESpaulding

One year ago today, I was on the floor of the House of Representatives, staffing Members for the vote on #HR4—then called the "Voting Rights Advancement Act," since re-named the

MZS

mattzollerseitz

Among other things, the HBO Max discourse is proof that the general public hates filmmakers as much as they hate every other kind of artist. “I want my ‘content’ and

Nan Aron

NanAron

If there’s one thing this president doesn’t lie about, it’s his eagerness to stack the courts with extremists prepared to carry out Republicans’ conservative agenda, overturning access to health care

George Takei

GeorgeTakei

A thread. When this current nightmare is past us, we must not forget that it happened. I have known an America that descended into fascism before, when my entire community

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