#Democratic

Haley Byrd Wilt

byrdinator

Democratic leaders plan how to navigate slim House majority:House Whip Jim Clyburn says there will be “significant changes” in how leadership conducts business in the new year. https://thedispatch.com/p/democrats-congress-pelosi-ocasio

Poseur

ATVSPoseur

One of the big rules of thumb is to not take election results to confirm your prior beliefs, so here are the things that surprised me and need to spend

punkacademic

punk_academic

Lots of stuff on academic freedom today - more precisely lack thereof - but this part of the govt letter was always implied in the powers granted to OfS.Remember being

Lee Drutman

leedrutman

We talk a lot about asymmetrical polarization. The most troubling asymmetrical polarization is that only one party's leaders believe that democracy is worth preserving and it depends on not demonizing

Moshe

LiberteEquality

"Politicians are using religious discord and caste conflicts to drive a wedge in the society"This point is view is a bit unsettling - suggesting that politicians are 'driving a wedge

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

I’m thinking a lot this morning about how to cover Trump going forward. I think it’s important to keep an eye on him as he’s the leader of a violent,

Greg Bluestein

bluestein

.@NikkiHaley to Republicans in Cumming: “I know you're tired of the commercials, and I know you're tired of mail pieces and I know you're tired of the text messages. But

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Prosecuting people for their political affiliations or opinions is anti-democratic abuse of power. NOT prosecuting indictable crimes is also a political decision. If those crimes include crimes against democracy and

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

While it will be difficult to rescind such a vote, the silence in the media and from Democratic leaders on this harassment is chilling. Indeed, Democratic leaders have joined in

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I worked with Josh Hawley for a year. He seemed like a nice guy, which just goes to show you that our civility norms need to be less about whether

Karl Bode

KarlBode

this scenario seems more than likely:1. Pai announces he's leaving the FCC, with the timing intended to help nudge the rush appointment of Trump-ally and Section 230 hater Simington to

Tech Inquiry

tech_inquiry

We have written @POTUS a letter expressing our dismay at the potential selection of Renata Hesse as AAG of the antitrust division at DOJ:https://techinquiry.org/RenataHesseConcerns.pdftldr: Her work defending Google from an

Kerrie Joy

iamkerriejoy

ListennnnVOTEBut use critical thoughtVote your conscience Fuck these party linesRemember that a republican president gassed protesters at the WH, that the dem mayor Hancock, of Denver, spent our $ to

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

I ask this earnestly: is there any evidence - even a shred - that if Biden or some other Democrat were in the White House that things would be different?

Gurminder K Bhambra

GKBhambra

Stuart Hall, in his account of ‘authoritarian populism’, argued that marketization hollows out civil society by removing services from local participation & determination. This, then, leaves a democratic vacuum that

Claire Fox

Fox_Claire

#BrexitDeal thread: Right tone from @spikedonline "Is it the real thing? What have we compromised?...why would something as simple as Brexit, as Britain restoring its sovereign, democratic power...require 2,000 pages

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