#Secession

Gomer

FullCommie

Secession is a good option for bringing socialism to the US, a thread. 1/12 Secession is when one part of a country leaves to form its own country. This can

Joe Ray

PerfidiousAlbn

1. The Clarity Act was significant not just because it provided formal legislation for secessionist referendums within Canada but because it reframed the entire debate surrounding them – Quebec secession

cassandracarolina

cassandra17lina

THREAD: So you want to #secede? You want to ditch the #RedStates? Escape the #BlueStates? Turns out, #secession is complicated business. Here are some thoughts from my years in #Texas,

Progress SA 🇿🇦

ProgressRSA

Threa - please read till the end. This week we conducted a survey on the idea of Cape secession.We were interested in gauging public opinion and hearing arguments to inform

AP

gongnui

An explainer for people wanting to understand the significance of tonight's arrests:Tony Chung, Ho Ngok Hang, Yanni Ho and one more (as yet unnamed) former member of Student Localism were

Franita Tolson (is a New California Elector) 💕💚

ProfTolson

Let me tell you a story. (1/x)https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1340866796786741250 Timothy Pickering had a resume that any modern politician would envy – war hero, postmaster general, secretary of war, secretary of state –

Phil Craig

philcraig2

1/ A thread on secession (#capeinedependence), the law & the anti-independence propaganda campaignThe independence message has now firmly crossed over into the mainstream narrative and both business & provincial govt

Caleb McDaniel

wcaleb

The year 1860 would like a word. In all seriousness, the tendency not to see the secession crisis as an election crisis says interesting things about the memory of the

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) Thoughts on secession.2) Before 1861, the Federalists in 1814 briefly toyed with seceding from the Union over the War of 1812. (They were strongly pro-Brit). It fizzled.3) As everyone

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ So Rush Limbaugh says liberals and conservatives can't co-exist, but we did, before the likes of him and other radio loudmouths came along, spinning the notion that the left

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

I've covered US secession movements for the better part of a decade now, and one point: The momentum, desire, and infrastructure for secession is very, very clearly tilted toward the

Pax Christus

paxchristus0

I recently found a series of excellent, thought-provoking speeches by historian Donald Livingston on how the conception of America changed post-Civil War from a 'Jeffersonian' view where states held dominance,

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

NEW: For the first time since the Civil War, a serious secession bill has been filed in a U.S. state. Here's what the new Texas secession bill would do, and

Kevin Gannon misses Grogu

TheTattooedProf

Hi there-Civil War historian here. So, uh...this is really, really far from "The Truth." Got a minute? /1https://twitter.com/senatormcdaniel/status/1029916257490018304 2/ Lee certainly did not believe slavery was wrong. In an 1856

Rob Hoadley

robhoadley

It's not a high bar for Trump to clear, but the worst Post-Presidency probably belongs to John Tyler. Never elected, he became President when William Henry Harrison died in 1841.

Sonia Le Gouriellec

MorningAfrika

La guerre civile a de nombreuses racines mais l'intervention du 4 nov est une reconquête territoriale d’une région sécessionniste (de fait) : le Tigray. Ici j'interroge un des angles du

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