#Democracy

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

I'm not a fan of many of the founders. They were terrible human beings. But I am a fan of some of their ideas. Patrick Henry declared: "we have done

Dan Scarrow

danhscarrow

I have been asked by several people now, how they feel that the current situation in HK will impact the #vanre and #tore markets, so here are my thoughts: (1)

Shaquille Balasuriya

_Shaquille_

I wrote the Duminda tweet! Equality is judging men/women based on their results and Hirunika has been an absolute train wreck. I know because I am from the area she

Oli

berkshirehorses

What is going on with the Reading Council coronavirus walking and cycling infrastructure, and why is it taking so long to implement?#rdguk@ReadingCouncil @readingcycle 1/ On May 15th Reading Council announced

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. 28,000 news media workers gone since the pandemic. There is a crisis of the free press, and it is directly a result of the monopoly of advertising by Google

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Meet a suffragist who began her career canvassing Kansas in 1867 -- and ended it in 1918 burning Woodrow Wilson’s speeches by the White House.In today’s episode of Suffrage Powerhouses

The Ranty Highwayman

RantyHighwayman

The study was in 1998 with a follow up review piece in 2002 https://nacto.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/disappearing_traffic_cairns.pdfThe study looked at dozens of sites across several countries. More recently, the Waltham Forest experien

Kanchan Gupta

KanchanGupta

#Fact Congress is all for #FreePress so long as #media sucks up to Nehru Dynasty and attacks opponents of 'Family'. Moment 'Family' is attacked, the mask of #tolerance and #FreeSpeech

Tea Pain

TeaPainUSA

MINI-THREAD1) MAGA are drawn to Trump by two primary motivations: racism and power, and these two are inseparably linked. Their racism is fueled primarily by fear of minorities and their

Civil War Humor

CivilWarHumor

After Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Grant was riding back to camp in late afternoon when his aides were like, “Hey, Ulysses, don’t you think we should tell the brass in

Anurag Acharya

Anurag_Acharya

Government preparing a 'peace and security' bill that proposes power for local administration officers under Home Ministry, to deny permission for peaceful gathering and protests, as per their discretion. Still

NDI Democracy and Technology Team

NDItech

Rising authoritarianism is harnessing online campaigns to threaten democracy globally. @NDI’s @ipolitico surveyed these challenges and potential solutions at the #FutureOfDemocracy conference. Some highlights (thread ): COVID, the struggl

Duke of Qin

qin_duke

The Chinese Communist Party as an anti-liberal filtering mechanism. An interesting quirk of the Party is that it locks out potential liberal infiltrators from any real power. Most countries are

Barack Obama

BarackObama

No one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy like the debacle in Wisconsin this week.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-election-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare Ever

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

RECAP: Key thing Kamala said at #VPDEBATE : ‘On January 28, the Vice President & the President were informed that #COVID19 was airborne and lethal in consequence.’This was 4 days

Anambra1stson's new acct

UcheOkoyep

Most Nations are largely heterogeneous!Nation-building requires one thing "Value System"Nigeria has incompatible value systems.Eg "The American value system is rooted in freedom.What is the Nigerian Dream?South East, Far North, South