#Democracy

Maddy Crowther

CrowtherMaddy

1/ Having served as 1 of the expert witnesses for this case, I disagree with the determination. A lot to say here to say about evidentiary standards in asylum appeals

zookoⓩ🛡

zooko

Folks, censorship/deplatforming/suppression-of-alternative-viewpoints/"thought-suppression" is *already* rapidly metastasizing. https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1277667936782573568 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/127761

cailín 🌷

cailinfr

*sigh* let’s talk about bernie [disclaimer that this thread is directed at my fellow privileged peers, particularly those who hold white privilege, have US citizenship, and/or come from a high-income

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1/. Two hundred years ago, a slab of Purbeck stone was set deep into a hillside overlooking LondonCalled the Free Speech Stone, it is a place where people have gathered

Ben Phillips

ben_phi11ips

Road verges can provide habitats for pollinators such as #bees, butterflies & beetles. But are pollinators at risk from pollution & being hit by vehicles? & how can we

gabriel⁵// fanboi // MSD 📌//

regularfanboi

hiii everyone so I know this isnt about TXT but it's about the place where I live instead.I'm a HongKonger, and you probably know about some of the protests that

星星之火，可以燎原

_tanwho_

1/25Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory and PracticeIn the past I have referenced Deng Xiaoping Theory, and I will attempt to cover some basics in this thread. I will cover the Reform

v4dc2 - DC statehood News

V4DC2

BREAKING Devastating report that @Sen_JoeManchin D-WV opposes #DCstatehood US #VotingRights bill 2021, by @WashingtonPost @Meagan_Flynn.DC must pivot to holding US House in 2022 & winning as many GOP held US

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dom_dipierro

okay here’s a thread of nonfiction books, papers, & articles I love & recommend, mostly about politics & socioeconomics, but some other ones mixed in. I’ll try to keep updating

Twitter Safety

TwitterSafety

We suspended five Twitter accounts for platform manipulation that we can reliably attribute to Russian state actors. As standard, they will be included in updates to our database of information

alice 🇨🇳

GOWONlKA

“read and search up news about the camps in china” *posts misinformation that’s fueling sinophobic and orientalist attitudes*https://twitter.com/kaiiprasads/status/1301646941105856513 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ef5kHPvQRkR_c

John Hayward

Doc_0

The great political struggle of the past 20 years is not nationalism vs. globalism. It's nationalism vs. authoritarianism. Nation-states are the only way common people have a chance to restrain

Gilded Bat ୧(ಠ◇ಠ)୨

gildedbat

While hair dyeing, I had some Thoughts on the conversation that @CupcakeGoth started today with this post: https://bit.ly/2HzB3vi The topic of gatekeeping in the goth scene brought up something that

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. Have the Democrats forgotten the youth vote? I tend to dwell in the @MSNBC echo-chamber that is far from a bastion of youthful faces. What do 18 year old

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

There’s a distinctive way that right wingers broach issues of race that is captured well in this scene from The Plot Against America. The point is not to get “the

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Raminkura

PRIORITIZING ISLAMIC OVER #ENDSARS ADVOCACYIn an effort to overturn the image of Muslims as fire-breathing, terrorising, sword-slashing conquerors and avengers, no muslim is expected to partake in the #ENDSARS