#Democracy

Phillip Halpern: “I won’t work in Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department any longer”He served for 36 years under six administrationshttps://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2020-10-14/william-barr-de
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Let’s see what some of 2019’s biggest political advertisers in the UK are up to these days... Here’s the website of Britain’s Future, who spent £434,721 on Facebook ads in
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Things are stressful and difficult for so many people right now. I’d love to share a story of people just being good to each other. It happened to me yesterday.
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So here we go, at last. After months of foggy optimism, Australia has been forced to acknowledge that the virus is in the community, largely asymptomatic and therefore impossible to
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If I was asked to design an election process that would guarantee low levels of participation, I would include ten simple elements. First, I'd hold the election in the middle
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If you're going on and on about "respecting native land" -- please read 1491 by Charles C. Mann.The way I keep seeing native cultures portrayed here on Twitter is consistent
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Thread - The events of January 2nd in Amsterdam raise a lot of questions. Of you create a timeline it will, in my opinion, show the deliberate escalation attempts by
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x InfinityWhat the fuck is this?The Pentagon was run by traitors who’s goal was to DESTROY DEMOCRACY. “Minutes before” AYFKM? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/24/pentagon-internet-address-mystery/ Here’s Bannon talk
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It's funny now to hear Democrats tell Bernie supporters that they should vote for Biden because of the supreme court being conservative 1st off you all let @senatemajldr steal your
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THREAD:Some Immutable COVID FACTS:Young adults are the vector for the virus.They go out and about. They are not afraid of getting infected.They will infect others.#coronavirus In a rare interview, Fed
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As promised here's my thread on Campus Reform, right wing attacks on academics, and the right wing disinformation machine. Let's start w exhibit A So I had a thread yesterday
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Jack Butler at the National Review calls Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series a "comforting technocratic fable."https://twitter.com/jackbutler4815/status/1246838444866879493?s=21 I loved the Foundation Trilogy when I was a boy.
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THREAD: Facebook’s election announcement today may appear at first blush to help the left—which will benefit from higher turnout and a full count of mail-in ballots. But the story is
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Thread:An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en
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I gotta go but I want to throw out a quick thread on the history of identity politics. It’s so important. Please read to the end before commenting. 1/ ‘Identity
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It is apparently #InternationalPodcastDay. I'd very much appreciate it if you shared or listened to my newest podcast, Powers & Principalities, which looks at the social impact of Christian nationalism
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