#Democracy

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

I can still remember the absolute shock I felt when I realised once and for all that almost everything I'd grown up believing about Britain was wrong. I'd been on

Fair Fight

fairfightaction

THREAD: On Aug 6, 1965, 153 days after John Lewis was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the VRA was signed into law. In 2013, the GOP-led Sup Court gutted

Nicola Spurling 🟩 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

NicESpurling

I follow rappers and reaction channels so I've seen @IAMTOMMACDONALD's People So Stupid circulating. It's getting enough attention that I can't ignoring it without providing a breakdown of the lyrics

C.M. Lewis // Pass the #PROAct

thehousered

So a thread summarizing some of this pamphlet.https://twitter.com/thehousered/status/1386134073991630849 First, the signatories to the report:James Chamberlain Baker, Mary Beard, Carl Becker, Jacob Billikopf, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, John A.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

US politics over the past 40 years have been dominated by a coalition of plutocrats and evangelicals, whose priorities are weirdly out of step with anything resembling Biblical Christianity. It

Richard JR

Richard60252615

This is a long thread meant to be read as one contiguous stream of consciousness. It addresses my dire concern for our democracy in #Alberta.I fear @jkenney is a false

Eric Garland

ericgarland

And people have been laundering money so many interesting ways: casinos, of course, nightclubs....private schools...retail...small local governments, maybe? https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1266957428593221640 Put Mob money, hypotheti

Politics of Empathy - Rosanna Lilley

rosanna_lilley

@LBC Yesterday was very difficult. Personally and politically. The producers from @mrjamesob’s show hung up on me when I was trying to tell them this:My response to the “rebellion" lead

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Personally, I find the idea that Priti Patel didn't know the harm she was causing 100% plausible. And why? Because people without a shred of empathy do not know and

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

So. We got into it in the new Muckrake Podcast, but we need to talk about the American history of pseudo-events, fake protests, fabricated movements, and the type of psychological

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R), who personally blocked federal election-security legislation, is from TN. TN’s largest county is Shelby County where, in 2015, Bloomberg reported that voting machines in predominantly black

Jaraparilla

jaraparilla

To make sense of the world, what you need is a narrative. A narrative puts everything in an historical context, with logical progress. Cause and effect. Obviously, the "official narrative"

Simon Henderson

simjhenderson

1. With the passage of the #NationalSecurityLaw in #HongKong, #Australia should immediately terminate the Australia-Hong Kong Extradition Agreement.Below is a thread on why & some of the problems, highlighting just

Rebecca Lissner

RebeccaLissner

If Joe Biden wins on November 3, the Trump-to-Biden presidential transition will begin one week from today. Even in normal times, the transition period is the most perilous moment in

Naked Mormonism

NakedMormonism

Why I watch #GeneralConference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)...A thread:... We've all heard, you can leave the church, but you can't leave it alone. That

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

Trump's assault on Inspectors General is late-stage corruption. The canary in the coal mine was the government ethics program, which began engaging with the Trump team long before the election.