#DEMOCRACY

Lafayette Lee

OrangePartisan

1. I anticipate that I’ll be accused of overplaying the role of voter fraud in this election, so I thought I’d head these critics off at the pass by highlighting

Mimi NL

MimiNguyenLy

1/ .@realDonaldTrump in final remarks of his speech: "If this egregious fraud is not fully investigated and addressed, the 2020 election will forever be regarded as illegitimate and the most

Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC

MattNegrin

The press is almost completely spun on this. They will treat everything with a shade of legal “process” as just part of the story.The headline is BARR ATTACKS U.S. DEMOCRACY

WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹🏳️‍🌈

wgsaraband

Scots have been gaslighted into the belief that they're uniquely incompetent, inadequate and irresponsible, theirs being the only country incapable of independence.Scotland will regain independence when we convince a majority

Katie Hobbs

katiehobbs

Wrapping up my 51st trip around the sun and this dumpster fire of a year with some perspective. A of gratitude. 1/15 #1 I’m thankful for ending this year intact

Scott Hershovitz

shershovitz

While we wait for a concession we won't get, some philosophical reflections on concessions and other normative powers.Conceding comes in two flavors. It's a normative power, the exercise of which

Richy Black

mabuzzer

1/ A short(ish) thread on Scotland's Additional Member System, and how we've been looking at it wrongly for over 20 years 2/ First a thought experiment: which of the election

Ben Coates

bencoates1

In my experience, lots of people don’t vote FvD because they’re antisemitic or pro-fascist or want an end to democracy. They do so because: a) they think Muslim immigrants are

Mark Cuban

mcuban

This is a generalization, but it seems like Reps feel like no one will give to their candidates so a food bank is a good choice. Dems get angry and

Portland Press Herald

PressHerald

Morning, Twitter. Going to be a different kind of thread today. We try to keep this at least a little light even as we get you the news of what

Matthew Hankins

mc_hankins

These people.They don't dress like us. They don't talk like us. They don't share our cultural values. They don't understand our geography. They don't understand our history. They don't integrate.

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

Barack Obama took office amid an economic crisis. Joe Biden takes office amid a civilizational crisis.He must know that you don’t heal a nation through avuncular kumbaya bipartisan shamanism.You heal

Jim Himes

jahimes

Speaking of Alex Jones, here’s a video of him at DC’s pre-insurrection MAGA rally: grievance, rage, incitement of violence. IMO, it’s this stuff, not the wokeness of Professors of Semiotics

Sarah Bressan

bressansar

How should #thinktanks think about misinformation? Here are a few points from our discussion:https://twitter.com/WonkComms/status/1362400578173890561 Yes, think tank(er)s are targets of misinformation, e.g. via twitter and on blogs. At toda

Dr. Swamp Witch

rebhill

In my previous analysis of right wing violence, I've noticed how often right wingers in power will use the threat of that violence to achieve the ends of the far

Alexander Stubb

alexstubb

Thread:The @realDonaldTrump Presidency has been a disaster on many accounts, not least for us avid Transatlantisists and friends of America. Time will heal the wounds and I hope that the

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