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Carl Henrik Knutsen
carlhknutsen
In a new @PoPpublicsphere article, @polyarchist and I study the geographical coverage in political science research over more than a century (Thread, 1/15!):https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/geographic
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Teri Kanefield
Teri_Kanefield
Here's a full report on why state legislatures cannot redirect their electors for Trump. h/t @NastyOldWomyn Notice the power (and advantage) a liar has.A liar can force us to spend
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Tyson Barker
tysonbarker
What a remarkable month in the geopolitics of tech in the Euro-Atlantic space. Today Slovakia's FM @IvanKorcok signed the anti-Huawei Clean 5G Initiative w the US in the face of
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Christina Patterson
queenchristina_
I’ve been reading the papers this morning and the précis, I’m afraid to say, is: we really are f***ed. Option A herd immunity for the whole word, which would involve
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Elad Verbin
verbine
If we keep pretending that token-based governance is a thing, we'll just keep designing dysfunctional systems that only serve as fodder for speculators. If you want to design tokenized systems
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MARTIN ERLIĆ 🇭🇷
SeloSlav
There's no such thing as Classical Liberalism or moderation in politics.These are costumes.What matters most is how your choices and beliefs shape civilizational behavior in the limit of the cycle,
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TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷
BettinaSRoss1
As a German, I feel I can't preach about democracy. It is not my intention to patronise. I'd just like to provide an outside view, aware of our own historical,
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Sam Cooper
scoopercooper
New from me: Chinese-Canadians ‘suffering in silence’ as China’s United Front reaches into Canada - National | http://Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/6920433/chinese-canadians-communist-party-influence/ #cndpoli #bcpoli #coronavirus 2.
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James Miller
Millermena
I'm an expert on the Iranian protest movement in 2009-2010. Followed every minute. I'm an expert on Arab Spring. This feels like that. This one is different. And for the
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Ben Schneider
DrOctothorpe
Never again can we Americans look out over the globe at the petty dictators, the charismatic despots, the lying and corrupt kleptocracies that have plagued other nations, that have vined
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David Fortunato
DavidFortunato
Here are some data showing just how unusual this 2020 RNC "platform" is. In short: I can't say that a party in a democratic country has never issued a platform
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Branko Milanovic
BrankoMilan
(long thread)In 7 years of Twitter, I have not received as many negative comments as yesterday on my views re HK's status and democracy there. So I wanted to explain
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Steve Schmidt
SteveSchmidtSES
Democracy in this country it seems is far more fragile than I ever imagined. Trump’s constant undermining of the integrity of the election process through direct and repeated statements that
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Venkatesh Rao
vgr
I can’t believe there’s no countermove to the USPS electoral sabotage This is the most depressing thing on my mental radar right now. Feels like I’m back at square
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Bart Barber
bartbarber
Yesterday @toddstarnes retweeted one tweet out of a thread of mine. The thread was an ANTI-totalitarian thread making a point AGAINST totalitarianism. But it was a thread, and the single
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Paul Poast
ProfPaulPoast
#COVID19 poses a global threat to health. So why is there no comprehensive, multilateral, cooperative response to the threat?Is it because of...- Leaders?- State characteristics?- The "Structure" of the International
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