#Supermajority

Matt Gurney

mattgurney

I'm increasingly worried we won't learn anything from COVID-19. I think we're going to have a perfect political storm where both Liberal and Conservative voters — between them, basically a

Jenezmyyy 🌟

jenezmy

I’ve put together a more detailed illustration of which Regional Seats were won by each party at which stage and then did a little experiment where I moved all the

Adam Jentleson 🎈

AJentleson

Here’s McConnell advancing one of the most pernicious myths about the filibuster: that it promotes moderation. There’s no real evidence this is true. OTOH the filibuster singlehandedly blocked civil rights

no justice, no peace

nandelabra

Barack Obama, genius and statesman thinker, lost a supermajority in two years. Donald Trump, the only man in history to lose money running a casino, confirmed three SCOTUS judges. Stay

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Important data here from @jhaushofer & collaborators, comparing actual attitudes with (mis-)perceptions about attitudes:Should we stop social gatherings?97% say yesbut they think only 67% believe this.Should we close stores?77% say

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BingoDemagogue

Here's what Boris should do; call a referendum on Scottish Independence. Bear with me... 1. Don't devolve the power to Holyrood. A constitutional referendum - run from Westminster, on UK

Adam Gurri

adamgurri

The notion of "steelmanning" or criticizing the "strongest version" of something you disagree with seems harder to pin down that I used to think. So often a critic's strongest version

Scott Lemieux

LemieuxLGM

You knew this was cominghttps://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1331826974432649218 As Sotomayor says, the majority's argument that places of worship are being singled out for unfair treatment requires treating highly dissimilar things a

Scott #BLM #ACAB #DefundPolice Menor

smenor

No less of *this* nonsense pleaseIf people like George spent a fraction of the time they wast admonishing people like @ProudSocialist on pushing @JoeBiden not even left of centre but

Elinor Elliot

ElliotElinor

Cummings' grand ambition is the establishment of a techno fascist state. He has a free run at it, courtesy of a Tory supermajority. He is not going to give up

Citizens for Ethics

CREWcrew

This may sound extreme, but to save our democracy, the filibuster needs to go. Here’s why: If 41 senators agree to block a bill, they can—even if the other 59

@syria_map

syria_map

A large number of Turkistan Islamic Party fighters are being moved to... not to the front lines with the Syrian Arab Army, but Turkey. For the past few days, accompanied

David Woodhouse #FBPE

dwmw2

On democracy: Remember that in 1979, Scots voted 51.6% in favour of devolution — but didn't get it (then) and the Scotland Act was repealed.Why?1/12 Because the turnout was too

Nicholas Schrieber

theKingScribe

Today, we're gonna take a look at the two competitive districts in the Delaware Senate for 2020: SD5 and SD7. Both have "moderate" Republican incumbents and sizeable Democratic registration advantages.

Ronnie Glynn

RonnieForSenate

Due to the reinstatement of the mask mandate and the rise in COVID-19 cases, I have decided to cancel our in-person election night event. I want to thank Montgomery County

Mark Copelovitch

mcopelov

Again, this is mostly a category mistake. The problem is our political institutions, not American individualism. Supermajorities of Americans favor the economic & public health policies we need to crush