#Authoritarian

Nicholas Loubere

NDLoubere

The article 'The Long-run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money' in @sciencemagazine is an excellent example of how prestige academic publishing and the media can manufacture a 'development miracle'—in

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AddisonDJenkins

Re: Gay Mormons, A Thread™ Personally, when I engage with people who actively choose to make "Mormon" a part of their identity equal to their queerness my motivation is to

Timothy Snyder

TimothyDSnyder

0/25. Lying about disease kills us and our democracy. Quotations from "Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary," published this week. #OurMalady 1/25. "In January, (the federal government)

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial -- The Full Story:https://greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assange-loses-appeal-british Press freedom and civil liberties groups throughout the W

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

Conservatives in the US celebrate in Christian women the very things they pathologize in Muslim women, and with #AmyConeyBarrett they have gone into overdrive h/t @cpepp And knowing that, I

Mulder’s Fleet of Zombie Voters for High Taxes

proteinwisdom

Anybody who didn’t understand that the White Nationalist “alt-right” was always just the identity politics left looking for someone to champion *their* identity politics, didn’t read pw or my column

Ooana Trien

ooana

There have been many people pointing out that the proliferation of dancing nurses and doctor videos since the onset of global COVID19 policy has been...well...tacky. I agree, but also think

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) The Spirit of Liberty Walker asksSpoiler: A surprising number of people prefer a “strongman” to rule-of-law democracy.Let's start with a definition of democracy.I like Lincoln's: “A majority held in

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

joshua rush

JoshuaRush

It’s 7 days til the election, and a new and illegitimate Supreme Court justice is all the more reason to fight hard to win back a Senate Democratic majority.So, let’s

Emre Dinc

parabistmir

It's been about 1 month I decided to use Twitter as an academic platform to contact with other students, academics, and experts. In one month, I learned a lot and

Aidan Comerford

AidanCTweets

I'm doing a thread of all the times "gender-critical" voices have been heard. This is off the top of my head. Please add your own examples.December 2017: BBC Documentary, “Transgender

Al 𖤐 hex 𖤐 Lawson 🎃

AlexLawsonOFD

1/ Since Bernie dropped out I’ve been seeing a lot of (mostly) white nonsense about people withholding their vote & making the spurious claim that it is morally reprehensible to

Ciaran J.L. Marshall 3.5% 🌐

macroeu

So I’ve finished reading “Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going” by LKY (already). A fascinating insight into an exemplary statesman, one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century. That’s

Alex-ogre 👹 Reid Ross

areidross

Here's a brief thread about the historical parallels between federal forces' "snatch-and-grab" tactics in Portland in comparison with US-backed Latin American military dictatorships in the '70s and '80s and the

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

The "Deep State" chryon here caught my eye. It's become such a ubiquitous talking point in conservative media. When did American politicians and commentators start using that term? Well, I