#Authoritarianism

Paul Cantrell

inthehands

OK, fine, let’s do this.VOTING THIRD PARTY IS FOR SUCKERS: A THREADAs long as we use Plurality Voting — which is idiotic, but we do — the winning strategy for any

Cap'n Coatrack ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 #BLM

BrunoHirschkoff

So uhm. I don’t wanna soapbox about something I have no say in, but I’m seeing that a LOT of extremely high-caliber, long-standing artists are being targeted/directly impacted by this

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

Refusal to play along—even in the privacy of your own mind—is described as “harm,” hatred, and even denying people's existence. The only sense in which gender identity can be "true"

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/As COVID recedes, the world is going to remember that it was in a state of unrest before the virus struck -- and that that unrest never really went away.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-great-protest-wave

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourced list

Joe Pierre, MD

psychunseen

In this latest installment of shit we would’ve never tolerated much less believed before Trump took office, #GOP is literally trying to subvert democracy.@MelissaJPeltier @Heidi_Cuda @DrWinarick @DebiecJacek @RepTedLieu https://www.kcrw.c

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itrulyknowchina

if true, this sheds on light on the scale and depth of a problematic decision-making process in Beijing that's probably outside the usual imagination of outsiderswhich is "fooled by own

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)

Jake V

ViralDonutz

I believed in the @GOP. I trusted that people with vision and character would fight to uphold their ideals with integrity and willpower. Not all of them, of course, I'm

Ilan Goldenberg

ilangoldenberg

1. Been thinking more about potential long-term impacts of COVID-19 on our world. When this global catastrophe is over, there are 5 big questions that may determine if humanity comes

Lauren Robertson

LLRobertson75

OK to say I’m fucking horrified doesn’t even start. I feel ill. History repeating. Before it was known as the Nazi eugenics program. Over 400,000 people were mass is sterilized.

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

With Trump provoking violence at his upcoming rally and revelations about his approval of concentration camps, it is WAY past time people recognize he's an authoritarian leading a fascist movementContinuing

Paul Mozur 孟建國

paulmozur

Final act: my last reporting trip in China. It was supposed to be about life getting to normal, but we were followed by police, had interviewees intimidated, and then got

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

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

Nina

nina_ecarg

Hey, legal/policy twitter: anybody know of any good scholarship connecting reproductive oppression and voter suppression as linked anti-democratic policies? I’ve seen a few articles, but not much, and it’s all