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Olga Lautman
OlgaNYC1211
The thing w authoritarians is they are so predictable. Warned that Trump would use pandemic to commit more crimes/further seize power. That's exactly what he's doing. Today he fired 7
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Onye Nkuzi
cchukudebelu
US cannot commit $1 trillion for financing infrastructure in the developing world, because it is a democracy.Paradoxically, American voters will eagerly spend $1 trillion of their tax dollars on bombing
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David Harsanyi
davidharsanyi
House Democrats on FDR's court packing scheme in 1937:"We recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile, and utterly dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle.""It is a proposal without
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David Merritt
butwhatifitsall
I used to be sceptical about #UniversalBasicIncome but I’m beginning to think it may be the only way to prevent the majority slipping into poverty while a tiny minority become
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Julia Azari
julia_azari
Ok, I developed my strategy for a post-debate discussion in class. Here goes. This is untested, and they may not want to discuss this at all. 1. I want to
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Monika Bauerlein
MonikaBauerlein
The thing that's kept me sane these past few months is thinking about how democracy movements elsewhere have defeated authoritarians and demagogues. Journalists have been a key part of those
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zei_squirrel
congrats to kamala harris for becoming the democratic presidential nominee after dropping out before a single vote was cast in the primary. here she is smearing the bending the knee
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zei_squirrel
the US is not a democracy. it has never been a democracy. and I don't mean in the bullshit pedantic wonk "oh it's a republic" sense, I mean actually in
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Michael Ian Black
michaelianblack
Bummed that one half of our political system doesn't even pretend to care about what's right anymore and that the other half is forced to consider abandoning their own principles
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
AOC
We have lost a giant in the history of our nation with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.It is heartbreaking that in her final moments she was, as are many
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Sanjukta Basu
sanjukta
I promise one thing, if today India's liberal secular activists do not #SpeakUpForDemocracy just because the call is given by @INCIndia, I will no longer extend my support to all
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Anthony Smith
adr_smith
1/5: While there have been previous examples at national level of emergency measures combined with disruption of parliamentary business (eg Ebola), the #COVID-19 pandemic has made this a global phenomenon.
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Owen Jones 🌹
OwenJones84
Just look at this utterly astonishing crybullying behaviour from *a publicly accountable politician* because I retweeted a piece of investigative journalism about a political organisation he founded.This is still just
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The Atlantic
TheAtlantic
1/ When James Mattis stepped down as secretary of defense, he considered his decision a “matter of principle because of grave policy differences with the administration.”http://on.theatln.tc/jGoidhV 2/ In examining those
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.
shengokai
Voting won’t end fascism or somehow change the fact that America is the outcome of a history of genocidal white supremacy. Voting can slow the circulation of the ideologies that
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Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin
JRubinBlogger
Perhaps what Cheney and Biden do not fully appreciate is that today’s GOP does not believe in much of anything. Its members do not want to have a policy debate
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