#Democracy

Apparently The Real Reason Why We're Celebrating 67 Minutes On 18th Of July Is Because He Died In 1985 Aged 67. The Mandela That We Knew All Along Was A
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Suggestion: Don't call the violent assault on democracy "the Big Lie." It doesn't matter what they believe. What matters is that they invited foreign enemies to attack us and then
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ThreadRemember when Democrats knelt with kente cloth?Y’all called it performative.Were you aware that it was the Congressional Black Caucus that handed out the kente and they followed it up with
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Thread1. This nightmare thought up by @NickKnudsenUS that I tweeted about a month ago still keeps me awake worrying. Read it through & try to imagine waking up in November
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I sometimes look back to my essay that got me accepted into University of Bristol, @BristolUni. Back then, my future was perfect, I had secured a place in a globally
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The UCP's 10-step plan for turning a democracy into a dictatorship.1. First, destroy labor unions, so people have no way to bargain for higher wages and less capacity for political
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Here comes a thread. If I explain why I don't support Hong Kong protestors, dropping links from an NGO like Amnesty International isn't about to change my mind.I will drop
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1. We know he lied under oath to Mueller2. We know he violated both the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses of the Constitution3. We know he violated FEC rules (per
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1/7Good article by Janan Ganesh, but while I agree that governance is what democracies are supposed to do best, I would also argue that democracies, as Churchill is supposed to
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1/15Voting is personal for me. I grew up in Canada, a country to which my family and I immigrated. I’ve joked that unlike Barack Obama, I actually AM a Kenyan-born
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The John Birch Society, which pioneered the “we’re a republic not a democracy” meme that Mike Lee echoed yesterday, hated Chief Justice Earl Warren with a burning passion because of
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In a few hours for the first time since 1999 a President will be held to account. Today is the first day of reckoning for @realDonaldTrump it is a day
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Today I gave the invocation on the House floor.I prayed for love to guide our policy-making.A radical love for the oppressed, the hungry, the homeless, and the sick. #txlege “Holy
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@JebSprague @gabriel67891734 @PedroRNunes The Empire's showcase of democracy & #Corruption in the #Caribbean-#DominicanRepublic #Medinaregime - Via @VladimirVargasM https://twitter.com/VladimirVargasM/status/1289756614560555010 This
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1) Nuggets from Joseph Cotto’s interview of Patrick Basham of Democracy Institute. A DI poll showed Trump winning nationally and in the Electoral College:Basham addressed why Trump’s national lead went
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How should colleges and universities think about political learning in 2020? Some thoughts from this week’s new IDHE release, Election Imperatives 2020: 1/ First, consider the context of the moment:•
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