#Democracy

Tonight I officially changed my voter registration and left the party that gave us Donald Trump in order to join the party that gave us Barack Obama.I couldn’t be more
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"We have a serious problem with cults and groupthink in the US. It's not just in our political and media systems. You can see it emerging everywhere. You see personality
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The huge mistake the govt made in regard to FB & Google and extracting money from them for news is that they allowed themselves to be trapped in news media's
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Twitter opens office in Nigeria. Thread Office cannot get an official line because Isa Pandemic has banned registration of new sims. Lai Mohammed visits twitter office and strikes pose
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To @CT_Bergstrom, @mlipsitch and others whom I respect: - I agree that the GB plan for surrender appeals to a WH that would like a justification for having done nothing.
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"scientific committees that advised Johnson didn’t study..lockdown adopted..in China..The scientists’ reasoning [sic]: Britons..simply wouldn’t accept such restrictions."Johnson listened to scientists--but his scientists were incapable of p
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Japan’s longest serving Prime Minister (Shinzo Abe) resigned today for health reasons, and it creates both concerns and opportunities for Japan and the United States. Here are a few thoughts
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NYT piece by @just_shelter follows MN renters who faced eviction but organized to purchase their building. “I saw the tenants reimagine — and then reinvent — what stable, affordable housing
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2/Last year, shortly after Morales had to flee the country to avoid being lynched, Roth regurgitated @theEconmist 's take on the coup calling Morales a "strongman" and his violent ouster
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Mark your calendars: Today we have witnessed the first major political arrest in Poland since 1989. A prominent government critic, a lawyer, has been taken into custody on dubious charges,
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Mary J. Blige! She’s beautiful. She reminds me so much of Natasha John Lewis! “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” -John Lewis Interesting to think of people
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Good morning white feminists who are happy that Kamala Harris is the Dem VP, it's now time for you to roll up your sleeves and show online allyship. The next
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News of Trump removing Glenn Fine as Acting DoD IG and from the coronavirus oversight committee has reminded people about the importance of independent IGs. But Trump’s assault on the
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Alrighty folxxx, you asked for it. Here’s my thread on @Hpluckrose’s instant classic, “How French ‘Intellectuals’ Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact.” Originally published at Areo, lucky enough to
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Fact-checking the tricksters:In Episode 5, the audience is fed this line:"The bottom line at the end of the day is I want to help the President of the United States
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THREAD:Why should we believe the polls are wrong again?1. All the polls that were right in 2016 show a different race than the polls that failed in 2016. Democracy Institute,
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