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12 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The concern is that this event will be more than a dog and pony show, a conference with glossy programs but little in the way of substance. .. But it doesn't have to be this way
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use this as a chance to get our own democratic house in order - voting and anti-corruption reforms, for starters
the administration can emphasize disinformation as a topic for the summit, as it is a key tool that authoritarians employ to threaten democracy. Use this as a forum to pressure transnational social media companies
It's time to apply INTERNATIONAL public pressure on them to be transparent about their algorithms, to report on the full extent of disinformation spreading on their platforms and to create a body that would hold them accountable for enforcing their terms of service.

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29 Jun
they have taken themselves outside the small-d democratic compact that requires, at the very least, that we respect election results and abide by normative guidelines in defeat or victory.
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there is a racial and religious component: The evangelical worldview in America has historically been built on a set of hierarchies that have been defended as divinely ordained — Christian over non-Christian, Protestant over Catholic, white over non-white, men over women.
In its strongest forms, this worldview is fundamentally anti-democratic and theocratic.”
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23 Jun
I can only imagine the reaction from former DOJ lawyers who spent 4 yrs writing pleas to their ex-colleagues to eschew partisan corruption, demanded accountability for attorneys not living up to their oaths and who decried the damage to DOJ's stature.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
In allowing miscreants to escape accountability (unless Horowitz snares them in his inquiries), Garland has effectively told his department that there are no consequences for unethical or even illegal conduct.
Moreover, in refusing to examine what occurred in the last administration, he is not protecting career attorneys; he is protecting Barr and his political hacks who intervened in prosecutions, looked the other way when a whistleblower revealed Trump's extortion of Ukraine, etc.
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Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin Profile picture
23 Jun
Congress can create national standards for election audits — the people entrusted to conduct them (not partisans); the time-frame to complete them (more than 7 months after the election is ludicrous); and rules about preserving the ballots themselves.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
second: Congress could at least fund a national study to see how long people actually wait to vote; when the problem occurs (usually in the morning rush); why waiting times differ so dramatically from precinct to precinct; and tech solutions
If restaurants have buzzers to tell you when your table is ready, surely polling places can do the same
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8 Jun
First, as the Justice Department’s website affirms, “the Voting Rights Act permits federal observers to monitor procedures in polling places and at sites where ballots are counted in eligible political subdivisions.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Second, Congress should allocate substantial funds to ensure the smooth operation of elections, purchase reliable machines and hire trained election personnel.
Third, a group of Democrats and Republicans could collaborate on proposed revisions to the Electoral Count Act of 1877 to remove the potential for any future House of Representatives to overturn the results of the electoral college.
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Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin Profile picture
2 Jun
Biden did what presidents rarely do: He taught millions of Americans something that they did not know. “We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know.”
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Biden actually explained to those who cared to listen what systemic racism is. The results of Tulsa’s violence — and events similar to it — reverberate through history. Millions of dollars in family wealth was eliminated; the wealth gap persists to this day.
Unlike the Republicans’ cult leader, who plays on Whites’ resentment and sense of loss, Biden admonished those who adopt a view that if someone wins, someone else must lose.
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1 Jun
considering that virtually no adult in America learned about Tulsa in public schools, it is not so shocking that the pogrom that killed approximately 300 people and wiped out a community’s accumulated wealth would have been largely ignored for 100 years.
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Republicans, who cannot define “critical race theory,” nevertheless insist it is bad and don’t want it taught in schools. Why the right wants to excise part of our history: White people dread being confronted with evidence that racism is interwoven into our collective experience
accurate historical education throws a harsh spotlight on Rs' efforts to suppress Black power through voter suppression laws. There is a straight line that runs from post-reconstruction Jim Crow to Tulsa to anti-voting legislation now sweeping through Republican-controlled states
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