Joe Mathews @joemmathews
Founder-publisher, Democracy Local Columnist @ThePublicSquare Fellow @berggrueninst co-pres @GlobalForumDD #Coach ex @thecrimson @latimes @WSJ @NewAmerica democracylocal.com California & The Planet Joined November 2008-
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Veto referendum tool 🗳 📊 Veto type of direct #democracy tool means that Who launches the vote? #representative system Who has competencies for the voting issue? representative system Case to #discover: * Regional veto referendum in #Germany direct-democracy-navigator.org/legal-design-f…
“As generative AI models become ever more powerful on their way to surpassing human intelligence, there has been much discussion about how they must align with human values. But what are those values?” noemamag.com/the-babelian-t…
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The managed retreat that will be necessary in the face of climate change will be made much less painful and more effective if the world further develops trans-local governance networks like C40 and Fearless Cities. noemamag.com/climate-resili…
Remind me. What countries are most welcoming to immigrant Americans?
Remind me. What countries are most welcoming to immigrant Americans?
The Supreme Court, again and again, closes off legal and democratic paths to resolving disputes. The justices' true North Star is violence.
The Supreme Court, again and again, closes off legal and democratic paths to resolving disputes. The justices' true North Star is violence.
From what I gather, if President Jefferson had just ordered Madison to execute Marbury, instead of refusing to deliver a commission to him, at least four current Supreme Court Justices would have been cool with that.
My overall views of the oral argument, that is soon to conclude:
OMG Alito is using the internment of Japanese Americans as an example of a president being vulnerable to criminal liability -- THE *SUPREME COURT* ITSELF LITERALLY RUBBER STAMPED THAT AND DIDN"T DISAVOW IT UNTIL FIVE YEARS AGO
Sometimes, courage and resilience is so strong it can take your breath away. Free Evan Gershkovich now.
For those who missed it, here is video of @berggruenInst event about local democracy, "Barcelona v Bogota: Which Is the World's Most Democratic City?" #DemocracyLocal @DemocracyLokal @democracy_intl youtube.com/watch?v=_CzYBl…
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💫Introducing Daniela Vancic, a tutor in the online course tailored to help you grasp the #EuropeanCitizensInitiative, the sole democratic participatory tool enabling individuals to voice their opinions on EU policy! 🔗bit.ly/CitizensInitia…
ajung imediat.
Meet the Direct Democracy Navigator team at @GlobalForumDD 👇 Kim Graves and Anna Proskurina will be hosting the “Direct Democracy 101: learning from scratch” workshop. 🎯Find out about this workshop and more here direct-democracy-navigator.org/events-dates/d…
How much power should we give #minipublics? To what extent should we defer to decisions of an unelected, randomly selected group of ordinary citizens? Our special issue on DEMOCRACY WITHOUT SHORTCUTS discusses Cristina Lafont's critique of minipublics 🔖 delibdemjournal.org/issue/65/info/
A scientist’s discovery of an unexpected tree hundreds of miles from its home could upend our understanding of how some forests might endure climate change — if researchers can find it again, @astralincoln writes noemamag.com/the-disappeari…
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@joemmathews In line w greater intellectual project nowadays [of all ideologies] being shaming, labeling and excluding
Alex Vassar 📚 @AlexCVassar
10K Followers 4K Following Husband, father, man of letters. Also a park district chair & #CACapitol alum who works at the @CAStateLibrary and is a big fan of learning from history. 🇵🇦
Emily Hoeven @emily_hoeven
19K Followers 4K Following @sfchronicle columnist & editorial writer covering CA, SF policy & politics / [email protected]🌞/ “a prolific Twitter user”-@wsj / je parle français
Laurel Rosenhall @LaurelRosenhall
18K Followers 2K Following Los Angeles Times Sacramento bureau chief. Tweets: #CApolitics #CAleg #CAgov #CAlove ✉️ [email protected]
Lara Korte @lara_korte
12K Followers 4K Following Half of California Playbook @POLITICO. Likes = hmmmm.... Tips/feigned outrage: [email protected]. Past: Sac Bee + Austin American-Statesman
John Myers @johnmyers
33K Followers 1K Following Then: LA Times, KQED, lots more TV and radio. Now: public affairs. Always: CA politics + #GoDuke & #OBX 🌊. My takes, not theirs. [email protected]
Matt Rexroad 🇺🇸.. @MattRexroad
8K Followers 358 Following Husband. Father. Political consultant. Attorney. USMC - Force Recon. Student of finance. Future motorcycle riding economist.
Marcos Breton @MarcosBreton
19K Followers 3K Following California Opinion Editor for McClatchy Newspapers. Son of Mexican immigrants. @SJSU alum. Dad, husband
Steven Maviglio 🇮�.. @stevenmaviglio
8K Followers 4K Following Dem public affairs/politico, bicyclist, lover of all things Puglia.
Carla ‘Bluechecked�.. @cmarinucci
43K Followers 8K Following POLITICO CA Playbook alum, ex-SFChron senior political writer. On Threads: carlamarinucci Mastodon: @[email protected]. Email: [email protected]
Rob Stutzman 🇺🇸.. @RobStutzman
6K Followers 886 Following Public affairs and campaign pro, vino lover, Dodger fan, Calif native... Co-host Highball Politics Podcast https://t.co/9FEDZ1zuM4
Jon Fleischman @FlashReport
11K Followers 3K Following [email protected]. RT ≠ agreement. Publisher of the FlashReport Website in CA Politics since 2005.
Democracy Internation.. @democracy_intl
8K Followers 3K Following The global coalition for democracy: Democracy International aims at strengthening democracy in the nation states, in Europe & at the global level.
Angelique Ashby @AngeliqueAshby
16K Followers 7K Following CA State Senator, Proud UCD Aggie & McGeorge Law alum, wife, believer, Mom x3 & my father’s daughter. Personal account.
Seema @LATSeema
25K Followers 5K Following LA Times political writer. Wannabe golfer. Patron of stray kittens. Bleed orange. RTs ≠ endorsements
Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson
36K Followers 6K Following Anchor: @foxla news weeknights 5, 6 & 10PM; Host of CA’s statewide political show “The Issue Is:” Showtimes: https://t.co/3PEGtOTc7t
Dan Morain @DanielMorain
14K Followers 1K Following Author of "Kamala's Way, An American Life." Working on a second book. Ex-Sac Bee editorial page editor, ex-L.A Times guy, CalMatters alum. Threads: @DanMorain
Mike Gatto @mikegatto
30K Followers 996 Following 🏛️ 4 terms, California Legislature • 📺 TV Commentator • Board of LACERA, @AMarkFoundation, @CAProblemSolver • O-3 @CAStateGuard • ♞O.S.S.M.L.♞ Sono testadura.
Stuart Leavenworth �.. @sleavenworth
7K Followers 6K Following Climate policy editor @washpost. Formerly at @latimes, @mcclatchy (in Beijing & DC), @sacbee & @newsobserver. Bi-coastal. Bicyclist. Backpacker. Banana Slug.
Anthony Rendon @RendonAD62
31K Followers 2K Following California Assembly Speaker Emeritus. Proud to represent the 62nd Assembly District & Southeast LA County.
Andrea Sorce for Vall.. @Andrea4Vallejo
33 Followers 68 Following I'm running to be Mayor of Vallejo, CA in 2024. I will challenge the status quo and put the community first.
Julius Gomez @JuliusG66941141
67 Followers 788 Following Christ follower ✝️, Family of Christ and love is the only way to uplift mankind. Oh Lord please make life easy for the mankind ❤️🙏🏾
Jennifer Brown @JenniferBr83915
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🇺🇲 Zachary Bran.. @zachy_ustabu
225 Followers 2K Following
Emily Schultheis @emilyrs
13K Followers 2K Following Reporter @politico covering California ballot measures & direct democracy / LA via DC, Vienna and Berlin / say hi: eschultheis (at) politico (dot) com
Comparative Legislati.. @popvox_clsp
99 Followers 468 Following POPVOX Foundation's CLSP is an information exchange on legislative modernization and an international network of legislative innovators.
Paul Dress @DressPaul
62 Followers 123 Following
🟧Susan🏳️�.. @suzieqeue
428 Followers 519 Following Angry Democrat, Progressive Feminist, Seeker, Smart Ass, BLM, LGBTQ+ ally. It’s all Psychological!!
James Pogue @jhensonpogue
11K Followers 2K Following Contributing editor at Harper’s, political features at Vanity Fair. Writing a book about rural California and a series on the Françafrique for Granta
Aryn Braun @arynbraun
3K Followers 1K Following Roaming around California and the West for @TheEconomist.
Bari Weiss @bariweiss
1.0M Followers 5K Following Editor of The Free Press @thefp Host of Honestly @thehonestlypod Head of @nelliebowles fan club
Edgar Duran @EdgarDuran15
149 Followers 295 Following First generation immigrant, Chicano. Majoring in psychology at Bakersfield College with a minor in Spanish. Jiujitsu purple belt.
Mauricio Mejia @Mau_MejiaG
3K Followers 5K Following Innovative Citizen Participation @OECD. Thinking about digital + democracy. 💚 Mexican & LAC politics 🌈 Teaching @Sciencespo ex @paulaforteza @etalab
Indira Latorre, Ph.D. @Indiralatorre
788 Followers 2K Following Ph.D. @UPFBarcelona, profesora @URosario. Political Theory, Public Law, Better regulation #innovation & #democracy. Ella/she/her.
Alextat @Halextat
350 Followers 1K Following Opto por el minimalismo en lo referente a la intelectualidad.
Bru Aguiló @BruAguilo
871 Followers 1K Following Civic engagement, technology and human rights | Innovació democràtica a la @Diba, abans a @canodromBCN | Engaged with @decidim_org
Sebastián Guerra @guerrastian
626 Followers 3K Following Ciudadano / Research Associate @IFITLATAM #México / Analyst @USIP
Robert J. Lopez @LAJourno
8K Followers 1K Following Independent investigative journalist. @latimes Pulitzer Prize 2011, Pulitzer Prize finalist 2023. Board member @LatinoJournosCA. I also surf/SUP.
Steve Delsohn @stevendelsohn
2K Followers 5K Following Strategic communications consultant. Former @ESPN TV reporter. Co-produced documentaries @30for30 & @HISTORY. Wrote 12 books. Won 1 Peabody Award.
Henry @h_e_e_k
3 Followers 332 Following
Center for Ballot Fre.. @fusionvoting
811 Followers 5K Following America’s political system is broken. We are a cross-partisan nonprofit project that protects and strengthens American democracy by reviving #FusionVoting 🗳️✨
We Do Democracy @wedodemocracy
368 Followers 489 Following Rådgivere og iværksættere. Arbejder med deltagelse, demokratiinnovation og borgersamlinger/borgerting. Stiftere af Demokrati Garage
Dashea @Dashea836255
170 Followers 5K Following
Barrett and Greene @GreeneBarrett
3K Followers 2K Following Principals: Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene. A husband and wife team who research, write about, and analyze state and local governments. https://t.co/CZb6zqi9G3
Marc Joffe @joffemd
968 Followers 805 Following Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute focusing on fiscal sustainability and transparency. Happily married for 17 years and counting!
Kenneth Schrupp @kennethschrupp
783 Followers 2K Following @YoungVoicesOrg alum. Words in @Newsweek, @FDRLST, @DCExaminer, @AmConMag, @PacificResearch and more. Obligatory “like/follow=/=endorsement”
Jeff McLane @mclaneart
87 Followers 701 Following
Bill Whelan @ws_whelan
3K Followers 5K Following What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
gil duran @gilduran76
8K Followers 4K Following California journalist. Loaded for Bear. FrameLab (w/@GeorgeLakoff). Beat: Billionaire extremism, meta narratives, network state, mirror worlds.
Julius Oblong @JuliusOblong
249 Followers 515 Following Projektleiter Jugend entscheidet @demokratieghst |CO-Gründer@VOTO alum. @zeppelin & #OSI @fu_berlin hier privat(er)
Omar drammeh @omar_dramm4725
181 Followers 4K Following I’m living with my siblings here we lost our parents.😭😭🙏🙏🙏
WALD @wald_academy
3K Followers 3K Following Dünya Yerel Yönetim ve Demokrasi Akademisi Vakfı // World Academy for Local Government and Democracy // الاكاديمية العالمية للادارة المحلية والديمقراطية
Bret Burkhart @burkhartnews
2K Followers 1K Following
Michael Hall @mikehalltexas
5K Followers 1K Following Executive Editor at Texas Monthly. Singer, songwriter, guitar player in Wild Seeds, Woodpeckers, the Savage Trip, the Soul Bashers.
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Poore @Poore836864
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Teaunee @Teaunee189011
6 Followers 334 Following A fusion of two passions: fashion and investing. I own a U.S. stock portfolio and find beauty in tracking it day after day.
GOLD @GoldUCLG
4K Followers 2K Following @UCLG_org's Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization | Researching and advocating for sub-national governments across the world
UCLG Regions @ForumOfRegions
2K Followers 877 Following The @uclg_org Forum of Regions that represents the important role of #RegionalGov in the world.
UCLG Finance @LocalFinances
2K Followers 918 Following @uclg_org #Localizing Financing and Monitoring information on financial descentralization & mobilization of resources by #localgovs to achieve #SDGs
UCLG Learning @UCLGLearning
5K Followers 911 Following We foster the exchange of #knowledge between local and regional governments to transform their #capacities & enhance decentralized cooperation
UCLG Women @uclg_women
6K Followers 2K Following The @uclg_org Standing Committee on #GenderEquality. We are the global voice of locally elected women/ @uclg_women #GenerationEquality
UCLG CSIPDHR @uclg_cisdp
6K Followers 1K Following We are the @UCLG_org Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights: Worldwide movement of #Cities4Rights and the #RighttotheCity
agenda21culture @agenda21culture
8K Followers 2K Following @uclg_org Committee on Culture. Cities & local governments advocate for the role of #culture and #CulturalRights in sustainable development.
Dr. Tania Israel @TaniaIsraelPhD
3K Followers 3K Following By @DrTaniaIsrael author of Beyond Your Bubble. @TEDTalks: What Halibut Fajitas Taught Me About Bridging the Political Divide + How to Win a Political Dialogue
Marc Edwards @MEdwardsWrites
34K Followers 31K Following Clean water's a human right. I'm a swimming pool tech working for the just use of our water & planet. Raised right-wing Christian, but changed. he/him I write.
Jeremy B. White @JeremyBWhite
34K Followers 2K Following Senior California politics+policy reporter for POLITICO. Friend to cats; lover of words, Nationals, and @JanelleBitker. Chisme: [email protected]
Alex Vassar 📚 @AlexCVassar
10K Followers 4K Following Husband, father, man of letters. Also a park district chair & #CACapitol alum who works at the @CAStateLibrary and is a big fan of learning from history. 🇵🇦
Emily Hoeven @emily_hoeven
19K Followers 4K Following @sfchronicle columnist & editorial writer covering CA, SF policy & politics / [email protected]🌞/ “a prolific Twitter user”-@wsj / je parle français
Laurel Rosenhall @LaurelRosenhall
18K Followers 2K Following Los Angeles Times Sacramento bureau chief. Tweets: #CApolitics #CAleg #CAgov #CAlove ✉️ [email protected]
Col. Gustavo Arellano @GustavoArellano
34K Followers 610 Following Con su pluma en su mano for @latimes. Investigations/tacos/history/OC/DESMADRE. Eternal Mexican, KY Col. ✉️: [email protected] & my newsletter below!
John Myers @johnmyers
33K Followers 1K Following Then: LA Times, KQED, lots more TV and radio. Now: public affairs. Always: CA politics + #GoDuke & #OBX 🌊. My takes, not theirs. [email protected]
Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth
36K Followers 2K Following Climate columnist @latimes, focused on clean energy. Formerly @MyDesert. Dodgers fan, hiker, co-host @TheHatchPodcast. Trying to be good to people.
Matt Rexroad 🇺🇸.. @MattRexroad
8K Followers 358 Following Husband. Father. Political consultant. Attorney. USMC - Force Recon. Student of finance. Future motorcycle riding economist.
Lorena Gonzalez @LorenaSGonzalez
64K Followers 4K Following Principal Officer @CaliforniaLabor AFL-CIO. Former CA Assemblywoman. Breast Cancer Survivor. #Latina. Mrs. Nathan Fletcher ❤️ Mama Bear. #UnionizeCalifornia
Marcos Breton @MarcosBreton
19K Followers 3K Following California Opinion Editor for McClatchy Newspapers. Son of Mexican immigrants. @SJSU alum. Dad, husband
Steven Maviglio 🇮�.. @stevenmaviglio
8K Followers 4K Following Dem public affairs/politico, bicyclist, lover of all things Puglia.
Carla ‘Bluechecked�.. @cmarinucci
43K Followers 8K Following POLITICO CA Playbook alum, ex-SFChron senior political writer. On Threads: carlamarinucci Mastodon: @[email protected]. Email: [email protected]
Rob Stutzman 🇺🇸.. @RobStutzman
6K Followers 886 Following Public affairs and campaign pro, vino lover, Dodger fan, Calif native... Co-host Highball Politics Podcast https://t.co/9FEDZ1zuM4
Jon Fleischman @FlashReport
11K Followers 3K Following [email protected]. RT ≠ agreement. Publisher of the FlashReport Website in CA Politics since 2005.
Democracy Internation.. @democracy_intl
8K Followers 3K Following The global coalition for democracy: Democracy International aims at strengthening democracy in the nation states, in Europe & at the global level.
Angelique Ashby @AngeliqueAshby
16K Followers 7K Following CA State Senator, Proud UCD Aggie & McGeorge Law alum, wife, believer, Mom x3 & my father’s daughter. Personal account.
Seema @LATSeema
25K Followers 5K Following LA Times political writer. Wannabe golfer. Patron of stray kittens. Bleed orange. RTs ≠ endorsements
Stefanie Dazio @steffdaz
13K Followers 10K Following I cover crime, criminal justice + cops @AP. Jersey Girl in Los Angeles. @APNewsGuild member ✊. Formerly blue check'd. I retweet jobs/internships. She/her.
Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson
36K Followers 6K Following Anchor: @foxla news weeknights 5, 6 & 10PM; Host of CA’s statewide political show “The Issue Is:” Showtimes: https://t.co/3PEGtOTc7t
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat
230K Followers 3K Following Authoritarians, fascism, propaganda, democracy/ruthbenghiat.com/Prof. History, NYU/Consultant 🎥/Book: Strongmen/ @caaspeakers /Substack on democracy threats ⬇️
Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC
143K Followers 3K Following Senior writer @Slate. Courts and the law. Three birds, one dog, one baby. [email protected]
Capital Europea de la.. @ECoD_Barcelona
297 Followers 270 Following Barcelona ha estat triada Capital Europea de la Democràcia 2023-2024 per enfortir i fomentar la #democràcia i la lluita contra les desigualtats. #DemocràciaBCN
astra @astralincoln
260 Followers 1K Following words in @latimes @highcountrynews @undarkmag @inthesetimesmag @outsidemagazine etc writing a memoir
Bonny Ibhawoh @giazilo
803 Followers 118 Following Human Rights Educator. Vice-Provost (International) @McMasterU. Independent Expert, UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development.
City of Carlsbad @carlsbadcagov
23K Followers 181 Following Official account for the City of Carlsbad, CA. ☀️ 🌊 Terms of use here: https://t.co/RaoOfOOgX8
Emily Schultheis @emilyrs
13K Followers 2K Following Reporter @politico covering California ballot measures & direct democracy / LA via DC, Vienna and Berlin / say hi: eschultheis (at) politico (dot) com
The Markup @themarkup
51K Followers 713 Following Challenging technology to serve the public good. Send tips: https://t.co/yv1m5SzbDP. Subscribe: https://t.co/t3INg1q8dS. Support: https://t.co/Ps92EHohDT. Mastodon: https://t.co/J7VcZ9AtoE
Comparative Legislati.. @popvox_clsp
99 Followers 468 Following POPVOX Foundation's CLSP is an information exchange on legislative modernization and an international network of legislative innovators.
The Free Press @TheFP
247K Followers 89 Following Honest. Independent. Fearless. A free press for free people. Listen to @thehonestlypod. Subscribe: https://t.co/xUrlJtH24v
Uri Berliner @uberliner
30K Followers 542 Following Dad, husband, 3 dogs, 1 kid, an infinity of basketball: edits tech, incubates podcasts, and covers the Unseen Economy for @NPRNews.
Stop Antisemitism @StopASemitism
1K Followers 697 Following Mainly tweeting about antisemitism and Zionism
Marta Wojciechowska @wojciechowa
1K Followers 924 Following Political theorist writing on democracy, cities and inclusion. Lecturer in Politics @Kingspol_econ, leadership collective @APSApolicy
DelDemUCan @DelDemUCan
5K Followers 769 Following The Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance at the University of Canberra.
Maya Kornberg @KornbergMaya
898 Followers 777 Following Author - Inside Congressional Committees @ColumbiaUP | US democracy research @BrennanCenter | Lecturer @nyuniversity | Opinions my own
Jennifer Forsyth @ForsythJenn
6K Followers 1K Following Former Deputy Chief, Investigations of The Wall Street Journal, Hendersonville, NC native, Pearl Jam fan #IStandWithEvan
James Pogue @jhensonpogue
11K Followers 2K Following Contributing editor at Harper’s, political features at Vanity Fair. Writing a book about rural California and a series on the Françafrique for Granta
Alexandra Hudson @LexiOHudson
37K Followers 34K Following Author of The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves published by @StMartinsPress & available everywhere NOW! 📚🎉🍾
Aryn Braun @arynbraun
3K Followers 1K Following Roaming around California and the West for @TheEconomist.
Edgar Duran @EdgarDuran15
149 Followers 295 Following First generation immigrant, Chicano. Majoring in psychology at Bakersfield College with a minor in Spanish. Jiujitsu purple belt.
Lexis-Olivier Ray @ShotOn35mm
24K Followers 3K Following I'm an artist + award-winning Investigative Reporter @LATACO | [email protected] | 347-644-0191
Semantha @semanthanorris
180 Followers 321 Following Visual Journalist 📷 California Local News Fellow at San Fernando Valley Sun/el Sol • • • past: @ucbsoj @nyugallatin @calmatters
Rafu Shimpo @RafuShimpo
4K Followers 928 Following We keep the community informed. Show your support and subscribe now to the most widely read English-Japanese bilingual newspaper in the US. Since 1903.
Jon peltz @JonnyPeltz
10K Followers 6K Following Hollywood by miami. la journalism but also gaming stuff at: @THR @wired @nme @knockdotla @LAPublicPress more. venmo (lol): jon-peltz
Knock LA @KnockDotLA
27K Followers 543 Following Nonprofit independent journalism in LA // [email protected] // [email protected] // [email protected] //https://t.co/vwxkdmm49d
Los Angeles Public Pr.. @LAPublicPress
6K Followers 756 Following News for LA people, by LA people. 🗞️✨ Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://t.co/WbbmjKtP3a
deliberativa @delibera_tiva
982 Followers 340 Following Sorteo y acuerdo ciudadano. Diseñamos y coordinamos procesos deliberativos. #DeliberativeDemocracy #CivicLottery
Yves Mathieu @yvesmathieu
959 Followers 1K Following Founder and Co-director @MPubliques_EN & @MPubliques | Bringing citizens into policy globally | Also founder of @tedxreunion
Mauricio Mejia @Mau_MejiaG
3K Followers 5K Following Innovative Citizen Participation @OECD. Thinking about digital + democracy. 💚 Mexican & LAC politics 🌈 Teaching @Sciencespo ex @paulaforteza @etalab
Indira Latorre, Ph.D. @Indiralatorre
788 Followers 2K Following Ph.D. @UPFBarcelona, profesora @URosario. Political Theory, Public Law, Better regulation #innovation & #democracy. Ella/she/her.
José Luis Martí @jlmarti2075
23K Followers 4K Following Global Democracy Project. Associate Professor of Law at @UPFBarcelona There is always a choice
The New York Review o.. @nybooks
2.3M Followers 633 Following ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Ann Killion @annkillion
34K Followers 2K Following Height-challenged sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Author. Observer. Talker.
Barrett and Greene @GreeneBarrett
3K Followers 2K Following Principals: Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene. A husband and wife team who research, write about, and analyze state and local governments. https://t.co/CZb6zqi9G3
Göteborgs universite.. @goteborgsuni
15K Followers 147 Following Göteborgs universitet på svenska och engelska. University of Gothenburg in Swedish and English.
Marc Joffe @joffemd
968 Followers 805 Following Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute focusing on fiscal sustainability and transparency. Happily married for 17 years and counting!
Staffan I. Lindberg @.. @StaffanILindber
4K Followers 2K Following Director, @vdeminstitute, Principal Investigator - Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Professor, Dept. of Political Sc., Univ. of Gothenburg
CA/NV Earthquakes @CAquake
23K Followers 3 Following Timely information about earthquakes of 3.5 magnitude or greater in California and Nevada. (Operated by @toxic with public USGS data)
Festival de las Ideas @FDIdeas
7K Followers 250 Following FDI es un foro de información, reflexión, pensamiento crítico y de responsabilidad social. Se realiza en Puebla y es incomparable en su estilo.
Kim McCallister @McCallisterKim
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Freedom House @freedomhouse
123K Followers 16K Following A prodemocracy organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world. @FreedomOnTheNet @FreedomHouseLAC @FH_NIT @FH_China for more.
Guernica Magazine @GuernicaMag
60K Followers 2K Following 19 years of global art & politics 📸 by Dafe Oboro
Bill Whelan @ws_whelan
3K Followers 5K Following What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Adam Lashinsky @adamlashinsky
46K Followers 473 Following @sfstandard and @washingtonpost columnist. Also: @esquire, @theinformation, @AirMailWeekly. Writing a biography of William Safire for @simonschuster
Adam Rubenstein @RubensteinAdam
12K Followers 2K Following formerly @nytimes, @nytopinion, an editor and writer @weeklystandard.
bella ross @bellamayaross
2K Followers 1K Following resident influencer @voiceofsandiego • board member @sdspj • formerly @sdutopinion • BLM • she/her • 🏳️🌈
Guardian World @guardianworld
487K Followers 373 Following All the latest from the foreign desk at the @Guardian in London and all points north, south, east and west
Bret Burkhart @burkhartnews
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@ByRobinEpley @SacBeeEditBoard This grotesque dynamic is consequence of failed top 2 experiment. Work through to logical conclusion, call for #RepealTopTwo & replace w/viable multi-party democracy via multi-seat districts elected by proportional representation losangeles.cagreens.org/issues/repeal-… @FlashReport @joemmathews
Veto referendum tool 🗳 📊 Veto type of direct #democracy tool means that Who launches the vote? #representative system Who has competencies for the voting issue? representative system Case to #discover: * Regional veto referendum in #Germany direct-democracy-navigator.org/legal-design-f…
'Overplanted' almond industry sees drop in acreage for first time in decades kvpr.org/live-updates/k… via @KVPR
Notice something different? The government changed the name of the Convention! From "convention on end of life" to "convention on the accompaniment to the end of life."
A whole forum on "HOW DO WE DISAGREE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE?" with a short piece from me about "PRACTICING ‘COGNITIVELY RESPONSIBLE’ PROTEST" from @ThePublicSquare zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/04/25/dis…
“As generative AI models become ever more powerful on their way to surpassing human intelligence, there has been much discussion about how they must align with human values. But what are those values?” noemamag.com/the-babelian-t…
Find out more about the Humanity project with @ClareTotty and many others. Open call Tuesday 30/04 16.00GMT. medium.com/@clarefarrell/…
Join us on an open zoom, to find out about the Humanity Project, a new bottom-up democracy effort I'm working on. Tuesday at 4pm bst (zoom link at the bottom of the article) gathering, joining the dots, building something different medium.com/@clarefarrell/… #democracy
Incredible, incredible story @latimes — beautifully told, both through words, and a grandfather's meticulous notebooks, rediscovered: How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny latimes.com/world-nation/s…
And... They are back! The 184 (about 140 right now) from the #CCFV (Citizens' Convention on End of Life Issues) are gathered again at the @lecese in Paris to meet French President @EmmanuelMacron & discuss the way the government has taken into account their recommendations.
I will be speaking on "Truth Commissions and State Building" at the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas. Drawing on @participedia data, I frame TRCs as democratic innovations in specific post-conflict and post-autocratic state-building contexts. clintonfoundation.org/events/clinton…
"A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences." 🌟"Children of a Modest Star" by @JonathanSBlake & @nils_gilman available now: bit.ly/3Wf9b3u
🌿The second speaker of Spring School On Climate Citizens’ Assemblies is @DamirKapidzic. Damir has advised several deliberative processes and citizens’ assemblies in Bosnia Herzegovina. This year, he will share his experiences on governance. 📌 Register: lnkd.in/dGDtPzF8
Why do we keep rebuilding (& subsidizing) areas that are all but certain to flood again, to burn again, to fall into the ocean? It’s time to rethink climate adaptation, with retreat as the first step, Brian Stone Jr. argues. noemamag.com/climate-resili…
My new one @nytimes (adapted from my book, A Real Right to Vote), "The U.S. Lacks What Every Democracy Needs" "The history of voting in the U.S. shows the high costs of living with an old Constitution, unevenly enforced by a reluctant Supreme Court." nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opi…
In @nytopinion “The history of voting in the United States shows the high costs of living with an old Constitution, unevenly enforced by a reluctant Supreme Court,” Richard L. Hasen writes. nyti.ms/4248SJO
The managed retreat that will be necessary in the face of climate change will be made much less painful and more effective if the world further develops trans-local governance networks like C40 and Fearless Cities. noemamag.com/climate-resili…
Every dictator who ever seized power justified his coup as an official act for the good of the state.
You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me…. JK 🤓🤩
Bay area friends! Next week, I'll be speaking at a great event in Menlo Park hosted by NosTerra ventures along with @LarryDiamond, @mlagos and Deepak Puri. Hear how you (yes, YOU) can help @protctdemocracy push back on authoritarianism. JOIN US: eventbrite.com/e/the-rise-of-…
In the new film “Civil War,” the internet rarely enters the story and the main characters are traditional still photographers. These “are anachronisms, owing more to the 1860s Civil War than to 21st-century realities,” writes columnist @joemmathews. zps.la/4aJ20EV
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