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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"
🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
A “reforma do Estado” é, como as “reformas estruturais”, usada para propor mais ou menos do que se quer dizer. O nosso Estado funciona mal. Não por ser grande ou pequeno, mas porque seleciona mal as lideranças, porque se desqualificou e tem falta de meios, lida com má legislação, promove a inércia e
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
🚌Lisboa tem uma enorme falta de corredores BUS, que torna mais lenta a circulação de autocarros na cidade, gerando enormes atrasos. A proposta #CORREDORESLiVRES, hoje apresentada na CML, vai permitir aumentar o número de faixas BUS e acelerar o transporte público.
In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.
Brexit has become the sunken cost fallacy textbook example of british politics. Do you think that Labour has the capacity to overcome such path dependency?
Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
O que Zelensky nos deu hoje na Sala Oval, ao não se vergar à intimidação de um extorsionário, foi uma autêntica lição de anti-imperialismo. Incluindo a muito auto-denominados anti-imperialistas, que naturalmente a rejeitarão, mas que não durariam 30 seg. numa situação análoga.
Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Open source and overlooked alternative software and apps, to help break free from the oligopoly of amzn/meta/google and co. For each paid ad, make a free ad for a useful alternative that people should know about. not suggesting any in particular, to learn about them and I trust your curatorship.
Universities and public institutions. And it’s quicker to pay these specialists to learn a language for a year immersive and intensively than to wait a decade for new post-graduates to integrate into the public sector (which we also should continue to do)
The EU should open a brain-drain welcoming programme for US researchers to apply to come work and move their projects into European universities, with matching continuity funds.
1. There are many things I’m glad to leave behind on X, but most of them come down to this: loyalism. Regardless of ideology, those who tend to be most abusive, unpleasant and vicious are staunch loyalists of particular figures, factions or policies. 🧵