Craig Calhoun
@craigjcalhoun
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University Professor of Social Sciences at ASU.
Paradise Valley, AZ
Joined August 2009
Degenerations of democracy follow not just new media, ideological manipulations, and foreign attacks but also, crucially, erosion in the social conditions for citizen empowerment, solidarity, and equality. https://t.co/kJpVOh4xoE
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Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy’s social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of...
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Pushback is good. The anti-human-rights and anti-academic push from China is bad and the capitulation from a UK university is worse. Researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university (from @TheEconomist)
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Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions, writes Laura Murphy
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Inside #Opendoor’s Plan To Give Short-Sellers A Middle-Finger https://t.co/9d6Vc0e7Bm $OPEN @Tony_BATtista @alex @Lons @Jason @tastytrade @TraderMikeyB @fundstrat @TheCompoundNews @OpendoorNews @EMJCapital @RMBee @KyleTibbitts
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“I mostly just pity them. They don’t really build anything,” Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian said of short sellers....
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Four military contractors, four years, $89 billion in buybacks and dividends. $58 billion of that came from US taxpayers, enough to deliver SNAP benefits to 41.7 million for the next seven months.
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Reminder: Winning wasn't Kamala Harris' primary concern in 2024; winning without the left was. The result: For the first time in 60+ years, the Democrat candidate got more support from the richest third of Americans than the poorest third. Turnout dropped. We got Trump.
Last year after the election, I reflected: "When we fight, we win — but sometimes the fight takes awhile." Last night, we saw Democratic victories across our nation. I am so proud of these enthusiastic, principled, inspirational leaders who will continue to fight for our nation,
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By trying to win without the left (and by extension, without the working class), Kamala Harris managed to lose to Donald Trump, the most unpopular president in American history. https://t.co/xqXj8Sjwiy
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Joe Biden's last job approval rating as president is 40%. His 42.2% average for his term is the second lowest in Gallup records.
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It will never cease to boggle my mind just how recent segregation was.
Ella Fitzgerald arrested after singing to an integrated audience in 1955
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Congressman @RoKhanna goes off on Chuck Schumer. “You’ve had Schumer cheerleading the Iraq War, cheerleading a blank check to Netanyahu, betraying us on the first shutdown…and now he’s not even willing to fight!”
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Sen. Schumer has failed to meet this moment and is out of touch with the American people. The Democratic Party needs leaders who fight and deliver for working people. Schumer should step down.
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I just voted against this funding bill because health care costs are skyrocketing. The only thing Trump knows how to do is give tax cuts to rich people, while screwing over working Americans.
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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
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This “deal” dramatically hikes healthcare premiums and only exacerbates the affordability crisis. It should be rejected, as should any politics willing to compromise on the basic needs of working people.
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!
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Bernie Sanders just said it plain: “Tonight, Democrats voted with Republicans to raise healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans and pave the way to kick 15 million off Medicaid. 60,000 will die every year, so the rich can get a trillion-dollar tax cut.” This was a betrayal
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Bernie Sanders just walked up to the podium after Susan Collins laughed along with Republicans about their bill and he said, "If this bill succeeds... for certain groups of people it would be tripled, their premiums... when you throw 15 million people off Healthcare, 50,000
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Jeanne Shaheen did what she thought was right, but of course she was wrong. https://t.co/5Rb0gPCFEL via @NYTimes
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Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown. But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal.
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Age is a factor but not an excuse. https://t.co/v9psERLL5k via @NYTimes
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A restless Democratic base is seething at older leaders in Washington.
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Breaking Analysis @TheCube: Sam Altman Resets The Economics Of #AI Factories https://t.co/U1TN0CjXQT
@sarbjeetjohal @vardi @MartijnRasser @om @RMBee @rwang0 @UptimeInstitute @amir @DavidLinthicum @alex @om @Lons @Jason @datacenter @MrEwanMorrison @_KarenHao @BG2Pod
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Panorama had practiced as journalism before with no resignations. Is right wing pressure the story here?
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Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign after criticism Panorama misled viewers with an edit of a speech by Donald Trump.
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