Of course it's undemocratic. Anything that creates super-majorities necessarily has that effect. I have argued in print that it is unconstitutional on expressio unius, exclusio alterius grounds, meaning the Constitution is explicit on when super-majorities are required.

We also have 'US Politics & Modern American History' Schools Conference on Valentine's Day 💕 A day for A-Level & Undergrad students featuring guest speakers responding to the theme 'Rights & Citizenship in Modern America'. 11am, Friday 14th February. buff.ly/40nm799

I’m back on here to do the least I can for my country: share and tell the history of Early America as fully and truly as possible because I refuse to let fascists rewrite US history.

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When Keira is not keeping a close eye on other people's healthcare, she's a Tommy Robinson fan who retweets horrifically racist tweets. In the "gender critical" movement, you can refer to black people as "monkeys" and continue being a prominent activist for them.

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🫢 if youre wondering why theres no diversity of detransitioners in this

Sad state

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I’m sick of this! This is my video and I didn’t give them permission to post it! The least they could have done is credit me!

Trump is admitting two things here. The first is that he has been serving Russian interests by protecting Putin on numerous occasions. The second is that Trump is feeling pressure to be harder on Russia, which he really doesn’t want to do. Response: keep up the pressure!

If you're at loose ends and want to be diverted from our current political madness . . .

all of us with our PhDs:

So we now know the difference between Ukrainian and US democracy. Ukrainian civil society is strong enough to force a climb down when the system tries to politically protect corruption. In the US the leadership can take hundreds of millions from any old crypto scheme , and