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.

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.

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. 🧵