Devote Democracy @devoteDemocracy

🇪🇺 The EU is now for the 6th time trying to force Chat Control through which lets them scan ALL your private messages, photos and emails without a warrant Implictly showing the EU is not democratic and not about what the people of Europe want, because once a law is rejected, you just re-submit it until nobody is watching and it's passed November 2023: ❌ Chat Control is rejected June 2024: ❌ Chat Control is rejected October 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected November 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected March 2026: ❌ Chat Control is rejected July 2026: 📝 Chat Control is back Even the EU's own lawyers stated Chat Control is unconstitutional: "generalised message scanning is incompatible with Article 7 of the EU Charter" You have to wonder why the EU is so adament about reading your private chats, right?

Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn

a month ago

Ich habe heute versucht, die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen. Am Wochenende mussten Sibylle Berg und ich Parlamentspräsidentin Metsola schriftlich mitteilen, dass das Durchprügeln der Chatkontrolle im Eilverfahren leider gegen die Geschäftsordnung des EU-Parlaments verstößt. Während

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This book has the power to completely transform how you see governance and what it should truly look like. You’ll find several excerpts on my feed—take a moment to listen to them. After living within the Swiss system for the past 15 years, I’ve seen firsthand how differently things can work, and why those in power would rather you didn’t look too closely. Written in a clear, accessible style, it pulls back the curtain on the deep flaws of the so-called “representative system” and challenges the idea that it represents people at all. More importantly, it reveals why a more direct form of democracy isn’t just an alternative, but a necessary response to a model that has quietly stopped serving the very people it claims to represent. #DirectDemocracy

New 🚨 House of Lords is now on UKgovscan. 15 years of attendance allowances, 5000+ declared interests and cross referenced with Companies House to find peers whose employers and investments hold government contracts Browse here: ukgovscan.com/lords

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UKGovscan @UKGovscan

4 months ago

The latest MP declarations have just been published See what your local MP has been up to ukgovscan.com/mps

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Sir Keir Starmer is planning a law which will mean that the UK government can adopt EU single market rules, without a normal parliamentary vote. The measure is part of a bill aiming to align the UK with new European regulations in areas such as food standards. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

How can Europe fix its housing crisis without understanding how people actually live? Renovation policies must reflect citizens’ daily experience of overheating, poor air quality and unhealthy indoor spaces, argue VELUX and @BPIE_eu. Partner content

Have you ever wondered why virtually all the world's dictatorships, caliphates, tyrannies, kleptocracies, absolute monarchies etc pretend to have elected parliaments?

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years apnews.com/article/uk-hou…

Hard to find words, but here is an attempt. It is(*) obvious that European, Israeli and American citizens are not able to control our own brutal monsters, either economic or geopolitical, despite our "democracies" and "rule of law." Their escalating destruction endangers all. 1/

For years I've watched the affordability crisis deepen while governments refuse to stop profiteering. When democracies don't deliver on essentials, fascism finds its audience. I am writing ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS & ESSENTIAL to defend our democracies. Coming from Random House.

This will be an important book. I kept on noticing the @j_amesmarriott thesis working in politics. At the peak of mass deep literacy, roughly 1970s-1990s, we had large numbers of intellectuals as MPs with complex ideas genuinely driving politics. Utterly normal people were what we would call avid readers. Millions watched things like the South Bank Show elaborating on them. Everything, and thus politics, was built on a reading culture we have left behind. Today, in an internet, not a book based society — intellectuals as peripheral to culture — and they are now peripheral to politics. It’s not a matter of one party or another but across the board. This makes it so much harder to ground politics in ideas as Westminster — as the endless circus over leaders shows — is the most distracted environment I’ve ever seen. Glued to double phones. Politics is the distraction economy. Policy is surfing that, reacting to that, suffering that. Ideas do make it into speeches and so become headlines — but overall they are used more and more flippantly, ironically or contradictorily — reflecting social media. As a result, buffeted by the next viral thunder clap, the intellectual hard work is so much harder and they struggle to become sustained projects. I found it so depressing watching debates in Parliament on hot topics where there was in fact “no debate” every MP getting up and asking almost exactly the same question for their socials. Nobody listening. The entire chamber on their phone. The entire thing a clip studio.

James Marriott @j_amesmarriott

6 months ago

And The New Dark Ages has a cover! Bitter years of book reviewing have taught me not to get too excited and that most books are fated to be ignored. But I am finding it difficult to remain entirely jaded in this instance

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A superior kind of map. Not a map of vote margin per capita in each precinct, or each sq mile It's vote margin per square mile, meaning rural areas that are 100% Trump won't be as red as suburban areas that are 60% Trump, because Trump got less margin per sq mi there 1/🧵

Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps

6 months ago

2024 US Presidential Election by Precinct, By Vote Margin Per Square Mile (Note Puerto Rico and Guam held straw polls, but have no electoral college votes) Source: maps.rynerohla.com/election-maps/…

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General Election Nowcast - 01/02/26: RFM: 345 (+340), 29.5% (40 Maj.) LAB: 94 (-317), 19.8% LDM: 77 (+5), 12.4% SNP: 44 (+35), 2.7% CON: 39 (-82), 18.4% GRN: 18 (+14), 12.6% PLC: 8 (+4), 1.3% Oth: 6 (+1), 3.2% electionmaps.uk/nowcast

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How did we end up in a situation where the entire world is being set on fire in front of our eyes, with no real ability to push back from below, no frameworks or institutions capable of pressing for diplomacy or deescalation, while everything burns and everyone just watches?

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

One advantage of having many distinct sovereign nations instead of a single world government is that they can try different policies and we can see which work best.

If you don't think it's democratic that 33.7% of votes should give a party nearly 64% of the seats in Parliament, then please, sign and share as much as you can. Currently, your vote can be wasted, it can be ignored. Get your voice heard. Equality for all. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7280…

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

The elected candidate in the West Hampstead by-election is Janet Clementine Grauberg, Liberal Democrats. See the full results here 👇 news.camden.gov.uk/west-hampstead…

Have your say on Leasehold Law reforms 👇 gov.uk/government/con…

Get this to 100k and make Parliament revisit the issue. They won’t change their minds, but I imagine during the debate they will self incriminate considerably, and demonstrate a weak understanding of the issues.

Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps

6 months ago

2024 US Presidential Election by Precinct, By Vote Margin Per Square Mile (Note Puerto Rico and Guam held straw polls, but have no electoral college votes) Source: maps.rynerohla.com/election-maps/…

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