ECPS Virtual Workshop Series / Session 16 - Voices of Democracy: Art, Law, and Leadership in the Era of Polarization - ECPS Please cite as:ECPS Staff. (2026). “ECPS Virtual Workshop Series / Session 16 — Voices of Democracy: Art, Law, and Leadership in the Era of Polarization.”

I spoke with a European group about American democracy. Here’s the video: www.populismstudies.org/ecps-virtual... 🗣️⚖️🗳️

Tick tock Virginia voters and if there is a line please be patient and wait to vote 🗳️

I see this at least a couple times a day. 👇🏾 Please add with respect to ________.

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Time is running out, Virginia voters. Polls close at 7 pm 🗳️

#birdsseenin2026 Pelecanus
occidentalis in the United States
(Count the pelicans…) #birdsky

New lawsuit aims to block Trump DOJ from building national voter database via state voter roll grab The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There’s a federal hearing on June 5 to see whether he can “do a ballroom” without Congress. 👀⚖️🏛️

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Rep John Lewis is the second half of this clip urges Congress to not pass DOMA and to fight bigotry. ⚖️👇🏾

Wow. Looking for clips when DOMA was passed and Rep. Tom Coburn claims gay people have 500 partners. WUT? www.c-span.org/clip/house-p...

Thanks for voting, Virginians. Keep democracy alive. Polls are open until 7 pm tonight. 👏🗳️

Honey bees doing their thing. 🍯 🐝 #bloomscroll

Your tax dollars at work. Congress has a bill to get rid of national injunctions after the Supreme Court already got rid of national injunctions. 🤨

Polls are open until 7 pm in Virginia. 🗳️

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St. Catherine’s girls, remember to vote Tuesday. 🗳️

My US world travelers, is global entry worth the trouble? 🛂

very cool. 😎⚖️

I try to keep most swearing to a minimum but that is righteous. 👇🏾 #cardsagainsthumanity

Also this is a reminder of the Labor Secretary that resigned in Trump 1.0: Secretary Acosta for his role in the #Epstein sweetheart deal with all the secret co-defendants. 👀⚖️👇🏾 www.npr.org/2019/07/12/7....

Do resignations count for out-of-the-administration bingo or just the firings? #labor #secretary #out

Oh I know. That's why the few businesses that step up and give back any tariff money to customers will be adored.

👋 Hi tariff paying companies who are able to get their tariff money back, you could get enormous good will for years if you pass some of this $$$ to your customers from 2025-early 2026 who paid tariff-inflated prices. Refunds, discount codes, reductions in prices. Get creative. 💰

Litigators fill in the blank. Discovery is going to be ____________________. ⚖️

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Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today

It's the first inaugural all over again. 👀💸

That would make a great band name. 🦈

There are many causalities but the presumption of regularity may be the most difficult one to repair. ⚖️👇🏾