#Book

THREAD: One of the gaps / learning edges I identified for myself a year ago as I was preparing to go Harvard was: engaging in conversations about race, specifically about
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(THREAD) In just 90 minutes on Tuesday, the media broadcast more disinformation about COVID-19 and a host of other topics—by putting Trump on-air live—than the Proof trilogy could dispel in
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You've already forgotten about Trump's reaction to Russians paying bounties to kill American soldiers. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/russian-bounties-afghanistan-intelligence.html?smid=tw-share 1/ THREAD You've
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I gave a speech this week on why children need books more than ever in 2020. It was fascinating to research that when we teach children to read, whole communities
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I'm gonna tell you the story of Margaret Watts Hughes
, a pioneer of art and science and visual music, even if she wasn't really aware of that. She was born
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David Starkey has now lost:- Two university jobs- His book deal- Board position at @MaryRoseMuseumHe stands to also lose:- His honours (per @thetimes)- Two honorary degreesIf this was meant to
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You're a designer / developer / tech worker and watching #TheSocialDilema on @Netflix has you questioning your role in perpetuating #SurveillanceCapitalism and other harmful practices. Now you're asking yourself "What
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A thread on poetry magazine submissions: Before Jan 2018 I’d never submitted a poem into a magazine, despite writing for nearly eight years. Partly because I didn’t think my poems
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I understand critiques of #Hamilton that it doesn’t center slavery enough or lionized AH. I still think the casting of these figures as immigrants of color and Black people
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New book just out! 'Environmental Justice: Key Issues' (@routledgebooks) is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice: https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Justice-Key-Issues/Coo
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In a book club chat with Joshua, the msub author of Real Service, and I tell you what, discussions with people with years of experience is a breath of fresh
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I’m here for all your ridiculously ambitious yet utterly charming projects of self-improvement during this time. Here to share some of my past absurd book purchases, each representing some project
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beomgyu is not the traitor :-( debunking beomgyu is a traitor twts[a thread by a "beommie only wants to protect them" believer]@TXT_members @TXT_bighit he just wants to protect his brothers
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Yesterday my boy (#bilingual #English & #Japanese) had an English class because it's now compulsory in primary school in #Japan. I'd already spoken to his teacher and mentioned that I
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Disabled people (among others) have been explaining this, documenting the impacts of this, and living with and barely surviving (or sometimes not) the results of this for a long time.
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I just spent several hours, HOURS, arguing with a handful of misogynistic fans, one or two of whom changed their stances, and an OP who was tailoring each of his
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