#History

A quick thread on this, in response to people saying that a right to bear arms is the product of the American rebellion against Britain and alien to the British
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What worries me about #Covid is the feeling we all have that come January the vaccine will become available and that will mean a return to normalcy. We only need
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Joshua Braver is out with a thoughtful new paper on history of Court-packing in US. I highly recommend, though I remain unpersuaded by its central thesishttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3483927 Braver defines Court-packing as
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Whenever we talk about reparations owed for the free labor of enslaved people, someone will inevitably argue how few white people owned slaves. But it's Labor Day, so let me
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I can't stress this enough โ€“ drop what you are doing #TimsTwitterListeningParty https://twitter.com/MartinBelam/status/1311685004838268930 Oh my god when his voice kicks in #TimsTwitterListeningParty Jesus fuck I wish I could ever lea
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Let's address this "Ole ie bringing back the United culture" nonsense a bit more in depth. A thread: Top Reds and the brainless Ole twerkers seem to be convinced that
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There can be no return to business as usual once the #Covid19 crisis is over.It's time for government, businesses and unions to come together and rebuild a country that works
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Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' speaks abt how some oppressed individuals regard the oppressor as their model of manhood/humanity. In this way they try to gain superiority over the
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A thread about how I got swindled from Facebook by a Nigerian yahoo boy some call them 419 I will never forgot just how I couldn't think fast at the
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Enjoying @DrEppsrobertson's presentation - "@BTS_twt and ARMY: A Synergistic Experience in Transcultural Fandom" "How do seven artists from South Korea become a common point that brings together people from across
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Dr. James King Wrote: One Alhaji BZ came to our hospital.He had COVID-19; unknown to us all.He was evaluated, examined and admitted into a private room upstairs on Friday evening.He
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As a long-time resident of North Central Calgary I wanted to emphasize our long history of pedestrian indifference. This is going to be a bit of a rant... #yyccc #yyc4transit
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NEW: Vilsack's choice for comms chief at USDA has a history of working for big agriculture.Small farmers, getting squeezed out of business, arenโ€™t happy about it:"...a bomb goes off in
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Just as COVID struck, I met Lacie. A public defender in Louisiana. The *only* in East Baton Rouge assigned to represent the 12k arrested each year at bail hearings. Since
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Seeing some discussions of early-internet fandom vs current, & what I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that EI fandom was filled with a lot of unlabeled, discrete boxes. Things
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Sheโ€™s absolutely right. Black women have never been allowed to participate in traditional womanhood because we were never meant to participate in Eurocentric/Western beliefs of womanhood. Sojourner Truth wrote โ€œAinโ€™t
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