#History

All right. *pretends I'm just waking up even though ....*Morning/Afternoon all! I hope everyones feeling okay. Crazy times, and not our norm... sending love.I'm going to take a break today
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THE GREATEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN HISTORY.A former president and administration, colluded with foreign governments, to spy on a presidential campaign.Corrupt govt officials bought and paid for a falsified dossier from
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Just reading the @DRWAus take on the contact tracing app here:https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2020/04/24/covid-19-trace-app/ I'm no fan of the app proposal. Earlier today I wrote that confidentiality is not just about data handling —
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Thread: Watching the government shitting themselves and engineering story after story to try and dilute the coming Russia Report revelations is really quite funny. But this method of flooding the
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gonna make this a thread of me live tweeting at school bc i think it'll be funny mf astronomy teacher gave us 7 google meet links that dont work and
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A thread about why this oped by David Feldman is such a trenchant analysis of why Labour’s problem with anti-Semitism is so persistent - and, tacitly, his own journey from
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The old civic nationalism has transformed into neocolonialism. It still demands assimilation, but in order to scale globally it had to create identities that could transcend ethnicity, hence boutique sexuality.
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[THREAD]1/12A vast majority of Shia Muslims belong to a subsect called Šī'eh-ye Davâzdah-Emâmī or, more commonly, the Twelvers. The sect is also the official State religion of Iran. This thread
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How do we get out of this mess? Tracing #coronavirus cases is hard. It's been politicized. But it's essential.It may not work, "but given the lack of alternatives, we have
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Trump attacks @GovPritzker, who criticized federal coronavirus response efforts on TV today: "There is a governor, I hear him complaining all the time, Pritzker. He is always complaining ... He
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Ok, Steve Bullock has officially announced for Senate. He'll be taking on Steve Daines, the incumbent Republican senator. So, time for a little look at Bullock's electoral history. He was
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Summary of Dale Carnegie’s"How to Win Friends and Influence People"(A brief, no fluff version.) Thread Time: HWFIP is one of the most influential books in history.Millions have improved their
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People approach the American founding with outrageous arrogance based on shallow ideologies and their reading of a few secondary sources—but the preachers & politicians of the 18th and early 19th
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HAPPY PENTECOST SUNDAY!This week I've have a few conversations, in text and online, where people have expressed surprise at the fact that our church makes a big deal of Pentecost
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Oh man.We REALLY need to talk about how the myth of American Exceptionalism is failing, how the only thing Trump can offer now is oppression, and the fascist threat of
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at the end of the day, everyone knows there's a difference between a man and a woman. we know, TRAs know, babies know, and even animals know. they wouldn't need
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