#History

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wat_son2020

I might start my upopular opinions thread soon. I am bored and I would love to see how you guys respond to my opinions. Whether you agree or not and

Ruby RockStar 🇺🇸

RubyRockstar333

Imagine if a man assaulted you on average twice a year (including rape) for the last five years. Then imagine waking up to find that same man standing over you

Dr. Erik Wade

erik_kaars

We Need to Talk about Charlemagne: A #MedievalTwitter Thread.So. Some medieval German literature claims Emperor Charlemagne was into necrophilia. And briefly men. And then attracted to a swamp. Perhaps sexually.

kels 🏳️‍🌈

LadyLovesTaft

the following thread is a list of things that I stan, which I realize no one asked for, 1/ William Howard Taft 2/ vantablack, which is the raddest shit maybe

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semperdiced

Thread1. GOP won in 2016 despite dog whistles and blatant racism. They won despite pettiness and lack of decorum. Let me tell you: they NEEDED a boost and Trump gave

The Renegade of Funk

renegadetensai

The Left is more principled than the Right.I will expand on this since there is some resistance to this particular black pill.I'll start with a reading assignment. At mass today

Droll Embiid.

GeeDee215

“[A]dvocates and defense attorneys said police still focus on the city’s poorer, mostly Black neighborhoods because that’s where officer deployments and investigations of violent crime are concentrated.“https://www.washingtonpost.co

Serenity “Nightmare” Dee

sapphixy

Time for that #worldbuilding thread I teased yesterday!My worldbuilding threads are focused on secondary world fantasy, i.e. stories set in a place or on a world that despite having lots

noa-witheringly

noawitheringly

Very sensible thread about using a Covid19 contact-tracing app(in a democracy),complete with arguments, counter-arguments & a conclusion that I agree with,IN PRINCIPLE. HOWEVER(follows a note-to-self thread on the current debate

Senator Bob Casey

SenBobCasey

Two years ago today, we witnessed the most deadly act of violence against the Jewish community in American history. I stand with Pittsburgh & Jewish communities across Pennsylvania & the

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Juicy_Smol_Lit

Why Lenin Was A Queer Man: Re-Evaluating Our Common Misconceptions About The Sexual Identity Of History's Greatest Revolutionary(thread) Reason One:Lenin & his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya famously practiced ethical nonmanogamy, although

Martin Critchley

MartinCritch

A THREAD: On #htafc owner Phil Hodgkinsons tenure as chairman of Huddersfield Town @htafc. Enough is enough & after compiling this I’m amazed we aren’t in administration #htafc #utt 1)

Brendane Tynes, M.A., MPhil

b_tynes

I think it's time for us to have a conversation about the harms enabled by How To Be Antiracist by Ibram Kendi. I will return to this with receipts soon.

Alix in Cryptoland 🃏

AlixMaxbankblck

Let’s say Im building a startup specifically to solve the issue of “Black dollars” not circulating in predom. AA/Black communities Hypothesis: Fiat currency has physical limitations as to how it

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Reality has a well-known leftist bias. If you want to convince people that inequality, high carbon emissions and austerity are good for them, you need to get them to abandon

Foe To Princes 🐰

ifthedevilisix

The backlash to Trump’s extreme racism has manifested itself as extreme “decolonization” and folks, it sucks. This is why we get this bullshit concern trolling about, like, idk, Kamala Harris