#History

Last week I wrote that the Liberal government has become the most anti-Internet government in Canadian history. It got worse today as it incredibly removed the social media exception from
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Will try to do a thread of BIPOC #Oscars winners tonight. First up: Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor. Moving #Oscars speech thanking her ancestors and on
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I finally got around to reading the New York Time's explosive take on Robinhood and the emergence of wild day traders.I have some comments about it. A thread 1.
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I’ve been stressing about this all dayhttps://twitter.com/baddestmamajama/status/1249134970527981568 I was a music major in undergrad, so my favorite and most eye-opening classes were like, violin studio (Beth Newdome) or orchestra (Alex
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Little known fact: the 2nd in line for Presidency - after the Vice President - is the Presidential Pisser. A man or woman appointed to piss on the President's face
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Thoughts about my legacy as a white person(I am not doing this for pity. I simply wish to acknowledge particular realities for white people and the ways that that can
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I wish Trump and Melania an expeditious recovery and hope very much that they will be in good health as they face electoral humiliation, repudiation and the harsh judgement of
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@UAIS_Phoenix You know my time at IB was hard enough as one of 2 Black students in my class. I can only imagine the pain and stress this queen had
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The roll call is on.A representative from Arkansas lauded his state as a place β€œwhere unborn babies matter.”A Colorado delegate noted the state’s votes were being cast for Trump because
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In 1931, a MOB of white people protested Arthur and Edith Lee's purchase of their home at 4600 Columbus. Look at this shot of all these smug white people! They
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1/ Typically I use twitter to talk about consumer trends, tech, and VC activity. I try to keep it positive, usually including an emoji or few. Today, I’ve only got
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@VijayThaniMPP and @LoganKanapathi stood against a bill proposing #PaidSickDays for Ontario workers. Both come from ridings where working-class #Tamil people are made to die on the frontlines. We might be
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fell off the book wagon for a week or so but i’m back now, for something, completely different the theme of my reading is apparently medical history radium girls hurt
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Thread: The core problem with the marriage of modernity & capitalism today is how it has become unbelievably impersonal & dehumanizing. We can see this on many fronts. Packaged "foods"
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The MeToo But For Bad Bosses article is meh but it reminds me of my own feeling like I was making some big discovery only to find the vast history
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The goal of school is compliance, not curiosity. "An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry
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