#Political

Undoing Borders

undoingborders

Universities are using attendance monitoring to pressure international students to cross picket lines.Border controls weaken the strike. They segregate our political organising.for how to fight back!#strikebackborders STEP 1Strike solidarity groups,

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hello again. @iandavidmorris here. Let’s wrap up our discussion on slave soldiers.https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194388946861600769 As we have seen, in the first 200 years of Islam, enslaved people ran the households of wealthy

Sam Byers

byers90

I think we can all agree that it’s a precarious moment for the arts. I don’t think, though, that that precarity is solely financial, I think it’s existential too, and

Kent M. Zimmermann

kentzimmermann

Observations from the past week in the legal industry based on available data and anecdotal evidence:Some firms are starting to see red flags in their internal data for May. Some

Feras Kilani فراس كيلاني

FerasKilaniBBC

THREAD: After years of hidden relationships, the #UAE and #Israel announced their deal to normalise ties. As the agreement between the two countries is about to be signed, I

Boaz Sobrado

sobradob

The Dark side of the Cuban Crypto Boom.In the 1990s the fall of the Berlin wall brought many new things to the Eastern block: democratic elections, free markets and western

Cate Eland

RomancingNope

Republicans constantly talk about the system being rigged.The president lost the popular vote in the 2016 election 3 million votes.In 2018, Democratic Senate candidates received 12 million more votes than

Robert E Kelly

Robert_E_Kelly

Thread on the South Korean Right's crushing legislative defeat yesterday. This is the third defeat in a row, each getting worse. I wrote 16 mos. ago about the right's implosion

J. A. Ebberts

JAEbberts

One like = One take on something I know absolutely nothing about. 1. The AP style guide is dumb. 2. Understanding what adverbs and adjectives are and where they belong

Robert Maguire

RobertMaguire_

THREAD: We've heard a lot of speakers during the Republican convention praise President Trump for "draining the swamp."I am duty-bound to point out what a monumental farce this is. So

Mx. Aria Stewart

aredridel

My heart goes out to the employees squeezed by this. https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5I know how it'd read if where I worked posted something like this and it would not be good. Reading

Siddharth Misra

sidart_misra

In our post-independence history, the 1970s begins “in 1966 with Mrs. Gandhi’s appointment as prime minister and concludes in 1984 with her assassination”. And in between, we had a year

L. TBL

SA_Verlange

I'm reposting from other sources on the internet, (if anyone has the original source, please post it.) the points probably translated by (I don't know who) from the German book.

CouchCrusader 🌹

CouchCrusader_

So I have some thoughts. If you want the nutshell version: YOU CAN STILL VOTE FOR BERNIE IN THE PRIMARIES. The rest is musing on how we got here, the

CodesUcq

CodesUcq

1.07/12/2020 Grandson of Elvis Presley dead from suicide at 27; mother ‘heartbroken’Died from gunshot wound to upper torso.https://www.ajc.com/news/grandson-elvis-presley-dead-from-suicide-mother-heartbroken/xh7b1LW6DD60HxAIn2yKIP/ 2.Re

Feminists Open Your Eyes

LeftwingGc

1/ Posie Parker has come out in favour of Trump for the US election. (See her exact words pics 2&3). Gail Dines (author of Pornland) called it out on her