#Society

Movie Mango ®

Go_Movie_Mango

The Big Scandal of Indology ! Almost all you have in academic textbooks about ancient India is either a superficial, banal, half-truth or plain wrong. Why we want to try

chris arnold

arncj32

Notes From Spring Plague: A Twitter Thread. it's been almost exactly a month since Quarantine began here in Upstate NY. I've been very lucky, I've had constant access to

WarNuse

WarNuse

‘Saw Something. Said Something.’ On May 4, 2020, I Assisted A Young Man In Filing Two Police Reports. One Was Against A Previous Employer. The Other Against The County He

David "Android, Alien or Wizard" Moore

dtmooreeditor

So I am not a political pundit, and this is not based on any sort of polling. But bear with me while I talk through what I think may be

New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault

NYSCASA

This week, we're diving into a new zine from @prisonculture highlighting and contextualizing Santa Cruz Women Against Rape's "Letter to the Anti-Rape Movement" (1977): http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2020/04/19/new-zine-letter-t

Ed Crooks

Ed_Crooks

If you want to understand what has been happening in world oil markets over the past six years, this paper from @HansWernerSinn is essential reading. (HT @BayouTerrier, who was tweeting

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personbabbles

OP has the thread muted. I'm going along with this anyway. Dear anti-shippers, stop conflating government sponsored mass media / propaganda to the likes of niche fan content. https://twitter.com/cosmoteIIurianz/status/129867265365851750

Frisco Uplink of House Pfizer

_danilo

The Valley's premier financialization scam is going to retoolEverything is working so well, they're laying off 65 people. How'd it come to this, we might ask?With all the manure these

Gigi Sims

1GigiSims1

Thread Important INTEL: Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky collaborated w/Soros to bring Open Russia Foundation to US Congress. Russian journalist sets herself on fire outside govt building claimed she was being

Victoria Rietig

VRietig

I am happy @TheEconomist decided to knight me with a quote - but even happier the text is so nuanced. Yes, we did well in many ways. But there is

The Historian

Historian_Zed

t1/ THE BEMBA PEOPLEThe Bemba came to Zambia during the great Bantu migrations of the 16th & 17th centuries. 1910- Bemba tribesmen after harvesting mahogany hardwood . t2/ The

Voice Of Mechanics

Music_Mechanics

A thread https://musicmechanics1blog.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/1026/ The Fear Of Success ““The alchemist gave the monk a piece of gold and said:” –““This is for you”, he said holding out the piece to the

John Doe

fedjudges

This is something. https://twitter.com/whpublicpool/status/1293600435496943617 The White House announced 5 district court nominees on this Wednesday afternoon, including 1 for Florida, 1 for Kentucky, and 3 for New York (!). For

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

A few scattered thoughts on how private property—and specifically inheritable, alienable property in productive land—functions in a society.1/ First, private property drives inequality and, with it, coercive hierarchies. This is

Julie Garcia

reporterjulie

Currently at Refugee and Immigrant Roundtable with @InterfaithMin. This is part of the @HoustonChron Listening Project, a new initiative to hear what people care about in this city, what they’re

mr. gorbachev, fuck these niggas up

blksknleninCCCP

A looooooong thread on soviet democracy, the origin of the soviet system, village meetings, city soviets, methods of election, rayons and oblasts, and the systems of democratic organization of the