#Interest

Yoruba History - by NNP

YorubaHistory

Madam Efunroye Tinubu (c.1810-1887)An Egba woman who acquired wealth & power through participation in the Atlantic slave trade and later the European palm produce trade, as well as from domestic

Deranged_dotard

DotardDeranged

Have always wondered why Christianity found such fertile ground in South Korea. Many people link the growth in Christianity in Korea to increased involvement of the Americans in South Korea

Philip Butler

Artdecomagpie

As it’s the first #worldartdecoday I thought I’d tweet a little tour of Worcester’s surviving inter-war buildings (Worcester England that is). A thread..@artdecosocuk #worcester We’ll start off just outside Shrub

spottedcouch

redshoes721

Thread/1 To date, the media has been deathly silent about Bill 10 in Alberta. #ableg #cdnpoli #abpoli JCCF has sent/posted a press release that highlights the following:https://www.jccf.ca/alberta-government-gives-itself-sweeping-new-powers-to-create

Marcel Wilson- Lynch

marie_stein4eva

Okay soI went off earlier about an anime that featured an age gap couple wherein the male was 11! And the female was 17-18.And while I still wholeheartedly stand by

James Curry

JamesCurryHist

Today is International Sculpture Day, so here’s a brief thread about the work I’ve done promoting an interest in my city’s sculptures via the “Statues of Dublin” Instagram page I

Jessica Lahey

jesslahey

Good morning language dweeb Tweeps! Yesterday we discussed two kinds of repetition used as a rhetorical device: epizeuxis and epimone, the simplest forms. Consecutive repetition of words/phrases. Today we will

The Punisher

PunishDem1776

The Creation of the Federal ReservePart 2In 1694, a template (that will be repeated around the world) a private controlled bank lending money to governments with interest that it prints

BandieraRossa #FreeAssange #StarmerOut

fran_b__

So it appears that one bitter enemy of the working folk and the marginalised of the world has been replaced with yet another. So much was clear from at least

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

OCCRP

NEW: As Venezuela's economy collapses, we reveal how dozens of army generals have profited from private companies.Chief among them is Venezuela's defense minister — now wanted by the US gov't

Pradeep Elankumaran

pradeep24

A different take — Walmart’s interest in TikTok is actually quite savvy. It’s the canary in the coal mine for what all retailers will experience in the next 2 years

Hannah @ YMS hates me

sombysomby

Since #TheLionKing is trending again, I can finally talk about how Disney’s #LionKing is a giant rip off of Osamu Tezuka’s Jungle Emperor Leo and how unfair this billion dollar

Aric Toler

AricToler

A few days ago @bellingcat published a major investigation into a key figure into the MH17 downing, identifying him as an FSB officer. There's more coming soon.A good time to

Read Black Marxism

decolonialcommi

A comrade asked me earlier "Can u briefly explain Robert Nichols and Glen Coulthard’s theory of native dispossession and how it relates to Marx’s primitive accumulation theory?". I thought some

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

THE OPPORTUNIST: The Many Hats of Rudy GiulianiHow Trump’s free personal lawyer’s post 9-11 profiteering is a NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS.In this video & thread, investigative legal analyst @tracygreen documents Giuliani’s

David Montgomery

dhmontgomery

So Andrew Johnson is widely seen as one of America’s worst presidents, remembered for being impeached and for his battles over Reconstruction. But on July 18, 1868, in the waning