#Essay

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The Qanon phenomenon is many things: for one thing, it's a grift. Q's top spokesgargoyles earn small fortunes in ad revenue, crowdfunding and merchandise.https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#q1/ But it's

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

If you are, for any reason, in the mood for a long poem about the abuse of power, I'd like to recommend Ovid's Metamorphoses. I spent the last month rereading

Louis

Louis_Allday

Periodic reminder that George Orwell was an anti-communist snitch who wrote a list of people he suspected of being Communists (or Communist sympathisers) & gave it to the UK Government’s

Andrew Lewis

AndrewRLewis

I'm pleased to share my review for @SORJournal of @ndrewwhitehead and @socofthesacred book on Christian Nationalism. Much has been written about the book, for good reason. I took a different

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

Just read an article in @aeonmag about the abuses of Popperian falsification in Western society from Charlotte Sleigh (@KentCHOTS). I've seen this attachment to falsification play out repeatedly. A thread

Dr Donna Yates

DrDonnaYates

I'm working on the provenance narratives in very recent sales of Polynesian items right now. Gone are (most) references to "primitivising" assertions (i.e. the headhunting and cannibalism, but I am

uphold shi zhiyong thought, 211kg total, 180 LSAT

koaleszenz

I just don't think there's any reason for the Dems not to nuke the filibuster. D success over the next four years will be contingent on the filibuster not existing.

Sam Marfleet

samlearns

Tomorrow I'm releasing episode #001 of SamLearns Writing!This is a brand spanking new YouTube channel for writers looking to improve their storytelling.But honestly y'all I barely made it here. Here's

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1) According to a global strategist at Rabobank, “Past an unknown critical threshold, [using monetary policy to deal with public deficit] could see the collapse of US dollar currency hegemony

M.P.

OmanReagan

Since people are discussing the use of Dr. as a title for a woman with a PhD, I want to share a quick story from 2016 about how well-meaning compliance

Zito

_Zeets

The science fiction and white nationalism thing is so interesting considering that science fiction is a genre that's perfect for minorities in America, and people in countries destroyed by colonialism.

Rachel Widome

rwidome

Are you thinking about applying for a MPH (Master of Public Health) degree program this year? I direct the MPH in epidemiology program at @PublicHealthUMN, and in today's unhiding of

Faisal Al Yafai

FaisalAlYafai

Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it

Clark Kampfe

clarkkampfe

so I really liked Zach's essay about pg, and his takedown of Arc and I had some thoughts as well. I think pg's brevity thing is kind of weird and

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is about #WarArtists in World War 2 Burma. It’s based on “Drawing Soldiers in Burma: Reflections on the War Artists” (recently published in Global City Review)

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