#History

Joel Tan

joeltheobscure

my elderly parents once casually let slip that they don't like Peranakans. I was surprised cuz they're not normally so strident. Apparently they grew up being lorded over by rich

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

I keep reliving 2016, like the conversations I had four years ago this week with perfect strangers in Paris and Amsterdam about Trump and the US. One question people kept

Anthony (they/she)

ifeelthewind

[cw: JK Rowling]I mean, here's the thing about Harry Potter, re: quality. TERFs like to pretend people are only just now "turning on the series" *because* of JK Rowling,"rewriting history,""pretending"

Kat Olivera

_kolivera

1/ @ICEgov secretly performing hysterectomies on immigrant women isn't a divorced issue. The US has an ominous history of performing coercive services on communities of color with women of color

Sen. Jeff Jackson

JeffJacksonNC

So much of crummy politics is explained by our susceptibility to propaganda.Our defenses to propaganda aren't natural: We have to build them.Lots of those defenses are institutional, like real-time fact-checking

Huw Groucutt

huw_groucutt

(1/5) Our new paper in PNAS, with @MDpetraglia, Maria Guagnin, @DesertPrehistor , and @NicoleLBoivin is out. Arabia is a fascinating place to study human-environment interactions, with its history of dramatic

Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز

kshahrooz

1/ A really thoughful thread from my friend, and fellow Iran dissident @memarsadeghi, on the terrible choice between good-on-Iran-but-awful-in-most-other-ways Trump and decent-person-but-likely-awful-on-Iran Biden. And why she won't vot

maria ⏳

1maria_ml

Yes, China's the problem https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1251680043190882305 From 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Acts kept Chinese people out of the US for about 100 years Fear of a rising China today is

David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

To continue my discussion of the harmful & pseudoscientific nature of broad swaths of modern US education, I want to bring in my work as a literary dignity activist (Google

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jhopeunha

✧* 。𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 。*✧❥︎𝐁𝐓𝐒, 𝐆𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐓𝐗𝐓 𝑎𝑠 𝖧𝖮𝖦𝖶𝖠𝖱𝖳𝖲 ϟ𝖳𝖴𝖣𝖤𝖭𝖳𝖲. 𝐆𝐑𝐘𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄𖦹︎ 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝐺𝑟𝑦𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𖦹︎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 : 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒. 𝑲𝑰𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑬𝑯𝒀𝑼𝑵𝑮- Half-Blood- Member

R a j i v

realdarkromance

My checklist when evaluating a potential investment: * Stellar Executive team *The executive team must have a good history of leading / building teams and companies. They must also extensive

Afef Abrougui

Afaf_TN

Thread: So proud of our @globalvoices community for our #COVIDー19 coverage. In this thread, I’ll share some of our stories on how the pandemic has been affecting the lives and

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gapingmaws

Lets do this. Mario Kart DS is better than Mario Kart Double Dash Double Dash can technically allow up to sixteen players if you spend thousands of dollars on a

Rehan Sultan

djrehan007

Thread: "Construction of Temple"Govt of Pak has decided to build a temple for Hindus in Islamabad, for which it has granted 100 million PKR. Is it right or wrong?#Temple #Islamabad

Dr Mahathir Mohamad

chedetofficial

RESPECT OTHERS1. A teacher in France had his throat slit by an 18-year-old Chechen boy. The killer was angered by the teacher showing a caricature of Prophet Muhammad. The teacher

Soham Puranik

sohampuranik__

IMPORTANT THREAD- #ram #RamNavamiSri Ram & Vedic History of the worldShri Rama was worshiped all over the world by people, emperors and Kings in the past during ancient times; and