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Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: There are 9,000 people caged in the downtown Houston jail, most of them solely because they can't pay cash. The situation is getting dire: "We don't have any running

Amna Khan

amnaukhan

Of all the countries I’ve visited (not many lol), the one which fascinated people a lot is Iran. and honestly for me, it was the most fascinating. Been to Mashhad

Consequence is no coincidence

BlueSteelDC

This year the House passed the Justice in Policing George Floyd Act.This year several local jurisdictions were able to make sweeping police reformsMinnesota who embraced defund could not make more

Melanie “Stay Home” Gilbert

melanieinboston

This past December, the @HolocaustMuseum in Washington, D.C., accepted a donation of the book, "Fahnlein Fibel" from my family for their Nazi propaganda exhibit. Here's the story of this book

sahra

sahrasulaiman

starting now on FB live: https://www.facebook.com/799880030084316/videos/788306555325273/ https://twitter.com/BLMLA/status/1325951231840325632 The video feed is not great, but Gascon is saying he wants to honor those killed and that it is n

Communal Toothbrush

professordarwin

Weird story but I need to get it off my chest. So a few months ago I was trying to find an org to join, and the only one I

Virginia Clean Cities

VaCleanCities

In @RTDOpinions, the @Nature_VA's Lena Lewis calls for Virginia to pass the Clean Car Standards bill to increase EV adoption for our health: "nearly half of Virginia’s carbon emissions (48%)

Ryan Devereaux

rdevro

Good to see the paper of record highlighting this important national news story that we’ve been covering at @theintercept for the past eight months. Going to provide some links and

threestationsquare

threestationsq

In 1835 it became possible for the first time to travel the length of the Northeast Corridor, from Boston to DC, by rail & regularly-scheduled steamboat (previously slow horsedrawn stagecoaches

Mike Hill

michaeldoron

THREADIn 1914 there was a deeply rooted and thriving community of German migrants in Britain; by 1918 it was almost utterly destroyed. (1) In 1911, 53,324 German migrants lived in

Jean Holloway

jholloway15

Just attended an amazing panel at @ArcticNet Student Day about reconciliation in research!! Here's a thread about what #ECR can do to contribute to decolonizing research @ehPECS 1. Take the

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ReturnedRedux

An often overlooked and now purposely obfuscated event that largely informed the policy of Japanese internment at the start of WW2 was the Niʻihau incident. It’s not taught in any

Avi Wolfman-Arent

Avi_WA

50 years ago today in #phled news...School board president Richardson Dilworth says Philly schools may CLOSE at the end of April because the state Supreme Court struck down a city

DCPetterson

dcpetterson

Republicans like to say the Constitution limits the power of the federal government.No. The Constitution gives governmental power to We The People, and unbinds that power.The Constitution limits the power

Diwakar Pingle

djpingle

A short thread on India winning a game and what it meant to my maternal Grandpop. 1/n So, my maternal Ajoba (grandpa) was from Jabalpur. That’s where I was born.

WAKE UP AUSTRALIA WAKE UP

WakeAustralia

This a thread where I will try and explain what I am sure is happening with all these violent police videos circulating around Melbourne. And to call out @OzraeliAvi for

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