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verumandverus

BREXIT THREAD - British Fishing & The ReferendumAll the talk has been about the fish, not the people who’s livelihoods depend on them. How did they vote in 2016? How

Sreedi

kaladikulcha

Maharaja Ranbir Singh Bahadur greeting the then Prince of Wales in #Calcutta in 1875.This is an important meeting, for the Prince told the Maharaja, I've heard much of your state,

Yaakov Katz

yaakovkatz

Lots of speculation that something is cooking re Iran. Esper was fired after 3 meetings in a month with @gantzbe, Elliott Abrams was in Israel this week & @SecPompeo’s coming

Gil Meslin

g_meslin

1. The age-old story:- Opportunity for affordable housing.- Project needs to exceed allowances to be viable & maximize impact.- Local residents have concerns. I just want to point out one

Ancient Kemite

ancientkemite

STOP WITH THE ABRAHAMIC NONSENSE! THERE WAS NEVER AN ANCIENT NATION CALLED ISRAEL.The Hebrews was just the name of Aryan nomads who lived in the desert near Canaan (Ancient Palestine-Lebanon).

Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum

LlandudnoMuseum

#OnThisDay 17 August 1816, the paddle steamer the Rothsay Castle left Liverpool harbour She was a paddle steamer built in 1816 for service on the River Clyde, and was later

Sarah Iannarone for Portland Mayor

sarah2020

White nationalists are terrorizing Portland with pipe bombs in Laurelhurst Park, live ammunition downtown, and a near-miss of vehicular homicide in North Portland. But Ted Wheeler uses his platform to

Doug~Lass🌲MacArthur

Momewraths

#HappyIndependenceDayAlgeriaOn this date in 1963 Algeria won its independence from FranceSetting some interesting precedents:Expulsion of the Jews from a country in modern times&Expulsion of all ethnic aliens, the French (including

AshleyStevens

The_Acumen

In *recent* US history, we can see how fascism has been here terrorizing Black communities and went unnoticed. Schools with police and metal detectors, literal bombing of our neighborhoods, Ferguson,

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KeelinBurke

Quick q, is Parler a misspelling of “parlor (parlour)” which would ironically allude to a sitting room in predominately wealthy homes where elites would chitchat or converse...or is it a

Laura Bicker

BBCLBicker

The death of a Cambodian woman who was found living in a greenhouse in sub zero temperatures prompted yet another human rights investigation involving migrant labour conditions in South Korea.

Dom Fellowes

fellowes_dom

1 Thread. A bit of #Hull #WW2 history for those interested. 75 years ago my grandad Alan Fellowes turned up to work on King George Dock in Hull. This was,

T.K. of AAK!

AskAKorean

Nah dude.This is super-duper revisionist and completely unsupported by evidence. If anything, by 1950, US was genuinely weighing the option of not defending South Korea in case of a North

Janet Johnson

JJohnsonLaw

When Baseball Mattered - Hank Aaron on Jackie Robinsonhttps://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/opinion/when-baseball-mattered.html?smid=tw-share Jackie Robinson meant everything to me. Before I was a teen-ager, I was telling my father that I was

Lost in the Shire

hobbitoncentral

Oh this Liz Truss speech is joyously terrible gaslighting. I’m going to paraphrase it for the full effect: 1) ‘Racism does not exist in the UK ANYWHERE. What do you

Manuel L. Quezon III

mlq3

Today is the birth anniversary of the Great Dictator (to borrow a title from Charlie Chaplin) and it would do us all well to read up and reflect. So, a

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