#Social

There are so many folks currently in prison who spend decades trying to do everything right. Not getting in trouble, taking every class available, being a mentor to others, just
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Social progress today involves unwinding Progressive Era reforms to a surprising extent, from the bureaucratization of science and academia, to the explosion in private rights of action, to the process-laden
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A quick guide to how cancel culture works. (From someone who's been to this rodeo many times.)It begins with a quest for power. Someone stands in your way because they
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1. Those who are most naive and optimistic often become the most bitter when their Pollyannish beliefs are wrecked on the shoals of reality. I confess this is what happened
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Reactionaries are desperate to depoliticise anti-racism.https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1335514739913482246 Eustice is doing the same grim work here as all those people lecturing us about how 'defund the police' is the wron
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1/ Brexit and the 40,000 or so avoidable covid deaths are symptoms of a broken political system in which the ruling elite serves only itself and its super-rich patrons, and
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since no one wants to explain why, here's a little thread on reasoning why being on the internet at a young age is dangerous: 1. you are EXTREMELY vulnerable to
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Divided we stand: the new Brexit Britain.It’s consumed four years and three Prime Ministers. But as a deadline for a deal looms, what do those who voted think now? (1)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/divided-we-stand-16-lessons-abo
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Alright, thred on public bathrooms coming up. Avert your eyes if this content isn’t something you want to read As someone with gastric issues, I rely on public bathrooms when
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Spain sentences ex-colonel to 133 years in jail for murder of five Jesuit priests during the El Salvador civil war https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-54126548 Not mentioned here was that one of those priests
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My last tweet in 2019Little did I know a global pandemic was around the corner that would give unprecedented visibility to the centrality of care work. Visibility has not reduced
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In societies of European origin, fashion is often used by people to signify social class and distinguish the upper crust from the riffraff. Likewise, in some sports, players use fashion
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Every bloody time a famous writer says, "you can't wait to have the time to write, get up early / stay up late and just write" if you poke around,
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1/Thread: Lebanese emigration 1860-1929Today Lebanon is faced with the threat of massive emigration. This is very reminiscent of the second wave of emigration from Mount Lebanon post WW1. Emigration driven
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I wanted to create a thread this morning about influencing/blogging/freelancing as a black woman to provide some tips and insight on how to win. I'm creating this thread (and it
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Telling your own story is hard. It’s an ironic and universal truth. We’re afraid to say something nobody cares to listen to.But your "Bio" or "About Me" is the most
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