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Kanyi Maqubela

km

Private prisons are scary, and recall chattel slavery. But only 8% of US prisoners are in private prisons.An even bigger issue: the actions of private companies who get contracts to

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floricets

this man is living in a transitional shelter, he gives skate lessons to less fortunate kids because he feels that they need “to do something positive,” and wants to provide

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samifouad

Chief Littlechild once attended residential schools. Decades later in 2007, he helps draft the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights.@jkenney was serving as Secretary of State - Multiculturalism & Canadian Identity

Mark Curtis

markcurtis30

50 years ago today, Idi Amin seized power in Uganda, a coup immediately welcomed by UK, declassified files show. UK backed/armed Amin's regime as the terror began, only later withdrawing

Friend of the Talking Bird

DrugGovoruna

Since I keep contributing to inequality/IQ/meritocracy threads, let me state my own position. I have written these things on Twitter before; they are unoriginal. What I see around me is

Osman Siddiqi

OsmSiddiqi

Finally listened to @MariamChughtai and Pervez Hoodbhoy's debate on thinkfest. Immediate reactions - Dr. Chughtai really held her own with the facts around what a curriculum is and what it

Joel Pollak

joelpollak

The @AP fact check says that @realDonaldTrump is wrong about signature matching in the Georgia consent decree. But the AP article does not link to the consent decree. https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-donald-trump-georgia-elections-v

Mario Arulthas

MarioArul

Sinhalese who are cheering this on - there are a few statues and monuments celebrating the genocide and its perpetrators in various locations across the North-East. Please feel free to

Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT)

ovshake42

The crowd, cheering Ironside for his fifth wicket, was stunned in silence.The New Zealand cricketers stood by the glass windows of the pavilion.They were making no effort to hide their

John Hayward

Doc_0

What a contrast to see the Dems march out their hideous foreign policy failures - never forget the path to 9/11 ran under Bill Clinton's desk and he helped China

Jessica Huseman

JessicaHuseman

There are in fact plenty of good reasons but this is a fancy talking point politicians like, even though it disadvantages the very people they claim to be in this

balajis.com

balajis

Courageous article by Noah.This a situation where the 50 IQ and 150 IQ guy shake hands and say the obvious thing: buy Bitcoin.https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1352707799969533953 CPI obscures more than it reveals, because

Alex Gladstein

gladstein

1/ I do. I’ll give you a few now. For starters BYSOL, a grassroots Belarusian human rights org, has moved more than $500k of value peer-to-peer to striking workers inside

alex

AlexMShirley

The Great Depression and Dust Bowl devastated Oklahoma, so why weren't New Deal programs popular among Oklahomans?One key reason: Alfalfa Bill. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray served as Okla.'s first Speaker

Robert Harding

RobertHarding

A new argument against renaming Auburn High School in honor of Harriet Tubman: That because Tubman didn't go to school there, it shouldn't be named after her. There is an

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Charles Koch, the right-wing billionaire who spent hundreds of millions of dollars to radicalize the Republican party, now says he regrets his "partisanship."“Boy, did we screw up!” he writes

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