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The Ancient World #BLM

TheAncientWorld

Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy

Pepita Barlow

pepitabarlow

Has @BorisJohnson realised yet that for his anti-obesity drive to be sustainable and effective, he will need to take a v tough stance against US trade lobby (and the businesses

Khalid Madu Yemen Kurmadinah

khalids

One of the most challenging career is to be a teacher in this present context. See, once upon a time, knowledge was very limited. Say 500 years ago, books were

Jon Collins

JonSCollins

Every couple years I go on a little rant about how journalism is fundamental to democracy. I'm realizing now that people I thought were just ideologically cynical are actually hostile

Michael Pearson

mipearson

What's happening in the US scares me, an Australian, because for the last decade or so I've been watching my right-wing father-in-law's grief and fear be misdirected and amplified by

Fateh Singh | MIND SURGEON

fatehshernu

A few days ago, I turned 34. ----RANDOM THREAD----Virtue ≠ Virtue Signalling - There is no Happiness for a Woman without a Happy Family. - There is no Happiness for

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glitterotic

here's my ygo makeup headcanons/ pretending that it's happening in the modern world not the mid-90s bc makeup has evolved a lot since then and is a lot more fun

mbuya nehanda’s risen bones ⚱️

sucolorfavorito

teaching children to harbor boundaries is really amazing. if anything, working as a child educator has allowed me to analyze how adults routinely enter into power struggles with children over

Rich Lowry

RichLowry

The mainstream press all agrees that the Mount Rushmore speech was racially divisive, so let’s look at the evidence as available to us from the text of said speech “Our

NTR of Pharaoh Khonshu Heru

xySIRenVYxo

UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE THAT THE AMERICAS IS THE EGYPT OF THE WEST AND THE OLD WORLD.The Americas (North, south, and central America) are the true old world, because all of the

ari 🧚🏻‍♀️

_arifairy

when i worked at starbu*ks there were two separate racist events at stores near me that caused national outrage and protests in my city. because of this, we had to

Thabisa Sibanda

SibandaSibbs

1/6 Heavily armed gang at a Church Headquarters. This story may have been drowned by many other International news headlines but is very important for us in Southern Africa. A

JenniferMarchSoloway

marchsoloway

#WriteTip / #QueryTip / #RevisionTipFrom an agent's perspective, a high word count can be a red flag that the project is early and in need of revision.For that reason, if

Ross Douthat

DouthatNYT

Let's do a thread on my Sunday column, which provoked some understandably strong reactions:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/opinion/sunday/covid-19-trump.html Some of those reactions were misreadings, so it's worth emphasizing:I t

small-C communist 🏴🚩

_____newt

Just had a classmate in Classics ask incredulously how Classics is connected to white supremacy, and I thought I'd share my reply: Studying Greek and Roman history doesn't inherently link

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

A child allowance would rescue millions of vulnerable kids from poverty, but @swinshi says it’s bad anyway because it reduces work incentives.So I asked him if he could give me

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