#Society

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Uwnayna

Some of the discourse I see re home ownership in the UK makes no sense. It’s not the norm for you to be purchasing in your twenties. The average age

Will Stancil

whstancil

People are worried about coups, but the thing causing me real despair is the prospect of living for decades in an ever-tightening vice of right-wing gerrymandering and court packing, in

Desi-Rae Thinking :)

desiraethinking

I've heard and thought about this notion a lot.If we want to have any human-created thing in the world and not just work entirely on our own, specifically choosing what

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

Back in the 50s and 60s, automobiles became both more accessible and faster without improving safety at all. By 1965, there were about 50,000 road deaths a year in the

nylah burton

yumcoconutmilk

It’s funny how people are encouraged to mourn and be upset over all the other shit that went down this year, but not the fact that they gained weight. Which

Danielle Ferguson

DaniFergs

Senate judiciary talking about a bill to expand compassionate parole to people in prison who have health conditions that would exacerbate pandemic illnesses:https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/217575.pdf Dep. secretary of SD DOC D

Julian Shapiro

Julian

School is an astonishing failure of modern society.We're taught about dinosaurs before learning how to function as people.Thread: Life lessons I wish school taught all of us. Schools don't teach

Eric Hirshberg

erichirshberg

I can’t stop thinking about the ending to “The Lord of the Flies.” When the navy officer arrives on the island, he’s shocked to find the group of stranded boys

Simon Cosgrove 🇪🇺#FBPE #Rejoin

simoncosgrove

Why aren't the British people angry? I must have been phenomenally naive in 2016 because I could not believe people would vote for the rightwing project of #Brexit, something no

Natalie Morrill

natalie_morrill

Some people on my feed have been pointing out that Emanuel doesn't advocate for euthanasia (& in fact explicitly states he's opposed to it). The thing is, what's troubling about

Swati Goel Sharma

swati_gs

True. Lazy analysts reduce the definition of ‘jaatiwaad’ to ‘discrimination’, arguing that one can have pride in own jaati and not discriminate against other jaatis and problem is solved. Actually,

Ellen Gibson

ellenrgibson

80% of the UK thinks we're in a climate emergency, an overwhelming majority. But what does this mean for climate *action*?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/27/un-global-climate-poll-peoples-voice-is-clear-they-want-action

Sean Beaudoin

seanbeaudoin

THREAD 1-131/ How have we come to this, teetering on the precipice of a political extinction event? The Electoral Certification challenge will certainly fail but immoral political theater is damning.

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

People who call the Great Reset a "conspiracy theory" exhibit a rhetorical strategy known as "Reset Fragility," which is deployed when one knows there is a fascist conspiracy afoot and

Lucy C. Dagneau

thelucygoose

Glad to see the political world finally tuning in to what's been happening in the South for awhile. I am so proud to work with many amazing Southern organizers, advocates,

Liz Borkowski

LizBorkowski

"Forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a

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