#History

1. To all #Conservatives MPs: Thousands of us have written to you about the horrors Leaseholders face on a daily basis because of the #CladdingScandal caused by grave failures in
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Nazis and Fascists are just European cousins of Marxists. Mussolini was a hardcore Marxist, he just extended that totalitarianism to "nation", much like China is.They are all born from totalitarian
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I've been considering whether to log off Twitter for 48 hours but instead I'm going to continue in the way I always have, fighting bigotry and racism and using my
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The Songhai Empire of 16th century in West Africa had a government position called ‘Minister for Etiquette and Protocol.’ And One of the government positions in the mediaeval Kanem-Borno kingdom
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When and if the sorry history of this era Is written, the anchors, producers and bookers of Sunday talk shows, the editors and many reporters of mainstream media, will not
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(DEATH TOLL) For those trying to calculate an accurate 9-month US COVID-19 death toll, the NYT reports that as of 11/14, the max undercount was 100K. So on any given
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On The Cyclicality of Human Culture, Cycles of Irony, & The Importance of the Transcribing of Internet Culture and Mythos [THREAD 6/15/19]Human culture moves at a rate of 1 Internet
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1/ What most vividly shows the difference between Ron DeSantis and Xavier Becerra? The crusade, and then the failure of that crusade, to make America into a fully authoritarian nation,
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There's a lot of doomerism going around about undermining shared symbols of American national identity ('cancelling' G. Washington/Lincoln, removing the anthem from public events/arguing for replacement, full end of teaching
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We're doing something different with our end-of-year roundup at @Oaklandside. You won't just find our stories. We wanted to celebrate and preserve great Oakland journalism across the board, from indie
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Anti-fascism THREAD 31/?#Fascism #AntiFascism A Brief History of Anti-Fascism - As long as the ideology has threatened marginalized communities, groups on the left have pushed back with forcehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-hist
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Continuing our Kashmir History Month Series, we examine a painful part of Kashmir’s history: the reign of Sikander Butshikan. Butshikan, whose name literally means idol destroyer, inflicted significant harm to
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Can I be honest for a moment?Observing Christians combined w/ my study of history the last few years makes me want to distance myself from Christianity altogether.I find it increasingly
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To every humanities/social studies undergrad out there trying to figure out how to take notes here's some advice from a grad student writing a dissertation w/ hundreds of sources 1/
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Because of fake history on twitter today by Erin O'toole, for the record:Conservatives have been deeply corrupt since their first leader, and Canada's biggest political scandal which compelled his resignation
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The idiocy of the trump family is directly correlated to what they’ve been able to get away with, as a result of both the Cosa Nostra muscle behind Fred, &
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