#History

Alexandra D-S

iotwatch

As a kind of advent calendar, I'm sharing the books that helped me write my upcoming book. Day 1: Buildings and Power #bookworm #research #books #innovation https://youtu.be/DoIhhdpZ8Ak Day 2: Visualisierung

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Okay, do y'all know what "Home Children" are? I'm a history nerd, and literally had no idea what this was until this morning. It turns out it's a weird

Japan of Green Gables

Thelonius_Punk

I've been profoundly annoyed by the Civil Beat article all day. It's all bluster with absolutely zero information of substance. Saying this didn't happen overnight but dates back to Trump's

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Loneliness is an epidemic of our time & compounded by Covid-19. The worst thing u can do to someone short of death is to give them solitary confinement & isolate

Philip Moscovitch

PhilMoscovitch

I've seen lots of tweets about DHS actions in Portland & disbelief they're using graffiti as a sign of violence & lawlessness, justifying their crackdown. It may seem absurd or

Michael J Wilson

wilsonmj

Brian Williams just called covid the largest mass-death event in modern times and I am really tired of people forgetting that from 1997-2005 over 2 million died from HIV/AIDS every

Pod Save America

PodSaveAmerica

Strike 1: MCENANY: "You're referencing something he allegedly told Bob woodward." REPORTER: "It's on tape, Kayleigh." Strike 2: REPORTER: He says "it's like a miracle, it will disappear." Why is

Senator Jeff Merkley

SenJeffMerkley

The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery—with one big caveat: “except as a punishment for a crime.” For a century and half, that’s been used to re-enslave American citizens (disproportionately black men).

Agnes Callamard

AgnesCallamard

#YuriDmitriev uncovered and protected mass graves, wrote about the #Gulag, one of the darkest moments of #Russia history, and arguably of the world. For that, he has spent the last

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

I'd like to hammer this home:Most Black Americans live in the South. There have been ~250 Senate elections in the South since the end of the Civil War.Exactly two Black

Daniel Adams

_Dan_Adams_

The first American to put forth the notion that we all have a natural right to life, liberty and property was James Otis in 1761, 15 years before the Declaration

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

One of Germany’s most prominent economists, Hans-Werner Sinn, warns of hyperinflation; he links it directly to Hitler's rise to power. A distortion of history: the rise of the Nazis was

Felicity McKee

mckee_felicity

#twitterstorians there is now a combat wheelchair for dungeons and dragons thanks to @mustangsart + many people are attacking the idea of disabled figures generally but especially with wheelchairs etc

Robert Glennie

RobertGlenniePT

Right, now you’re all experts on what the shapes mean, what about the colours..... obviously this is hard to tell from black and whites, but there are some rules to

Michael J Bustamante

MJ_Busta

Political/ideological foils of this Cuban moment: In this conversation, artist Tania Bruguera, w a long history of supporting global left causes like migrant rights, compares what occurred at MINCULT to

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

okay because I haven't seen anyone else do this a thread on this yet, a short list of historic flags carried by the Capitol mob, and why they matter:(cw obviously

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