#PROTESTS

N. K. Jemisin

nkjemisin

Been thinking about one of the questions @wkamaubell relayed to me during our NYPL event earlier tonight, which was basically: In a time like this, for an artist, should I

Tyler Buchanan

Tylerjoelb

THREAD: Protest coverage at the Ohio Statehouse over the years. Starting with one of 5,000 college students shortly after the Kent State shootings. (May 8, 1970) May 1972 -- more

Laura Seay

texasinafrica

Experts on coups & popular uprisings, a thread for journalists & producers trying to figure this out: 1. @Ras_Karya, whose book Africa Uprising (coauthored with Adam Branch), is an excellent

Millenial for Liberty

mill4lib

You covered our faces for almost a year. You called us racists. You called us Nazis and KKK-sympathizers. You called homophobic, transphobic, and xenophobic. You censored us on virtually every

Magane

MaganeMeow

"America First movement defined patriotic duty ... as isolationism in the service of preserving home, family, and ... Americanism."It was led by "fifty to one hundred" mother's groups in major

Heidi Hatch

tvheidihatch

John Sullivan, a known agitator and protestor from Utah has been detained tonight in Washington D.C. He broke into the U.S Capitol yesterday and was recorded just outside the chambers

Oilers Insider - #BigEd

InsiderOilers

Ok, it's thread time. This is going to be a bit of a mish mash but I need to do it.1. I tweeted out about this a couple days ago

Saeed Jones

theferocity

It hurts. After all the violence and death, not just this year, at the hands of police officers who don’t believe black people are entitled to dignity or life, the

Donovan Farley

DonovanFarley

In reference to @PortlandPolice trying to blame their repeated failures to even bothering showing up to distress calls on BLM protests: “They clearly make time to harass people for being

Traveling Watermelon Salesman William J. Clinton

Roll_Sizzlebeef

So ignore the conservative morons in this thread bc this is the only way I could remember where the video was, but this is emblematic of why the lionization of

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

A video of a guy getting decked at DC protests has gone viral. Longer clip shows the same guy initiating violence, & kicking someone on the ground before being sucker-punched.

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

Reading a psychology book that explains why Boomers are like that. Authoritarian parenting, like authoritarian governing, is heavily based on shame and fear, and shame in childhood creates narcissistic traits

Ember November - #WearTheDamnMask

ember_november

THREAD.So, today, Alberta lost more people to Covid than the Humboldt bus crash. Remember when that crash happened? People cried. They put hockey sticks on their porch. They donated millions

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

One really clear thing from this and the emerging reactions is that the US Democrats have very significantly evolved their policy philosophies and framing / messaging on climate, while conservatives

Ericka Cruz Guevarra

NotoriousECG

THREAD 1/xThe longshoremen's union that organized today's shut down of West Coast ports in honor of #Juneteenth and #GeorgeFloydProtests are from THE BAY. @ILWU_10 in San Francisco and Local

Maysaloon

Maysaloon

Ten years ago to the day, Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire. It triggered protests in Tunisia, but I remember paying it little attention on the news. It's hard not

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