#1930s

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

1/ Richard Hofstadter (historian)surveyed history from the founding of the nation through McCarthyism and noticed a pattern among a small impassioned minority on the fringes of the political spectrum.They believe

Steve Hunnisett

Blitzwalker

Greetings virtual Blitz walkers, wherever you are. Something of a mixed day with the weather in London but we're gathered outside Sloane Square Underground Station to begin our exploration of

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 120th Birthday Gary CooperA thread http://waldina.com/2021/05/07/happy-120th-birthday-gary-cooper/ Today is the 120th birthday of the actor Gary Cooper. You don't have to be a fan of Westerns to be a fan of High

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Last week marked the 100th Anniversary of #19thAmendment This is a perfect opportunity to reflect on how women gaining the right to vote fundamentally changed international politics. How?

DocRock1007 🇺🇸

DocRock1007

1. #QAnon "Soon you will find that the so-called outside world and the so-called inside world come together.They are a happening and everything is simply a happening. And all you

Matt Karp 🌹🦏🇺🇸

karpmj

The years from 1857 to 1861, with Dred Scott freshly inscribed as “the law of the land,” saw a wave of radical challenges to the power of the Supreme Court.Here’s

Hilary Abernathay. Some #Covid19 & #Nexit for all?

atatimelikethis

I feel like history needs to be applied to the comparisons between UK/USA 2020 and Germany 1930s.The analogy has some legitimacy. The process and likely outcome need some work.And we

Steve Analyst

EmporersNewC

1. “Stretching back to 1968”…? (a) The Equal pay act was updated because the EEC defended our right to equal pay.(b) That right was bestowed on us by the EEC

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Well, here's a depressing thread that I've known that I was probably going to have to write since sometime in 2016 or so. I was waiting to see how things

Ernest Ming-tak Leung 梁明德

ernestleungmt

The EF55 class locos, aka "Moomin", has mythical status in Japan. Built by Hitachi in 1936 for Tokaido expresses, they were the poster child of wartime high-tech Japan, and could

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Back in 2016, @thomasfrank_'s "Listen, Liberal!" forcefully explained that "liberals" are not leftists, and that while we on the left might sometimes ally with liberals, we are not on the

gavv

smartandsane

Thread on what @Crunchyrollis doing to #nagatoro , one of the hottest shows out of japan is unforgivable. Their translations are not just lazy. They are deliberately shitty and cringe.

Peter Harden - Bursting the Canberra Bubble

hardenuppete

THREAD: #TheFamily in AustraliaAnyone watching the Netflix series called 'The Family' would have been shocked to learn about the political influence a secret fundamentalist christian sect were able to have

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Understanding GOP-Trump-Putin love Oh, pick me! @MarkSZaidEsq !I can answer your question about why Trump remains so popular with the GOP.Richard Hofstadter, in his classic work The Paranoid Style

Chandrakant Nair

reduvid

Over the past 4 months, we’ve conducted Mastermind Kerala 1.0 over Zoom. One of the topics chosen in the final heat of the event was this: Movie Theatres in Kerala.

Zhyr! Zhyr! Zhyr!

ZhyrZhyrZhyr

Ukrainians love McDonald’s. The McDonald’s next to the main train station in Kyiv is claimed to be the third busiest in the world.https://twitter.com/parker__farquer/status/1248710144927518720 Ukrainians are pretty big on easter eggs.