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Wanjikũ Revolution™

WanjikuRevolt

Thread... Musing on #Covid19I wonder about the growing numbers and worry at the excitement of GOK in announcing the new number of positive #coronavirusInkenya cases. They announce it as though

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babiediet

fasting and anorexia through the ages: a historical thread 161 BC: Size Zero Wannabes- roman republic becomes obsessed with slimness and scorns obesity- comic play by North African poet Terence

Movie Minds 🎬🎥 & Music Thoughts 🎼🎵

MovieMinds_MT

One thing I’ll always remember growing up is that Black people are always the “first to get killed” in #scarymovies. So since #Halloween is upon us, I’m going to pay

Katherine Harloe

KatherineHarloe

[Thread] Rarely have I been so wracked with esprit d’escalier as after recording this show. I wish I’d talked more about those places where skin colour prejudice shows up in

Haajara

haajara

1. Saw a tweet questioning why Nigerian houses tend to have teeny tiny windows, there’s a myriad of reasons why our homes and cities look the way they do now.

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

MsEntropy

As Facebook has my domain blocked and won't tell me why, I'm content to keep Tweeting this article until I'm allowed to post it elsewhere. #SideEffectsOfQuarantineLife"'Social Distancing' of a Casual

Shireen, Harlem's Shuri, In Political Mecca!

digitalsista

America takes actions to prevent people from voting. Gerrymandering, redistricting, dividing colleges in half to dilute the power of their vote, moving polling places, stripping the right from those that

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Over 100 years before there was the infamous ANC government tender, there was widespread Boer "concession" corruption. Here's how Afrikaners invented and perfected state capture and looting[Thread] In 1881, a

Michael Cohen

speechboy71

I've been working on a piece charting the worst indiscretions of Trump's presidency and I'd completely forgotten about the speech he gave to the Boy Scouts Jamboree in which he

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Hey.I want to talk for a quick minute about the Tea Party, the meeting where I first realized fascism could find purchase in America, and why our civilization is coming

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD: THE LOCUST PLAGUE]1/26All that happens in S. Asia and Aus. directly or indirectly goes back to the fact that the Indian Ocean is landlocked on 3 sides with a

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

It’s no surprise violence has descended on Edmonton. Edmonton is a diverse and progressive city. Typically voting in progressive mayors and the provincial NDP stronghold. This violence is intimidation and

Dear Debbie

lovedvra

I just need a place to keep track of all the movies I've watched. *shrugs* Mona Lisa Smile (2003) is about a free thinking art teacher who moves to another

Bret Turner

bretjturner

I hope that teachers, regardless of who they teach, find some time and some way to address the moment we're in right now in these final days of school with

Naima Cochrane

naima

I see the student loan debt discussion is about to be an argument full of misinforamation and direction even from Black people. I keep seeing two main arguments against:1. It

Mary

mary_HistoryFan

Okay, I'm going to start my new thread now, the one showcasing beautiful cultural heritage sites in countries that our so-called president decided are "shithole" countries. That's the only time