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New from me: a look at the US digital divide, now that most schools are starting the year with virtual classes. This was one of the most frustrating stories I've
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Today's #RomancingtheGothic lecture is STEAMPUNK with @CarolineDuvezin - so excite! It's repeated at 7pm BST so ask @RomGothSam if you want the Zoom link. It's free, like all the lectures
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It’s tempting to view QAnon’s rise as a threat to democracy – especially with a believer poised to win a seat in the House of Representatives.But history suggests that conspiracy-based
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Now that I have slept and had three panic attacks in a row, I can safely say that I thought about a lot of things and I'm going to talk
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In our #ThursdayThread we're discussing how Majorie Taylor Greene wants to debate @AOC on the Green New Deal. Should Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez consent to debate Greene in a public forum?Fuck no.Here's
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I really wish people could see more good films that are not blockbuster/cinema movies. There is a whole world of films beyond the big budget ones. I guess a lot
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Never ever forget the war crimes committed by the U.S military in Iraq. Imagine what went on undocumented.... they raped, murdered, tortured, abused, stole, destroyed, terrorised innocent Iraqis. They’re not
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ThreadSomebody posted a video from 2015 warning about the dangers of Islam."Watch and learn," she wrote.After I posted my response, she blocked me. King Salman assumed the Saudi thrown on
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As the start of the school year looms, the annual anxious anticipation of new faces & opportunities has been replaced with a nail-biting, pulse-quickening fog with no clear picture of
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Review finds racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic content in all 32 issues of weekly insert printed in @MiamiHerald's @elnuevoherald, calling Michelle Obama "black monster," Africa the "ass of the world" an
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1909 Jacob Schiff founds the National Advancement for the Association of the Coloured People (NAACP). 1910 On the evening of November 22, 1910, Paul Warburg ( representing Kuhn, Loeb
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giving Seventeen's future children AWFUL names: an unnecessary but hopefully amusing thread seungkwan should never let me name his kids bc i already got the names and theyre awfulson 1:
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George Packer, in his brilliant “Our Man” about Richard Holbrook, cites a ‘68 @TheAtlantic essay by a former assistant who worked for years on Vietnam and described why officials so
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An obfuscation campaign is currently underway to give intellectual cover to assorted foreign supported regime change agents. In this thread I will try to explain why these toolkit creating agents
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People are thinking too small these days. What would you do if you had a BILLION dollars? (other than 2 chicks at the same time, obv) Small amounts of money
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THREAD: This week, we launched our latest TV ad – directly counter-punching @realdonaldtrump and his super PAC for false and heinous attacks. We accomplished that by holding a mirror up
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