#History

I got the chance to review a fascinating, ambitious new history of the first presidential impeachent in the Times Book Review. I learned a ton and it really helped clarify
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Lots of discussion about when schools will reopen fully. The answer is ‘we don’t know’ - here’s my take on why 1/5 Schools could reopen to children and staff who
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So ok, if you're gonna criticise someone for not being knowledgeable on something... Maybe have some knowledge yourself?Callinf Tetsujin 28 the second anime ever made, no emphasis or it being
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THREAD/ Since 'Columbia Heights' is uh, trending nationally, this seems like a good time to talk about Columbia Heights the neighborhood - its history, and how it's situated in the
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1/ Bubble Investing aka Quality Investing - Some chartsWhat has been the trend of some key stocks on Price to Earnings or Price to Book for Financial companies. Things not
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This is amazing. Richard Epstein tries to falsify the history of his disastrous foray into epidemiology. This should destroy his career. But since he's a right-winger, it won'thttps://twitter.com/JohnPMacke/status/1251716101819584513 Two rela
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y'all are annoying so let's clear up some things, white people can not experience systematic racism in the US. no matter how poor or abandoned a white person is, it
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mk movie sucks because mokap isn't in it 0/10...or maybe he's actually one of the stuntmen and we DON'T EVEN KNOW considering mk's obsession with bringing up hsu hao in
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This Day in Labor History: April 9, 1865. General Lee surrenders and Treason in Defense of Slavery is crushed. Let's talk about the slave general strike that made it happen!
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Just curious if there's been a hot take from any US constitutional scholars that appointing more strict constructionists in a time when the federal government is leaning toward fascist authoritarianism
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cool fact: communism has never existed on a large scale in human history except for the pre-civilization days, if you wanna argue that that was a form of communism but
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Our Neighborhood Lecture Series presentation of “Earth’s First Crust” is starting now! Tune in on Zoom (https://bit.ly/3404cqD ) or watch the live stream on Youtube (https://youtu.be/j82CNr4PWwg ). Deputy Director Michael Wa
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TW: Violence against indigenous womenI haven’t been watching @LovecraftHBO since I knew I would want to binge watch it but i’ve heard about this past episode where a 2S (obviously
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We don’t like to admit it, but Australia has the same incalcitrant hatred towards First Nations folk as white america has towards black Americans The nation and its industries -
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If you make a sweeping negative assumption about a person based solely on the color of their skin... call it plain prejudice, punching up, intersectionality, whatev.. Idc how you try
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OAN's Chanel Rion, who has history promoting conspiracy theories, says she spoke with WH @PressSec Stephanie Grisham and that Grisham has again invited her to be her guest in briefing
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