#History

Jan Brauner

JaniceBrauner

Speaking of an innumeracy that plagues ppl's assessment of problems...Jill Lepore makes an astounding claim that 2/3 of Americans treated in emergency rooms had been injured by police or security

BLVCK SHUGA ⚪

BoyBlackShuga

@kanyewest was absolutely right tho,everything ive observed from the blacks, in africa and beyond [from wealthy blacks to poor blacks] and i agree. "SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE" First of all...

Rakesh

just1hashtag

Well, The history of the word "quarantine" is fascinating! (A mini Thread)The word comes from Latin 'quadraginta' and the Italian 'quaranta', both meaning “40.”Why 40?We will have to go back to the mid

ben roswell 👽👬

roswellwrites

Below is how my game Private Cathedrals was written up for the itch selects bundle. I'm honored to be part of it but was surprised at how my game was

Phillips P. OBrien

PhillipsPOBrien

A thread on the use of federal power in Portland and other US cities today when compared to the suppression of the Bonus Army camp in 1932--and what it means

Dr Alice Blackwell

earlymedieval

I'm not saying I've got museum withdrawal but I just spotted the #earlymedieval Talnotrie pin design in pointille on my kitchen roll #MuseumFromHome Anyone raise me @amaldon @PostExGem @mgknight24?

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jonghy1n

a thread on south asian cultural appropriation , and the difference between appropriation and appreciation. firstly, i will not be going into depth of the history of everything mentioned in

Ruchika Sharma

tishasaroyan

The kind of destruction that never gets talked about in popular historical discourse in India is the temple destruction wrought by many rulers in the subcontinent much before Islam entered

Show Your Work

showusyourwork

Now that it's over, here are some selections from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 from @wired's July 1997 issue (thread)"Remember my friend,

mani marie

themanimarie

i asked this girl why she is christian and she doesn’t know. she also doesn’t care to know. humanities bore her. life, politics, and the meaning of life doesn’t interest

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ NEW: The Port Neches chemical plant where two explosions and an ongoing fire prompted widespread mandatory evacuations Wednesday has a years-long history of state and federal environmental violations.https://bit.ly/2KZJjTw 2/

jen psaki's head tilt before the kill 😎🍦💛🐝

CandiceAiston

Not that anyone should care what a man with a seething hatred for women thinks about rape culture, but I just want to reiterate why there is a huge difference

HOPE not hate

hopenothate

NEW: For Britain has repeatedly denied it’s far right. But why then are so many former members of the fascist BNP filling its ranks, with at least 10 standing for

ICL Black Doctoral Network

ICLBlackDocNet

We begin our journey with Deyl Djama (@DeylDjama), a PhD student from the Department of Life Sciences! Deyl is interested in how the brain works in health & disease. He

Stomp Out Slumlords

StompSlumlords

The mayor's threat to have the unelected Chief Financial Officer overrule the council's budget because of tiny cuts to MPD's reveal a lot about how the District government works.Even if

Ahmed

Post_Apathy

The Classics are important because of the Lindy rule. They've stood the test of time, in the elegance of their prose and the relevance of their lessons.https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1287290901383938048 "Aren't the cla