#Rhetoric

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Trump holds everyone in contempt, including Republican voters by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/trump-holds-everyone-in-contempt?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. A typical thing to say ab

J.J. Sylvia IV, Ph.D

BigDataJJ

1/ I've been seeing a lot of discussion about studies that show transmission of COVID-19 does not occur as often from children to adults. This is being used to support

Conor Fortune

WritesRights

"Far from being able to prevent civilian suffering, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have played a part in causing it," @SherineT said ahead of a debate

Resist Programming 🛰

RzstProgramming

@tylereifert used the NFL’s helmet decal provision to list David Dorn’s name which has been used by white nationalists online as anti-Black whataboutism to dismiss police brutality protests and victims.

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

Being bullied is good for boys, being mocked by peers triggers hormesis, when young boys fight with each other it galvanizes them. Being too emotional IS weakness, because emotion clouds

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Nothing Biden proposed last night was "radical."It was an uncontroversial plan to modernize America after decades of intentional destruction on behalf of the wealthy and powerful.We have to recognize how

Cassie, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx

CassieCeleste

Now that the Democratic primary is well behind us, A THREAD about the current leftist movement in the US. Specifically I want to talk about why intersectionality is important, and

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

US politics over the past 40 years have been dominated by a coalition of plutocrats and evangelicals, whose priorities are weirdly out of step with anything resembling Biblical Christianity. It

Jonathan Lis

jonlis1

OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught

Andrew McFadyen

isaacfoundation

A Plea For Help - A Long But Important Thread - Navigating COVID-19 With A Vulnerable Child See that sweet boy in the photo - that’s Isaac. But he could

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

THREADIn honor of our nation’s Independence Day, I’ve put together side-by-sides of the media’s coverage of @realDonaldTrump’s speech vs. the text they purport to describe. @washingtonpost vs. the opening “We

Unicorn March

UnicornMarch

Yes: TERFs started, and lead, the battle against "queer."TERFs want you to avoid "queer."TERFs want you to think "weird/freaky" is bad.TERFs want you to think it's bad that it's deliberately

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Time to spill some beans... Or truths as it were.Alberta is in financial crisis. Deep financial crisis. Several economists and pundits are calling for a provincial sales tax.I’m going to

Emily D. Warfield

EmilyDWarfield

Hey maybe since I'm unlocked now I can do a brief educational thread on the history, utility and limitations of the term "sex work" It was coined by Carol Leigh

Candace Winstead

CandaceWinstea1

Outstanding job @HarrisonAKirk and @ByCatherine_ reporting on "Power imbalance in COVID-19 enforcement" and speaking truth to power. I have some thoughts, so brief https://mustangnews.net/power-imbalance-in-covid-19-enforcement/

Baidik

baidik

I borrow the words of the great V.S Naipaul in describing Indian Agriculture: An Area of Darkness. Instead of letting rhetoric get in d way, let data to the talking.