#Striking

Joy-Ann 😷Reid

JoyAnnReid

Been thinking a lot about 1972 lately (sorry, insomnia produces extra-nerdy thoughts). Richard Nixon, having gained office with a less than a 1% popular vote margin and riding a national

Dr Crom

DocCrom

Ancient Coin of the Day: Back to the Fourth Century BC today, with the coinage of Paeonia, a region to the north of Macedonia, beginning with this silver tetradrachm of

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_CallumLFC

Ryan Gravenberch analysis. {A Thread}. Please RT so more people can see my posts. First off, Gravenberch is just 18 years old and is a regular starter for the Dutch

Nick Timiraos

NickTimiraos

Nonfarm payroll employment rises by 1.4 million in August; unemployment rate falls to 8.4% https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm The number of unemployed persons fell by 2.8 million to 13.6 million. This is still

Axarrey

Axarrey

It's Xenoblade month! Gonna be postin stuff until it comes out, starting with a low intensity ambient theme. Love it when tracks slowly introduce instruments, esp percussion stuff like the

Abdulla A. A.

MegaManModelAAA

[THREAD]A few days ago, I posted a reply to a good user’s post about how I believed more scenes in Paper Mario Colour Splash can be considered horror material just

Jonathan Burdett

jburd22

1/ After discussions about female representation in recent media such as the Irishman and the Mandalorian, we have to remember the point of the Bechdel test (whether a movie contains

🎒alice coltrane enjoyer / grief haver

Matt_Elia

Whenever these "whites faking Blackness" stories surface, like Jessica Krug or Dolezal, it's striking how each one is treated as *fascinating* -- like we need magazine profiles to understand each

Emerican Johnson - Self-Declared Antifa

EmericanJohnson

My positions on Biden, condensed in one thread:-He is an architect of genocide, a neoliberal warhawk and an imperialist. This is all well-documented. He sucks.-He is, at best, extremely sexually

Anand Menon

anandMenon1

More fascinating stuff from @thesundaytimes on the Government's strategy for dealing with the virus. Well worth a read. Damning on the delays in imposing lockdown (1/5)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/three-weeks-of-dither-and-de

Tanner F. Boyle

TannerFBoyle1

This is the only picture I've been able to find of Bosco Nedelcovic. I believe he is the bottom right of this news clipping. The caption says he's an interpreter.

Waymarks

waymarksblog

It's interesting to see the quick popularity of the Guardian's "real life" Lord of the Flies story, but reactions to it do seem slightly one dimensional. Essentially it's a single

Melody Chakatsva 🇿🇼

MelodyChakatsva

1/6 Of spokespersons, lies, lies and more lies!Why do ardent government critics e.g. @ProfJNMoyo suddenly lie through their teeth in defense of govnt when they become gvnt spokespersons or decent

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Anyone fancy an #Earthday data thread?One of my frustrations with this topic is that all too often it’s portrayed in enormously over-simplistic terms: We need to stop flying! Cutting

T.K. of AAK!

AskAKorean

From 2007 to 2014, "South Korean firms with subsidiaries operating at Kaesong showed average annual increases in revenues (by 8%), fixed assets (by 26%) and profits (by 11%)." https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/north-east-asia/korea

Dr. Remington Nevin

RemingtonNevin

For some perspective on recent events, at its worst, the rate of U.S. mortality from COVID-19 (20-30/100k) will still only be about half the years-long murder rate in Baltimore (50/100k).