#Striking

Chapter 5: Looted Bread, Stolen Labor is full of examples that illustrate how effective looting is as a political tactic. The Pittsburgh riot of 1877 stands out. "The rioting in
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The chancellor @RishiSunak insists he is not blocking the provision of free school meals over the holidays including Christmas. What is striking is that his billionaire father-in-law NR Narayan Murthy
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This is a thread about the most interesting subject I learned recently. It started when I I read the paper “How Complex Systems Fail”. Like many others encountering it, I
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I did want to note something since like half of twitter is now talking about this. I've been interested in how the top creators in anime were able to produce
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11 years ago, my husband and I decided to walk The Ridgeway National Trail. We divided the trail into 12 sections & walked one section per month, starting in January
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Just tweeted about how the spirit of immorality & witch craft permeated the entertainment industry and then a thought dropped in my mind - “what if it has belonged to
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A lot of crypto investors talking about the proposed capital gains tax hike, and a ton of misinformation being thrown out.This is actually something I deal with in my day
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If cases are increasing everywhere because people spend more time indoors, as argued by the public health, why are cases increasing now in Texas where it is neither cold nor
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This is wrong and willfully misleading. It was absolutely a no-knock warrant (and an illegal one at that).The cops just claimed they changed their mind at the scene. And yes,
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so. i think for starters what is most interesting about the sasuke and shikamaru dichotomy is that shikamaru has almost everything that sasuke doesn't and is essentially a projection of
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Continuing my journey through @WanderinDreamr's Manga+ suggestions, I just read all of Hina Change. Most of my thoughts boil down to "those kids need help."https://twitter.com/ImpassionateK/status/1277490925107724288 I think I
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Leo Hurtado Ibarra, murdered by SDPD downtown, died a three days ago.https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jun/30/man-shot-san-diego-police-officers-saturday-dies/ My friend asked me what we should do when someone is a mall shooter, how does that
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Started reading Judges today and it’s always so striking whenever I read it, particularly the first two chapters In 1:27-33 “did not drive out” is mentioned 7 times. God commanded
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Saint Papias of Hierapolis was an early Father of the Church who learned from the Apostle John. He travelled extensively c. 100 AD, interviewing surviving witnesses of Jesus or those
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There was a time pre-2008 when conservatives would argue that, yes, there were some bad actors in high finance, but this was a prosecution problem, not a regulatory problem. Weed
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An observation, to add to a chorus: the vast, vast, vast majority of protest I saw yesterday was peaceful. Like, hugely vast majority. The ones who aren’t are the stragglers
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