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Today's #BlackBirdersWeek topic is #BirdingWhileBlack.Here's a review of a fascinating book looking at the role Black Africans played for colonial white expeditionists. Has much changed?The Black Birders Who Made White

David Fickling

davidfickling

Here's a story about how a ship-eating clam helped bring about the Industrial Revolution: The naval shipworm Teredo Navalis is an under-appreciated marker of globalization.It's a type of highly adapted

PepeNewsNow

PepeNewsNow

1. Loser Barry had strings like a puppet and thot HRC would win. Then Trump announced his candidacy and things changed!In 2015, Loser Barry regrets not closing GITMO....let's go back

DoYouSEEWhatIC

Awnye5

Biological warfare, or “germ warfare,” is the “use of biological toxins or infectious agents (bacteria, viruses, and fungi) with the intent to kill or incapacitate humans.” Historically, the US’ involvement

Heather

betamother

Gonna make a wee thread of resources & thoughts here re news literacy, not just for young people, but for all. I’m challenging friends & family about once a week

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadFor @_LukeCSkywalkerWe're closer to losing everything than we've ever been.It all depends on the upcoming election.WE WON'T LOSE.But let me explain. The Supreme Court ruled that an ILLEGAL order--DACA--must be

blairsmus

blairsmus

the trend of hollywood casting established black female characters as biracial girls/women, a thread: “The Sun Is Also a Star” casting yara shahid as natasha, who is supposed to be

Telegraph Global Health Security

TelGlobalHealth

How Trump undermined US aid - a thread #Election2020 1/10https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/trump-undermined-us-aid-still-spent-billions-transactional/ When Donald Trump became president in 2016, his victory was b

Kinley Salmon

kcsalmon

You may think you’re safe,” says a 57-year-old resident of Doropo in northern Ivory Coast. “But jihadists are like ants, they can come in without being noticed.”Me in @TheEconomist on

Tessa Dare

TessaDare

This is a thread about anxiety. Specifically, having an anxiety disorder. Everyone is different, and this is only my experience. Please consider every tweet to be prefaced by “For me”

Julia

jquadddddd

folklore lyrics as told by the New York Mets (in track list order): a thread I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit And it would have been fun if

SLSC Lido

slsclido

[1/6] THREAD: As #BlackHistoryMonth is drawing to a close, let's celebrate some history-making Black swimmers. First up, it's James Clarke, who was awarded EIGHT medals for saving lives and

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

i’ll keep saying this but for example look no further than the ku klux klan, theatrical and silly and also deadly serioushttps://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1347176661406593024 we often talk about the overthrow of reconstruction

James Martin, SJ

JamesMartinSJ

White Jesus thread: Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting,

Ruth #BLM

FullofRuth

Let’s carry this fiasco onto the world stage and look at the damage unfolding there. The visible destruction of American democracy and the rise of fascistic thinking in America legitimizes

Lafayette Lee

OrangePartisan

1. I believe history is cyclical, not linear. This is an ancient view, one informed by observing seasonal changes and rotating constellations.The ancients cherished an existential treatise by Hesiod that

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