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Marco Malvagio - poorly explained history stuff

MalvagioMarco

Ok, holidays and coups are mostly over, so back to threads.There was some recent talk about pompeii because they dug out some more of it.A TERRIBLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO POMPEIIIncluding,

Karen Tani

kmtani

I've been writing some threads about the "COVID & the Law" course I'm co-teaching this summer @Penn (w/ @Dean_Ruger & Prof. Allison Hoffman). Here's a thread on the 3d class

ಪ್ರಭಾಳ ಮಗ ಈ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರಿ

Sheshapatangi

#Onam – How It Is Distorted.The Last 3 Days, I have Tried To Understand Why Communists And Christians Are So Desperate To Prove Onam Is Not Hindu, But A Festival

David Neiwert

DavidNeiwert

1) I’d like to start a thread chiming in on the marvelous deconstruction of @DineshDSouza and his thesis that the Southern Strategy and subsequent party switch in the 1960s and

Dr Fern Riddell

FernRiddell

NEW FROM @DrMatthewSweet Blind to bestiality and paedophilia: why Naomi Wolf’s latest book is its own outragehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/blind-bestiality-paedophilia-naomi-wolfs-latest-book-outrage/ And just launched, wi

🦠💊AnnaMarie #covid19 is not the flu💊🦠

MsLegalSass

Dearest @tomhfh , it is time you stopped being a PRICK and sit down while I school you on this. Britain was NOT the first country to ban slavery in

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

:Yesterday we talked a bit about why stable nominal GDP growth is desirable. While my new paper speaks well of NGDP targeting, it is not the only content.In fact, much

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Racial terrorism is actually normal in American history but I believe we talk about in the wrong way. These are not isolated incidents , nor are they rare.This is the

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Most IndoEuropean tribes did not remember where their homeland was by the time they composed literature. But the ancient Zoroastrian text Vendidad give a list of 16 ancestral lands, none

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

When I think about our historical, profound shifts in attitude and discourse, the model I apply is "peak indifference."Say you have real, existential problem. More often than not, these are

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

MAKCapitalism

Today we're doing a thread on abolition. 2020 was certainly a year of abolition entering mainstream discourse on a large scale, with all the contradictions that creates. These are some

Gareth Dennis

GarethDennis

In last night's #RailNatter, we talked about #BlackLivesMatter and how it is crucial to keep up the pressure and for all of us to learn about our colonial past.Here's

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

1/ Last official day of the year working for me. It's been a whacky year to start a new job @BritishAcademy_. I got 16 days in the office before we

Deborah Yun Caldwell

databrarian

Happening in 20 min!https://twitter.com/databrarian/status/1352030823722135552 After an intro from @meg_phillips7, Laurence Brewer (Chief Records Officer of NARA) opens with an explainer on the Federal Records Act, then Gary Stern (General

Tulaib

ZaadFather

Time for Part 2 of the ض series! Let’s take a journey through time and look at statements of classical qurrā', grammarians, jurists, exegetes, historians, etc, all discussing the immense

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD: ZERO]1/51Once upon a time in the land of Mesopotamia, there lived a people who engaged in commerce, had a system of weights and measures, paid in currency, and most

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