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For those who say the locals are happy to participate... Many are not. But because of their poverty some they feel they will be left out of initiatives if they
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Few thoughts on the apartheid framework, opportunities and limits. Palestinians have been claiming that Israel is practicing apartheid regimes for decades now, even BEFORE apartheid became a legal category and
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The most powerful argument for DC statehood isn't about DC at all. It's to save the Senate. It's right now theoretically possible for a bill passed by senators representing 290
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"We’re a lot more political than millennials were at our age. I think it’s because things are affecting us more ... This younger generation, we don’t put glitter over things.
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THREAD:#OTD Sept 9, 1739: The Stono Rebellion: Led by a slave named Cato, it was the largest slave revolt in colonial America. In response, South Carolina's legislature passed the Negro
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Hey! Here's a lil thread of some of my audio pieces/writings & articles from this past year! A THREAD: Hopping on the summer newsletter train & wrote a cathartic, real
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World faces Covid-19 “vaccine apartheid” https://interc.pt/2Ldfemo  by @fastlerner Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey — all countries that hosted vaccine trials — will have to be satisfied with Pfizer’s gratitude,
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1/ In yesterday's paper, B'tselem says: "The Israeli regime’s rationale, and the measures used to implement it, are reminiscent of the South African regime that sought to preserve the supremacy
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I have so much to do today but if I could I'd write an op-ed on the ways slaveholders & the #Confederacy kept poor whites uneducated, illiterate, & ignorant of
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Iceberg A68a has been on a slow journey toward cataclysm. The mass broke from the Antarctic peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, sliding through the water for over
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Gateway Load Balancer is *HUGE* and brings a capability to the cloud that has never even existed in traditional/legacy datacenter networks. It's not "just" ECMP. Flows are symmetrical, and sticky!
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I understand the reasons for Civil War in 1860. We really did have two completely different cultures and economies, one of which was completely immoral, of course. What I see
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Performative allyship is one of those things that really gets to me. It’s been a while since I spoke of my own experiences with racism in academia, particularly in palaeosciences
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Gone With the Wind has done far more to erase historical memory than any marching band could ever possibly do gonna do a quick couple of tweets so I can
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Ok so here’s my thread on the 2017 Zimbabwe coup. November 3 years ago I was living in South Africa. At this time in Zimbabwe large anti-corruption protests were being
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BIG ASS THREAD ALERT We put together all your voting options in all 50 states (+ D.C.)http://votesaveamerica.com/states  Alaska http://votesaveamerica.com/alaska  Alabama http://votesaveamerica.com/alabama  Arkansas http://vo
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