#AmeriCAN

Eric Boehlert

EricBoehlert

a thread after seeing lots of timid news coverage of Trump/GOP's attack on free fair elections this week;https://pressrun.media/p/trumps-election-madness-the-press first POTUS in 240 yrs to refuse to accept election results, and

Scott Coley

scott_m_coley

In 1934, the U.S. Government created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to oversee a mortgage insurance program that facilitated homeownership for millions of Americans. But the FHA only insured mortgages

Sarah

sarah_ispale

schitt’s creek screencaps as famous paintings, a thread:1. American Gothic (Wood, 1930) 2. In Bed, The Kiss (Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892) 3. The Scream (Munch, 1893) 4. Girl with Golden Crown (Comerre,

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Yes! America offers far less aid to families with children than other advanced countries, yet there's strong evidence that such aid has big long-term benefits 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/22/biden-childtaxcredit-st

ÄJÌßÖLÄ🎗

Starbioola

On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, a 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally mvrdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four

CAP Energy Policy

CAPenergypolicy

Today marks 5 years since the #Paris Climate Agreement was formed. Even though Trump announced a U.S. withdrawal 3+ years ago, climate action did not stop – and now with

Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز

kshahrooz

1/ The #EuropeIranBusinessForum is kicking off just as Iran's regime announced its brazen killing of journalist #RouhollahZam. So it's a good time to considerthe widespread role of IRI money and

Svetski

AleksSvetski

The writing rampage continues..My latest piece:America is Dead.Long Live Bitcoin!"What was once the land of the free, is now the land of confusion".https://svetski.medium.com/america-is-dead-dd0dd8ebd3e9 2/ 2020 will be known as t

Equity Scientist 🦋

BmoreDoc

Several folks are saying "assume that most White people owned slaves at the time." But that's not true. What *is* true, however, is many White people were complicit BEYOND being

ISS Archaeological Project

ISSarchaeology

Just to give you a sense of what we're working on...a major part of our study involves looking at thousands of photos from the 20-year history of @Space_Station. We're using

Kimberley Strassel

KimStrassel

1) This "all is lost" NYT story is a stunning reminder of how the press keeps moving the goalposts to other planets. The lede says it is finally "dawning" on

Femme🇺🇸

RealBasedMAGA

Short thread:Tonight my 95yo father finally let it all out. I knew he has been despondent over our country. I just didn’t realize how deeply. He is angry, frustrated, &

Lafayette Lee

OrangePartisan

1. Despite its rhetorical commitment to sustainability, the progressive left as an outgrowth of liberalism, is fundamentally at war with Nature. This war is manifested in both the human and

🇺🇸 SheNerd the Deplorable 🇺🇸

shnerdly

This was supposed to be a thread about the pathology of fear, but while researching that, I came across a stat that sent me down a rabbit hole. I’ve seen

Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️

InezFeltscher

Completely ahistorical, but I’m sure Richard Spencer will he pleased.Woke/racist horseshoe theory at its finest.https://twitter.com/karenattiah/status/1288464078671949825 Imagine telling an Italian Catholic immigrant family and an old WAS

TSJ

YungTSJ

QUICK THREAD: I just noticed something. This reads backwards just as easily as it does forwards. Expectedly, the acronyms seem relevant.https://twitter.com/BardsFM/status/1325309766634151936 Turn [p][r][a][y] to [y][a][r][p]. What is YARP?

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