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#BlackHistoryMonth In 1825, Black residents of New York City began buying over 100 plots of land north of the city. They took advantage of low property prices from subdivided farmland
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Fascinating historical science, twice over—how Native peoples over millennia engaged in sciences of agricultural experimentation and exchange on a hemispheric scale. Corn didn't just radiate out from Mexico; it returned
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The polling “crisis” is not a crisis. It’s the usual human nonsense. People always believe “experts,” science, and reason *much* more than they should.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/polling-catastrophe/616986/ T
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Mamdani’s new book is good on the difference between settlers and immigrants, and on why the “settler colonial” and human rights approaches often mislead in treating as criminal what are
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The use of “scamdemic” not an accident, it was part of a deliberate Antiscience disinformation campaign led by White House CoV TF to downplay severity of epidemic, attribute #COVID19 deaths
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A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise,
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I have been taking lots of flak by Nigerians shooting from the hip over my endorsement of Donald Trump. Perhaps its best i educate them on what Barack Obama will
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There’s so much bad scholarship and commentary out there, including by BIPOC scholars who claim to be anti-racist, that is underpinned by uninterrogated race/ist science I live tweeted my read
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THE U.S. JUST BANNED ANONYMOUS SHELL COMPANIEShttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/us/politics/senate-override-trump-defense-bill.html Pardon the all-caps, but the Senate's veto override today means that the U.S. A) just eliminated the pr
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Throughout election day, right-wing influencers and outlets have amplified content purporting to show widespread irregularities at polling stations in Pennsylvania. More detailed analysis here: https://www.eipartnership.net/election-day-liv
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Agreed w/ Emmanuel Macron. Wasn't the NYT criticized recently for making up stories about ISIS etc? What the the media business model care about isn't the objective truth but the
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Books that formed my personality: a thread Machiavelli's The PrinceA book I read when I was 5 or 6 from my dad's selection of books in his office. Erin Colfer's
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Donald Trump became the only US president to enter North Korea and followed it up by withdrawing US troops overseas in a presidency that started no new military action by
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Thread: Hinduphobic origins of the word ‘juggernaut’“Juggernaut” is the Anglicized name for the Hindu god Jagannath, the “Lord of the Universe.” “Juggernaut” entered English in the early 19th c. to
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American fascists generated powerful propaganda for their movement today. They will grow stronger. Our leaders have failed us in every way. Today was a win for fascism invited and abetted
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I've been thinking about why our schools are closed. Why millions of American schoolchildren have been robbed of an education this year. Why those who are vulnerable will suffer lifelong
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