#HISTORY

Butler Blue IV

TheButlerBlue

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well then what is a Gif worth? I have personally upload new "Butler Blue IV" Gifs to @GIPHY to use when

Jefferson's Notes

JeffersonsNotes

Daniel Webster, 1820: "I deem it my duty on this occasion to suggest, that the land is not yet wholly free from the contamination of a traffic, at which every

Dr Eilir Hughes freshair.wales

hughes_eilir

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/nov/17/uk-teachers-and-pupils-are-bone-tired-and-now-theyre-freezing-cold My response to this article, which has been put to me as an argument against for my efforts to raise awareness of the impor

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

I'm obviously disappointed today. Disappointed in 43 Senators who found it easier to do what they knew was wrong than to embrace what is right. But before you get too

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

amhitchens

In the midst of the discussions around France, freedom of thought/speech/religion and the murders there it is useful to look at Bangladesh. Sounds odd I know but stay with me

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

We already knew Trump was in favor of concentration camps. That’s not news.https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/never-again-means-nothing-if-holocaust-analogies-are-always-off-limits/ Ok I’ll just quote myself. Is CBP runni

Dice D'Antoni

ahoekman

This is probably gonna turn into a thread. I bought this book at an antique store last weekend- it’s a book cataloguing every song that hit #1 on the Billboard

Nate Cohn

Nate_Cohn

Good morning everyone, happy start of in-person early voting for Georgia Senate runoffs day We already have a lot of data in GA: more than 1.2 million absentee ballot requests,

Juliet.

zinovievletter

I tried writing a column and just got buried under an avalanche of "gender-critical" op-eds until the only options were to devote every word of my writing to bad faith

Pete

nonmayorpete

Tonight, I had the privilege of being elected Vice President of San Francisco's Library Commission. I'm looking forward to continuing to work with my favorite institution, led by @michaelambert.Here's a

Andy Kim

AndyKimNJ

SYMBOL OF RESILIENCE: I saw this quote over a door in the Capitol. It reminded me that healing is more than about accountability of the President and others that participated

Daniel Tedford

dgtedford

With all the conversations about policing happening across the country, there is one case that always sticks with me that never got the attention as many others: Jazmyne Ha Eng.

Hindu History

HindutvaItihas

(1) #Thread on the Forgotten Hindu Maharaja - Himu (aka Hemu, Hemchandra Vikramaditya)He had won total *23 battles* in his very martial lifetime, after which he took on the title

ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs

MorlockP

1/https://twitter.com/EVKontorovich/status/1354071813056311298 2/https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1354143146259730433 3/https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1354150444080263169 4/I read a free-market / libertarian SF novel once, I for

Reuenknown

Reuenknown

(SHORT THREAD)Generally, in a war type of stories like LotGH, the overall message can be more or less fell into "war is bad" but I always like how LotGH dive

José Chen

josechenxu

Yesterday I had a discussion about religion and teaching. The question was whether a Muslim woman could be a teacher and choose to wear a burqa in her life, which

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