#HISTORY

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

So when it first appeared in Normandy, the Sherman Firefly and it's meaty 17 pounder represented an ideal combo of reliable chassis, great gun and devastating firepower right?Ummm...Truth is a

Justin Owings

justinowings

Ever wonder what turns normal folks into true believing cult members? "They're crazy!" Maybe.In 1953 Robert Lifton studied 40 brainwashing victims—25 Americans, 15 Chinese—and deduced 8 criteria for thought reform

cydney

cydney

on this Black History Month Eve, i want non-Black allies (and even corporations) to take inventory to how they regard Blackness the other 11 months of the year. last June,

Tom Frome

TomFrome

when i was a kid i also believed 'communists should ditch that label, for PR reasons'. now i think you make more headway owning it than dishonestly disavowing it. not

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman elected to the US Congress. And it shows! It shows in the way she refuses to put up and shut up. It shows

IWW Cymru

IWWCymru

[THREAD] We yabber on about workplace organising a lot, but what actually is it? It's really simple; learn about the workplace, talk to colleagues, & build an organising team. You

Kyle Sammin

KyleSammin

If you hate Ulysses Grant, you hate the United States of America. This iconoclasm may have started with the Confederates, but now it clearly knows no limit. The mob will

Khalil

alwysflossy

Happy Black History Month. While interviewing Rasta Nini in Colon he brought us to the park where Marcus Garvey founder of the Pan Africanist movement first began giving his

Sunny Singh

ProfSunnySingh

This in @GQMagazine is an excellent demonstration of how press creates authorities. Lots of analysts, scholars and experts predicted this. So why pick this ‘expert’?https://www.gq.com/story/man-predicted-capitol-coup-interview Why get t

WHAT'S GOING ON IN PERÚ 🇵🇪

AGENT_PE28

what is going on in Perú right now? A THREAD #Perú #PerúSinPresidente let's start with the 2016 presidential elections. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was elected president by a small percentage. HOWEVER,

Edward Henry QC

edwardhenry1

I am honoured that my thread on Thomas Erskine KC has attracted some 500 new followers overnight: to him be the glory. We all know the work of Blackstone, and

ElectionEvidence.com Official Account

ProjectEvidence

Jan 6 has the potential to be one of the most epic days in all of U.S. history... Here's why... Read this. Notice the dates -https://twitter.com/Johnheretohelp/status/1285607581315215363?s=19 Now this - would

shuffling deck chairs 🚢

narskdy

With all the furore around that well paid upper class guardian columnist calling for the end of anonymity, here's a thread dedicated to numerous occasions throughout history where people with

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Where does #COVID19 rank in the most depressing league table of all - the one comparing historic pandemics? We won't know for sure until the pandemic is over but we

Greg Ip

greg_ip

1/ China beat the U.S. in 2020 because its authoritarian, centralized system better met the challenge of Covid and economic conflict than the U.S.' pluralistic, decentralized system. Will China keep

Constantino Xavier

ConstantinoX

How to build a public policy research career in India? What to do, what to avoid?Yesterday we welcomed a new group of awesome interns to Brookings India.I shared a few

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