#HISTORY

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

Remember the financial crisis of 2008 and how it disproportionately hurt Black communities? It's definitely because none of the economists @federalreserve represented those communities at any level of leadership within

Napoleon Bonaparte

togreatness777

The repeated collapses of American cities is a very interesting topicI think of it as Jefferson's curseHe said"If Americans ever cluster in cities like they Europeans so, they'll become just

Ubaka Ogbogu

UbakaOgbogu

THREAD:So much to say about this excellent reporting by @charlesrusnell and @jennierussell_. A good starting point: If, as an Albertan, you lost a loved one, a job, opportunities, or good

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

It's MLK Day, the day in America when politicians who absolutely would have opposed Martin Luther King Jr. quote him to cast a sheen of legitimacy on their causes. MLK

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

Did you know the word 'pew' is derived from Latin 'podia' via Old French 'puie', meaning 'balcony' or 'balustrade'? And that most churches didn’t have seating until the 1200s?Interest piqued?

Ziyad F. I.

Ziyad_F

(1/10) If you are a progressive, you *must* see the need for a truce with some class enemies - to challenge even more oppressive forces. If Bhagat Singh got this

Grogan

TrampusRex

I don't do threads, but this was interesting to me: Just finished Paul Watson’s "Ice Ghosts" and was surprised to learn that the desk in this photo of John Kenny

IntroToDefi

DefiIntro

1. Today's first thread is for governance. Let's buckle up!$ftm #fantom #fgovernance 2. Firstly i want to talk about a quote of one of the greatest man in Turkish History.

Joshua Todd James

writerjoshjames

Just read the Bean Dad saga. Ack. As I've said, the ability to create children doesn't automatically mean one knows how to care raise kids. That's a myth in the

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

Lots of ordinary Republicans are endorsing violence. We'd like that number to drop, but the precipitating causes deserve our focus even more than trying to persuade that violence is inappropriate.

FactsMan

BallenCBTech

#Orwell wrote b4 computers, but if he was writing today #BigBrother would just be an AI at the core of the #CCP's mass surveillance and social credit systems. You don't

Erin Blakemore

heroinebook

I keep thinking about the physical aftermath of Wednesday's insurrection at the Capitol, and of how it connects to another shard of history: the aftermath of Nazism, the Holocaust and

nakadaisama.HODL⚡🚀

nakadaisama

As of January 2020 the number of entities holding Bitcoin is ~23.1 million. This is 18.5% less than the current number of non–zero addresses (~28.4 million). The daily net growth

Felicia Sonmez

feliciasonmez

This is a fascinating piece by ⁦@violazhouyi⁩: Why China’s hip-hop stars are staying silent on Black Lives Matter. (h/t ⁦@suilee⁩)https://www.inkstonenews.com/arts/why-chinas-hip-hop-stars-are-staying-silent-black-lives-matter/art

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: November 7, 1861. The U.S. Army occupied the South Carolina sea islands. Suddenly having to deal with the existence of thousands of slaves with no

Mike Hankins

Hankinstien

Today is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain, one of the largest and most consequential air-to-air battles in world history Germany attempted to take out

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