#History

Sigimund A Jagiellon

AugustusSigi

- They passed NAFTA over all our objections, bipartisan- They were caught in corruption, including foreign influence peddling. No one was prosecuted- They sold out manufacturing and retail sales to

Silent Sam's Reckoning

sams_reckoning

.@UNC likely would not have survived after the Civil War, and @NCSU may never have existed at all, had the Univ. not profited from the sale of 270,000 acres of

Jonah Seiger

JonahSeiger

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the 1996 “Black Page Protest” when thousands of websites went dark for 48 hours to protest the Communications Decency Act. It was a moment

Automationomics

automationomics

Left unchecked, the transition to an automated labor force could see the rich aggregate a critical mass of financial and political capital, with those without means falling deeper into poverty

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/America is not yet prepared for the massive effort we will need to produce and distribute vaccines.Because we're still only thinking about the FIRST vaccination drive. There may be more.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-wa

Amir Pars (Dogs over People)

AmirPars_

THREADI will lose many friends over what I'm about to say.I will possibly be called a racist or even a white supremacist (even though I'm a brown man, who's been

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

First of all let's look at the current situation. We know that elderly and/or disabled and/or racialized and/or low income - or some combo of those - is particularly at

Jesse Tomlinson

tom_trans

David Bellos: the world's first fully elaborated writing system was in place to train language interpreters - Sumerian to Acadian We are now talking about bilingual tablets. No not technology.

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

You see blue plaques dotted all over Britain, commemorating such-and-such a famous person who lived in a building. They seem, at first glance, just a nice reminder of history. But

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

I've seen a lot of commentary today about Hiroshima and Nagasaki that tries to tie them in some way to the flagrant anti-Japanese racism of the period. It feels intuitively

Jermaine Jupiter | Career Coach & Tech Recruiter

JermaineJupiter

If you're currently working in Retail and you'd like a change in career but you're not sure where to go, I encourage you to check out a career in Tech.

@SaysDana 🤓 🕷🕸

SaysDana

I said earlier, that I’d dig a bit into the man they call Foreman Mike on the build the wall project. Basically he looks like the typical I hate immigrants

Naomi Kritzer

NaomiKritzer

So a friend of mine shared this on Facebook: the Kitchn (specifically @JesseSzewczyk) tested out four famous cake recipes and compared them. I saw that one was Hershey's and initially

FRANCIS AARON

FrancisAaronUK

The transgender medical experiment will be recalled as one of those grand delusions that appear every now and then in history; a mass delusion that kidnaps the minds of people

Park Lore

ThemeParkLore

THREAD!: 31 years ago TODAY, the spark of the Disney Renaissance caught fire when The Little Mermaid premiered. For a decade and nine films, Disney could do no wrong. If

anna 🏳️‍🌈 stan the koolaid man

nearly_theyre

LGBTQ+ People in History: a thread ~ every day of pride I’ll add another person to this thread!~ just a friendly reminder that LGBTQ+ people have always existed and

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