#History

Richard Nixon resigned from the Presidency #OTD 1974. He is the only President to resign from the office.Here is a quick thread reviewing that moment in history - and
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Emancipation Day(s)The NBA falling over itself to recognize Juneteenth gave me the excuse to write about my other historical love: the Civil War and the loooooong process of emancipationhttps://prohoopshistory.substack.com/p/juneteenth 
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our findings here https://reformpoliticaladvertising.org/illegal-indecent-dishonest-and-untruthful-how-political-advertising-in-the-2019-general-election-let-us-down/. With no regulatory intervention we predict the techniques and strategies
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If you feel like our politics are more polarized than ever before, or if it seems impossible to engage in cross-partisan dialogue, there’s a reason for it.A thread... Check out
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My hometown, Haines Alaska, is enduring its worst-ever disaster, with torrential rains, mud slides, roads and houses destroyed, and possible loss of life. This is devastating, but it's also reminding
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I can't find the clip from yesterday where I tried a new approach to debunking Trump's big lie conspiracy about the election, but I'm going to try to write it
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Kaduna: Crossing Over the River of Snails byChristian O. EmmanuelHausa historians employ the instruments of falsehood to distort the details of the history of their neighbours. This has always been
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What Joseph Massad gets right about the Arab Spring / A Thread. Yeah I know. Massad's piece @MiddleEastEye last week has inflamed online opinion, as no doubt it was intended
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Every now and again, I get questions from passionate, smart young people - specifically Latino/x - who are on the early stages of their sports media career, asking me for
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why one direction is criminally underrated, despite being the biggest boyband in the world: a necessary thread 1. one direction wasn't taken seriously as a musical band just because of
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Thread of unpopular opinions 1) Now that frauds like Suburban Swamy and @nileshoak are getting widely exposed, one thing is becoming clear. If any crooked charlatan wants to gain a
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What is Manuvad? In the present times, the word Manuvad (मनुवाद) is being taken in a negative sense. Brahmanism is also used as a synonym for Manuvad. In reality, people
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A thread of Dr. King in color, as we commemorate his 92nd birthday. #MLK  #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity #MLKDay “One of the great liabilities of history is that all too
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"Hello, Nevada," Trump says, nailing the pronunciation.My work here is done. "You know the governor of your state tried very hard to stop us from having this event tonight."If you
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Okay I'm going to try to explain this, so bear with me. On Tiktok, an entire community has come together to create Ratatouille the Musical. What seemed like a joke
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Ted Cruz, Ali Alexander, and CJ Pearson.The road to the January 6th insurrection.Thread This thread involves 3 main players:1)Ted Cruz2)Ali Alexander3)CJ Pearson.The first two you are aware of but let
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