#POWER

Stephen Wigmore

stephen_wigmore

Reading Tolkien's letters atm. Didn't realise before that the modern 'Fantasy' genre exists because Tolkien won the argument that 'Fairy Stories', as he still called Lord of the Rings, were

Jacob Crisp

jacobwcrisp

Post independence in Latin America, save for Brazil, nation building took a generally similar path through the area. The new liberal ideas of the enlightenment- coupled with the growing restless

beanpilled dave

JoinTheSchwarz

“Why have you been talking to Marv for one hour? Dinner is ready!”“Not now! We are doing *research*!”https://twitter.com/numidianprime/status/1332461890090512384 Marv mentions this in the mentions, but Tython entered the EU through

AFP News Agency

AFP

#BREAKING Aung San Suu Kyi detained by Myanmar army: party spokesman "With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup," said

Fusilli Spock

awstar11

1. What Andrew is saying is that, even if nearly every case of alleged fraud is confirmed, by the numbers, Trump still loses. Neither Andrew nor I are saying Trump

Rauðgrani ᚱᛆᚢᚦᚴᚱᛆᚿᛁ

GraniRau

Here is a kind of tension within "civilization" and what we now think of as civilized. It exists to a degree in all later stage civilizations, from what I can

David Klion

DavidKlion

Schumer's leftward drift ahead of his reelection campaign is a trend I've registered for a year or so now. It's a powerful vindication of the Bernie campaigns, of the many

Joe Sonka 😐

joesonka

JUST IN: Kentucky Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of Gov. Andy Beshear on his COVID-19 emergency regulations. They stay in place. "The Governor’s orders were, and continue to be,

Raven Cozens-Hardy

RaveCozensHardy

An old tweet from Cummings account, taking back control to give control to in contempt of Parliament data thief.he criticises @carolecadwalla calling it bad journalism, if you are guilty of

Gourmet Communist ☭🇨🇳

BernPress

Today be reminded that Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset, and 15 out of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals. The Saudi gov paid for their flight school

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Just realizing something. I'd seen this in a lot of social movements I studied. One of the distorting impacts of social media is people confusing high-follower count with actual influence

Justin Lewis

Yoostin

A reality in 20 years time:Someone in London decides the winter cold infection rate is trending higher than they'd like. The environmental impact of all those tissues is going to

Ilya Shapiro

ishapiro

1. @bariweiss on fire: "Critical Race Theory is a threat to the most basic foundations of Am. life, including, but not limited to, equality under the law. It asks us

Doug Johnson Hatlem

djjohnso

The first four Amendments in the Bill of Rights in particular were meant to enshrine a right to revolution, or at the very least a right to plan one collectively.

Ijeoma Oluo

IjeomaOluo

Today Tr*mp was quoted trying to take credit for people talking about Juneteenth. It confirmed something for me. Tr*mp knows this isn't about him, and he knows that this could

Andrew Tobias

AndrewJTobias

Something that strikes me about today's news: So much of what prosecutors call a corrupt scheme played out in public. Not that it was easy to connect the dots, but

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