#RISE

1. When the rise of Nazism happened, Nazis were not all 6 foot tall super soldiers who carried guns. They were the nice old lady next door, the house mother
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The macro-political reality of the 20th century (age of industrial military technology) favored systems that could consolidate the most military power, efficiently or notCommunist autocracies and capitalist democratic welfare states
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Some people I respect think you should value our ecosystem in financial terms and then manage a portfolio of natural assets the way a fund manager might use portfolio theory
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There are socio-political philosophies in this world that can anoint your heart with pre-suppositions that will calcify your heart and make it stony and impervious to the seed of the
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Why I think it's important to focus on power *as an value system and paradigm* is that there are specific mechanisms by which someone temporarily swaps from one point of
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TW: SuicideThe number of Black people in Cook County who’ve died by suicide this year is now at 83, according county medical examiner data. That’s just one shy of the
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We were made to coexist A Thread Man & Elephant recreates (Lion King) Man & Tiger Man & Lion We rise by lifting others Chimpanzee runs social media Don't we
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Today I got to lecture in class on one of my fave objects we address over the course of the semester: candlesticks commissioned by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim before 1022.
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As a person living with dynamic disability, my functional capacity differs day-to-day on a number of levels.Some days on here, the best I can do is signal boost content by
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The suspected operative, a Chinese national named Christine Fang, enrolled as a student at Cal State East Bay in 2011. Fang’s friends and acquaintances said she was in her late
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119 days ago the Morrison Government received a report without any recommendations, which concluded the retirement incomes system is in good shape.Why did they sit on this for almost four
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I was on a Zoom call with three leading experts on the transition of democracies to authoritarian regimes: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt from Harvard University, and Timothy D. Snyder
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.@Channel4News : "The hidden cost of Covid lockdowns"This vid says the highlighted area of "Non-Covid extra deaths" is "way higher than usual" because "NHS was forced to close up or
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THREADWe do not know how to deal with a world without modern luxuries.Many more people died before modern medicine. We knew how to deal with this. It was a fact
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Middle class people don't ride the bus but ride trains because the bus isn't competitive with a car while trains are. Buses are comparatively cramped, erratic in motion, lack stations
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Whether your multiple streams of income are from being a well-off entrepreneur or being an investor, they're still dependent on the exploitation of labour being done by people who most
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