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Bad China Takes

BadChinaTake

1/ BBC's publication of allegations of rape and torture in Xinjiang reeducation camps have predictably triggered angry responses from denialists, many drawing parallels to the Nayirah affair. This argument relies

Kirby Sommers author, feminist, sex slave survivor

KirbySommers

#JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #LeslieWexner #Alexacosta1.The 'Dish of the Day'Ghislaine Maxwell is Public Corruption Unit. Meaning there is either a former or current "public official" in the crosshairs that will be &q

John McCormack

McCormackJohn

THREADOne thing that’s striking about the Republicans who have flipped House seats so far: They are all women, minorities, or veterans (in many cases two of three).https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/meet-the-diverse-field-of-gop-house

Hillel Neuer

HillelNeuer

1/ Ten years ago, while Libya's Col. Muammar Qaddafi & other racist murderers were being elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council, we invited Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer to our

shift (RIP MF DOOM)

shift_pro

rap thread cause why not Choose one album, the rest disappear Choose a possibility:A Lauryn Hill sophomore album with Kanye West productionor an Andre 3000 solo album Who is the

Garrett M. Graff

vermontgmg

THREAD: Today marks the 19th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Throughout the day, I’ll be chronologically tweeting quotes from my book THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: An Oral

Hispanic Caucus

HispanicCaucus

This year, we’re celebrating #DiaDeMuertos2020 with a virtual altar — honoring a few of the many we lost in 2020.Faces such as Vanessa Guillen and George Floyd are familiar to

Damian Murphy

SoundLabArtist

Although it is no-longer #ThemeTuesday, I think I will appropriate #ThemeWednesday and use this to highlight some of the excellent @UniOfYork work going on in the #Creativity theme. Here comes

Abraham Lincoln's Ghost

ChiefDeplorable

THREAD: What sparks “The Great Awakening? The short answer is the Holy Spirit. A complicated answer is cultural shifts, local & global events, & the willingness of individuals to embrace

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

The chapter on Profanity in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls explains all of this Also: Fuck is a Feminist word“When the fascist fucks in

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

“Pandemic anxiety has turned lately to the question of viral evolution—the possibility that the disease might be outracing our efforts to contain it.” Of all the new strains, the Brazilian

Executive Chef Neo

DebussyHaag

Penti Linkola gained notoriety for his refusal to accept the logically fallacious though widely-held belief that anyone who is concerned about ecological overshoot must adopt a completely vegan diet or

Emily Case

mlecase

I’ll take a stab at The Atlantic article. I’m a middle school science teacher, not an epidemiologist, but it seems #middleschool teachers are having a moment here. h/t to @rmc031

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Lots of "cultural anthropology" dead-enders are just the softest limb of US regime change operationsI thought that after their embarrassing participation in Bolivia's 2019 coup, some of them would have

Toronto Star

TorontoStar

The site of Toronto’s largest workplace outbreak does not provide workers with paid sick days — a protection the city’s medical officer has called “critical” to slow the spread of

Jim OShaughnessy

jposhaughnessy

1/ “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”~Marcus Tullius Cicero"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."~Henry

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