#American

David Roberts

drvolts

When you train cops for hostile crowd control & buy them oversized military weapons designed for hostile crowd control, they get *pumped up to do hostile crowd control*. They're excited

Warlord Coffee's Cup

MaybeCoffee13

The times that try mens souls has passed. For a time of war bounds happily forward, driven by the thoughts of bloodshed that will make even the War Gods turn

Border Girl 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇱🇧

BorderGirl6

Earlier I read some of the usual rabid tweets from atheists against religion. Notable was some criticism coming from people with Middle Eastern names. Wow, for starters the blaring incongruousness

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

I was in America for 5 months in 2015 before my daughter was born. I stayed there for another two months after she was born. I saw a manifestation of

Jeff Levering

JLevering4

Thread: All at the same time - this is a great and scary read. Having spent eight years broadcasting in the minor leagues in three OUTSTANDING organizations, an article (with

Bebo

BoldBebo

So I want to discuss something super complicated that I have a lot of feelings about and I hope that everyone can discuss this with an open heart and mind

Darach

darachos

So I'm digging into the history of Ireland's relationship with coleslaw. I'm approaching it with an open mind but early indications are that chilled foods rose in popularity around the

ITA🀄

_itarex_

AFRICA vs AFRICA in

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

As a former conservative activist and journalist, it has been so frustrating to see my former compatriots spreading wild and unchecked claims about "voter fraud." @jacknicas of the NYT took

Pinboard

Pinboard

Joseph Heller would be proud. There are only 20 patients on the 1200 bed hospital ship Comfort in New York City because of strict Navy requirements for keeping the ship

Meghan J. Clark

DrClarkM1

Thread worth reading. We are broken but how we heal has to have justice as bare minimum. Part of where I struggle is the deepest fault line isnt bc of

Ben #KBF

Brixton_Ben26

Bars in Los Angeles opened about 10 days ago and nearly 700k people flocked to bars. These bars have now been closed as cases rocket and hospital beds fill up.

Times's liberation is bound up with yours

timeswang

Thread on the increasingly irreconcilable conflict between democratic norms/values/legal principles and doing business in the PRC, esp for internet companies, with examples from two cases in which I am lead

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

@ii_sambliss wrote an excellent thread fact-checking Shellenberger's ‘Apocalypse never’. https://twitter.com/ii_sambliss/status/1278796324301942784. If you want a researched story of the origins and evolution of the ideas behind the

Oliver Charbonneau

olaferr

01. Forgive me this last bit of self-promotion. My book, Civilizational Imperatives, is released today. It tells the story of the colonial encounter between Americans and the Moro peoples of

Andrew Quilty

andrewquilty

ThreadFact checking former SOTG member Heston Russell on @SkyNewsAust this week.“As a special operations task group alone, we removed 11,000 insurgents from the battle space, & we are now discussing