#Southern

Thabisa Sibanda

SibandaSibbs

1/6 Heavily armed gang at a Church Headquarters. This story may have been drowned by many other International news headlines but is very important for us in Southern Africa. A

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that

『CKT』Kawaii Sino🇩🇪(DateASino season 1)

Kawaii_Sino

Little history-The German superstate-The german nation is gonna be 150 years old this year. this isn`t very old for a European Nation. germany had 3 empires (Reiche) and 2 Democratic

Dino Mahtani

DinoMahtani

Today #Ethiopia is entering civil war territory as federal troops deploy to take on #Tigray (TPLF) forces after what Addis said was an attack by the northern region against a

Netflix

netflix

If you’re wondering why people are calling for today, Juneteenth, to be a national holiday... you might only know part 1 of the “how slavery ended in America” story.When white

Laura Rozen

lrozen

WaPo got Bolton book too. “Pres. Trump asked Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election...”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17

Dennis Burns

DWB55

Oivi-Gorari1/5Nov 4-11,1942: For the first time Japanese fighting troops in Papua were together on one battlefield.The Nankai Shitai mustered 2800 men from the 41 & 144 Regts, plus engineers &

Abdaal Akhtar/ابدال / ଅବ୍ଦାଲ

abdaal

Another map. This one is from 1832 and you can see that it is almost as good as a modern day one - a tribute to the map making abilities

Phoenix Woman 🍩

PhoenixWomanMN

I got an email from the Indivisible group today, with their explanation of why they support the Defund the Police movement. The email contained so much BS that I felt

Hadrian's Wall Community Archaeology Project

Wall_CAP

Time for another instalment of #RomanFortThursday, this week looking at Aballava fort on Hadrian’s Wall at Burgh by Sands. This 5-acre fort was placed at the southern end of the

Mitch Daugherty

pdxmitch

1/7 There have been so many times in 2020 when I truly didn't want to read the news or twitter in the mornings-knowing that when I do, it will only

Amber Peterman

a_peterman

Great new @CGDev WP on #Gender, Headship & Poverty in #Africa by @caitbrownecon & @DominiquePVDW. I had the pleasure of reading this a few months back -- here is what

Sturgeon's Law

Sturgeons_Law

Organizing old pics. A traditional Sotho hut, during the Bush era. I was a stupid, young teen traveling across southern Africa. Still can't believe my fam let me do it.

Ryan Hoselton

RyanHoselton

I’ve seen a lot of SBCers retweet this and say things like “This sure gives us a lot to think about!” Which is nice. But inadequate.https://twitter.com/jawno/status/1281268843332153345 If the Conservative Resurgence

PoliMath

politicalmath

For Marginally Compelling today, I started with an interview with @chrisvcsefalvay a data scientist & epidemiologist who has worked in pandemics before.If you're short on time, skip to 23:00 where

Dr. Maria-Elena Vorrath

MEVorrath

I proudly present the 2nd research article of my PhD project #PALICE published in @EGU_CP together with @iso_topel and many other fantastic colleagues.What did we find? Some #scicomm in the

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