#Historical

Jonathan Sharek

jsharek

Today I embark on a full semester of Social 20 & 30. For context, this is a curriculum dating from 2007 that was developed in the mid 2000s. I start

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

OK, people keep asking me about that NYT article where the guy is shocked to discover the fact that the war Hanukah commemorates is, like all war, full of pain

Steve Vladeck

steve_vladeck

1. In response to the President's claim that we "must have final total" election results *on* Election Day, here's a #thread on how and why presidential elections *actually* work under

kinozhao

kinozhao2

Finally gotten around to reading this. Fascinating & convincing piece! I learned a lot. A short thread on someone with 0 background in poli phil. 1/https://twitter.com/dikaioslin/status/1262420410123071488 The paper aims to

leave the capitol - exit this Roman shell 🐚

fireh9lly

The Victorians screwed up how we talk about geniuses forever. Turned Shakespeare and Mozart from talented and skilled men to freakish, unassailable superhumans so impossible to square with the actual

Per Lichtman Politics

plpolitics

Mr. Friedman, you have mischaracterized both Harris’ qualifications and campaign, both of which are categories I can show in metrics how Harris exceeds Warren. I would much rather that we

Mohammad Hilali

IKON1436_

A thread on Polygamy and why it is allowed in Islam.Read and RT :) Much controversy surrounds the issue of polygamy and why Islam permits it and whether it is

Oliver Whang

oliverwhang21

While reporting on food insecurity in Clay, WV, people kept talking about "The Flood." I eventually realized that The Flood neatly illustrates the long term impact of catastrophic events on

Narshevik

narsheviking

The explosion (intentional or not) was a very deadly spark for the continuation of the color revolution. An opening salvo. Additionally benefiting the imperialist’s vicious economic siege against Lebanon.https://twitter.com/narsheviking/s

Amit Paranjape

aparanjape

We study about Chandragupta, Ashoka, Kanishka... but how many know (or have heard about) Gautamiputra Satakarni? The top ruler of the Satavahana Empire, 2,000 years ago in Central India, which

Karnnnnnnnnnn

theflyingclaw

The first great war of Aryavrata or Bharat. Wait it's not Mahabharata. It took place before Mahabharata. One of the greatest war of vedic era about which many people still

John🧢🌹🖤

jsampthachamp

Everyone hears the news (that Jeff Bezos added $35B to his net worth during a record recession) in a different way.I think most people struggle to understand the scaleTo me,

Jim Stanford

JimboStanford

THREAD: Today's Retirement Income report has a long discussion about whether changes in the super guarantee are automatically passed through in offsetting change in wages. Here's the graph the report

Ben Zimmer

bgzimmer

Decent @snopes treatment of "shanty" vs. "chanty"/"chantey" by @davidpmikkelson. But the Google Ngrams graph with spelling variants is misleading, since the frequency of "shanty" is significantly boos

The 1987 Caucus ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

1987Caucus

Thread: As the 2020 Labour NEC elections get underway, the issue of black representation has been under the spotlight. And we've been asked multiple times "who was the last black

Justin Carstens

jncar76

.@gelliottmorris and @NateSilver538 have posted conditional probability tables of their models vs. the national popular vote margin. Very useful! But, these tables do not account for national polling average uncertainty.Accounting

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