#Historical

Socialism will never flourish so long as it’s advocates can’t differentiate liberals from fascists.https://twitter.com/metroatldsa/status/1335952171423178758 I don’t blame lefties for disliking Destiny but backing out of irl canvassin
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Thread on SL & DjiboutiDjibouti's recognition of Somaliland's independence is a win/win1 - Djibouti has been isolated by the trilateral integration deal between Somalia, Eritrea & Ethiopia. Somaliland recognition is
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It cannot be overemphasized how fucked up it is that everyone knows Shamima Begum's name, but not the name of Yago Riedijk, the white adult man who groomed and married
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People naturally assume that if they’d lived under the Third Reich, they would have resisted, sabotaged, or subverted Nazi activities. Easy to say when the enemy is a reductionist caricature
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More episodes on historic preservation please! Great episode by @99piorg that covers the complicated relationship of urban development & heritage tourism, equity in housing, and the preservation of community identity
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This is an interesting thread, but I’m not sure I agree with this frame. When it comes to mass media, we’ve always mediated access through sui generis regimes with very
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FEAR - It’s the re-experience of failure in advance.Many traders face the issue of Not entering in trades because of fear.A thread on How to pull the trigger when the
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The "center" of American politics is not a fixed point, it shifts over time. What is "the center" today would have been considered pretty far left in the 1990s. Likewise,
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Many in Twitter are comparing President Trump to another impeached President, Andrew Johnson. Here is a little historical comparison of the two Presidents... ...Both were populists who fought to stop
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I’m gonna leave this right here for Tom Cotton to read since he seems to understand little to nothing about why America’s Thanksgiving food traditions are problematic.https://blog.rosettastone.com/thanksgiving/  “When Americans t
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Thread - The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two
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It's Friday and I'm a bit fed up but I just re-read this by @janeclarejones and it really made me larf.. Quite brilliantly it manages to accurately convey recent history
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If the most visible Black people in media can't be trusted to know their own history, how do you think they gained their position to begin with? If representation matters,
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(1/) Since you asked, I’ll chime in on the Auburn coaching kerfuffle:Auburn’s coaches’ records through history:Gus: 52-27 or 8.7 - 4.5 per year. (.658)Chiz: 33-19 or 8.3 - 4.8 per
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This accusation is blatantly dishonest.Nick was attending high school in 2015. Anybody who remembers the right-wing scene at this time knows that a large percentage of commentators were skeptical of
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Why could the A-level algorithm never work (THREAD)The Algorithm that was used essentially tried to calculate the expected number of A*, A, B and so on grades within each school,
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