#Understand

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

A key thing to understand about Trump's declaration that "Only absentee ballots are acceptable!" is that the phrase "absentee ballot" doesn't have a clear, coast-to-coast, legally agreed upon meaning, and

VekTor

VekTorBK

I'm gonna put a stake in the ground, right here, with a prediction 75 days out from the election:The surprisingly large victory margin that Donald Trump will achieve on November

Jeremiah Brown

JeremiahTBrown

The biggest mistake that leftists make (and are continuing to make) is to separate cultural and economic voting motivations. It's true that they can be distinguished, but they are deeply

Royal Astronomical Society

RoyalAstroSoc

Today, an international team of astronomers announced the most detailed ever catalogue of stars in a part of our Milky Way galaxy. The @ESAGaia #EDR3 data release provides us with

Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu

uwagbale_

The 1st Whiteman to visit present-day Nigeria was invited by Oba Ewuare to Benin city. The Edos recorded it as a visit by god. This so-called god was actually Ruy

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

A nice Bezos tribute from @stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2021/the-relentless-jeff-bezos/I want to correct/revise one minor side point… .@benthompson writes: “That Amazon was even considered a tech company, at least for its first

Disposable Human

haveachattabs

Good morning to everyone except agents of the carceral state{A gloomy thread} I have been supporting a young woman who I met in prison. She is struggling with a drug

Dr. Elizabeth Smith

tweetinginla

#newsliteracy and #Election2020 thread: You might be concerned about where to find reliable election results as voting counts are reported tonight. For #LA voters this is a really helpful

more thick-skinned than Bernie's coat

slcjewishreader

TW Holocaust When I was younger, I was obsessed with reading about the Holocaust. I felt certain it would happen again and that I needed to be prepared, somehow. All

UK Government England

UKGovernmentEng

A thread:The English media tells us our neighbour Scotland is ‘too wee & too poor’ to leave the political union which currently unites our two countries.It seems only fair the

Iron Spike

Iron_Spike

Hey.Did y'all know poisoning was especially condemned and characterized as the preferred weapon of the cowardly and dishonorable in ancient law (in part) because of its high accessibility, not just

Julian Shapiro

Julian

How to rewrite bad writing After rewriting 400,000 words on my site...Advice for blog posts, tweets, emails: Great authors’ first drafts are bad—no better than yours. However, they aggressively *rewrite*

Katie Eyer

katie_eyer

1/8 Why it is important for white allies to speak up on issues of racial justice: a thread. #ScholarStrike #BlackLivesMatter 2/8 Anyone who engages in racial justice work knows

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

erikaheidewald

a strong belief i have that i recognize a lot of people don’t share is that different things can be right from different perspectives, & different things can both be

Museum of British Colonialism

museumofbc

"It's totally baffling that the British education system does not teach anything about the British Empire. You can pass through 10yrs of British education and not know basic facets of

Subjacent Banana

subjacentish

Here is a summary of what an Adjunct professor is, because apparently RW people think they know all about it. An Adjunct Professor is a contract worker, typically hired for

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