#1920s

Greg Johnston

InfoTrekCalgary

Thread on why the @Alberta_UCP actively want to break public healthcare, education, and other services. It's not just about privatization (that's part), it's about them being fundamentally undemocractic. They want

Gene D

Gene_D27

I was not taught about Juneteenth in school. I learned from my own reading, when I was probably about 10-12. As an adult I worked with museum professionals and followed

Roboredo

Roboredo_Rash

#TrueOutspeak 189A #thread http://youtube.com/watch?v=SllDCaGHRJQ&feature=youtu.be http://roboredo.home.blog/2020/10/30/trueoutspeak-189/ https://youtu.be/SllDCaGHRJQ 00:00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SllDCaGHRJQ&t=0s

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Fun fact: Car engines were originally designed to work with ethanol. That way farmers could make fuel. Ethanol couldn’t be patented though, so they wanted to use gasoline.Engines knocked with

Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @ 🏠💙

DeborahSuggRyan

Some recommended background reading for women & house history: @Amanda_Vickery Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England; @JudithFlanders The Victorian House #HouseHistoryHour Breadwinner: An Intimate History of the

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

On women and health in the 20th century Afghanistan. Queen Soraya opened the first hospital for women sometimes in the 1920s. No sources on the size of it, but could've

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

This bears strong echoes of the racist screeds of the 1910s and 1920s that paved the way for the rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan and immigration restriction at

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

Reading another long essay that argues crypto isn’t useful for anything much. This is true (though the usual suspects won’t agree), but really isn’t the same as arguing that it

Benjamin Park

BenjaminEPark

There’s been a lot said about whether BH Roberts lost faith in the Book of Mormon. I think much of the debate is misplaced: what he was argued was not

Kate Kirkpatrick

philosofemme

It's All Saints Day today, so here's the Spanish saint Simone de Beauvoir claimed was "one of the only women to have lived the human condition for herself, in total

sir jas⁷✨

anythingtrxsh

taekook as ao3 tags — a thread cutest idiots in the world i think i have nothing to add bros thingz don't ask me to keep going because i can

Frédéric Moreau 🚎

goodclimate

Then and now. EU quarter edition. Chaussée d'Etterbeek passing under the rue de la Loi viaduct before WW1 and today. Chaussée d'Etterbeek looking NE towards Schuman. 1970s and today. Rue

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

In the middle of a depression in 1920, NY Fed and a few other Reserve Banks raised interest rates. To us it looks like a policy error, because macroeconomic theory

Emily Bazelon

emilybazelon

The Scotus decision today on the Census is a very big deal. It means two things: 1) The Trump admin can rush the count, which probably means undercounting immigrants, young

Sewell Chan

sewellchan

Michael Schudson’s “Discovering the News” (1978) is highly relevant to today’s debates over journalism. Says the objectivity ideal arose in 1920s-1930s out of a loss of faith in democracy and

Prabhat Kumar

KrPrabh

"lay wide streets, growing shady trees. Ensure space for lawns & gardens. Reserve large areas for football, hockey & parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques & Christian churches."