#1930s

Gerry Conway Thinks Maybe Vote In Person

gerryconway

For a change, on this Labor Day weekend, I wanna talk about comics. Ostensibly the reason most of you follow me. Specifically, I want to talk about how a TV

Kevin Milligan

kevinmilligan

On hindsight bias.In March, a reporter for a national newspaper called and asked for comment on the state of the labour market.I said that we were likely to see the

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

Trump’s proposed anti-immigration EO is as xenophobic & cruel as it is stupid & counterproductive. It embodies the worst of US exclusion w/out even tangentially addressing the pandemic, & given

Dana Vachon🥭

danavachon

Re the "debate" on socialism -- it’s here one way or another. Trump is a national socialist of the 1930s Italian/German model, brow-beating Google to make him a website, yelling

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Since it's now a right-wing talking point that a weak economy may kill more people than the virus, question: have we actually seen that in past slumps? No. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/peter-navarro-coronavirus.html The

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

It's the 1930s all over again. Farmers destroying products they can't bring to market while other Americans go hungry.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1248750060680216577 1933 Wisconsin Milk Strike. Didn't expect this to get so much

☀️Arthos the Christmas Gnome🌙

francis_yockey

Dad has nvr been particularly religious I wasn't raised baptist & tbh he would do crosswords or zone out during boring presby church, but he went through phase when I

WinDEU / Chazo 🐦

WinDEU_ITG

I want to be excited for the future. I really do. And I have several reasons to be. I have an okay income again, working on several projects, I want

Ray Newman

MrRayNewman

Last RT of @richard_littler – I often think about the media I consumed as a kid in the 1980s and 90s. It was a weird point when there were lots

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

Reading about the 1999 Kosovo crisis, and Russia's position on NATO airstrikes. Absolutely fascinating stuff. Here, for instance, we have a statement by @Respublicanez, a leading critic of Putin's regime.

Ángel Alcalde

Angel_Alcalde_

THREAD. 1) My book ‘War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe’ explains whether and how ex-combatants became members and supporters of fascist movements and regimes after the First World War.

Jess Nevins

jessnevins

As far as I know, mystery fandom--mystery fans--don't tell you that the only way into the genre is through Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, though of course fans of both

Fidato

tequieremos

France has a legacy of plunder, bloodshed and Islamophobia. The french invaded Algeria in 1830 and killed around 825,000 indigenous Algerians from 1830-1875 according to Ben Kiernan. The indigenous population

Sasha Stone

AwardsDaily

That people think Democrats are the ones standing in the way of them getting everything they want in life is two things. 1) really sad, and 2) an indication that

Mayor Ted Wheeler

tedwheeler

Yesterday, City Council approved a settlement with Monsanto to bring relief to Portland and the many other cities and counties that have had to manage the impacts of PCBs in

Maks (aka 大二郎)

maybeitsdaijiro

I've started been working on the Brazilian 2010 census name data again a few months ago after leaving it aside for a long time. One of the #babynames that caught