#1980s

Amy Westervelt

amywestervelt

the thing about false equivalence on both corona and climate (and everything else) is that oil companies didn't just leverage, weaponize and benefit from false equivalence ... they deliberately helped

zeps

zepsaslan

Challenge Accepted? Systematic Erasures in Femicide Narratives from Turkey https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41561 via @jadaliyya The erasure of Kurdish women in debates about violence against women in Turkey has a complicated history

Alex Kentikelenis

Kentikelenis

New in AJS: "The Making of Neoliberal Globalization" w/ S Babb. We examine the rise of Washington Consensus policies in 1980s.The US engineered the policy agenda, but how? A nerdy

Nick Kapur

nick_kapur

I made a map of the very first thing Japanese people think of for every prefecture in Japan, at least according to Japanese Google autocomplete... Many people outside of Japan

Anas Alhajji

anasalhajji

Thread on Iraq invasion of Kuwait 1- My first claim to fame was when I was a grad student doing research work on the role of oil in Iraq's economic

Matthew W. Mosca

mwmosca

I think the US should reflect very soberly on the Meng Wanzhou affair. Affair as distinct from legal case, because I have no reason to doubt the independence of CDN

Steve Horton

tropicalsteve

Suicide Squad is created by:Amanda Waller (@jfostrander, Len Wein (@mcvalada), John Byrne, 1986)Rick Flag (Robert Kaningher, Ross Andru, 1959)Savant (@gailsimone, Ed Benes, 2003)Javelin (Len Wein, @davegibbons90, 1984)Harley Quinn (@Paul_Di

Kurt Busiek Resists

KurtBusiek

Comics aren’t movies.If you try to eliminate everything you can’t do in movies — captions, thought balloons — in writing comics, that’s a legitimate choice, but it’s not an inherent

Ellie 🌅💭👣

Maestra_Momma

A woman’s choice in reproduction ends when implantation occurs, & starts again once a fetus is viable and delivered to another person’s care if she chooses not to parent. Between

Linda McQuaig

LindaMcQuaig

PM admits Canada no longer has vaccine production capability. That's because we privatized Connaught Labs—which contributed brilliantly to medical advances, incl development of polio vaccine. (see my book “The Sport

Martin “Black Lives Matter” Pfeiffer 🏳️‍🌈

NuclearAnthro

...did we all miss that fascist theocracy has been the goal of American evangelicals and fundamentalists since (the beginning) at least the 1980s?It amazes me how often we give nuclear

Nedu Ekeke #BBOG

Nedunaija

You people are asking what Obama did for African Americans. Well, America isn't Nigeria where he could order a minister to build a University in his village, or a road

Marked By Covid

MarkedByCovid

THREAD RT: My dad #MarkUrquiza was an actual warrior, @IvankaTrump. Your father killed my father. I know you know who I am and what I think. I saw you nod

Racquel Gates

racquelgates

So, Hulu is pulling that Golden Girls ep "Mixed Blessings" because of the scene with the accidental blackface? Sigh. Ok, here's the thing: Companies are just cherry picking the most

Julian Gewirtz

JulianGewirtz

There's a big debate ongoing about Xi Jinping's new "dual circulation" strategy for China's economy—boosting domestic reliance/"circulation" above international exchange/"circulation."Many (unders

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

England has about 3,000 'lost' or deserted medieval villages.We have churches in a fair few of them. Like St Mary Magdalene, Caldecote: a weather-beaten majesty with embattled parapets, cinquefoil tracery