#Archive

Omar Wasow

owasow

There’s a debate on police reform whether too much attention is paid to individual police misconduct and too little on the need for systemic change. For example, there are multiple

Ahmose

Muhareb1

THREAD- Why were the jews kicked out of England in 1290? Textbooks likes to paint the picture that the jews were unjustifiably kicked out and the main reason for it

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Trump was incompetent at his brand of authoritarianism, and he lost. But this isn't a triumph: the Democrats lost almost everything else. Make no mistake, about what's coming: The next

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

If we white people want to make a constructive stand against white supremacy and the continued violence enacted against Black people there's one thing we absolutely MUST do:talk to our

Caroline - Real Feminists XX 🇿🇦🇬🇧

radicalhag

I keep seeing these sanctimonious throwaway remarks about "our new understanding of gender" (which seems to mean we ooh and aah over the details instead of abolishing the fucker.) There's

The Goal of the Sage (Ghayat al-Hakim)

MaslamaQ

Some sources to supplement the episode on Islamic(ate) astrology on @AbbasidHistory podcast.1) Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm (The Great Introduction to Astrology), edited and translated by

Justin H e l l s t r o m 🐊

ScratchyBananas

Big Long Influence ThreadI’m happy has hell to relaunch The Great Chameleon War - but it’d be a big goofy lie to pretend it wasn’t influenced and inspired by a

Society for Affective Science

affectScience

In the next few weeks we will highlight coping skills & ways to reduce loneliness & stress, informed by #affectivescience [thread] First, some helpful tips c/o @drjillnewby for managing general

elio ⭐ Haurchefant love zone

heliosdraws

did people who keep going "AO3 doesn't need all that funding" want an environment where creators of popular media can sue you for writing fanfic of your favorite characters? Did

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n #Marx was anti-science. It is very clear from his writings. He was keen on forming a science theory in perspective of just another Abrahmic Religion. In this thread I

Soul_Rebelde

Rebelde_Soul

Temples Destroyed in India500 BCE to 1800 CE India2000 temples destroyed and converted to mosques.As per Sita Ram Goel's research.1992-1993 Bangladesh 1000temples destroyed.1566 CE Inquisition of Goa160 temples destroyed1567 CE

Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

I AM IN SHOCK. Reading this paper about deep-sea mining, I felt like I was reading warnings about environmental decline at the start of the industrial revolution. We are on

FND Portal

FndPortal

I can’t even say what I think about what’s going on right now. I am so angry.Let me instead offer a thread of writings that have helped me understand how

dri

DriXander

Long read, well worth your time on SCOTUS, cases of excessive force & how they’ve refined “qualified immunity” to create a near insurmountable police defense: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity

Sanjena Sathian

sanjenasathian

Like many of y’all, I’ve been unpacking @netflix’s popular yet controversial docu-series “Indian Matchmaking” with friends for weeks. I wrote about the show, and what it means for desis, in

Laura K. Field

lkatfield

A few thoughts in response to the Vermeule piece.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ All meaningful constitutionalism is "common good" constitutionalism. Traditional liberal democratic con