#Communities

Celeste Ng

pronounced_ing

So this morning I went to do my yoga video, and this is the ad I was served before my video started. (thread, obviously). The ad said "Look how the

kayin

hotephoshi

Official George Floyd Memorial Fundhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet please sign this as wellhttp://chng.it/mgRFDdSp https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/dona

NDI Democracy and Technology Team

NDItech

Rising authoritarianism is harnessing online campaigns to threaten democracy globally. @NDI’s @ipolitico surveyed these challenges and potential solutions at the #FutureOfDemocracy conference. Some highlights (thread ): COVID, the struggl

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RahaRafii

Had a great time talking about strategies and challenges of teaching Islamic law on the wonderful panel "Teaching Legal History in the 21st Century" at #ASLH2019. Some points I brought

Anil Lulla

anildelphi

0/ While yield farming’s core intent is to foster the growth of a community, a lot of the liq. mining programs we’ve seen in action have led to the opposite.In

Leah Eff

9BillionTigers

Femme and butch don't "belong to lesbians" you transphobic nerds. Femme and butch belong to the queer working-class. Thread. 1. Lesbian Butch/FemmeSo yes: the cultural dominant mainly associates "femme" and

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harlsfe

if you are taking a weapon(i don’t how i feel abt that but IF you are i’m not encouraging btw):•don’t stab, slice. adrenaline will make them not feel it as

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angelysalt

people are interested and i love nothing more than internet nostalgia, so here's that thread on some specific bits early 2000s neopets drama. you're welcome be aware: i did not

Allison Dikanovic

Al_Dikanovic

Milwaukee voters and organizers are worried about disenfranchisement, especially of black and brown people, heading into Wisconsin's pandemic election. More here. Check it out.https://milwaukeenns.org/2020/04/06/concerns-of-disenfranchisement-int

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

I've thought a lot about what the proper role of sociologists is amidst this crisis. This thread identifies a few possibilities but it misses the mark by seeming to downplay

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AndyinDC1

This is an incredibly common argument from right-libertarians: asserting a positive right to basic needs, like housing, as an intolerable intrusion on someone else’s liberty. Let’s unpack.1/https://twitter.com/dapf/status/13675472488470

Erin Mordecai

morde

Lots of media coverage of the striking numbers on @nytimes front page today, based on a preprint from @ColumbiaMSPH (@Senpei_CU et al), and for good reason. We could have averted

abolish police

SabrinaChoice

ABOLITION 101: It's time for a long thread about abolition. It's still widely misunderstood.Let's begin. Ask yourself: 1. Why do we have police, and more broadly, policing?2. Why do we

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(thread) How California Turned Blue Alternate title: California shows the wayCalifornia used to be Republican. We gave the nation Nixon and Reagan.Republican candidates won CA in every presidential election between

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RIVEREVESNY_

tw // covid, death, bombings here’s a thread of what’s happening in lebanon bc no one talks about them, please educate yourselves and rt to spread awareness on the 4th

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH

usnehal

Both/and. The issues of manipulation of our reality is true. That said, I have seen some of the most educated and supposedly intelligent so-called skeptics engage in high school types