#Crusade

Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD

marthasjones_

Tomorrow , August 6, we mark 55 years since the Voting Rights Act became law. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 For the women of Vanguard, this was their 15th and 19th Amendments rolled into

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dollalpaca

Alright. I'm hungry, I want to go to sleep and I feel fucking disappointed that my fav queen has remained silent and decided to ignore this situation altogether.So now is

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

THE PRUSSIAN CRUSADE, PART 5Last time we left Prussia, the (((crusaders))) were plotting to advance on Sambia. Their force was 60000 strong, from Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary (including its Transylvanian

Rewire News Group

RewireNewsGroup

Helllooooooo.It's your friendly neighborhood @AngryBlackLady here comin' in hot with scalding takes about Margaret Sanger and the lies anti-choicers tell about her.You ready to debunk some myths, people!?I said...ARE YOU

Kristin N-O-E-L-I-N-E

kristinnoeline

As it would turn out, being friends with @jowrotethis has resulted in me live-tweeting along to iconic films I’ve never-before-seen. (“HOW HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN ______,” you ask incredulously, to

Charles Arrowsmith

ArrowsmithUSA

“That women were left out of the nation’s founding documents, and out of its founders’ idea of civil society, considered, like slaves, to be confined to a state of nature,

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asideoftrashpl1

I’ve been in East Asian gay media circles for more than a decade now, and what really saddens me is the growing encroachment of western antis into Asian queer media,

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

THE PRUSSIAN CRUSADE, PART 6As we have seen, by 1259, the (((crusaders))) had felt secure enough with how their genocide of the Native European pagan Old Prussians was going, that

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roun_sa_ville

Today is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. This unprecedented act of violence killed an estimated 100,000 people. Irrefutable historical evidence proves that

Maxfield on Banks

MaxfieldOnBanks

Here's a list of 50 books...every one of them is a page-turner.[thread] 1. A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours on the Titanic by Walter Lord2.

Rajan Venkateswaran (സ്വാമി)

swamy64

I took over the Sales Area of Coimbatore South in 1989, as a 25 year old in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.The Sales Area was neglected for a long time. In a

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

More musings on human genetics and race, but this time from a personal level to explain I think the different ways people "think about" racism and their role in it.

(((Aaron “Worthing” Walker)))

AaronWorthing

Today on #MemorialDay2020, we celebrate the Americans who decided our freedom was worth their lives.We should be ashamed then that so many people have given up that hard-won freedom for

hady mawajdeh

hadysauce

The suspect in the #ElPasoWalmartShooting was from Collin County, one of the fastest-growing communities in the country. In his lifetime, the majority-white county he grew up in rapidly diversified. And

Black People Tried to Tell You

seelolago

41 years ago today, 200K [mostly white] evangelicals gathered in the National Mall for the Washington for Jesus rally.I've talked about this before, but there are a few aspects worth

Tangent

Tangent3

Prime Ministers, and their rise to power: a thread.At some point in the career of every PM, there is either a moment, or a combination of factors, which places them