#Decline

1918: The city planners gather in St. Louis for the first time after the landmark Supreme Court Buchanan decision ending explicit enforcement of racial segregation of housing and public areas.
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“I’m sorry,” he says with a quiver in his voice. "But I just get so emotional thinking about the past. I’m so happy that people are finally paying attention to
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In these scary times, I think we need more reminders of what's wondrous in this wounded world, so here's the start of an ongoing thread about the animal cultural histories
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#OTD 1981. Denis Healey beats Tony Benn to the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party Healey secures the victory by 50.426% to 49.547% after a bitter six month battleA thread
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Listen to this afternoon’s resumption of oral arguments on the petitions vs Anti-Terrorism Act starting at 2pm: https://youtu.be/ULzc5L7snwE Solicitor General Jose Calida will defend govt position.1st virtual oral arguments and 1st
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Now that covid cases are coming closer than ever for all of us, I really cannot think enough of the monumental efforts this government has put up in fighting the
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today, I'd like to tell you the truth about alien abductions something like this requires several types of disclaimers up front, so let me get them out of the way.
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i'm rewatching a:tla again. this thread is for my thoughts. "the boy in the iceberg": so much of katara and sokka's family dynamic is revealed in one convo, wow. also,
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#Hinduism in the #Afghan Frontier, a glorious history of resilience and heroism unparalleled in human history.#Megathread #Hinduism #Afghanistan Somewhere in the pages of history, a story of courage and bravery
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Due to INCESSANT and fucking NON-STOP request from @e_sicnarf I am doing a thread on...MOLDBUGMAN’S TOP 5 WORST FILMSYes, Tenet will be featured, but first at #5 is Adam fucking
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A boring thread about bullshit in Sustainability Reports. Starting alphabetically. @agnicoeagle mines $AEMWord "transparency" appears 12 times; "trust" 8 times. In calculating "Total direct and indirect GHG emissions" t
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OFFENSIVE JIHĀDThe purpose behind Jihād according to the Ahl al-Sunnah is in order to conquer new lands and impose Islām upon them so that the people of those lands have
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Dear @ADL, this is not a 'white nationalist' conspiracy theory, nor is it anti-Semitic. And the truth is: the west is under attack by its own governments and the global
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This opener is so bold. One of my all-time favourite WTH intros that intrigue you right into giving a story a chance that you might not otherwise try. Amir's "Oh
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1. Mini Thread on Conflicts of Interest involving the authors of the Nature Toilet Paper:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095063/Kristian G. AndersenAndrew RambautIan LipkinEdward C. HolmesRobert F. Garryhttps://twitter.com/Bil
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He stops visiting his customers and begins going to the sound dumps every day with the singer, they find the part of the dumps for Video City offices (which it
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