#Historical

What surprises me is how even green veterans of the climate wars are so amateurish, and have a poor grasp on the facts they claim to champion -- this chap
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WHEW. Get into this READ by Madam CJ Walker’s great great granddaughter, A’Leila Bundles on how producers distorted the Walker’s story and ignored her notes for changeshttps://theundefeated.com/features/netflixs-self-made-suffers-from-self-inflicted-
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Please be careful with words that are used to describe groups of people. Do not obscure their definitions, it results in stigma that harms harmless people and permits the legitimately
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Its a tough but important week for many of us involved in #FutureofCAP (thread).... Normally we work away in a micro world of myopic, complicated details, up against a massive
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I for one could use a brief distraction from *gestures to everything* so it's #Westworld episode deep dive time!! Spoilers ahead for season three, episode five: "Genre." As always,
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Here is the long awaited, multi-genre quarantine reading list me and @kaibertaaa have made for you guys with some of our faves! Attached is a spreadsheet that anyone can add
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::rubs eyes, sighs:: White supremacy *is* fascism. End of day, the goal is to empower an authoritarian caste-based system of governance, in part by scapegoating black& brown "enemies of the
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I'm having a terrible time accepting that it doesn't look like we can save the planet or her inhabitants. After reading more scripts and historical data it looks gloomy as
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Ok “Let’s bring this close to home!” NE thread pt 2: a trip to a Grand Island thrift shopMAJOR tw for racist imagery & depictions. I strongly condemn these stereotypes,
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OMG 2020 can just quit now. A tanker-car collision/fire near the Cuyahoga River in Akron this morning, spilled burning fuel into a storm sewer and then the river, so the
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The second signal to start what would later be called Carnation Revolution was when Rádio Renascença broadcast "Grândola, Vila Morena" by José Afonso, at 12:20 a.m. on 25 April 1974.
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In South Africa, if you get married without an Ante Nuptial Agreement (or Prenuptial Agreement) you will automatically be married in community of property.So, what does this mean?A stolen thread...
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Answering today's #FridayFive is @mirandajewess, senior commissioning editor at new crime imprint @ViperBooks 1) Tell us a bit about your job?I am a senior commissioning editor, and I run Viper,
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I’m going to share some vague similarities I’ve been noticing between our current moment and the 1760s/1770s. During the imperial crisis, Parliament passed unprecedented legislation aimed at greater control of
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I’ve been flipping through old issues of Dragon magazine for a few days, from issue 1 up to around issue 30 so far, and I’ve noticed a few interesting things.
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October is breast cancer awareness month. You have probably seen the pretty little pink ribbons. But it is important to say that breast cancer is not pretty. An ugly thread
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