#MidWest

The Abolitionist

TheAbbyNews

While there are a number of high profile phone zaps taking place this week, this #thread highlights a few that have had less circulation. Chicago's beloved @AssataDaughters has been calling

ANGRY KING CLAWSON

clawsonsmithy

Today in the Midwest, home to the richest black topsoil in the world, over 1/3rd of it or 30 million acres been permanently destroyed by industrial soybean and corn farming.

Spend My Money Meany

NotOwenMeany

How’s your Tuesday? Really dragging? You know what you need? Right, a super-boring political thread! Who’s ready? Ok, since you asked for it, here are the NOM Senate Hot Takes!

Conevery Bolton Valencius

Conevery

EARTHQUAKE HISTORY! How do we know what's going on when the earth shakes? Is this New England quake a freak occurrence? What do all these magnitude scales mean, anyhow? -->

Dr. Tara C. Smith

aetiology

I wrote about the pending epidemic in rural America back in May. I think it's safe to say it's now here; a thread.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-06/pandemic-will-soon-test-rural-america An enormous chu

Lafayette Lee

OrangePartisan

1. Yesterday I received an unexpected phone call from an old Army buddy. He was really nervous at first and kept apologizing for reaching out. We covered old ground- reminiscing

Jason Segedy 🇺🇲🇭🇺🇮🇹🗽⚔🌸

JasonSzegedi

1) A thread on the geographic imbalance of cultural power in the United States.First, a few words on cultural power, in the interest of avoiding misunderstandings about what I'm saying.

Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi

roywoodjr

Lawyers offering pro bono services for arrested protestors. Minneapolis, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles. I know there are far more doing the same thing in other cities please add

Adie Tomer

AdieTomer

Amid the “will cities survive #COVID19?” narrative, there has been talk that people were already leaving center cities. It’s not true! In fact, downtown population energy is real and likely

Nate Cohn

Nate_Cohn

Unbelievably, the Battleground poll--sponsored by Georgetown University and conducted by two fairly well known partisan pollsters--is not weighted by education and comes in at ... 63 percent with a college

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

In 2016, Trump ran for president on a swamp-draining platform of radical change. Did he deliver on his promises?https://trib.al/kmTFkSN There are fewer people working in manufacturing in the U.S. now

T.A. Snyder

captainhaystack

Mushroom hunting with grandpa is one of my oldest memories. We got lost in the woods once, which is easy when you’re focused on the ground & hiking thick wilderness.

Tory Gavito

torygavito

Two MSM headlines this week are calling out for a Thread. TL;DR: The shifting 2020 electoral map isn’t weird or an accident, it’s because of a fast-growing young and multiracial

DCPetterson

dcpetterson

There's a transparently ridiculous troll gambit going on, intended to cause division among Democrats. Don't fall for it.It's an attack on Amy Klobuchar, supposedly coming from "the left" (though it's

Abraham Thomas

athomasq

1/ THREAD: Real-time charts on the economic impact of COVID-19, using data from @Quandl and other sources both proprietary and public 1/ Daily flight booking activity to and from

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xxJaneDoexxxx

I hate seeing self loathing butch lesbians who haven’t put in the work to show up for female homosexual single spaces. This mentality of Judith Butler et tel is what