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Amal El-Mohtar
tithenai
These statistics are interesting to me, but I can’t help but think of how many younger-than-me women were locked out of the Hugo Awards by malicious actors at a time
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Michael Harriot
michaelharriot
The problem is that many white people believe that being a racist is an all-encompassing trait that stains everything else a person does. They believe it is an evil feeling
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Kevin M. Levin
KevinLevin
Here is a wonderful example of how the push for a monument reflects the values and agenda of its boosters. Many of you are familiar with the monument to Richard
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Matthew J. Peterson
docMJP
Thread.The new revelations this week—the FBI agent text messages, the fact that FBI knew Steele memo was based in large part on a suspected Russian spy—aren’t really new. They just
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John Leavitt 🌹
LeavittAlone
By virtue of its liminal state it is the most magically significant state in the unionhttps://twitter.com/marawilson/status/1309324121612800001 Everyone talks about leylines meeting at the golden spike of the confidential railroad or
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Denise D. Meringolo
DDMeringolo
There's so much discussion about the fate of memorials. Should they be removed? Defaced? Preserved? Put in storage? Re-interpreted? But are we ready to enter into serious public debate about
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nomes 🖤
nomesense
never forget that the government could have just paid us all to stay home. please. when this is all over and done with, every financial hardship, eviction, and death that
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Matty
bowlingotter
Hoo boy this is a good one.- "Erasing history" punchline- Pretending that removing the statue is all about Roosevelt himself- Acting as if this statue wasn't a source of controversy
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Simon Maghakyan
SimonforCO
If Azerbaijan loses, there will be a peace treaty.If the Armenians lose, there will be genocide. This may sound overtly dramatic, unless you are familiar with the region and don’t
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Dan Hicks
profdanhicks
Sounds like National Trust bosses are still seeking to push through cutting the two curatorial jobs at @AveburyNT—downgrading the curator role & cutting 2 FTE to 0.5. This’d be sheer
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plo
PL0FX
There is something really 'counterintuitive','weird' and 'unethical' in making brutalist concept art for me, I'm very interested in the Architecture of my past and seeing buildings that I have seen
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Gareth Harney
OptimoPrincipi
Up to 200,000 spectators pack into Rome's Circus Maximus for a day of thrills in the Empire's greatest sports stadium. Before the chariot races begin the crowd watch a flamboyant
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CrimethInc.
crimethinc
Joe Biden didn't beat Trump. It was grassroots resistance from anti-fascists, anarchists, abolitionists, and—above all—courageous members of targeted communities that stopped Trump.Permit us to make our case in this thread—one
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Friendless Churches
friendschurches
Why Churches, by Andy Marshall @fotofacadeChurches taught me how to use a camera. With churches, as the purest water is filtrated through stone and shale, so they do with light.
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Tracy Jedi Mind Trick Master of the House Snark
tracypac
Too many people don’t understand why saying all lives matter rings empty for us. There needs to be a reckoning with our past to get to a post racial America
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Lindsay Gibson
ls_gibson
My response to @jdmstewart1's op-ed in the @globeandmail today about the toppling of the statue of JAM. For context, JDM is a history teacher at a private girls boarding school
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