#Reconcile

Ussama Makdisi

UssamaMakdisi

Teaching about self-determination this week. At the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson spoke about "self-determination," though he never meant immediate emancipation of the colonized. So "advanced" Western powers invented "

whim

whimgrrl

Story time. My mom left my dad in 1980 and took me and my older brother, saying we were going on ‘vacation’. Weird, cuz September...? We get to Ft. McMurray

marxist-leninist perspectives on black liberation!

queersocialism

“race was invented to keep working class people divided,” in discussions about the antagonisms between black/white people is reductionist, and i think it would be more fruitful to name ideological

FrJosh 💯

tweetmobb

THREAD/ESSAY:ASHITAKA THE PRIESTI’ve been a Catholic priest for just over 5 years now, and the last few times I’ve watched Princess Mononoke, I’ve been struck by the similarities between Ashitaka’s

@realmattcarr

realmattcarr

Christian Americans: The USA is not God.The American Dream is not the Gospel.Your politician is not the messiah.Your party is not the church. Your political persuasion is not *the* truth.

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

Thread:Salam. I am @TimorSharan, & it is my pleasure to take over the role of @AfghanHistorian for the next few days to tweet about the events leading up to the

Brun0Barking

Bruno062418

Japan ends lockdown with 851 deaths. Their population is 126 million.No Lockdown.At that rate, the USA death toll would've been ~2200. Not 100,000.#DotheMathReconcileUse Critical ThinkingSomething is not right. 2/ Here's

Shoshana

shoshpd

People who just want to celebrate all these young Russian ladies skaters without engaging or reckoning with the toxic system that produces them become complicit in that toxic system. Just

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gogolisims

annnyways i wanna make it clear that i'm not jumping ship and abandoning ship to "avoid repercussions" bc ultimately i think the evidence clearly points that you're a freak but

Tuur Demeester

TuurDemeester

1/23 I've been working through a surprising amount of guilt after our dog Siffie died last week: "I should have recognized the severity of the symptoms, should have taken her

wife guy sanji (landeg)

SailorFailures

You know what all the Stilo and Litch discourse is reminding me about? People hating irrationally on Chibi-Usa for acting how a child in that situation probably would. And ascribing

B. Lehman 🇺🇸 Ω

HOOISJG

1/ Once again we have the most inexplicable disconnect in #JoblessClaims. This morning's Initial (yes, INITIAL) Jobless Claims came in at 840k (a 9k drop from last week) while Continuing

BombayK

BombayK2

I was selling an apartment I had in Brooklyn, and the prospective buyers were a older white empty nester couple moving to NYC. My agent was a white woman. I

Timothy Keller

timkellernyc

Thread: The early church was marked by a deep concern for the poor and for racial equality (Gal 2:10; 3:28). At the very same time, it taught that sex was

Rabbi Ruti Regan 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

RutiRegan

Reconciliation is not always a virtue. Sometimes it’s a spiritual temptation that we need to resist. #teshuva זָכַרְנוּ אֶת-הַדָּגָה אֲשֶׁר-נֹאכַל בְּמִצְרַיִם חִנָּם אֵת הַקִּשֻ

Kevin R. McClure

kevinrmcclure

When we inevitably trace innocent deaths in the community back to universities like Texas Tech, I fully hope presidents like this are held to account.https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-24/coronavirus-surging-college-towns-wo