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Morning Brew ☕️
MorningBrew
1/ The group of hackers known as DarkSide who shut down the Colonial Pipeline are way more professional than you might thinka thread about the organization that brought the nation's
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mx mariana
mx__mariana
I can't help it, a thread of the quotes by Maria Lugones that I have printed and framed on my bedroom walls (because I am *that* kind of nerd):Rest in
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Imani ✨
imaniloves_you
This is called a psyop. The goal is to slightly shift the conversation from the murder of civilians by the Nigerian military to some petty twitter discussion. Similar tactics have
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Onye Nkuzi
cchukudebelu
My first consulting job took me to Kano. We were housed in a guest house. The senior manager was Brazilian, the big boss was Nigerian.The senior manager was automatically housed
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akhivae
akhivae
The secularization of the Muslim World is a trend I expect to see accelerate in the coming decade. This will be driven by economic considerations in places like the Arab
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Chella Ramanan 🍒🇬🇩
ChellaRamanan
I need your help Twitter for a thing. Anti-colonial films and videogames. Good films with indigenous perspectives. Please retweet.No board games or unfinished things. I need to be able to
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ᴱᵐⁱˡʸ ˢᵘᶻᵃⁿⁿᵉ ᴸᵉᵛᵉʳ
SnarlsDeGaulle
exact et j’ajoute : le judéo-arabe était sa langue maternelle; il s’appelait Albert pcq un fonctionnaire colonial lui refusa le prénom hébraïque voulu par ses parents; il devint francophone du
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Dr Andrew Thorne
athornehere
"I'm widening the bandwidth of how to be a woman" Alex Drummond https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/this-transgender-woman-has-a-full-beard-and-she-couldnt-be-hThis statement is a clear example of what this thread will explore, th
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Michael Roellinghoff
m_roellinghoff
Something that comes up repeatedly in 19th century documents related to Hokkaido is the idea that the colony was a "laboratory" and that colonial policies were "experiments". This was party
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Aaron Brakel #StayHome
junolocal
CW ableist slurs. I just got blocked by someone for calling them on ableist language they were using to mock and insult. They used “Dum Dum” and “stupidity” about statements
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Diamanda Hagan
Diamandahagan
In the 18th century the British army fought a brutal series of battles with the rebel Jacobites (they were mostly Highland Scots). The Jacobites had much less tech than the
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OCT 9 Day of Action! #1492LandBackLane
1492LBL
October 9 Day of Action On October 9 we are calling our allies and supporters to action – we need your support as we face unjust legal processes in defense
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Kuukuwa Manful
Kuukuwa_
At the root of this Togoland "secession" issue is one basic fact -Although many African polities wanted to be free from European colonisation...some of them also did not want to
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Kari Thee Pony
karianarchy
Excerpts from 1 of my Carnival History papers:Kwame Ture on institutional racism: "the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate & professional service to people because of colour,
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dr. josh k par agnes v
IAmJoshKopin
Sorry to re-retweet this but I’ve been thinking about it all morning. Le Guin’s perspective was informed by the fact that her parents were anthropologists who worked with Indigenous groups
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alex
KingstonJancro
Talking to a friend about how quickly we criticize older Jamaican people for stigmatizing mental health but maybe it might help to think about madness/insanity historically as an elastic sociopolitical
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