#Contradictions

Jonathan Mountstevens

MrMountstevens

Having now had experience of responding to a positive Covid case, the contradictions in the current arrangements have become clearer to me. It seems that they serve neither health nor

promise li

promiseli_

hello live tweeting some quotes from CLR James’ ‘The Invading Socialist Society’ today as I’m re-reading because it’s so good “The whole debate about nationalization should be mercilessly swept aside

Christi Belcourt

christibelcourt

As movements rise & people take to the streets, injustice is exposed, the righteousness is undeniable, and then people get tired, because it’s hard to carry the weight of a

Zoomer Nation

Sarma_Aalia

There is no problem with anarchists talking about dialectical materialism, the issue is when you interpret it in the dogmatic way that was completely alien to Marx's work. Here is

Imam Tjoerang

Grondwerk

By deriding and jettisoning close reading as an old-school, formalist hangover - post-colonial and post-modern literary studies have led to a kind of blindness to *text*. People don't read texts

Sarah E. Parkinson

se_parkinson

A reporter has posted a new trove of IS documents online, mostly combat unit intake forms, w/o redactions. This release makes me viscerally uneasy & uncomfortable. A thread about grey

Pallavi

SevenDeviled

A thing I find hard when teaching in the US is to break this argumentative façade students are taught to cultivate as a public speaking skill. Getting all their talking

Kate Danvers

WearyKatie

Here's a radical idea: you know all of that stuff about alignments, good/evil races, "monstrous" races, and thinly veiled allegory permeating every bit of fantasy lore and tradition? Throw it

anon (they/she)

likelyprotestng

it’s irresponsible and harmful to refuse to interrogate the contradictions in your politics i’m definitely not saying everyone has to be at the same point in their learning process but

Bikrum Gill

bikrumsinghgill

The use of the term “democracy” in the US context is perhaps the most dangerous form of ideological obfuscation in the world today.It functions to obscure the dictatorial power wielded

Suvojit

suvojitc

Short Swades appreciation thread: At the beginning, there is a shot of Shah Rukh Khan looking out of his aircraft window, as his flight approaches Delhi. He is emotional with

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

Re: The Donald Trump situation. This is all stage managed to give the false impression that Donald Trump is still in charge, doing fine and recovering.https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1312616578773446656 In the UK we

Keerthana.

populapette

I don't want to say it and I don't think I should say it, but #VakeelSaab isn't the atrocity I expected it to be. Is it Pink? No. Is it

Chris Jones

clinpsychris

I use Twitter to learn and being exposed to succinct ideas while I was busy training as a clinical psychologist was invaluable. An area of deep contestation in mental health

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Carnivius

Anytime you're arguing with someone who says Jackson was guilty & they say "Oh you prob think OJ innocent too!", that's the moment they've exposed their complete ignorance about the

Will Lawrence🌅

wlawren90

Julian overstated his case here and deserves some of the push-back he's getting.But the point he's making isn't wrong.https://twitter.com/jnoisecat/status/1391771504514420738 The technical challenges of energy transition are imm