#Despair

Sam Wineburg

samwineburg

What’s historical thinking? What’s “context”? A quick but worthwhile exercise for your high school and college students. 1/ Seeing words that evoke associations, but pausing long enough to think about

The Justice Campaign

thejustcampaign

Alexandria conditions - 50sq ft cells. Food through slots, little interaction with other inmateshttps://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1305444867993145345 Alexandria: It’s difficult to make phone calls from ADSEG (only one phone). Lack of a

Jean-Michel Connard

torriangray

Idea: a megathread where I describe how I think each senator climaxes. When Mitch McConnell climaxes his eyes bulge just a little and he extends his neck like a tortoise

el gato malo

boriquagato

there seems to be a lot of grandstanding by the lockdown governors (who are almost invariably democrats as this issue has become distressingly partisan) but when one looks at red

Evan Scissorhands (thank you cha-cha)

evantessuraea

I'm so grateful that I get to be a Queer Elder for a bunch of folks right now. It's seriously wonderful. And it's a pretty specific thing within the community

ZabuukiMio | #2 Aqua fan | 17

ZabuukiMio

@JuuzouSuzou @Saffikoe I'm doing this for you bastards.Things I like: a thread of games, movies, comics, anime, whatever I am currently reading, watching, playing or enjoying. Game 1: Momodora.This shit

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Any mandate to wear masks has to recognize that throwing people off transportation for not wearing masks is wrong, counterproductive, and also absolutely unacceptable. It’s not people’s fault there is

Richard Wagner 2.0

Wagner2_0

#OnThisDay 207 years ago, one of the masterminds of music and theatre of all times was born. His name is and will be remembered forever. The one and only: RICHARD

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JoanieLemercier

This is the RWE excavator 290It can extract 240,000 tons of coal a dayThe modern Leviathan This monster is built with @Autodesk.With a capacity of 480 000 tons of CO2

Charlotte Cooper

thebeefer

When announcing anti-obesity strategies, public health policy-makers conveniently forget:a) BMI is not a great indicator of healthb) Fat is not synonymous with junk foodc) There have been multiple wars on

Norwegian Blue🐧

_Norwegian_Blue

Ok, looong thread here. Now we've all had a chance to get some of that feeling of hand-wringing, hopelessness, and anger out yesterday, it's time to get ourselves together and

Sarah Davidson

SarahE_Davidson

I've tweeted around this issue before, but for those in tune with some recent events, both in the wider world of mental health services, and within our Twitter community, you

🦊 Becca Williams

Becca9941

One of the things I didn't expect with learning how to design front-end experiences that are so simple they seem obvious, is the lack of understanding in the idea that

Andy Keiser

AndyKeiser

With the tragic passing of one of America's greatest heroes - former Congressman Sam Johnson of Texas @SamsPressShop - I thought I'd share a thread about him, my old boss

Dr Aisha Ahmad

ProfAishaAhmad

The 6 month mark in any sustained crisis is always difficult. We have all adjusted to this "new normal", but might now feel like we're running out of steam. Yet,

Ian Sinkovits

IanSinkovits

1/https://labourlist.org/2020/09/starmer-declines-to-back-student-requests-for-tuition-fee-or-rent-refunds/But but....BACK STARMER, YEAH?Why?This is ridiculous. The only excuse this man has for all the people he has chosen to publicly ignor