#Generations

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)Today we mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty.Navid Afkari & Mostafa Salehi were arrested for protesting & viciously tortured to confess to crimes they did not commit.Political prisoners

John Hemmings

JohnHemmings2

Thread: looking a little deeper at Dai Xu’s article on the state of US-PRC relations. Some interesting assumptions and insights...https://gnews.org/257994/ First, there is very little understanding of US reasons on

Stoical Quarantini

ethicalmartini

Why do journalists and commentators who should (and do) know better insist on giving Smirko the 'benefit of the doubt' and a 'second chance' to turn around from being an

Alice Gorman

drspacejunk

Some more background to my poster 'A colonial space: women and rockets in Australia', for the Space Science in Context conference. This poster is also a contribution to the @UNOOSA

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

People say 'here is next culture war' but don't spot significant differences- Eg, ditching Proms anthems had anaemic support on 'left', and broad opposition- Ofcom should sanction ITV/Diversity had narrow

Abdul Mu'izz

myuizzu

Academic Thread: "Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya" by Donna J. Amoroso –– This work argues that the British colonial power utilised and reinvented

Slated.ie

SlatedIreland

My second thread, it's only taken 10 years.It was pointed out to me yesterday that there are lots of things that people don't know about #SLATED so here's a few

Ramya Kannan

ramyakannan

This year I think I will put this down in writing. My impressions of Gandhiji have changed rather dramatically over the years. I started with awe for the Mahatma, because

Rosanna Xia

RosannaXia

!!! The DDT dumpsite in the ocean turned out to be MUCH BIGGER than expected. After surveying a swath of seafloor larger than *all of San Francisco,* scientists told me

Artful

Sigmadaygame

Just finished a book about primitive peopleThats what I‘ve learnedThread1. They are xenophobic. Other people which are not related to them are considered as enemies 2. Most members of the

John Hayward

Doc_0

The old principle of "we do not negotiate with terrorists" was not only based on the obvious fear that negotiating would breed more terrorism. It was based on the understanding

gödel, escher, bachman-turner overdrive

Theophite

okay so I spent a long time thinking about this and I think I have some answershttps://twitter.com/AwfulReddit/status/1385581603259404289 okay, so, first, what does it mean to say something is an "infinite

Ram

SocialChartered

This govt is master of distractions. while everybody is focused on Agri Reform Bill, they have silently moved Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2020 which is a much bigger evil. Let

Governor Roy Cooper

NC_Governor

Updates from Gov. Cooper’s briefing:https://twitter.com/NC_Governor/status/1267182795899703297 I’m here today to talk about the call being sounded right now across our state and country to stamp out the persistent and ugly flames

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

"One plague, when big enough, occludes others, and the coronavirus pandemic has, for six months now, almost fully eclipsed the very real, very large, and very pressing threat of climate

Aileen 💜 ⁷ and her BTS Thinking Hats

Awake_Aileen

My take on the recent @Forbes article [the one w/ the JNope reference] on JHope's Hope World release is that it missed the point. And here is why. +++#BTSARMY #BestFanArmy