#Historical

Meyer Memorial Trust

meyermt

Today, Meyer Memorial Trust announced Justice Oregon for Black Lives, a five-year, $25 million investment in Black leadership, Black-serving organizations and systems-level change, the largest initiative the foundation has ever

Ulrike Franke

RikeFranke

I spent the weekend writing a primer about #drones for #Drohnendebatte2020. It's not published yet (coming soon), but in the meantime a few thoughts on the German armed drones debate

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Like many religions, miracles and miracle-workers are an important part of Islamic cosmology and history. Legendary accounts tell of holy figures breaking the laws of nature and working wonders to

John Hemmings

JohnHemmings2

Thread: Looking at the "Overreach of China Hawks", one sees many flaws in their criticism of @AaronFriedberg's "An Answer to Aggression" in @ForeignAffairs.https://twitter.com/AaronFriedberg/status/132073002300390604

marsh⁷

marsh_twt

Here's why cultural appropriation is wrong and why it can happen to Filipino wear too since y'all want to invalidate anyone's concern for THEIR culturea thread by a Filipino:https://twitter.com/swallalisaa/status/127746326598390

Sunanda Vashisht

sunandavashisht

There is an article in Deccan Herald today that is factually incorrect and based on some manufactured data claims that in J&k problems have increased after abrogation of Article 370.

Krutika Varu 🇮🇳

VaruKrutika

A THREAD on #KOHINOOR KOHINOORThe most precious gem on earth.Dating back to more than 5000 yrs, this Diamond has a legendary History from times of Mahabharata.The original name of this

Fuzzy

coolieduppy

Until 2003, Rastas were shaved when prosecuted in Jamaica. This might come as a shock to most here, since the majority would have been born before 2003. We like to

Deb at the Library

APLDeborahK

May is #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth which celebrates Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.! In 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-450 which annually designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. (info

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadFor @2Braptured777What Obama did has ZERO antecedent in American history.NOBODY can predict what's going to happen.But we have clues. Kayleigh McEnany @PressSec is delivering death blows to the Democrats on

Wolfie Christl

WolfieChristl

The current state of commercial tracking:Adobe is (re)selling data from another data broker, who tracked protesters in the US (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying) and claims to profile users o

Drew Linzer

DrewLinzer

This is a thread on presidential election forecasting, polls, and fundamentals, based on my research and experience forecasting the 2012 and 2016 elections.Let's walk through some of the debates and

Irkutyanin

Irkutyanin1

This will be a thread on the largest reference works that historian Jonathan Smele ever wrote, the two volume historical dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars. This will only be

Joe Lockhart

joelockhart

1. Welcome to today's edition of the White House Daily Shadow briefing. The White House briefs but the answers are almost always untrue. We do something different here, we use

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j0ne_s_

in my mind these kind of threads are a bit naff/ gauche, but that's really something i should get over. so: a thread of things i have written that i

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

This year has really affirmed for me that the surest predictor of whether you can rely on someone in movement isn't an Official Political Genre™, it's how they prioritize the