#Mobilization

We all know they’ll justify it with whatever reason is most convenient in the moment. If the next moment requires a justification that contradicts the earlier one, they’ll use it
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Who killed Bretton Woods? Historians have analyzed the economists around Nixon that pushed for the decision to float the US dollar in 1971. In our new Open Access @VersoBooks book,
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The Mino: The Formidable Women Army Of Dahomey In West AfricaMino, which means “our mothers” in Fon language, was a group of women, raised by kings of Dahome in the
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Some lessons and reflections while observing Sheikh Jarrah from afar this past week // Thread 1. The quiet on the Palestinian street that international observers are fond of pointing to
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Going to be reading more McMeekin Probably the best construction of WW1 that I have yet heard. McMeekin’s take on Russian border insecurity and insecurity as imperial growth as new
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Okeke and Ebuka were friends. After secondary school, the world parted them to fight for their future.Okeke is in the university, reading Logistics and Transportation Studies.Ebuka went for apprenticeship the
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"Taxpayer dollars" is a bigoted trope designed precisely to get us thinking as individuals apart from society and not as members of a community.Read this @MotherJones piece from Camille Walsh,
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A brief reminder that all-cause excess mortality data from EuroMoMo continues to show that Sweden does *not* have very much excess mortality yet, and that the Netherlands has about the
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I’m about to write the most earnest thread I’ve ever done. It’s about what we can learn about the power of political possibility from history. I’ve had so many people
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a thread on the 3rd house in astrology : it's been so exciting reading the natal charts for multiple people whose either recent trajectories or life stories involve labor organizing
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It’s been 2 years since FOSTA-SESTA was signed into law. There’s been immense damage to sex working communities, but there’s also been an explosion in sex worker-led organizing, digital and
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Several significant elements to this domestic terrorism plot pointing to why it’s much bigger deal than the one off guy plots “F.B.I. Says Michigan Anti-Government Group Plotted to Kidnap Gov.
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Hi, Mr. President -- thanks for tweeting that interview. Gen. Semonite and the Army Corps are indeed doing great work, but at nowhere near the scale that is needed.We're hundreds
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May I proudly announce that our new book “Nonviolent Resistance and Democratic Consolidation” with @palgrave is out! I co-wrote it with @daniellambach, @MatteoDressler, Markus Bayer & Véronique Dudouet.https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/97830303937
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I know I said I was going to stop participating in Mormon twitter, but I do want to say one thing... There is an ever-growing ideological faction of folks within
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1) So, today a dozen or so folks, including @pedrogomezESPN and @kimbafuzz have for various reasons asked the question: “Where is the @NFLPA?” I have thoughts...1/14 2) Having had lengthy
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