#Privation

This piece on the carelessness of crisis metaphor by the ever-admirable @MarinaHyde prompts two reflections - one a book, the other on those elements our country's past that might provide

Worth saying again. When the generation that bore me talked about the 'Blitz spirit', it wasn't in the ability to withstand an immediate horrific short-term event. It was the long-term

Tides of History

#OTD 1922. Clement Attlee makes Commons Maiden Speech on the "absolute folly" of unemployment:"You are today in this country ruining future generations as you have ruined the present generation. It

Gillian Dempsey

The feeling I get is that people are almost evenly divided between those who are fearful and want to be locked down and those who are sick of lockdowns and

Going to go wholly mask off for a moment and this is going to be entirely too dark for some of you, so I apologize in advance.Bernie Sanders understands better

With Trumps new effort to enlist ceos and other bigwigs to back his “open with a bang” reopen the economy plan, something worth discussing. We need more survey data and

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THREAD — OUÏGOURS EN DANGER, SORTONS DU SILENCE « Nul ne sera soumis à la torture, ni à des peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants. » article 5 de

Je ne pense pas être la seule à l'avoir relevé, mais dans la dernière vidéo de @xSqueeZie tout le couplet sur le fait que la folie lui fait peur est

A notable attribute of these come-lately "class reductionist" types and their gripe with "idpol" is that they *never talk about class as such.* Read Anna Slatz's columns on Pizzagate for

La "continuité pédagogique" en prison : comment a-t-on fait pendant le confinement, puisque nous ne pouvions pas utiliser Internet ? En l'absence de directive nationale, chacune a essayé de se

Kola Olurankinse

Kolaolurankinse

The sole purpose to life is finding genuine happiness. Our quest for happiness compels all our actions (or inactions), it the rationale behind our interactions with other individuals. Life come

🐨Et Koallah est son Prophète🐨

Il m'arrive d'écrire des horreurs mais, au fond de moi, je reste un humaniste qui, farouchement opposé aux communautarismes, garde en réserve les vieux rêves universalistes de sa jeunesse. Les

It's pretty easy to dunk on this kind of thing, but it might be useful instead to understand what it means, where it comes from, and why it so well

A historical e.g. of how disease outbreaks combined with legal systems that exacerbate & produce social inequality impact marginalised populations. In records on people labelled “criminal tribes” in colonial India,

#Ramadan2020 is on the way, but I've recently been reading a bit about Ramadan in the early-19th century in Iran. I think most non-Muslims probably associate Ramadan with not eating,

mina's apple ✈︎

Ce qu’il se passe en Chine avec la communauté Ouïghour – un (court) thread informatif qui a probablement déjà été fait mais que les gens ont tendance à oublier un