#Figures

Anya Parampil

anyaparampil

Despite years of accusing Venezuela's elected gov't of corruption, Guaidó's US-based officials are poised to lose Citgo.Members of VZLA's opposition tell me how @ignandez, @carlosvecchio, & @ricardo_hausman are running

Wolfram Lacher

W_Lacher

Civil war, contested historiography, and a Ramadan TV series in #Libya.Since Friday, the Ramadan TV series الزعيمان (the two leaders) has polarized opinion on Libyan social media and provoked a

Joshs Film Account

RealmFilm

This thread below will be dedicated only to 1st viewings of films that I think are essential to learning/embracing cinema(US and International) for what they sparked- it will still fall

Jorge J Rodríguez V

JJRodV

What if Lin Manuel made a play about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution instead of Hamilton? They were contemporaries, died pretty close to one another. The former led a

Alex Andreou

sturdyAlex

I watch UK #COVID19 briefing right after Greek one, daily. Difference in tone is stark. Greek one led by scientists who give figures, research updates, then over to gov’t to

yung meta

metaspinoza

In COPR, Kant writes that the “I think” must be able to accompany all “my” representations, before explaining that Transcendental Synthesis of Imagination determines the Inner Sense in a way

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Wow this is a WILDLY misleading way to portray COVID mortality.This conflates COVID with non-transmissible diseases, and equates mortality levels from limited COVID spread to mortality levels from transmissible disease

Stephen Gutowski

StephenGutowski

Current estimates put the number of AR-15s owned by Americans at 19.8 million. In comparison, the entire US military has 4.5 million small arms. If ARs were only for "shooting

Zack Goldman, wearing a mask

ThatDamnYank

I know the IHME data has myriad issues (best-case distancing assumed, inflated ICU/ventilator figures in some states, etc.) but can someone explain to me how it squares with Newsom's claim

Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア)

OliverJia1014

Japan is a country where 98% of the population is ethnically homogenous, yet the stories and characters shown in anime have been genuinely diverse and varied for decades. Japanese creators

Peter Raleigh

PetreRaleigh

I think an essential fact about America right now is that the people who are seethingly, viscerally angry that these protests are being allowed to continue live nowhere especially near

Georgie Bingham

georgiebingham

Ten thousand people dead. Ten thousand! All because we acted too late. Now can we agree the herd immunity was absolutely the stupidest idea ever - especially as not one

Al Kennedy

housetoastonish

British political figures as John Mulaney quotes

StellarStateLogic 🎄

PedanticAuspice

A rant on narratives, mostly:The "Protagonist-dads and their Kids" has become a formula of nearly guaranteeing a successful storytelling over this past decade, when gender equity in narratives has encouraged

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

Trump is such a perfect embodiment of how nothing about this system is a meritocracy and is instead built upon elevating the most mediocre figures in our society based solely

Laura La Rosa

laura_la_rosa_

Do you think 'public figures' who use fake credentials should be outted? Like, if you say you're an 'academic' and collect $$ for your 'expertise', shouldn't there be *some* evidence