#1920s

Strange Facts

StrangeFactoid

A weird history thread. 1. Shrek was inspired by a real person, Maurice Tillet, who was a French professional wrestler. I'm sure you can see the resemblance. 2. In the

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ukpuru

Thread for some ‘upscale’ traditional architectural styles from the Lower Guinea area of western Africa. (Lower Guinea is the biogeographical area between southern Ghana and southern Nigeria).Mansion in Kumasi, Ashanti

Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

HottyCouture

Much has been made of Harry Styles becoming the first lone male to grace a Vogue cover this month. But Vogue’s December covers have always been pretty special. A thread:

JT Welsch

jtwelsch

Happy birthday, Maurice Darantiere! Joyce folks are rightly grateful for the heroic work he did printing Ulysses from Joyce’s messy drafts & proofs, but Darantiere did a lot more than

Derrick Wilmore Jr.

CoachWilmore_

The Power of Melanin The jokes are funny but I think this is a perfect time for black people to become educated on melanin, the true super power blacks

Carrie-on my Wade-ward son

TheGnarrator

OK, here's my whopper KC thread: THE FOOTBALL TEAM.Their name, their legacy, their fuckery. In order to dig into this properly, we have to know some things. Specifically about power

Dan Bowen

bowendc

1/ Some thoughts about this NYTimes article on evangelicals and Trump. As background, I grew up in Iowa in a fundamentalist, non-denominational church, although not in the community highlighted in

Martyn Barber

MartynBarber2

#UrbanPrehistory time. I know from experience that threads with St*n*h*ng* in them can attract a bit of attention, but what about a sarsen-strewn traffic junction in Swindon? With a church,

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

9/11 was different -not like Pearl Harbor, where you heard of the attack and knew what happened. 9/11 was a drip, drip, drip that went from curiosity to uncertainty to

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theomcfc47

A thread showing the timeline of Manchester City Football Club's history. 1880s1880 St Mark’s Church forms a football team which would later evolve into MCFC.1884 The first known ‘City shirt’

Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷)

JoyAnnReid

The root of Trumpism is white privilege (and for nonwhite believers, a desire to acquire some for themselves), including a “God-given” right to violate the rules and the laws that

Wytt

fastkidpunk

1) For all the MF’ers out there who keep saying the NAZIS were socialists, here’s a response from the experts at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The NAZIS were fascists.

Dorkomatic

dorkomatic

It troubles me that there's a new fangled game called "Ghosts of Tsushima" and it's NOT about how the Japanese Navy demolished the Russian Battleships that had been sent all

Jacob Padgett

theartak

So, you hate the electoral college, and want to see it gone? Start with your state.A thread: The electoral college is a disaster really for everyone, but getting rid of

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

KendraWrites

I would absolutely love to see an analysis that looks at how often over the past four years the media interviewed white supremacists vs how often they interviewed people who

notes on sudan

notesonsudan

9 years ago Mohammed Wardi passed away. Little thread on some of Sudan's social movements through the voice of Wardi (for the 5 or 6 non-Sudanese non-Nubians following me). RIP

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