#1980s

Lauren-Brooke (L.B.) Eisen

lbeisen

1/7 BREAKING: President Biden just signed an Executive Order, following through on a first step on his campaign promise to end the federal government’s use of private prisons. But impact

Paul Triolo

pstAsiatech

#USChinaTechRivalry China Speeds Up Advanced Chip Developmenthttps://semiengineering.com/china-speeds-up-advanced-chip-development/ It’s unlikely that China will develop its own EUV system in the near term. And for that matter, the nation

Heba Hersi

Hebahersi

Shell’s own internal investigation and documents showed that they knew about the catastrophic consequences of fossil fuel on the climate but ignored it. This was in the 80s.https://twitter.com/shell/status/1323184318735360001 ”Shell Kne

Navroop Singh

NavroopSingh_

A large part of Punjab the urban middle class in cities & town in the industrial belt hasnt come out. The Punjabi Khatris comprise most of it. A large part

🔶️ Amos Duveen 🔶️ 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇱🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

AmosDuveen

"The government has launched legal action against a London council over plans to close schools".This first sentence hints towards the massive unanswered question in UK education that very rarely gets

Chris Cook

xtophercook

A lot of British politics makes more sense when you remember how bad median education was until the 1980s/1990s. The post-Joseph/Baker changes are a big part of the age/education story.

VictoriaJBarnett

V_J_Barnett

1/ A short thread on dealing with our place in history: I've been invited to be part of a local discussion about race, starting within my own White community. In

Douglas S. Bursch

fairlyspiritual

I went through middle school in the mid 1980s. The DJ for most dances was someone who went through middle school in the 1970s, which often meant they played several

Yonatan Berman

bermanjoe

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗮: 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟬

Michael Powell

powellnyt

American Press has with notable and salutary exceptions done poor job studying violent crime, a grave problem as USA is the most violent by far in developed western world. Let's

Callie Cox

callieabost

Bond yields are rising fast and investors are getting nervous.So what’s the big deal?Let’s talk about it. BTW, yields 101:Yields rise when bond prices fall. So as people buy bonds,

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/

Clare Curran #WomanIsNotADirtyWord ⚢

TheCurran73

GAY IN THE 80s & TRANS TODAY IN THE UK - A COMPARE & CONTRASTGay in the 1980s:S28 introduced - discussing homosexuality in schools banned;No workplace discrimination laws;No marriage equality;Unable

Sister Outrider

ClaireShrugged

What does Eddie Izzard mean by “girl mode”? The idea that there is a “girl mode” and a “boy mode” is pure, regressive gender essentialism. I am sick of patriarchal

Laura Carter

carter740

Happy birthday to Queen @DollyParton - your songs have gotten me through the pandemic! You, like the @MRCLHA 1946 British birth cohort, are 75 this year. Here are some of

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

Quiz question: of which prime minister was it said, "the P.M. never moves until he is forced, and then it is usually too late"?Answer: H.H. Asquith in World War One.

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