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Marc E. Elias

marceelias

A @GOP Voter Suppression #TBThese @nytimes headlines are 39-years apart, yet the theme of GOP-backed voter intimidation remains unchanged. How did we get here? 1981Fearing a loss in the

ÄJÌßÖLÄ🎗

Starbioola

Story of Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman who was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group

Gourmet Communist ☭🇨🇳

BernPress

Today be reminded that Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset, and 15 out of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals. The Saudi gov paid for their flight school

Nick Sawyer, MD, MBA, FACEP

NickSawyerMD

(THREAD) Looks like Kevin McCarthy may have hidden 10/13 tweets in my thread response to his reprehensible nonsensical tweet seen here. See the entire thread below Dear Kevin,

Adam Rifkin 🐼

ifindkarma

“Border Patrol do not believe they are accountable to Congress, which is why they have no issues lying to them while under oath... They believe they are only accountable to

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

OK, my first thread on misconceptions about the history of bank-issued paper currency, motivated by claims that history shows that the private market can't be entrusted with supplying currency of

Will

willehelmwonka

Thread: When I tell people that a lot of ppl in China feel their opinions and desires are heard by the government, they look at me like I’ve had a

Siddharth Misra

sidart_misra

“India lives in villages.” Having ~320 wild species related to nearly 166 crop plants originated. Still, we struggled with Famine and even today we have our farmers doing suicides. Here

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1. Hours before recess, PM quietly announced that Downing St had taken control of the govt’s use of data. Trump did EXACT same thing in the US last week.

Jacob T. Levy

jtlevy

Fractals are supposed to be interesting. But they're also repetitive, and the Trump presidency fractal is boring. Every new episode encompassed all the terrible features of the whole presidency, reproduced

SaphireSlice

SaphireSlice

1)Unpopular opinion:The Lewinsky scandal exposure was green lit *by the Clinton’s puppet masters* in order to create a massive distraction from #ASFA. Proof, IMO? Lewinsky has gone on to make

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/25 Today, I will continue looking at the lives of Palestinian poets in the context of the intellectual battle over modernizing Arabic poetry after 1948. A marginalized and maligned figure

Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵

DirkSchwenk

TRIGGER WARNING. I hate the Patriots and they won again so I am ready to express some unpopular opinions instead of yelling at my wife like a normal person. Hate

Elise Gould

eliselgould

December jobs report provides a clear picture of Trump’s failed handling of the economy1/nhttps://www.epi.org/press/december-jobs-report-provides-a-clear-picture-of-trumps-failed-handling-of-the-economy/ Today, the Bureau of Labor Statist

Tuxedo Mask

TheLoveBel0w

In this 1972 interview, Angela Davis was asked if she approved of violence in protest. Her response is must-watch material. These words by James Baldwin are from 1964, but they

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. Why Conservative “Slippery Slope” arguments undermine American democracy (and have always been intended to do so). 2. I’ve taught a course on the History of American Conservatism for seven

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