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dean spade

deanspade

I love the underlying abolitionist message of #ACAB, but "bastard" as an insult is part of a long racist, sexist, anti-poor history of stigmatizing people with unmarried parents. In the

Virginia Montanez

JanePitt

This thread is brought to you by a former lifelong Republican and a current student of US history. I read an article today that said regardless of who you vote

Prof. Garrett Epps

Profepps

For people who wonder why there's so much right-wing energy around "vote fraud," (a virtually nonexistent phenomenon) should glean a lesson from Southern history. During the rise of Jim Crow,

ProfBC OnWisconsin ArizonaGirl

guprofbc

1. Swing State #Explainers, history/lit-style; go a bit deeper than the media (& colleagues, help me out!): A for #Arizona @gerry_cadava https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970892 & um...https://www.hup.harvard.edu/c

Jesse von Doom

jessevondoom

So when I was a bike messenger there were two messenger companies in town. The big one had a couple couriers on bike for last mile shit but they were

Sir Humphrey

bdquinn

I ran into a few people who found as being a bit extreme the view I hold that gerrymandering is on the authoritarian spectrum. Well, it is authoritarian in its

Daniel de Kadt

dandekadt

Remember: "the paradox of preparation." Danger looms. You prepare for the worst and fight to prevent it from happening. Then it doesn't happen, and you think perhaps you overestimated the

Lev Parikian

LevParikian

During lockdown I've taken to walking round our local cemetery quite a lot. It's become one of my favourite places, not least because of its wealth of melodramatic statuary. It

Richard

Richardmassey82

Here is a fact check of this false tweet from a Tory MPThread1.Annual leaveThe EU figure excludes Bank Holidays, the UK figure doesn't. UK entitlement excluding Bank Holidays is 20

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

My first thought when I read Barr's letter was that I didn't understand why Trump wouldn't have issued a statement under his own name firing BermanA lot of folks in

Barack Obama

BarackObama

Today is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act––one of the crowning achievements of our democracy. But once the Supreme Court weakened it, some state legislatures unleashed a flood

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Nope, I don't. the Sullivan Expedition also happened later because the Seneca are real hecking resilient.But the Seneca referred to GW as "town destroyer" bc of how many places he'd

LLNL

Livermore_Lab

We continue our celebration of Black STEM history with the story of one of the most important contemporary mathematicians - J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1/5) Wilkins Jr. was born in

Fabio Rojas

fabiorojas

1/ The Path of Non-violence: Thoughts on MLK Day 2021. 2/ Justifiably, most folks think of MLK as a defender of Black freedom and human dignity. Very true, but it's

عفّان

Aff24an

Don’t Rush Your PrayerA The Messenger of Allah ( ﷺ ) said, "Verily, the worst thieves among people are those who steal from their prayer ..... they do not

Anthony B. Bradley

drantbradley

I'm teaching a class on race and after reading bell hooks we've moved on to @JohnHMcWhorter. Fact: liberals/progressives generally will never critique the poor moral choices of disadvantaged blacks and

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