#Memoir

The 'damaging our relationship with our allies' line most describes what has happened in Europe, and to a lesser extent, the Anglosphere. Jeremy Stern got to the heart of some
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Okay. I am going to attempt a Books of the Year thread. Before I get started, my personal remit here was books to give as presents to literally anyone you
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This remarkable story about the president giving up on his intelligence briefings sort of slipped by over the weekend amid election news—but I think it's worth re-highlighting for three particularly
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This morning's accidental stumble on a fascinating history: I was searching Getty images for something else, but within the results I found an image whose descriptor in the database is
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Warning, craft threadInspired by @legroff's excellent recent New Yorker story, "The Wind," I want to talk a little bit about the use of retrospective first person, and why it's such
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Organic fascism; Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vote-machine-tankies/#Pluralistic1/ Organic fascism: The Pastel Q/or
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Starting a of thoughts/observations as I read Obama’s memoir. I’m mostly reading to understand how he defends his legacy, which I am critical of & think Dems need to
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1/NDedicating this thread to Raza Rumi & ilk.Thread on GREAT BB:•Great democratic leader BB used EDHI's air ambulance for her election campaign and that too without the knowledge of Abdul
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We're still remembering Sharpeville? This massacre was the tipping point that led to armed struggle. The Pan Africanist Congress launched its military wing on this day in 1961. Nomvo Booi
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WaPo got Bolton book too. “Pres. Trump asked Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election...”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17
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A thread on being an Arab American writer: or... why Representation Matters... or How I could become a millionaire overnight. #arabtwitter #representationmatters 1/ The fact is there just aren't many
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Marjorie Greene's hideous ideology is now the mainstream of the Republican party. That's depressing but hardly surprising given the party's trajectory from the idiotic occultist Reagan all the way to
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A short 'tweeticle' in honor of this great journal thanks to @SimmsMelanie for her tweet prompting me 1/https://twitter.com/HR_TIHR/status/1356156800568086528 The name 'Human Relations' was proposed by the Rockefeller Founda
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It's #TwitterBookLaunch and the first of two parties is a special celebration of DEBUT authors, Some fantastic new books are coming out while shop doors are closed, so please do
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ThreadThe BaseReports that Nazzaro is *based in Russia* "raise flags about the potential for foreign influence on these white supremacist organizations operating on American soil."Secret tapes show neo-Nazi group recruiting
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This is a thread of Babel's favourite books of 2020. Rejoice. Two from @brokensleep Dorothy by @brihughespoet excavates forgotten female identities of the River Thames and, in so doing, allegorises
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