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you guys, you can't talk about confronting white supremacy without talking about power. there's a difference between being a hateful jerk and being a hateful jerk with power. i could
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Ugh, so let's talk about Worldcon for a minute. If you haven't been paying attention, the latest cockup is that Worldcon has Toni Weisskopf as a Guest of Honor. Toni
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A late-afternoon revision-mode thought: People ask me sometimes why I'm so *blatant* re racism and other bigotries, in my fiction. Wouldn't a more subtle approach work? Answer: No. A more
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The looming climate emergency will actually be a mesh of mutually accelerating emergencies: droughts, fires and famines; pandemics; mass extinctions; floods and erosion; and all of this will drive waves
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THREAD: How #Canada Saved My Life: A #CanadaDay2020 StoryWhen a country gives you a chance at life, you become willing to give your life for it. Those of us whose
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This speech coulda been lifted straight from the debates 120 years ago on American overseas imperialism.The segregationists in the South decried annexing the Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc. because it would
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"I muted / unfollowed you on Twitter.""I lurk on your Twitter sometimes."Same people. FTR, I don't blame you. Addendum: It *does* suck to find out that people I have
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Whoโ€™s the racist ?[NEW THREAD] RT if you like this I have often wondered about why Whites are racists, and no other race is......There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian
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Part 1. You're all welcome to Fact Check it....The 14th of June, 1946 is the birthday of a boy born in the Jamaica district of Queens, NYC.In 1995, his car
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Voting restrictions for women of color did not end 100 years ago. These are some of the Black, Indigenous, Latina, & Asian women who fought for the right to vote
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Ulysses S. Grant would like a WORDhttps://twitter.com/eliza_relman/status/1348733447385309185 Or Teddy Roosevelt. Or Dwight Eisenhower. Or Andrew Jackson. Or Abraham Lincoln. Or George Washington. Or Zachary Taylor. Or any of numerous presi
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Unintended consequences of interventions1. Malaria nets given to poor people for protection turn into fishing nets. Malaria problem persists. Poisoning added2. Fish stock declines. Focus is on subsidising Coconut farming
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1. On Sat. 16 Jan. as a result of foreign interference in the 2020 Election, POTUS declared the nation in a State of Emergency. He invoked the Insurrection Act that
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First of all, let's all agree that whiteness is some shit people made up. It has no basis in science or even logic.For instance, for MOST of American history, the
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7 Investments I'm Making This Year (Part Two)The second day in a week long series where I show you places I am personally focusing my time, energy, and money in
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Editors' Picks: Favorite Stories from 2020.With the holidays behind us, our staff from around the world were asked to nominate some of their favorites out of the 100+ investigations we
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