#Reconstruction

the black mommy activist

kayewhitehead

Now that #Juneteenth has been celebrated, coopted, commercialized, It's a good time to talk about how the rise of Blackness has always threatened the continuation of Whiteness. America IS

Alex Christensen

AlejoEC

After faculty and student government at my alma mater, Washington and Lee University, voted otherwise, and W&L launched a review, Prof. Lucas E. Morel wrote in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that

Nightrader

HereticalNight

Let's do a thread on sea shanties! For the last many years of my life, I've been singing sea songs and learning about the history of nautical labor and to

Curtis Harris

curtismharris

The US is actually fairly unique in the Americas in that the federal government did NOT compensate masters for emancipation, with the exception of DC Emancipation which covered about 3k

@DRJessieNYC

JessieNYC

"The notion that political violence simply emerges out of economic desperation, rather than ideology, is comforting. But it’s false."https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/thoroughly-respectable-rioters/617644/ "

Meredith Nudo

meredithnudo

Thinking more on major events in the U.S. that weren't covered in school. I had to learn about Kent State from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio" and Crankshaft comics.

Karen & the Sorrows

kandthesorrows

Does Morgan Wallen represent country music? What does that really mean? What is the relationship between country music and white supremacy? Country music tells stories. In particular, it tells stories

FRANK CUNHA III 🇺🇸 ARCHITECT

FRANKCUNHAIII

Reconstruction of Lisbon Architecture[after the earthquake of 1755] On a single apocalyptic day in 1755, Lisbon, Portugal, was hit with an earthquake, a tsunami, and destructive fires. https://twitter.com/frankcunhaiii/status/1344624320883

eripsa

eripsa

Some more light livetweeting of #robophilosophy2020 . Missed the earlier sessions (hope I can find them recorded somewhere!) but caught most of this last one. The talks motivating these discussions

Rebecca Pierce

aptly_engineerd

Stop saying the pro-Trump Capitol coup is "something out of another country." There is a long history of violent takeovers of government buildings right here in the US, often by

Sadie Farrell 🏴 ↙️↙️↙️

Marusya_1312

Thing about "radlib" becoming a memey term these days is that historically radical liberalism has actually been a thinghttps://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1296694575604674560 It influenced everything from the Cult of the Sup

Eli Rubin

Eli_Rubin

a thread on truth and the question of how to realize truth in the worldin honor of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady tonight, the 24th of Teves, marks the day

Ismail Royer

IsmailRoyer

The terrorist attacks in Nice, Kabul & Vienna, many by post-teenage drug users & criminals claiming to be motivated by religion, are symptoms of the crisis of religious authority in

David Emmett

motomatters

Turns out it was 8 hours, not 11. Story with lots of detail here on the operation and Marc Marquez' prospects for recovery.https://motomatters.com/news/2020/12/03/marc_marquez_has_third_surgery_to_fix.html https://twitter.com/motomatter

Sister Helen Prejean

helenprejean

How can I not cry out for justice for Fair Wayne Bryant, a 62-year-old African American man whose life sentence for stealing hedge clippers was just upheld by the Louisiana

Alison Pennington

ak_pennington

Porter's proposed IR changes signal a dangerous return to WorkChoices-era unilateral employer wage-setting power in enterprise agreements; 2 yrs to push non-union below-Award EAs & fix wages for long periods

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