#Rhetoric

Froggy✝️🇺🇸🔱

FroggyRuminates

THREADMy daughter will be a sophomore at a Big Ten school this year and I had to set her down for some real talk. This (pictured) useful idiot was the

J.J. Sylvia IV, Ph.D

BigDataJJ

1/ I've been seeing a lot of discussion about studies that show transmission of COVID-19 does not occur as often from children to adults. This is being used to support

Daniel Takash (rhymes with brackish)

DanielTakash

No analogy is perfect, but I think there's more to the Alex Jones comparison than you might think. Lots of overlap in the Venn Diagram of their followers. Ditto their

bad jenfluence 🍒 | BLM

philoso_foster

This letter, for all the effort that tattling invited signatories, Stock, and especially Brian Leiter made this weekend to jeopardize it, is extremely important, and just beautifully well-done. If you

an arch on

anarchonbury

So the answer, as I understand it, is that it's complicated. The victories of the Civil Rights act were meaningful, they did make an important difference at the time, and

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StarOfHilal

THE "PAN ISLAMISM" PROBLEM FOR PAKISTAN.The lay-muslim's desires for political Islam beyond borders has transformed into a geopolitical & societal problem for Pakistan.Flawed understanding of Pan Islamism is bad for

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

2020 was a shitty year for most things, but it was a banner year for books about fighting monopolies, and for the fight itself. It started (in Dec '19) with

Jonathan Lis

jonlis1

OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

THREADIn honor of our nation’s Independence Day, I’ve put together side-by-sides of the media’s coverage of @realDonaldTrump’s speech vs. the text they purport to describe. @washingtonpost vs. the opening “We

Unicorn March

UnicornMarch

Yes: TERFs started, and lead, the battle against "queer."TERFs want you to avoid "queer."TERFs want you to think "weird/freaky" is bad.TERFs want you to think it's bad that it's deliberately

shane gerlach

shanegerlach

(Thread) this may be a long one as I need to vent, and this is my venting place. Life in small town #SouthDakota can be wonderful. God knows that in

Emily D. Warfield

EmilyDWarfield

Hey maybe since I'm unlocked now I can do a brief educational thread on the history, utility and limitations of the term "sex work" It was coined by Carol Leigh

igorvolsky

igorvolsky

This is such BSThe storming of the Capitol was just the latest in a long line of examples in which Trump's supporters took him LITERALLY. At least 87 ppl were

Austin

realUnnameable

Cahokia was more populated than London or Rome for its time. It had a population on 20,000 people at its height around 1300 making it the largest city in the

princess molly bloch of the laniakea supercluster

guroflower

I’m back in @BulletPointsVG!This time I wrote about how Cyberpunk 2077’s braindances are a pale imitation of interesting (but still very problematic) work from earlier cyberpunk cinema and lit, including

Brittany Bishop

its_britbish

For people who have family members that believe the #police are not #racist towards #black people or that #trump hasn't instilled violence in the U.S. or has actually helped black

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