#Rural

David Fedman

dfedman

1/ Mass incarceration and gerrymandering are both dire threats to America's democracy, but only today did I realize how intertwined they are. I honestly had no idea that the US

Taiwan Trails and Tales

Taiwan_trails

What a way to finish my Tamsui-Kavalan Trails adventure! I have completed the whole journey by using public transport, partly to show that it’s possible, but also because the nature

Kawalpreet Kaur

kawalpreetdu

Thread: Below are 11 names & designations, of the various people, ranging from policemen to administrators to doctors to vigilantes who are implicated in the terrible turn of events that

Yeerk.P ❤️

PYeerk

So a woman wrote an op-ed in which she essentially tries out different coping strategies for dealing with the cognitive dissonance that her Trump-voting neighbours shovelled her driveway without her

Tim Weis

TimWeisAB

I’m grateful the universe placed me in Canada, but the benefits I grew up with living here didn’t happen by accident; they are a result of tough decisions along the

Oilers Insider - #BigEd

InsiderOilers

Something else that I meant to include in the thread yesterday but forgot to was, who is Jason Kenney catering to? I mean, the obvious answer for everything at it's

Dave Degner

degnerforiowa

Perspectives for Iowans: Total Iowa Covid-19 death toll is equivalent to the largest community in my rural county. If the entire city of Tama, Iowa died from a disease in

A girl has no name

LoudMouthedChic

A while ago, suburban twitter was pearl clutching that there are people who swim instead of bathing / showering every day.Suburban twitter needs a dose of rural twitter reality. We

Tom Philpott

tomphilpott

This NYT piece on Vilsack is pretty paint-by-the-numbers, gets into a lot of his baggage, etc. One hilarious flaw tho. /threadhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/politics/vilsack-usda-small-farmers.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stori

Leapers

LeapersCo

“A big chunk of people have disconnected themselves from the face-to-face world yet are still leading a full economic life. That means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure

one wag

Theophite

what's your favorite song which you think no one else knows about this is the most obscure one i know. it was recorded by four teenagers in kentucky and i

Karbaash ❁

DrNabadNolol

How to rebrand Somalia. A thread For 30 years Somalia been the poster child of virtually every African like disaster (war, famine, piracy etc). Shaking down that image would At

life after P-EX

lifeafterPEX1

My excluded son is so much more than a kid no school can be bothered to teach ...... a thread aimed at those who’ve already written him off in life

Tuxfak

tuxfak

(thread)In 2018, Iowa State Auditor (and amazingly, twitter mutual!) @RobSandIA defeated incumbent Republican @MaryMosiman by about 4.5 points. He did fairly well across the state, especially given that it is

N I C 🌨 L E

nicoleamurray

DID YOU KNOW a girl from the sunrise movement in philly was a contestant on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? This is what she had to say about driving:

Jason Segedy 🇺🇲🇭🇺🇮🇹

JasonSzegedi

1) Two interesting maps of Ohio from the NY Times' fascinating Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html 2) Here are the final 2020 results in Ohio. The overall pa

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