#Seeking

Bayo Adeyinka

greaterbayo

The Next 20 YearsJust look around you in Nigeria, for example. 20 years ago, the ATM machine was a novelty. No bank issued debit cards- maybe just the foreign ones.

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

Two mantras are everywhere after Trump's defeat:"We have to seek unity.""You're never going to change 'those people's' minds."I wrote about how each of those mantras has it backwards:We don't have

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

According to the @Telegraph "Boris Johnson has speeded up plans to curb the judiciary". We must not be fooled by claims that this is about restoring "the sovereignty of Parliament".

Heather Corinna 🩸🦷

heathercorinna

Hey, everybody. I had a rough day today. One part was extra awful. I want to talk about it in this thread. It’s about why it matters how you regard,

DesiScholar

desischolar

It’s #gradschool recruitment season. A mini-thread because my dog woke me up!STOPASKINGAPPLICANTS TOEXPLAINTHEIRLOWUNDERGRAD GPA. There’s no need for students to relive their bad/unfortunate/traumatic life experiences that impacted thei

Linda Bloomfield

LindaBxx

Happy #OpportunityTuesday! Every Tuesday I share 10 #artsopps, commissions, open calls & applications closing soon. Here are this week's!Always PAID (or free/cheap for training) & for a range of artists;

LGBT Youth Scotland

LGBTYS

THREADAt their last development day, our Youth Commission on Care Experience decided to spend their workshop time on taking action to support #BlackLivesMatter . They decided to research and amplify

Dr. Nancy Olivieri

DrNancyOlivieri

Again many thanks to @ChmlBillKelly & @jordanarmenise for inviting me to speak about #ConflictsOfInterest in medicine and research this morning on @AM900CHML. Here a short thread inspired by today’s show

rupi kaur

rupikaur_

disha ravi, a 21-year-old climate activist, has been arrested by delhi police for sharing a toolkit @GretaThunberg posted in support of the #farmersprotest. disha’s arrest is alarming and the world

Miranda Yaver

mirandayaver

55 yrs ago today, Lyndon Johnson signed into law Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII of which is now at stake wrt LGBT rights). On this anniversary, re-upping my

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 20th instalment of #deanehistory.We’ve all - until these recent, housebound times - enjoyed the occasional “night on the tiles.”But the Day of the Tiles was quite different

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

No one is offended by the original version of this song. Literally no one.https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1329353286877671424 This is the PC equivalent of Victorians prudishly covering chair-legs lest anyone became offended by them.

Paul Matzko

PMatzko

There is a clear corollary to the Jericho March from the 1960s called Operation Midnight Ride. Today, it's disgraced ex-general Michael Flynn & religious broadcaster Eric Metaxas; back then it

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

100 years ago, Argentina was one of the richest, most successful countries in the world. Even as recently as the early 1960s, its GDP per capita was higher than that

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Wokeness, also called Social Justice, has now taken over the education system and is actively seeking to politicize education. Let's look at how deep the rot goes. 2/The first thing

Tides of History

labour_history

#OTD 1945. Churchill is booed at Walthamstow Stadium as sections of the crowd chant ‘We want Labour’The Tory candidate responds: 'I am sure they are going to get a thrashing

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