#South

charley ☮︎ ✧ ❊

70sbolan

no one talks about him on here and i've been listening to his music more and more lately so here's a thread on rodriguez! sixto rodriguez was born on july

David Roberts

drvolts

One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was failing to utterly crush the South after the Civil War -- dismantle its power structures, imprison its leaders, expressly disavow its

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Saturday numbers are in and I’m getting worried about Texas.Across much of the South, the disease spread has turned down. Arizona, South Carolina, Florida, even Mississippi look somewhat better than

Syed

gypsy_heart6

This pre-Islamic bismillah, inscribed by someone visiting a cave in South Arabia to meditate, like prophet Muhammad much later in Makkah, upends a lot of traditionally held Islamic beliefs. Raḥmān

Jonathan Schofield

schofeld

I don’t know much about Taiwan but this year I’m intrigued to know more. Until recently, as an ex-Ultimate player, the extent of my knowledge was that they loved to

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

yarbatman

1. The Rouhani admin and the central bank were making headway in reestablishing access to ~$7bn held in Korean banks.Like with the STENA IMPERO seizure in 2019, this is the

Linda Mannheim

LindaMannheim

A thread of things about the South Bronx, starting with @DecadeofFire, a documentary that manages to say more about the destruction of neighbourhoods in the 1970s than any other film

Kim TallBear

KimTallBear

I grew up in lands occupied by South Dakota. Those people sit there owning land stolen by homesteading grandparents on the heels of Indian massacres & still deny Indigenous genocide.

Rasool Berry

rasoolberry

William David Chappelle was born enslaved in 1857 in Winnsboro, South Carolina, one of the eleven children of Henry and Patsy McCory Chappelle.He would emerge from his chains to become

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

1/ Today has brought a lot of news about 'variants', as we discover community transmission of B.1.351 (SA variant) in the UK. But some of the people who study these

GENIUS

General_wongie

Continuing.... Between 1917 and 1924 Dr Banda while in South Africa was combining working and evening classes. Whilst working at Boksburg Mine as a clerk he attended classes at Crown

Jake Fielder

reddsix

In honor of my continued complaints about the Rams’ aesthetics, I decided to make a thread of the best uniform EVERY NFL team has ever worn. I’m not wrong about

Wian Hattingh

whattingh

My 10 year prediction for Over the next 5 years, corruption will accelerate and eventually outweigh tax revenue.In the 5 years following, South Africa will default on its debt and

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Disney made a LOT of...uh, problematic...movies, but none quite so indefensible as Song of the South, a Reconstruction movie in which a formerly enslaved man tells a young, wealthy white

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Thread summarising an important presentation on the AstraZeneca trial results for South Africa.Key points: Efficacy initially seemed to be ~75%, but dropped to 22% against SA variant. Past COVID-19

asad rehman

chilledasad100

When I hear net zero 2050 I always remember Ambassador Lumumba (the Chair of the G77) at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009 when he said 2c “certain death for

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