#Spectacle

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

(Thread) Before the whole #ForceTheVote spectacle disappears in the usual ways that these things do in the Eternal Sunshine of the Very Online Left, something it might be worth taking

Jorge Martin

marxistJorge

The disgusting spectacle of Macron, representing the former colonial power, trying to make political gain out of the Beirut blast which has left hundreds of thousands homeless. France, together with

René Brooks | Black Girl, Lost Keys | ADHD

blkgirllostkeys

One of the things I loved about my talk with @Square was that when we spoke about Neurodiversity and I said what was important to me in talking about Blackness

James Corbett

james_corbett

I was sent a copy of the so-called Super League document earlier today and have spent the afternoon doing some number crunching on it.A few key takeaways(1/) The plan would

Karen Attiah

KarenAttiah

Black people have been wondering why white people and other non-black people have been riled so much by George Floyd's murder-- and not by videos of other police shootings. I

Tamsin

tamsinparnell

Today's first panel at #UACES2020 is really very exciting: 'Narratives of Brexit in the European Public Sphere'. A critical discursive approach to Brexit-related discourse, assessing the impact of discourses on

Eli K

ekozie

since Chuckie was deleted his tweets, here's a recreation of the thread via screenshots. Exhibit 1. Exhibit 2 Exhibit 3 Exhibit 4 Exhibit 5 Exhibit 6 Exhibit 7 Exhibit 8

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

Slavery was a world-historical crime unique in human history and uniquely severe and persistent in the United States. The Civil War was initiated by the South in order to maintain

Black is Better

Blackisbetterbi

THREAD : DES NOIRS QUI ONT MARQUÉ L'HISTOIRE ET QUI PEUVENT SERVIR DE MODELS. Rt pour plus de visibilité, ça pourrait intéresser plus d'un. 1-Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968). Né

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

President Trump's extended tantrum is a complicated thing to get a hold of. On the one hand it's basically criminal in any civic sense. I'm pretty confident it will result

Fabio Rojas

fabiorojas

1/ Comments on pro-Trump protest from a professor who studies protest. Step #1: These protests are more performance, less coup. 2/ Protests vary in their goals and tactics. While pro-Trump/MAGA

Musa Okwonga

Okwonga

In future Sky cannot platform these liars. US democracy, already long corroded, is in such a dangerous place at the moment.https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1326215616693407746 I worry that the debate culture in which so

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

When Governor-General Bentinck abolished Sati (Suttee, as Britishers called it), he had a larger-than-life statue commissioned showing him dramatically rescuing and Indian women from the funeral pyre. (It can still

Caspar Henderson

casparhenderson

"...all clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness... "...The need for cognitive accommodation makes you

Peter Sachs Collopy

collopy

A lot of the history of social movements can be told through appropriation of tactics from egalitarian to authoritarian movements. Street protest, building occupations, denial of service attacks. We might

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

I will always fight ppl who claim we're reopening bc Americans are spoiled & fickle, etc. Zeroing in on selfish ppl erases everyone who is trying & terrified. The government

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