#WWII

Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar

DittmarML

This thread is my own. (1) Republican legislatures prevented states from counting early/mail in ballots. (2) The majority of early/mail in votes were cast by people voting for Biden. (3)

David Atkins

DavidOAtkins

No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction

dj franzia

hawillisdc

americans think theyre immune to propaganda but the department of defense spends millions of dollars/lends equipment/locations/resources to hollywood in exchange for having the final say on film scripts. the us

[HB] RAINEY™

RaineyOvalle

All jokes aside the Anti-Blackness in DR is rooted in one of the xenophobic dictatorships in the Caribbean. Trujillo worked to erase Blackness from the Dominican identity for 30 whole

Timothy Burke

bubbaprog

A quick story.Margaret Tiernan was born August 17, 1924 to Francis Coyne and Irish-born Sadie Coyne-Tiernan. In 1943, she enlisted in the WAC & was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe for

Raffi Melkonian

RMFifthCircuit

History side-note moment: I read this 1776 report. I'll leave to others the various errors and whatnot. But it is a singularly bad piece of writing. Like how I wrote

Peter Young (The Austrian)

TheAustrian3

There is often an overlooked tax story at the heart of humanity’s defining events.@DominicFrisby's book Daylight Robbery provides a fascinating account of the ways in which tax has shaped our

🔶Jonathan Banks🔶 💙Parliamentary spokes RNP

Jonathan_MBanks

The country is on an absolute knife edge. The single biggest political decision since WWII, rests it seems with a chancer who doesn't want a job he well knows he's

Keola

MrKeola

Do you know why a two-piece swimsuit is called a bikini? It relates to the nuclear bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in the 40s and 50s. Bikini comes from the

Dr. Jessica Goudeau

jessica_goudeau

The camp system for refugees and asylum seekers is one of the least humane aspects of the way the world handles refugees. Moria Camp in Greece shows why: isolated on

David

nobullmitt

Things we learned in 2020 - Every generation has to do it. We didn't get a permanent free pass in 1776, or the Civil War, or when women voted, or

Bougie Black Girl

BougieBlackGurl

I promise you, this country would've been had universal healthcare, college, and chilcare if White people were the only ones who had access to it. How do I know? How

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

#OTD January 31, 1944 the battles of Kwajalein and Majuro atolls begin. Operation Flintlock—the seizure of the Marshall Islands—followed quickly on the success of Operation Galvanic, furthering US advances in

Metropolitan Police Heritage Centre & Crime Museum

MPSHeritage

For the opening day of #LondonFashionWeek, a short thread on 102 years of Met women's uniforms and how they developed as expectations of their wearers evolved. First up, the long-skirted

Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸

CAFinUS

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." ― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Many of us stared down discrimination to wear the uniform.They

Trinity

TrinityResists

A few months after Hitler became Führer, the Nazis wanted power beyond their borders.On Hitler’s orders, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess charged German-American immigrant Heinz Spanknobel to form the pro-Nazi movement

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