#Conflicts

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

2000 was the first time in the modern VRA era that the white vote lost to the total vote—and the white vote still triumphed through a coup. This was the

Szabolcs Panyi

panyiszabolcs

1/ Today’s big news is that Hungary will veto the next EU budget over its rule of law conditionalty.Hungary has been increasingly using its veto power in the EU in

james stout

jamesstout

Year-end threads are a bit hard for British people who feel very awkward about such things. But here are some stories I wrote, and the amount I made. Hopefully, this

Karam Bales

karamballes

Public First founded by Rachel Wolf is part of the DfEs special expert panel, how many organisations taking government money via education has she now been involved in?Same old faces

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

THREAD: Don't let the #EqualityAct erase sex in the law. Why we need to #AmendTheEqualityAct. If the Equality Act were signed into law today (or in January 2021), it would

Iskander Rehman

IskanderRehman

A few words on this much-discussed (but IMHO problematic) piece in FP. First of all, I share some of the author's frustration. Trotting out the same passages of Thucydides when

House of Leaves Publishing

HoL_Publishing

#31DaysOfHorror: essential horror film books for every shelf! THREAD: 1/31: @Nikolas_Schreck's The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema is a fabulous compendium of Satanic films: 2/31:

Mot strømmen

Sappfo_

1. This is a thread about the #GenderWooWoo that has been on the last years. Its about how it has impacted children, esp. girls, and women, developing into a #WarOnWomen

Black Socialists in America

BlackSocialists

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin was a SNCC and BPP member who hijacked a plane to Cuba to evade prosecution for allegedly trying to kill a KKK leader before being extradited from

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadWhy am I convinced that the Beirut port event was a military operation planned and carried out by countries other than Israel, but with Israel's cooperation?Shijjayah, Gaza City.July 20, 2014.

Ryan Chavez

ry_and_chavez

1/ A thread: More Context on the 1975 OAU meeting in Kampala and Idi Amin's relationship with Tanzania-- The Tanzanian protest of this meeting/ Idi Amin goes back to the

David Chapman

Meaningness

In the run-up to the last election, I wrote several pieces about politics from a meta-rational point of view. I’m going to tweet links to some of them as a

Pace 🙂

theotherphilipp

1/: Of the impossibility of truth, the limits of knowledge and the end of science in the #corona-crisis.A (rather lengthy) thread 2/: Let us assume that Galileo Galilei had

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyNow

#TodayInHistory Sadashiv Rao Bhau, commander of the Maratha army at Panipat dies like a true warrior on the battlefield in 1761, fighting till the end. A true hero who has

Dan Murphy

bungdan

Fox: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court warrants under Obama "bigger than Watergate."http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/01/18/sean-hannity-monologue-memo-fisa-surveillance-shows-abuse-power-bigger-watergate Fox: "Missing&qu

HODLdax

HODLdax

In 2014, the ECB started an unprecedented monetary experiments with catastrophic side effects. Time to sum up what happened & the impact on various aspects of the economy, especially in

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