#Strikes

1. Let's talk for a second about the political theory behind rioting. As a political tactic, rioting works by imposing a cost on a specific set of state actions. What
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Is paganism "nature worship"? A counter to a common but mistaken notion.From looking around even at pagans, I see this idea. It is a common view dating back from antiquity
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As a #cdnhist who (I hope) has reasoned views on this subject (you can assess them here: https://activehistory.ca/2015/01/old-chieftain-or-old-charlatan-assessing-sir-johns-complex-legacy-through-political-cartoons/), I find this letter pro
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THREAD on Israel’s spin around the occupation forces’ killing of Palestinian Ahmed Erekat on the day of his sister’s wedding, and just weeks before his own wedding: (1) The footage
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Apparently we're debating whether or not the term "wage slavery" is racist. @Nessanihil posted these of Lucy Parsons, Frederick Douglass, and Dr. King, which give you a sense of how
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Cleaning whale bones is messy business. We hung a skeleton off our dock to let scavengers and decomposers remove as much of the remaining flesh as possible from a humpback
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A little thread on the Marcus Rashford / school meals u-turn and what it tells us about what’s in the minds of Number 10.Even by their standards this was a
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I'm seeing a lot of folks compare FTV to Impeachment votes and I want to take this time to break down the differences between the two. Thread (1/?) Before I
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It wouldn’t be a new cold war without an accelerating nuclear arms race. The Pentagon reported last week that China is planning to double its nuclear arsenal by 2030https://trib.al/LPZDMKJ  China
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For people asking why Dems are so gloomy, here's the baseline scenario for the next eight years of American government. It's a nightmare: 2021:-Recession-COVID-Gridlock in Congress-GOP-run statehouses gerrymanders new congressional
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My mother - Theresa Stewart - passed away this morning. She was 90, it was after a long illness (not COVID) and she was ready to leave.I would like to
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It takes experience to get to maximum yields. The first manufacturing sites to join the consortium started this process almost a year ago working with us to supply the UK.
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Right. First day back after Christmas in this perfectly normal country and I'm off to Ramsgate to sketch a Potemkin traffic jam up the A299 at dawn. Currently in a
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I wanted to make a little thread of something that I always noticed about being Indigenous, Diné to be specific, and working in film and being in film classes.I would
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/THREAD/Next up in my #2021PlayerBreakdowns Series is:Dylan Moore, 2B/OF Seattle Mariners 28 years old Drafted: 2015; Round 7, Pick 3Let’s get started... 2020 Stat Line:38 G159 PA127 AB.255/.358/.4968 HR26 R17
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Today’s #ThursdayThread revisits the third article in our #UKICELongRead series on #Brexit and the #environment by @CharlieBEU. EU membership gradually transformed the UK into an important player on environmental
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