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Jeremy Ray 🌹

jeremyyrayy92

A thread on #FreeBritney. How and where did it begin? Britney Spears has been in a conservatorship since 2008. According to this article, it was alleged the reason for

John Bull

garius

Right. Friday history thread!Let's talk about how not once, but TWICE, in WW2 a 650 year old treaty between Britain and Portugal (that the rest of the world had mostly

Ananya Chakravarti

achakrava

Academic real talk on public humanities: from the moment I got my PhD I believed that I had a responsibility to give back to the communities upon which my own

Carta Monir

CartaMonir

Okay, so I'm watching the twilight movies for the first time and it's amazing how transparently horny Edward is at the idea of dating a girl who keeps getting older?

Melissa Gira Grant

melissagira

If people are going to blame Kamala Harris for being involved in taking down Backpage—AND SHE DESERVES IT—you also have to blame the entire Senate Judiciary and the National Association

Greg Giroux

greggiroux

For 100th anniversary of #19thAmendment , this thread will review action in the 36 states needed to secure ratification (3/4 of 48 states) ending with Tennessee August 18, 1920. Enjoy!Source

Milli Lake

MilliLake

I'm so glad this is now out in the world. It is the product of a lot of painstaking labor from @alan_jacobs1 + Tim Buthe,+ the hope is that it

pplswar

pplswar

Trump Derangement Syndrome addicts screaming "COUP!!!!1!" are the mirror image of #MAGA-ts who think Trump will somehow still be president on January 21, 2021. (debunking thread)https://twitter.com/IAmSophiaNelson/status/132622750

Matthew Rosenberg

AshcanPress

I have a Carl Reiner story that I hold very dear to me. I figured I'd share it today, on the day of his passing, because I hope it will

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

Copyright lasts a long, long time.The Berne Convention, to which most of the world is signed up, stipulates a minimum duration of 50 years after the creator's *death*. It seems,

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Straight up confession: every time I read a biography of the Bloomsbury scene—Virginia Woolf, Keynes, Wittgenstein—I cry when it gets to the First World War. We were so close. We

Dr. Danielle L. McGuire

dmcguire13

Today would have been #RecyTaylor's 100th birthday. She was born on New Year’s Eve in 1919. It was a year of violence & resistance. White terrorists rampaged through black towns

Still wearing a mask. Still Chicagowench.

Cynsharpe

I swear I wrote this (and many thanks to my ‘beta readers’ - @davecobb, Craig Hanna, Eric Hoff, and Nkenge Cameron) prior to yesterday’s Op-Ed. But now seems like a

Better Life Lab

BetterLifeLab

1/6 Today is the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the #19thAmendment . While many white women won the right to vote, for decades, many Black women could not vote

Arrogantly Black: The Negro Subversive

negrosubversive

Newton, brilliant as he was, is wrong here for several reasons. The main one is that no decolonization movement was ever premised on being able to roll back history and

Yoni Freedhoff, MD

YoniFreedhoff

From the archives of strange but true life stories, I’m going to tell you about how I have Twitter, fat shaming, and @DrJasonFung to thank, for me having officially received

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