#Books

While cleaning a stairwell today a woman opened the door to her apartment to ask me about how often we swing by and noted that it's been particularly messy this
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This is my pal who went to a fabulous school, read all the great books, advocated for progressive politics, and had more genuine, longtime friends of color than anyone I
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Can we get a thread about women + labor history !? Lots of inspiring examples, but it seems so often overlooked.Particularly interested in archival/documentary films too, google doc started here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akd--wVCL
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The filibuster was not part of the original Senate because the Framers knew exactly how it'd be used- they saw McConnell coming. The filibuster represents Calhoun's vision, not Madison's. Calhoun
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To India! We go together with one of the most original minds of the late antique and early medieval world: Cosmas Indicopleustes. Cosmas thought that the world was a box.
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I study gangs and I want to read outside PoliSci & Econ. I have on my list work by Dowdney, Decker, Twonsend, Van Winkle, Jankowski, Venkatesh, and Fontes. What should
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A little background to how asylum seeking and the refugee quota system work in NZ because I see quite a few discussions going around Behrouz Boochani that conflate them. First,
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When I was in middle school, my favorite book series was the Night World by LJ Smith. The plot of all the books revolve around teenagers--a combination of humans and
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It's been a few days since Scottish Gaelic launched on the @duolingo app + website (https://www.duolingo.com ).I've been having evening Gaelic classes since September, so from one student to another, here
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I have been thinking about the question of autobiography, and my conclusion is that it is a total scam from the lit crit industrial complex because, like, autobiography is not
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Here is a thing I'm curious about: the collective magic a concept holds over an entire generation that can be lost to the next gen. For example, yesterday I went
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Allow me to entertain you with thread: A few days ago, there was a twitter storm about the worst places in NYC. Many people said Times Square, which I would
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1./ Great piece by @jameskirkup about the unbelievably shoddy BBC article on puberty blockers by @BenInLDN. I never saw the pressing need for an LGBT correspondent. But if we’re going
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Let me try and explain why some of us just Don't Want to Get Rid of Harry Potter: a thread. Yes. There are better written stories with magic and kids
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Are pre-deal sub-NAV SPACs the next special sits savings account?(I.e. the savings account replacement for savvy investors) The 80s NYC arb guys I know kept almost no cash in their
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I watched over 40+ booktube videos this week so here's a thread of some of my fav videos @sashaisreading is one of my new favs! I found a few new
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