#Narratives

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan

My gosh, the nerve! THRILLED and AMAZED that President Trump BANNED "Critical Race Theory" from federal training sessions. Surely CEO's, Presidents, and Boards of corporations, universities and other institutions can

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Yesterday, I discussed how powerful narratives are. But the thing about narratives is: we all use them to make meaning of our lives and the world.Very many on the left

EU DisinfoLab

DisinfoEU

An important development in the French-speaking disinfo world: the "Hold-Up" film & the risks of crowdfunding platforms. A threadhttps://twitter.com/Guillaume_HB/status/1326815954173636609 The project raised a substantial budg

Josh Powell

JoshuaCPowell

Important (ungated, for now!) new paper from DG Board Member @dadakim and @fulyafelicity on othering in COVID19, beginning with a sad global history of racialized othering in pandemics https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-o

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

So a few thoughts on @MilHiVisualized's latest vid which touches on Normandy and features Sönke Neitzel discussing his latest book Deutsche Krieger. Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik – eine Militärgeschichte.

Alexandra Vukovich

AlexandraVukov1

The #HagiaSophiaMosque debate has sparked questions about other monuments. For example here is a famous Athenian mosque built after 1721 (the previous one was ruined in the 1687 explosion), in

Clint Watts

selectedwisdom

"7 Potential Disinformation Disasters Headed into Election 2020" - our #FIE2020 team has been monitoring disinfo the last 18 months and headed into election day. No surprise on what #1

Sohail Nakhooda

snakhooda

@andreas_krieg has a sad habit of peddling third rate Qatari and Islamist propaganda. In this dismal essay he blames the UAE for “merging the narratives about ‘Islamism’ with ‘terrorism’.” I

endless strategies of tedious indifference

adinfinnitum

[suicide, grief] adults trying to Do Good!!! i am once again asking u to pls cease using rhetoric like 'this [ruling/media coverage/legislation/etc] will kill trans kids'. i understand the urge to

IT Guy

ITGuy1959

1- Unpopular opinion (at least amongst conservatives)Mike Pence did a bad jobJob 1 of the Coronavirus Task Force should have been demand normalized #Covid_19 data from States, distill into meaningful

Superlinear

superlinearza

THREAD: I looked at 14mil tweets covering a variety of social and political issues over the past year to get a picture of how the overall #SouthAfrica political landscape has

Unu Amaro Kam Siri Kwado

AfamDeluxo

The Story Of Biafra Football Club (1969- 1978)By Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu Indeed there was a country... and there was also the Biafra Football Club.In the dying months of the breakaway

Dr Sam Hirst

RomGothSam

Took me about 5 minutes to stop rolling my eyes but I'm back now.This does rather seem to lean into elitist attitudes which are all too common with (self-defined) 'literary'

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. I'll explain what I mean here. I'm a Biden voter. But it is fundamentally dangerous that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai are making policy over how we deliberate over

Hannah Bowman

hannahnpbowman

How about a thread about non-punitive accountability? THREAD… First: the most important thing to understand about accountability is, as @prisonculture says, accountability can't be imposed, it can only be taken.

Jacob Classic

REALJacSantos

A thread on why white folks shouldn’t be telling BIPOC stories by themselves, and why Black and Brown artists should be given the resources and autonomy to tell their own

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