#Biography

Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈🌊❄️

windthin

1/ Though presidential pardons & commutations have often generated some controversy, none have done so more than Trump's, who while issuing the fewest since William McKinley has delivered the most

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kjngofpops

I came across a masterpost about Oprah’s long vendetta against Michael Jackson so I thought I’d share some of it here as a thread for those who aren’t aware of

Raziye Akkoç

RazAkkoc

When 2018 arrived, I told myself I would memorise all of Turkey’s 81 provinces. That proved relatively easy so I decided I would visit each one (yes Kirikkale too IA).

TIFF

TIFF_NET

Black. Transgender. Filmmakers. Actors. Changemakers.A celebration thread .@JanetMock is a trailblazer across all mediums: an author, director, producer, writer and activist for transgender rights.She first caught the nation’s attention

Mandroid

Bigbounce01

A #thread about the dark sides og some incredibly famous people you know.1. Mahatma Ghandi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. One of the most universally revered figures in modern history.We've come to

Shruti Rajagopalan

srajagopalan

Looking back, in 2020 I had an opportunity to speak with the authors of some of my favorite books, mostly through the Ideas of India podcast. Thread on twelve books

Badger North is a badger

MxBadgerNorth

Thanks to the work of LGBT activists and historians, LGBT histories are being identifiedHow can we identify autistic histories? Normally we look at documentation and material culture. But how can

Robert C. Engen

RobertEngen

As a riposte to @warmatters' S.L.A. Marshall shenanigans, I'll highlight work from our new @McGillQueensUP volume "Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare" by discussing Chapter

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8yeargap

How did Canada get here?Eric Margolis wrote a short biography of Pierre Trudeau upon his death in 2000. Its worth reading as an insight into Justin’s character.Trudeau: Canada’s Great HelmsmanOct

Austin

realUnnameable

The Gemstone File thread: Gemstone is a work that was assembled over the course of many years that in the most simple terms lays out a timeline of events that

Jonathan Blanks

BlanksSlate

This Black History Month, I want to tell a story--small part confession, mostly biography and reflection--about how BHM started me on the path to be the person and writer I

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

TIL there was a guerrilla struggle based in Guadeloupe in the 1980s!!! Alliance révolutionnaire caraïbe (Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance)pic is former leader of ARC who's still an independence activist today, Luc

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Happy to say that my review of Veritas, and the saga of the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” forgery, is now published at @TheTLS.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/veritas-ariel-sabar-review-michael-press/ (Note: As usual, the author was not

Thirty Days To X

XDays

So You Made Some Money On GameStop And Want To Learn More About The Stock Market?Here Are 7 Investment Books Worth Reading With stocks in the news, there's been a

Christopher Hitchens

HitchensQuotes

"Dr. King was an exemplary human being by every standard that I know. I can't be sure that he was actually a Christian; I can be grateful to the extent

Patrick Corrigan

PatrickCorrigan

Who benefitted from slavery in Ireland? When it was abolished in British colonies in 1833, the equivalent of £millions of pounds was paid out in compensation to almost 100 slave

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