#Historical

prepping for today's #DavesCarIDService I saw this neato pic from the always wonderful @TracesofTexas (forwarded by @DruncleWill) leading down a weird historical rabbit hole. First, I can say the truck
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Iran was a democracy--of sorts--for a brief period in the 20th century. Were relations "stable and peaceful"? Not exactly. Thread 1/https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1337460347033141248 Iran's period of constitutional governme
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What's an example of a significant resource that the world has actually run out of?Not a local, temperature shortage, or a resource that we gracefully transitioned away from, but like
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Indian farmers are leading the largest strike in human history. They are fighting new laws that hurt the working class and decades of government abuse and neglect that has had
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THREAD: Can public media help fix market failures in local news? That was our question 18 months ago when we launched the Public Media Mergers Project, supported by @GoogleNewsInit @PMVG_
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I made my submission to the @HLConstitution Committee yesterday. Here are some submissions about the WHO's pandemic advice from as recently as October 2019. In short, it does not remotely
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So yesterday I introduced all of you to my dissertation research.I ended on a cliffhanger with a promise to continue today, so here we go!(Here's yesterday's thread: https://twitter.com/cwjones89/status/1275412504219435008?s=20) To
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'The rules of capitalism' = Work will be rewarded to the extent that it facilitates making stuff that people enjoy enough to pay for. To be outraged about this exchange
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It's #TwitterBookLaunch, where we celebrate authors published during lockdown. The crisps are soft and the wine is mulled (left by the radiator) but please browse, share and buy if you
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1) The process that is being played out is going as planned by our President and his legal team. It is really easy to get frustrated that things are not
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So proud of the @HarperVoyagerUS list this year. Our authors have written some amazing stories, and 2020 saw the conclusion of a lot of great series.Let’s take a look at
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/1 https://twitter.com/karengeier/status/1341429856047927302 First, content alert: There will be images in this thread that are disturbing. Historical images including acts of violence, Klan activity, etc./2 Don’t get me wrong; there’s
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PART 1#SLBhyrappa , the most despised author amongst Leftists since decades.....It’s no exaggeration if I call S.L. Bhyrappa as a living legend in Bharatiya Sahitya.The best selling writer turned 89
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What led to socialism & the Deep State attempting to destroy our rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness?THREAD BELOW Communism seeks to make one’s personal
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#Populism #Salvini's League: the last mass-party in Italy. As a researcher for the @_PiAP project, I am working on the League. Few days ago La Repubblica published an article
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1. Here's a Twitter thread about the latest pre-print paper from @MentalHealthPRU: Experiences of living with mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a coproduced, participatory qualitative
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