#Imprisonment

I'm a comfortable person in comfortable circumstances, for now at least. I'm talking to my fellow comfortable people now.Covid19 is not altering the status quo. Rather, it's exposing an unsustainable
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1. This a thread. My only credentials being 40 years an activist, fought Thatcher over CND, Poll Tax, BNP, closure of the mines, shipbuilding, steelworks, fishing and heavy industry in
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1/ Bitcoin: a bold new world.Satoshi published the white paper on 10/31/2008. Right at the moment of peak despair during the 2008 financial crisis. Trust had been lost in a
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Happy Birthday Joseph Boulogne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Christmas Day, 1745 on the island of Guadeloupe, in the south Caribbean. He was the son of a plantation owner, whose
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Some thoughts about #MLA21 now that it's over and I can return to something like sanity in the form of a tangled thread about some pros and cons; (please ignore
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The ACLU in NYT on why the union of Silicon Valley monopolies -- Apple, Google and Amazon -- to remove Parler from the internet is so problematic. While ACLU is
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It's Women's month, so a quick reminder of the horrors faced by women anti-Apartheid activists in prisons is in order[Thread] During Apartheid, women liberation activists were routinely shot and killed,
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Trauma gave us deeply sad, deeply fucked ideas about how to love: an essay by Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen All! Afternoon! I’ve been thinking of the list of things
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When did the anti-vaxx movement really start to take off?With the measles outbreak in 2019?With Wakefield’s discredited paper in 1998?Nah, it was in 1853, when smallpox vaccinations were made compulsory
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ThreadOn the 31st anniversary of the release of #Mandela from prison, I am pleased to share again a peak into our work in South Africa during apartheid, with few #exclusive
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I will fully endorse your position that that is not evidence of Pakistani state support in sheltering AQ. I will equally say that there isn’t any evidence of Iran sheltering
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Compared to white people:*Black-owned homes devalued 23%*Black-owned property taxes 13% higher*Bank fees 2x higher for black customers*Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic*Black people w/ NO criminal record
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(THREAD) You know if @JoeBiden wanted to do some good work & get brownie points from literally everyone here's something he could do to make up for the death of
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FAT CAT TORIES USE TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO DEFEND CASE ABOUT MISUSE OF TAXPAYER'S MONEY. DO WE GET A SAY IN THIS?A very short thread. Please RT:As an occasional supporter of
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Days after UK Supreme Court rules Shell can be taken to court for human rights abuses in Nigeria - Shell takes Nigeria to ISDS. We may never know on what
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For years, the Russian and Syrian governments, their paid trolls and useful idiots on both the far right and the left have dominated the conversation about #Syria on social media.
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