#Grapple

fleetstreetfox

fleetstreetfox

In 1958, Eric Denson was ordered into a nuclear blast in order to conduct an experiment on his plane's radiation readings./thread He was sent home, covered in burns, vomiting, and

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

There is absolutely nothing “natural” about capitalism. Quite the contrary, capitalism goes against the very core of our human nature.Humans VS. Capitalism, a thread 1/11 Empathy was the evolutionary glue

antirobust

antirobust

on a purely tactical level, epistocracy proponents should probably endorse turnout-boosting efforts like vote-by-mail or election day holidaysconsider (thread)https://twitter.com/antirobust/status/1244375817758445568 a big barrier to epistocracy is t

Chase Cross

chaseacross

What I saw boils down to this: The protest was angry but entirely peaceful. The police wanted physical space, and because of the dominionist posture that all American police operate

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

Hey, a reminder: while the popular narrative is “I always knew I was gay,” a whole lot of us did not have that experience. For every five year old who

Linda Tirado

KillerMartinis

So. As I said this morning in Congress, today is the one month anniversary of the last day I woke up with two working eyes.I have not gone a single

Adam Habib

AdHabb

Shabir Mahdi, one of our most eminent health scientists did a presentation to the Wits council on Friday afternoon. His presentation slides are available on this link: http://www.wits.ac.za/covid19/latest-news/test-test-test-says-wits-academic.html H

WE-Change

WEChangeJA

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Maggie Burton

mmburton

There is no phrase I detest more with me entire being than "The Character of the Neighbourhood" - it is a dog whistle for white supremacist, ableist, classist rhetoric and

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

Celebrating five years of Shadowproof (@shadowproofcom) today. There was never guarantee we would succeed and still be here. Fortunately, we have journalists, members, & donors who believe in us, and

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

"Whatever the arguments around each particular incident" carries a lot of freight here. If the signatories don't agree about the specific cases under consideration, how can they make a shared

Shawn Connolly Will ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD

dcb42

So I'm sure it won't surprise anyone who pays attention to my politics that today's news isn't thrilling to me.So now I have a decision to make. Vote Biden? Or

_gabrielShapir0

lex_node

'Transactional law' practice (venture, M&A, etc.) is fundamentally broken, marked by an evil convergence of self-perpetuating bad incentives that make it almost impossible to reform or even incrementally improve. Yes,

Psychopompous Chessbian 🧃

deathbian

imagining iron man but she's a lesbian and has a 1950s car aesthetic to her armor. also her weaponry is much less futuristic in some respects, such as only dummy

MazzieW

demigirlace

It is worth noting that this conservative pundit and culture warrior push for everyone dying to COVID is a direct result of conservatism long since just becoming "own the libs"

Harold

haroldwrites

If you guys know the amount of things hidden in that 604 pages of the new Companies Act,you'll start weeping.The Corporate Affairs Commisson has just been made a monster. You