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Thread: George Floyd’s execution is part of a Russian military intelligence operationI spent all of yesterday warning of this and being told it’s “far-fetched.” Allow me to explain why it’s
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Mark Stroman was a Texan who lived in obscurity until he tried to incite a race war that would presage the Trump era.And on this day nine years ago, he
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This feels like a good time to re-up my most shared thing ever. There is a lot higher ed can learn from to survive this moment and come out stronger.
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As someone who has worked in the #affordablehousing industry for a decade, here are some important issues I’d like to raise about @stevenfulop’s Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) ordinance in #JerseyCity: The
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Looks like Eric Ciaramella may be in a little trouble. A newly filed complaint to the ICIG alleges that the whistleleaker may have violated federal law by indirectly soliciting more
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Being in Minneapolis reading about what’s happening in other places in the US right now feels like what I imagine being in Italy must have felt like during the early
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Fred Gates, principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 1891 to 1923.Gates/Rockefeller -Standard Oil worked with Nazis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Taylor_Gates Gates and R
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Im pretty disgusted with people tonight.You want to know how Trump won? Go look in the mirror. Because you, white people, with the yellow circles and the bees and the
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In an effort to "prove" President Trump isn't a racist, his defenders keep pointing to the fact that, in 1986, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor along with
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To my white educators: Today, you’re posting about social justice, buying antiracist books, following brown folks, and temp changing your profile pictures. (thread)Here’s what I need you to do tomorrow:
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We live in a racist society. Racism saturates everything: our language, landscapes, institutions and political partiesAs organisations and individuals, we all play a role in reproducing racism. We’re all capable
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Episode 7 of Queen’s Gambit: the mammy returns. If diverse casting means that the white hero gets a mammy, you can keep the diversity. Because also the writing ... her
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The weird world of fascism in 1950s Iran. This story's got Hitler lookalikes, CIA money, black-shirted goons and a bizarre underworld of Persian businessmen looking to revive the Third Reich.
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There is a stark contrast of enforcement responses to anti-lockdown #protests where armed white civilians stormed gov’t buildings & others are on camera shoving police vs. nationwide #protests against police
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THREAD: Today we’re very proud to announce that our own @ShelleyWare & @Kate_Seear have developed and led an open letter to the Commonwealth Attorney-General calling for action to end online
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Let me explain why autistic people may perform better with robots. It’s not their “Easy to read” social cues, it’s because they’re honest and predictable. They aren’t going to give
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