My version of red-pilling is when I teach people the Boston Tea Party was triggered by England *LOWERING* the tea tax, and the Sons of Liberty were the wealthiest Boston businessmen who made their money smuggling and didn't want the competition.
@ProfCheit@PrueLeith@BritishBakeOff@Channel4 "Nigel's quesadillas are inspired by his Nan - filled with boiled haddock and blood sausage puree, white beans and haloumi. The tortillas have chopped sultanas and are topped with a whipped scallop frosting"
Do you ever feel that some cities are just more alive than others?
It's probably because they're "mixed-use".
This is a simple idea, but it changes everything...
I've seen hundreds of tweets about telling women to stop having sex if they don't want to get pregnant but I've seen zero calls for men to become celibate. It will never cease to amaze me how little men are blamed for getting someone pregnant. This is about control and patriarchy
YES HE SAID THAT:
Senator Bill Cassidy on the state of Louisiana having one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the nation:
"We wouldn't be much of an outlier if you subtract the African American population from our numbers."
https://t.co/YCunflTaL3
Anecdatally, I’m currently experiencing the highest number of COVID+ people in my life this week. Family, friends, students, colleagues. For some, their 1st time. Others just had it in January/February. Some feel rough. Some missing important work/life events. The surge is here.
I am here to tell you, if you are indoors and not at home, you should be wearing a good mask, ideally N95 or KN94. #COVID19 numbers are rising fast, new variants are highly contagious, and more and more #LongCovid
hearing a lot of "goodbye twitter" and not a lot of "we'll unite and become 100 million+ ungovernable jean ralphios and he will regret the day he ever heard of twitter"
THREAD. Today the New York Times responded to a mass subway shooting with a relentless string of copaganda. Let’s look closely at how the NYT used a crisis to boost police talking points and lies in some creative ways: