Time for some forgotten history. *Twenty two* African Americans served in Congress during the 1800s after the Civil War. Right before Southern racists took voting rights away from black people again. Since many people don't learn this in schools, let's do an important thread:

. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY QUARANTINE QUARANTINO

Unorthodox is a FANTASTIC modern retelling of Stranger Things Season I

Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly. 1/

Simply cannot wait to create a petition to move ‘!’ and ‘?’ further apart on the keyboard once the world returns to it’s natural order of caring about meaningless garbage

Fun/horrifying to realize that the same people who refuse to wear masks would probably refuse to stop yelling and stomping if this were A Quiet Place

which theme did defense contractors have in mind when naming themselves from The Lord of the Rings dictionary (Palantir, Aanduril)? 1. absolute power corrupts absolutely (we are fucked) 2. the world is a binary of good vs evil (we are fucked by grown children)

lesson of the day, die for what you don't believe in.

The Perks of Not Being Able to Work Your Own Smartphone 🌸

This is it. This is the worst take. Imagine a Chinese company silencing Jinping.

Chomsky providing some crucially important context missing in Ukraine-Russia coverage in Western media: "Russia is surrounded by US offensive weapons...no Russian leader, no matter who it is, could tolerate Ukraine joining a hostile military alliance."