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@4diva63 @KitMaherCNN While blacksmithing existed in west Africa there were actually there were no horses in west Africa.

@KitMaherCNN Africans already possessed the skills of blacksmithing having descended from societies that made tools, horseshoes for horses, and so much more.

DeSantis tells me FL's new Black history standards are "rooted in whatever is factual," when I asked him his thoughts on middle school instruction on "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" –

@brutal_veracity Then my work here is done. 😀

@zik I didn't know it launched till I saw your FB post! Joined immediately.😂

Me tryna lure both my FB friends & favorite Twitter accounts to Threads.😂

@thurrott You could just stop using it.

"Here are 4 things you can't do on Threads, an Instagram app" 2. Bake bread.

I'm on threads. Looks like this has potential. Low barrier to entry and very easy to use. @zikdaman" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@zikdaman

@SherrilynJ77881 @NateSilver538 What's the evidence of that?

There's this notion that Kennedy's doing kinda well in the polls and he just isn't. Despite very high name ID and a weak field of alternatives to Biden. Look, talk about him if you want. It's summer, we're all a little bored. Personally, I'd rather talk about NBA trade rumors.

@patrickbetdavid One of them works out. The other doesn't. I don't know how this is relevant as to their expertise in vaccines.

Who looks healthier? RFK Jr is 69 years old. Dr. Hotez is 65 years old Makes you think…

@MJGold Correct. This is heartwarming but it doesn't advance the argument for taking the sport seriously. In fact this display hurts that argument.

This went viral and it’s a problem. Jolien Buomkwo is NOT the problem and deserves all the praise for what she did for her team! 👏🏾 Track rarely gets this type of media coverage outside the Olympics, but desperately needs it. Great track athletes break records and do amazing things in our sport displaying the superhuman and ultra competitive nature of the sport. We desperately want sports fans to see it and believe if they did they’d watch more, resulting in better TV coverage and more sponsors, which ultimately means true pro sport compensation and respect for struggling elite track athletes. The problem is despite the display of being a great team player, it showed the sport to the world as a cute laugh at best and reinforced what many already believe that it is an amateur Olympic sport, instead of showing it as elite athleticism and competitiveness. Despite what you might want to believe, it is the latter that draws fans, television rights deals, and sponsors. That isn’t an opinion. It is a proven fact. TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE: You can applaud and feel great about her effort and feel this being showed to the world was not helpful in the sport’s struggle to be seen as professional high level elite competition. One last time: THIS ISSUE IS ABOUT THE SPORT, NOT THE ATHLETE.

A point-by-point rebuttal of @RobertKennedyJr 's appearance on @joerogan . So important to watch and share. The most popular podcast in the world needs to do better. RFKj's false information is dangerous. By @20manDan youtu.be/sugCJNAPF9o via @YouTube

@mkraju How did George Santos vote?

213-209-6, House votes to censure Adam Schiff, making him the third censured memner in the 21st century. Democrats yelling “Shame! Shame! shame!” on the floor

@TreRighteous @FakeCynic @jemelehill Why don't you just tell us? What was different about America why slavery persisted here for decades after it was outlawed in Britain?

@zik @FakeCynic @jemelehill Completely different circumstance, there’s a full history you can read on, on why slavery wasn’t abolished earlier, just read man

And this is why a lot of Black folks didn’t want Juneteenth to become a national holiday, because folks like this would be chiming in.

@brentlsaunders Why does Twitter have to be that place? What's so special about Twitter that scientists need to endure it if they don't want to?

Scientists, please stay on Twitter and embrace the debate! Open dialogue fuels scientific progress. It's our responsibility to engage, challenge ideas, and seek truth. Don't shy away when things get tough; let's promote informed discussions for a better understanding of our world! @joerogan @elonmusk @PeterHotez @mcuban

@FakeCynic @TreRighteous @jemelehill My history is correct. Now you check your math.

@FakeCynic @TreRighteous @jemelehill So you just wipe out the history of slavery in colonial america and start at 1776? Well if America had remained a colony of Britain slavery would have been abolished here decades before it was. So did independence make America less moral? What happened?

@_Bob_S @TheAtlantic @JamesSurowiecki You're saying that it's not possible to determine how many visitors Disney gets per whatever time period?

@TheAtlantic @JamesSurowiecki OR just more easily 'traceable'? Data showing - 1m a day for 2 years dropping to 200k in a week VS Things with long lead times? Less definable? I WOULD have given $x to pol, but I didn't? No Disney trip? If ppl could GET BACK a donation, or Disney knew you went to Universal ??

“The Bud Light boycott has been unusually effective,” writes @JamesSurowiecki, “not just in getting the company to back away from the Mulvaney promotion, but also in driving down sales and indeed hurting Anheuser-Busch’s stock price.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@NathanJRobinson Except that you don't win a debate with better information. A debate is won with better rhetorical form, and successful appeals to the right emotional triggers.

This is why I think the "don't debate them, it legitimizes them" take is totally misguided. When you don't debate them, they see it as proof that you're afraid of having a conversation and have something to hide. It would do far more good to go in and win the debate.

@_robertkey @RoseSer38526924 @kyledcheney @joshgerstein Yes but how likely are they to do that anytime soon? More likely is that they'll give her a lot of rope initially where she can make irreversible rulings to damage the case.

@zik @RoseSer38526924 @kyledcheney @joshgerstein The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals can force her if DOJ appeals her assignment as the judge.

NEW: Judge CANNON will have extraordinary influence over Trump’s criminal proceedings — from selecting jurors to admitting or excluding evidence to setting trial deadlines that could hamstring either side. A look at some of her levers w/ @joshgerstein politico.com/news/2023/06/1…

@RoseSer38526924 @kyledcheney @joshgerstein Whose going to force her to recuse?

@kyledcheney @joshgerstein She won’t be the judge— most likely she’ll be forced to recuse herself.

@AugustinaJJD @maggieNYT No they didn't. No other president has willfully taken possession of national secret documents after their term was up. No other president has defied subpoenas to return government documents. No other president has lied about not having documents in response to a subpoena.

Had Trump taken the advice of lawyers and advisers urging him to do what National Archives asked for nearly a year -- return the materials -- what followed would not have happened. Instead, almost everyone around him has been thrust into either peril or drama in the case nytimes.com/2023/06/11/us/…