Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring exposed how a Kremlin-linked influence network operated in plain sight - and how the government chose not to look.

🚨 Last night, it won GOLD at the APA Awards 🌟🧵

Attilio Manca

b. 20 February 1969, San Donà di Piave
d. 11 February 2004, Viterbo

On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.

For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1

The first thread I ever wrote on Twitter was my personal A to Z of Sicily. I have decided to reproduce here with a few changes and additions. Five posts for each letter (with some exceptions), one letter per day. History, culture, people, politics, food, towns and cities, curiosities [Thread] >>

Palermo, Monday 25 November 1985. At 1.30 p.m. the bell rings for the end of lessons at the Liceo Meli school in central Palermo and hundreds of students and teachers stream out of the building and begin to head home [Thread] >> 1

This thread recounts one of the most heinous crimes ever committed by Cosa Nostra in Sicily. It should be read as a counterbalance to any romantic images of mafia or any notions of honour instilled by Hollywood films or TV shows.
WARNING: contains graphic descriptions of violence
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Early afternoon on a November weekday in a snowstorm, our 3 cars were the only ones in the huge car park at the out of town retail park multiscreen cinema. The staff reluctantly opened up just for us, the only customers mad enough to venture out that day >> 10

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