From the Big Think YouTube website:
Yale University Professor Timothy Snyder gives a crash course in Ivan Ilyin’s philosophy of fascism and explains why this worldview is so appealing to Putin: it defines freedom as knowing your set place in society, asserts that democracy is a ritual and not a reality, and maintains that there are no facts in the world. Perhaps the most fascinating part of this is how new technology—like Facebook—is turning old fascism into political warfare.
Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee lays out why it’s time to abolish ICE. [Read more…]
From the MSNBC YouTube page:
Stacey Abrams is the first African-American woman nominated for Governor of a major party in the USA. If Abrams wins in November she will be the nation’s first black woman governor. She gave a powerful victory speech Tuesday.
Ahead of a June 23-25 action planned for Washington, D.C. Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) is creating a video series covering the major issues. This one analyzes the claim that natural gas produced by fracking is a “clean” energy source.
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Around a dozen Google employees are reported to have quit over Google’s decision to participate in a military drone program known as Project Maven. [Read more…]
A group of stop-action musicians performs in a poignant little short animation by ainslie henderson via Puppet Animation Scotland. [Read more…]
For those unfamiliar with Leonard Cohen, his original Everybody Knows is a key standard of the Cohen canon. The Parody Project embraces the theme and runs with it at Trump’s expense.
Some of you may remember the Parody Project from an earlier post: Confounds the Science, the Simon & Garfunkel parody.. [Read more…]
Ed Pilkington, chief reporter for The Guardian in the U.S., speaks with Amy Goodman and Juan González of Democracy Now! about his recent exclusive report on the $80 million dollar effort led by the State Policy Network to undermine unions. The upcoming Supreme Court decision in the Janus v. AFSCME case will have a major impact on this effort. [Read more…]
Amy Goodman for Democracy Now! talks with Ryan Grim, U.S. bureau chief for The Intercept about the Pennsylvania Democratic primary victories of four women backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. [Read more…]
Most of the coverage on these events that I’ve seen have focused strictly on the border violence. Here’s something that attempts to provide a bit more context. From The New York Times YouTube site:
Palestinians in Gaza are taking part in mass protests, demanding an end to the 11-year blockade of the territory and a return to lands in what is now Israel. The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief reports from the region.
From the NPR YouTube site:
In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act that made it illegal to discriminate in housing. Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch explains why neighborhoods are still so segregated today.
Our local KPBS station has what might be considered a companion piece to this video: Redlining’s Mark On San Diego Persists 50 Years After Housing Protections. It includes maps of San Diego showing the red-lined areas and a link to the April 5th Midday Edition podcast featuring Stephen Russell, executive director, San Diego Housing Federation and Richard Rothstein, author of “The Color of Law”. [Read more…]
Lavette’s Choice – Lavette Mayes is a single mother. She was arrested after a fight with her mother-in-law. To stay out of jail before her court date, she was asked to pay a cash bail she could not afford. For lack of money, she was locked up for 14 months while waiting for her court […]
