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Elon Musk's SpaceX Mission Takes Flight in South Texas
Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It | Techdirt
So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): H…
Are We Even Wargaming? - by Manuel L. Quezon III
We have to exercise our imagination even as we "snap back to grid."
Compare the Speeches — The Sojourner Truth Project
Hear The original historically accurate "Ain't I a woman" speech by Sojourner Truth. Read the incorrect Elizabeth Gage speech as you listen to the correct original speech by Sojourner Truth.
Feckless WaPo Prints Disinfo About “Russian Trolls”
This is classic propaganda
"We're Still Here": Chicago's Native American Community | WTTW Chicago
After their removal from the region around Chicago in the early nineteenth century, Native Americans began returning to the city in the 1950s under the federal government's ill-planned relocation policy. Chicago has the oldest urban Indian center, and the third largest urban population of Native Americans.
Gullah Geechee enters the academy - Subtitle
There's a new language class on offer at Harvard. Gullah Geechee is a creole language developed by enslaved Africans and still spoken today. As far as anyone knows, it's the first time it's been taught anywhere. Sunn M'Cheaux — native speaker turned Harvard instructor — tells his story and the story of Gullah Geechee, a language that is as African as it is American.
The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.
This endless fanfare of grievance, innuendo, and motivated misprioritization colors most of the content you’ll find on the most popular conservative news and opinion outlets: vast edifices of bullshit constructed atop small kernels of verifiable information. But this ongoing victim narrative is undermined by the plain fact that, far from being marginalized and undervalued, by most available metrics, right-wing news and opinion is very popular and profitable. Fox News consistently tops the cable news ratings. Conservative radio shows and podcasts top the leaderboards in their respective disciplines. Right-wing Facebook pages are consistently among the most popular issues-based Facebook pages. Substacks dedicated to the proposition that divergent political opinion has no home in the American media earn their proprietors better livings than they ever would have made at the publications they once called home. We are literally living in the Golden Age of Getting Rich and Wielding Influence by Pretending That Your Voice Has Been Silenced—which brings us back to the Twitter Files, and the people to whom they were handed by the wealthiest man in the world.
About Japan: A Teacher's Resource | Learning from Babysan | Japan Society
Learning from Babysan: An American Cartoon as a Source for Studying the Allied Occupation of Japan, and the U.S. Military Presence in Postwar East Asia
Why the Age of American Progress Ended - The Atlantic
The real reason American progress has stalled
What went wrong? There are many answers, but one is that we have become too enthralled by the eureka myth and, more to the point, too inattentive to all the things that must follow a eureka moment. The U.S. has more Nobel Prizes for science than the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Canada, and Austria combined. But if there were a Nobel Prize for the deployment and widespread adoption of technology—even technology that we invented, even technology that’s not so new anymore—our legacy wouldn’t be so sterling. Americans invented the first nuclear reactor, the solar cell, and the microchip, but today, we’re well behind a variety of European and Asian countries in deploying and improving these technologies.