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NASA Launches 'Planetary Defense' Probe vs Asteroid

November 26, 2021

Borrowing a page from Hollywood’s playbook, NASA on Tuesday launched its first-ever attempt to redirect an asteroid, an important test for the future of the defense of the Earth from catastrophic impacts.

Passing | Trailer | Netflix

November 26, 2021

The story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.

Bolivian Andean Music | KAMAQ

November 26, 2021

Live music from the heights of Bolivia. Tupac Katari nation interpretation by the Bolivian group KAMAQ.

Jeanine Pirro Cold Open | SNL

November 26, 2021

Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong) discusses the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and welcomes Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) to discuss Biden’s Build Back Better infrastructure bill.

November 26, 2021

The Russia Connection Wasn’t a Hoax

David Frum The Atlantic

People with scant illusions about Trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his Big Lies.

November 26, 2021

Heavily Mutated Coronavirus Variant Puts Scientists on Alert

Ewen Callaway Nature

Researchers in South Africa are studying whether a new variant of the Covid-19 virus is more transmissible and whether it causes disease that is more severe or milder than that produced by other variants.

November 26, 2021

Lincoln’s Invention of Thanksgiving Was All About How Black Lives Matter

Juan Cole Informed Comment

Lincoln' Thanksgiving intended to unite a divided country and to include in an unprecedented way African-Americans in the ideal of liberty announced in 1776. Thanksgiving should be the Fourth of July without enslaved and masters.

November 26, 2021

Friday Nite Videos | November 26, 2021

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Jeanine Pirro Cold Open | SNL. Bolivian Andean Music | KAMAQ. Passing | Movie. NASA Launches 'Planetary Defense' Probe vs Asteroid. In the Dark of the Valley | Documentary.

November 25, 2021

It's International Food Workers Week—Support Organizing That Centers Those Who Feed Us

Anna Canning Common Dreams

Too often, workers' calls for justice and all of our calls for a fair food system are met with false solutions like this label that try to rebrand the exploitative status quo as ethical. But there is another way.

November 25, 2021

Tidbits - Nov. 25, 2021 - Reader Comments: Rittenhouse Verdict - Danger for Country; Removal of Gosar; Cubans Don’t Want Regime Change; Public Libraries; Tolstoy, Gorki, children's books; Dan Georgakas - R.I.P.; Native American History and Life; more...

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Reader Comments: Rittenhouse Verdict - Murder, Judges, Juries, Danger for Country; Removal of Gosar; Cubans Don’t Want Regime Change; Public Libraries; Tolstoy, Gorki, children's books; Dan Georgakas - R.I.P.; Native American History and Life; more.