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How to End ‘Women’s Work’

Anna Louie Sussman The New York Times
A pair up gloves with skill of a man's job on one side and the pay;  and a woman's job on the other.
What so many of today's most underpaid and essential workers have in common is simply that they are women. Are we willing to re-examine the assumptions embedded in what we have been told are “free markets” for labor?

Bedtime

Peter Neil Carroll
Fear of the dark, how people felt on the eve of the presidential election, 2020.

Friday Nite Videos -- January 27, 2017

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President Donald Trump's First Negotiation Was A Humiliation. Musical Internationalism | Groove in G. Radical Brownies. Russia Treason Arrest Seen as Tacit Corroboration of US Intel. Kellyanne Conway - SNL.

President Donald Trump's First Negotiation Was A Humiliation

Lawrence O'Donnell explains why Mexican President Peña Nieto's decision to not attend a scheduled meeting with Pres. Trump over the border wall is Trump's first humiliation on the global stage and sends a message to other world leaders about future negotiations.

Musical Internationalism | Groove in G

Starting with musical group Tinariwen in West Africa, Playing for Change traveled the world asking musicians to add to the song. A groove in the key of G transformed into a global jam with its roots in the blues.

Radical Brownies

Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of color

Kellyanne Conway - SNL

Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) reveals the real reason she joined Donald Trump's campaign.

Torture Works . . . to Produce Fake News

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Torture is an excellent way to be trolled by a seasoned operative, with potentially disastrous consequences, as Iraq showed