With Ads, Imagery and Words, Republicans Inject Race Into Campaigns

Jonathan Weisman The New York Times
Running ads portraying Black candidates as soft on crime — or as “different” or “dangerous” — Republicans have shed quiet defenses of such tactics for unabashed defiance. For the Trumpers it was always about all about race.

Oh, Britain: The Chasm Between Myth and Reality Keeps On Growing

Richard Wolffe The Guardian
You can’t play with the fire of nationalist politics without getting burned. You may think you can manage the Maga mob or the Brexit brigade, but you’re fooling yourself. They are coming for you too, Kevin McCarthy and Rishi Sunak.

Mike Davis Could See the Future

Hua Hsu The New Yorker
Mike Davis died this week. Often misread as a “prophet of doom,” the Marxist historian was actually an optimist and a dreamer.

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Friday Nite Videos | March 18, 2022

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Top 10 Nuclear Close Calls. Is This Kid the Future of Blues Guitar? Gamestop: Rise of the Players | Movie. Misguided Protests of Russian Restaurants in NYC. Hunting for Missing Women the Media Ignores.

Top 10 Nuclear Close Calls

Over the past few decades, there have been several VERY close calls with nuclear armaments. Lets take a look at some of these incidents.

Gamestop: Rise of the Players | Movie

From the makers of Consoles Wars, a movie that tells the origin story of the Gamestop stock market phenomenon and features the original players who participated in the Gamestop trade.