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Dark Matter: Can't See It, But We Know It's There

April 4, 2014

Visible matter comprises only 4% of the universe. Scientist James Gillies tells us what accounts for the remaining 96% (dark matter and dark energy) and how we might go about detecting it.

Con Job: Stories of Contingent Labor

April 4, 2014

A film by Megan Fulwiler and Jennifer Marlow that explores the situation of adjuncts and contingent workers, in their own voices.

Reggie Watts: Disorient, Entertain

April 4, 2014

Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.

April 4, 2014

Friday Nite Videos -- April 4, 2014

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Reggie Watts: Disorient, Entertain. Con Job: Adjunct Stories. Dark Matter. Inequality, Animated. Honey Maid: Love.

April 4, 2014

Cuba Denounces 'Secret Twitter' As Proof of US Cyber-War

State news agency aligns covert ZunZuneo program with other 'anti-Cuban' plots including failed Bay of Pigs invasion

April 3, 2014

UAW Membership Rises for Fourth Consecutive Year

Brent Snavely Detroit Free Press

The United Auto Workers announced their fourth straight year of increasing membership. The union added that the two-percent membership increase for 2013 does not include several thousand workers who have voted in favor of union representation, but do not yet have contracts with their employers.

April 3, 2014

Comparing Budget Proposals

Raul M. Grijalva Common Dreams

April 3, 2014

A Toast

Jeff Danziger amuniversal.com

April 3, 2014

Tidbits - April 3, 2014

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Reader Comments - U.S. Military Policy, Foreign Policy and Aggression; Public Education and New York's Segregated Schools; Obamacare; Bernie Sanders for President - exchange on electoral politics and tactics; Trade Policy; Venezuela; Congress and the 1%; Pope Francis; poverty; Announcement - Call for Tributes and Reflections: The Life and Work of Rod Bush - San Francisco - Aug. 18, 2014

April 3, 2014

Stoking Fire: A Global Look at the Right's Anti-Gay Rhetoric

Eleanor J. Bader Rewire

Globalizing Homophobia reminds us that a tangled web of right-wing organizations are working hard to reverse LGBTQ civil rights at home and curtail gay activism abroad. These groups are well-funded and well-connected, and while same-sex marriage is the hook they use to ensnare followers, their actual agenda is far more insidious. The goal? To shove queer communities back into the closets of denial and self-hate.