Friday Nite Videos | November 29, 2024

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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales. Faces of Deportation | ICE Raid in Mississippi. What Happens When R's Lose: The NC Test Case. Union | (Amazon) Documentary. How AI Cracked Protein Folding and Won a Nobel.

Elon Musk and the Age of Shameless Oligarchy

Whizy Kim Vox
Musk is showing other members of the ultra-wealthy a bold alternative to stealth politics, urged on by a president-elect who has embraced giving billionaires a seat at the table. If you're rich enough, you can grab power in full public view.

Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Letter to Donald Trump

Joel Cano infobae.com
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to president-elect Donald Trump, addressing the issues of border crossings and labor mobility, the fentanyl epidemic, illegal arms trafficking, and tariffs

Extinct Hominin Species Lived Side by Side 1.5 Million Years Ago

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala and Purity Kiura The Conversation
These fossil footprints are the first definitive evidence ever that two hominin species – one our likely ancestor and the other a more distant relative – actually coexisted at the same time and place on the muddy shoreline of Lake Turkana

Dr. Strangekennedy

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
The reactionary playbook frames all COVID-era public-health measures as an elite conspiracy to enrich what it calls “a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders.” It's also flypaper for conspiracy theorists on the left.

Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales

The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation