Visual Forensics: 78 Minutes of an Insurrection

A 3-D model of the Capitol grounds synchronizes, minute by minute, the Capitol Police's frantic calls for reinforcements with video footage and a software reconstruction of the mob's size and movement

Friday Nite Videos | April 16, 2021

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'The Talk' That Every Black Family Has About Police. Exterminate All the Brutes | Trailer. Visual Forensics: 78 Minutes of an Insurrection. The Ironclad Witch Hunt Against Matt Gaetz. Exploring Timelapse in Google Earth.

Eric Hobsbawm in the ‘London Review’: A Value-laden Selection

Richard J. Evans London Review of Books
Eric Hobsbawm, among the most pre-eminent and valued Marxist historians of the late twentieth century, frequently reviewed for the London Review of Books. Here, a prominent British author does a dig into some of Hobsbawm’s many signal LRB essays.

Tidbits - Apr. 15, 2021 - Reader Comments: Daunte Wright Murder; Jim Crow Then and Now; Georgia voter suppression; Prince Philip, Cuba blockade, New York Health Act, "Working-Class New York" Revisited conference; Zoom events;, more...

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Reader Comments: Daunte Wright Murder; Jim Crow Then and Now; Georgia voter suppression; Prince Philip, Cuba, New York Health Act, "Working-Class New York" Revisited conference, African American Women, Cold War, Ben Fletcher,Black Wobblies, more...

Prelude to Tax Day

H Patricia Hynes Portside
On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions.