Tall, Dark, and Racially Ambiguous

Princess Weekes
Alright, close your eyes and think of the following phrases: “olive-skinned,” “dark features,” and “tall, dark, and handsome.” Hold in your mind’s eyes what that looks like…

🫶🏾General Disclaimer: This video only covers a narrow part of this topic and not an exhaustive look into the topic. Anything left out was either cut for brevity/subject matter or simply did not come up in my research. I encourage anyone to fill in any gaps I may have missed with their own content or in the comments.

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

The Majority Report with Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland
Richard S. Slotkin, cultural critic and historian, professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, discusses his recent book. The concept of the “national myth” as the use of history and narratives of the past to rationalize the present and its ongoing crises.

Expanding on this, Professor Slotkin walks through the role of social and economic insecurity in spurring the need to make sense of a moment, before stepping back to touch on how malleable these mythologies can be, with the same stories often taking on multiple perspectives that can be used and presented differently to affirm various, frequently conflicting, contemporary ideologies, parsing through the various myths of the American Revolution, Civil War, and the “Good War” (WWII), and how they have been employed throughout history.

After expanding on the utility of these mythologies, particularly within the context of the US economic and legal systems, Professor Slotkin brings Sam and Emma into the modern era, outlining the grounding mythologies of the MAGA movement in the Lost Cause and the Second Amendment, and how Democrats can (and might be) learning how to use these mythologies to their benefit as Conservatives do.

New Report: Biomass CO2 emissions 4X higher than COAL!!

Just Have a Think with Dave Borlace
Biomass is touted as a sustainable, ‘net-zero’ alternative to fossil fuels. It’s even recommended by organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UK Climate Change Committee. But environmental groups and scientists have disputed this claim for many years, and now new research shows that burning biomass releases much more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere than burning coal or gas. So, what’s going on?

House Inside A Pyramid Greenhouse

Tim Ung
This is a design for a 2200sqf house inside a 5000sqf greenhouse with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. We’ll go over the initial design ideas and sketches followed by a full walk through of the house! While we’re on the home tour, we’ll go over the key benefits of putting a home inside of a greenhouse.

History of the Telescope • PBS

Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
Meet the brilliant minds throughout history, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, responsible for creating the telescope. Today, their invention allows humanity to reach the furthest limits of seeing — 13 billion light-years out.

Introducing: Uncle Ruckus’ Uncle • We Gon Be Alright

With Jeff Wiggins

Before Thomas Sowell and Booker T. Washington, there was William Hannibal Thomas, the OG of Black Conservatives.

And by ‘conservative’, I mean, blames the plight of Black America on culture or pathology. Denies the existence of systemic racism, and “is not rooted in a desire to move forward the very real agenda of poor and working-class Black Americans—better housing, education, less poverty, alleviating student loan debt, providing better access to capital, homeownership and opportunities.” — Sophia A. Nelson

Why so many Witches are TERFs?

The Transmisogynoir of J.K. Rowling against Imane Khelif
Activist Witch🪄

Nobody is demanding we check men’s hormones and sex organs.
There are extremely few non-white women in sports who have not had their gender identity questioned and tested. Even outside sports, Black women’s skin color, hair, and bodies are scrutinized and validated against a white European patriarchal feminine ideal.

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