Friday Nite Videos | March 28, 2025

I've Never Been to a Bernie Sanders Rally Like This. Visit Mississippi | Playing for Change. The National Security Clown Car's Excuses vs. Jeffrey Goldberg's Receipts. Could Canada Join the EU? Musk's Family Ties to Apartheid and Neo-Nazi Movements.

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance

Civil society can’t be saved in the courts alone. It’s up to us as a people to stand up and push back.

Fed Up With War and Hamas Rule, Palestinians Protest

'Hamas has nothing left to offer – nothing left to ensure even our basic survival,' one Gazan tells Haaretz, as Palestinians protest across the enclave, desperate for a deal that will stop Israel's bombings and end the war

Musical Result of the Working-Class Entering History

The Morning Star's Brett Gregory speaks with Toby Manning, author of Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music. Manning asserts that “Rock and pop music were the unexpected consequences of the working-class entering history.”

The New “Blacklists” Work When Law Firms Stay Silent

The legal profession cannot afford to remain silent. Lawyers — especially those in positions of influence — have a responsibility to represent those being victimized and to speak up. Not to accommodate.

New Definition of Antisemitism Is Transforming America

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection.

Thousands Protest ICE Abduction of Tufts Student

The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump administration to pull funding...

Does Columbia Still Merit the Name of a University?

Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson. It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine.

Medicaid Benefits Middle Class As Well As Working Class

If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.

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Culture

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Dear America

Marsha de la O Salt Number 7
As she travels across America, poet Marsha de la O asks her country, "Who is lost, and who isn't?"

books

The Mystery of Neil Gorsuch

Andrew Koppelman Los Angeles Review of Books
"The principal virtue of the book," writes reviewer Koppelman, "is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions."

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Black Bag: Not Much To See Here

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.

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Cheesy Terroir-Ism: The ABCs of AOCs

Matthew Wills Jstor.org
Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.

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Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American corporate structure, it’s easy to see why.

poetry

Nothing Important

Peter Neil Carroll The Truth Lies on Earth: a Year by Dark, by Bright
Poet Peter Carroll reminds us why we celebrate the arrival of spring.

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On Trump’s Effort To Undo Free Speech

Lloyd Green The Guardian
This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that made it hard for politicians to sue the press for defamation.

Labor

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration: March 25, 1911…

UNITE HERE!
In 2023, a permanent memorial at the site of the fire was unveiled in memory of the workers. The memorial tells the stories of the victims and is a landmark site to visit, mourn, and learn at the very site where factory workers labored and perished.

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Unions Rise As America’s Defiant Shield Against Trump’s Authoritarianism

Euan Gibb & Ethan T. Young Public Service International
As it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump presidency means, America's labor movement has positioned itself as democracy's strongest, most important and best-organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda.

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Let Workers Lead

Jane Slaughter Jacobin
The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.

Friday nite video

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I've Never Been to a Bernie Sanders Rally Like This

The Fight Oligarchy Tour is drawing larger crowds than Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign ever did, but it’s also drawing a different sort of crowd, writes Mother Jones Senior Reporter Tim Murphy.

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Visit Mississippi | Playing for Change

Experience the magic of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads," featuring renowned artists Keb’Mo’, Kingfish, Vasti Jackson, Charlie Worsham, Sierra Hull, Cedric Burnside and a diverse array of blues and world music talents

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Could Canada Join the EU?

As tensions rise between Canada and the US, new PM Mark Carney has made overtures to Europe in a bid to strengthen ties. It's unlikely to happen soon, but it certainly isn't impossible.

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Musk's Family Ties to Apartheid and Neo-Nazi Movements

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa, and raised under apartheid. His family had ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics. We speak with Guardian reporter Chris McGreal about how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview.