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Friday Nite Videos | October 23, 2026

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With a Little Help From my Friends | Playing for Change. Can Trump Supporters Define Communism? Why Trump Wants Ukraine To Lose – and What To Do About It. Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Documentary. Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant.

Tidbits-Oct. 22: Reader Comments: Susan Collins – No Friend of Injured Workers; Israel Has Destroyed Gaza, Now Southern Lebanon; New Meaning for Chainsaw Massacre; Trump Has Made Socialism Mainstream; Trump’s DEI; Jack Metzgar, Labor Educator – R.I.P.

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Reader Comments: Susan Collins - No Friend of Injured Workers; Israel Has Destroyed Gaza, Now Southern Lebanon; New Meaning for Chainsaw Massacre; Trump Has Made Socialism Mainstream; Trump's DEI; Jack Metzgar, Labor Educator - R.I.P.;

Probing the Trump-Putin Bromance Mystery

Michael Isikoff SpyTalk
Trump getting played by Putin again and again deepens the riddle of the bromance, a maddening mystery for diplomats, journalists and historians trying to understand why an American president forever accommodates the dictator of a hostile power.

Six Takeaways From Sunday’s Hungarian Election

Janos Marton The Gameplan
As a Hungarian-American on my mother’s side, this election was very personal to me. just as people like Steve Bannon have learned powerfully evil lessons from Orban, we should also learn lessons from the successful opposition movement against him.

The Russian Idée Fixe

Andriy Movchan CounterPunch
Putin dusts off millennia-old chronicles, finding in them proof of his reactionary utopia, his imagined historical right to possess Ukraine. Let’s talk about the most underestimated cause of this war — ideological obsession. The Russian idée fixe.

Why Does a Narcissist Accept Humiliation?

Phillips P. OBrien Phillips’s Newsletter
Epstein might be the answer. What makes the present situation so extraordinary is that the Russians can exercise enormous influence without Trump being a recruited agent, but through the pressure of the possibility of kompromat existing.
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