Friday Nite Videos | August 28, 2026

I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit. Canadian Resistance Army | Lake Ontario. NYC's 5 Broken Skyscrapers — Which One Dies First? 9 to 5 Is More Relevant Than Ever | Full Documentary. Earth is Warming Everywhere Except Here.

James Lawson: The Civil Rights Movement Drill Sergeant

The civil rights movement’s nonviolence was a moral commitment and a strategic calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was more effective and disciplined than Rev. James Lawson.

Stephen Miller: Fascist Heart of Trump’s White House

Stephen Miller’s 16-minute speech is an unintentionally revealing survey of the Trump team’s violation of basic legal principles, endangering the rule of law, and its consistent record of falsehoods.

CTE Cases Are Soaring. Why Can’t We Quit Football?

Some researchers believe that a complete tally will show that more than half of all former N.F.L. players die with C.T.E. If that’s true, football fans will be confronted with an even more troubling view of the game.

Meta’s $17B Teen Addiction Settlement

The settlement forces changes to Facebook and Instagram's efforts to 'addict' teenagers. It gives the states – and the rest of us – a decade to find out whether these changes are real, and if so, if they work for the desired policy outcome.

Mark Ruffalo Is Right-Calling Out Power Not Antisemitic

The Hollywood actor criticized the concentration of power in the hands of the Ellison family, while also mentioning the family's ties to Israel. Antisemitism is a real threat in America today, but this isn't an example of it.

Dolly Used Her Voice to Tell Working-Class Stories

For decades, Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. Parton gave a voice to those who are all too often forgotten. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.

How Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People

The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

Jackson Slams Supreme Court Majority Injecting ‘Chaos’

In a blistering dissent, Jackson warned that the Court’s emergency ruling lets the Trump administration continue pursuing changes to state-run mail voting systems even though “no judge or Justice” has concluded that Trump’s order is constitutional.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Aug. 27, 2026

Reader Comments: Trade War - With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega post; 9 to 5; Resource - Election Defense Scenarios; What is Democratic Socialism?; and more...
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Culture

poetry

Masters of War

Bob Dylan
Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan aims his words at those who profit from war and its weapons.

books

How To Fix the System

Steven Poole The Guardian
The Nobel-winning economist takes aim at elites for no longer meeting the needs of the masses.

books

A Masterpiece of Criticism

Kathryn Hughes The Guardian
This joyous book takes readers on a literary adventure across 300 years of fiction, from Defoe to Zadie Smith.

Labor

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6 Ways To Rebuild Unions at the State and Local Levels Now

Francisco Diez Jacobin
The new crop of pro-worker legislators who have recently been elected at the state and local levels can pass laws that can rebuild the labor movement, even with Donald Trump as president. Here are six ways they can do it.

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Mississippi Transit Workers Strike for Better Protections and Service

Paul Prescod Labor Notes
Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in the U.S., and is a “right-to-work” state with only 4 percent of its workers in unions. But since July 13, Highway 80 near Jackson has been lined by chanting picketers. They’re on strike at JTRAN

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New Voices Gain Ground at Letter Carriers Convention

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes
The union will elect a new president this fall, from a field of four candidates. After months of speculation, Renfroe announced at the convention that he isn’t running again. Delegates cheered.

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The Labor Movement Is Divided Over How To Deal With AI

Michael Arria Truthout
It’s fine to say that [data centers will] be built with good-paying union jobs but what we’re also looking for on behalf of the working class is long-term sustainability of jobs. It doesn’t help if those jobs come at the cost of many long=term jobs.

Friday nite video

Earth Is Warming Everywhere Except Here

Scientists call it the "cold blob." It could be a warning that one of Earth's most important climate systems may soon hit a tipping point where climate change no longer happens gradually.