Friday Nite Videos | July 11, 2025

Zohran Mamdani Answers 30 Questions in Five Minutes. Elon’s Grok Chatbot Turns Hitler | The Daily Show. Shocking Update on Epstein Prison Video. Apocalypse in the Tropics | Documentary. Canada Released Otters into a Dying Sea.

A New Far-Right American Party?

Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. His next target: democracy itself.

Three Ways Inequality Undermines Democracy, 1970−Trump

Democratic decline and inequality are not inevitable. But if restoring broad prosperity and social stability are the goals, they may require revisiting the New Deal-style policies.

MAGA Denies Superman Is an Immigrant. The Law Is Clear.

There's no legal argument that Superman is anything but an immigrant.

Why Do Fascists Dream of Alligators?

The real animal is subsumed by the fantasy, in the way that the real human lives under threat—every man, woman and child under the gun of a government carried away with its own gleeful cruelty—become nameless statistics or worse, fodder for photo-ops

What Can Zohran Accomplish?

Mamdani’s agenda will face serious obstacles. A massive wave of new voters doesn’t just carry you into office. It shifts the landscape, it creates political capital that can be turned toward other ends; changes political calculations for others...

Zohran Mamdani Can Learn From Paris’s Housing Victories

As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran Mamdani in New York.

Israeli Plan For Forced Transfer Of Gaza’s Population

Israel’s defense minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America

For immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, documentation does not guarantee access to health care. Rural America is changing rapidly, and immigrants are central to that transformation.

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Culture

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Marat / Sade Medley

Judy Collins
In honor of Bastille Day, a medley of tunes from Peter Brooks' production of Peter Weiss's play, Marat / Sade. Sung by Judy Collins.

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Living Life With a Purpose: Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs

Kurt Stand Portside
We live in an era in which, from the White House on down, meanness has become normalized, become normalized. Music can provide an antidote, reminding us of who we can be, as anyone listening to Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs will discover.

books

The Writer As Editor in “Toni at Random”

Gianni Washington Chicago Review of Books
"This book is not about Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author," writes reviewer Washington, "but about Toni Morrison, boundary-pushing senior editor at Random House."

Labor

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The Dismantling of American Health Care

Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein and Staffie Woolhander The New York Review of Books
We must resist Trump’s war on medical access and knowledge today, even as we prepare to rebuild something better tomorrow.

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Fight ICE. Build the Union.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare Workday Magazine
How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.

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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties

Emmaia Gelman Labor Notes
The three million-member National Education Association approved a measure that the NEA “will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.

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Stealing From the Poor

Heidi Shierholz Economic Policy Institute
The radical Republican budget bill steals from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich

Friday nite video

Apocalypse in the Tropics | Documentary

Apocalypse in the Tropics investigates the increasingly powerful grip that evangelical Christian leaders hold over politics in Brazil, possibly holding a mirror up to the future of the rest of the world.

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'The House I Live In' | Paul Robeson

These lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol (who later adopted the children of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg) under the pen name Lewis Allen (1943); the music was composed by Earl Robinson. This 1947 cover by Paul Robeson includes all the original verses.