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Material of Interest to People on the Left
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Friday Nite Videos | September 19, 2025
A Billionaire Trump Supporter Will Soon Own the News
Trump Thinks the Military Are His Personal Mercenaries
10 States Challenge CDC, Issue Own Vaccine Guidelines
LA Jury Acquits Protester in Immigration Protest
McCarthyism on the Campuses
Netanyahu’s Gaza City Invasion – His Greatest Gamble
Trump Retreats on Combating Human Trafficking
The Left Once Exerted Power in Congress—and Can Again
Reader Comments & Tidbits, Sept 18, 2025
Culture
poetry
Revolution
Poet Lenore Weiss remembers what it was like to have heroes and hope.
books
What Abraham Lincoln Understood About the Founders
The New York Times
In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.
film
Brazilian Epic the Secret Agent Tackles Politics, Espionage, and Jaws
AV Club
Kleber Mendonça Filho's fantastic thriller interweaves his country's deep-seated corruption and his own love of cinema.
food
The Great Parmesan Cheese Enigma
Slate
According to historian Alberto Grandi, if you want to eat the original Parmigiano like our great-grandparents used to eat, you should go to Milwaukee or Madison.
tv
The Pitt and Other Medical Shows Finally Acknowledge ‘Backbone’ of Health Care: Filipino Nurses
CBC News
Filipino Canadian nurses weigh in on what TV portrayals get right and where they can go next
poetry
Los Vecinos
Poet Alison Luterman offers us lessons in neighborliness.
books
Marx’s Last Studies
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Between 1879 and 1882, Marx studied the latest research and writing on communal clan-based social formations around the globe, focusing on the changing nature of land ownership and gender and family relations within these societies.
Labor
labor
The Dirty Truth Behind the E-Waste Recycling Industry
rest of world
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.
labor
Eat the Rich or Save the Economy? The Media Battle Over the UAW’s Historic Strike
Power at Work
Worker power is contested not just at the bargaining table, but also in the stories told about workers.
labor
‘Like Working in a Prison’: Cuts, Fear and Understaffing at Trump’s Labor Department
The Guardian
Morale has plummeted as staff charged with protecting U.S. workers feel their core mission is being undermined.
labor
Building a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy Agenda
New Labor Forum
In the face of a complacent neoliberal Democratic Party, some right-wing figures seek to position themselves as the only ones able to speak to the frustrations of working people facing miserable and uncertain times.
labor
SAG-AFTRA Finally Establishes Fran Drescher’s “Robin Hood Fund”
The Hollywood Reporter
The announcement comes almost two years after the fund was touted as a major win in the 2023 strike-ending contract and includes provisions for background actors, stunt riggers and stand-ins.
labor
The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”
Dollars & Sense
Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.
labor
Latin American Musicians Say AI Is Stealing Their Streams
rest of world
Musicians say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.
Friday nite video
video
Jimmy Kimmel: The Final Show?
On his last show before being "indefinitely suspended," Jimmy talks about the NFL, TikTok, the MAGA gang and Charlie Kirk, $200M ballrooms, Fox and Friends and MTG.
video
Colbert's Identical Twin Brings Back 'The Word': Shhhhhh!
Daddy’s home! Stephen appoints Stephen Colbert, former host of “The Colbert Report,” as ombudsman to ensure that the final season of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” remains free from liberal bias.
video
Mayor to Mayor: Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani
Last week, I sat down with one of my political idols and mentors, @BernieSanders. We talked about everything from street plowing, foreign policy, and the importance of bringing joy to your city as mayor.
video
Charlie
out in the bloodshed everyone loses / there's unforgettable scars / out in the bloodshed permanent bruises / shapes up who you are
video
Kash Patel, Jeffrey Epstein and King Donald in the UK
Desi Lydic covers Congress grilling Kash Patel over buried details of the Epstein files and Trump's attempt to put an ocean between himself and the Epstein controversy via a castle-filled king cosplay in the U.K. #DailyShow #Trump #KashPatel
video
Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard | Marsh Family Parody
Paul Simon's 'Me and Julio Down in the Schoolyard' provides a fun vibe for the start of a new school year, as misinformation spreads, vaccination rates plummet, and new outbreaks of measles kill again
video
The Real Problems with America’s Health
MAHA? How unhealthy is the United States? Some key figures show how the US compares to other countries in life expectancy, early deaths and chronic disease.
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