Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025

Big Crime | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating in Combat. 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina. ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen. Appeals Court Rules Trump's Tariffs Illegal.

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War

Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported.

How Bad Slavery Was

Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens.

My Resignation Letter from CDC - Dr. Demetre Daskalakis

"I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health."

Israel Killed Five Gaza Journalists

After the airstrike on Nasser Hospital, our plea is ever more urgent: Palestinian reporters need international protection now, or Gaza's voice will be silenced. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 230 journalists in the Gaza Strip...

The Imminent Death of the Voting Rights Act

White people are depicted as victims of discrimination;.white South Africans are invited as refugees; the president demands a museum designed to tell the African American story must tell a happy tale. The voting rights law may not see a 61st birthday

The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.

The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal officials is something many in the Black community have been anticipating for decades. There’s even a name for it-The Plan

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Aug 28, 2025

Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism - Learning from Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss; Cartoons; lots more
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Culture

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In a Berlin Bar

Rafaella Del Bourgo
Poet Rafaella Del Bourgo offers a quick intro to sexual politics, reminding us that sex is "a tune both familiar and strange."

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The New Samizdat

Lee Rossi Portside
These two anthologies showcase poets that are responding to the anxieties of our time.

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PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids

Lucy Dean Stockton Jacobin
Right-wing media outlet PragerU is known for its misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. The operation is increasingly seeking to reach children, hoping to fill the Sesame Street–sized hole left by the defunding of PBS.

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Rogues in a Nation

Robert Burns
Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, criticized the members of the Scottish aristocracy who in 1707 signed the Act of Union thereby ending Scottish home rule.

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Why Architecture and Urban Space Are Always Political

George Themistokleous LSE Review of Books
The contributors to this latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics offer a wide ranging discussion about social justice-oriented responses to the politics of our constructed, lived environment.

Labor

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The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

Helena Worthen Dollars & Sense
Although labor education educates the individual, it also organizes the individual. It’s a kind of learning that progresses in sudden leaps and bounds, as people get the idea of the power of concerted collective activity and the whole group changes.

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Labor for Zohran Broadens Support for Mamdani Among City Workers

Duncan Freeman The Chief
Labor for Zohran was created by J.P Patafio, a Transport Workers Union Local 100 official, in the days after the primary as a way to unite people invested in promoting Mamdani’s candidacy and policies across unions.

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The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Co

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Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions

Matt Ford The New Republic
The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

Friday nite video

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20 Years After Hurricane Katrina

Twenty years ago today, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore. Democracy Now! speaks with Academy Award-nominated director, Traci A. Curry.

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ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen

Constitutional auditor Robert Trudell exercised his rights to legally bypass an immigration checkpoint, sparking frustration from the immigration agents on the scene.

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BREAKING: Appeals Court Rules Trump's Tariffs Illegal

The Court of Appeals found the government’s use of “emergency authorities” to tariff dozens of countries unlawful, a decision that could strike down measures affecting more than 70 countries.

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Putin Is Trapped by Trump's Misunderstandings

Trump has misunderstood what Putin told him, and that is a problem for the Russian president. Is this is a negotiation tactic or just Trump not understanding the issues?