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Friday Nite Videos | October 10, 2025

Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon | The Daily Show. “I Was Born With Male and Female Parts.” AI Is Our Ultimate Test. Letitia James' Badge of Honor. Trump's Plan To Steal the 2026 Election.

A Closer Look at Trump’s Peace Deals

Trump's approach displays a flawed understanding of peace itself. Given a paradigm that prioritizes economic access over reconciliation, even a cautious form of optimism is hard to justify.

Sunrise Widens Focus To Fight Authoritarianism

The Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities. “How are we going to win on climate under authoritarianism?”

The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning

What the Trump administration is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more. Even as the Pentagon is being quiet about details of the operations, it is being vocal about the threat it is laying down.

Trump's DoJ Could Be Killing Cases Just To Own the Libs

The Trump administration’s desire to own the libs online is already leading to own goals in serious criminal matters. If a federal judge takes issue with all her trolling, it’ll be DoJ official Harmeet Dhillon who’ll Find Out, not Portland.

Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With

"I think we're at a point where anything from the federal government has to be treated with a certain amount of skepticism, if not suspicion," one expert told TPM.

Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Musk Did

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government. President Trump posted an AI video of Vought as the Grim Reaper. The Project 2025 architect has lived up to the billing

Ultra-Leftism Won’t Help Free Palestine

Interview with Bashir Abu-Manneh & Hoda Mitwally on how US activists can more effectively support Palestinians. Two years after Oct 7, public outrage against Israel is widespread, yet grassroots solidarity nowhere near as powerful as it needs to be.

Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Triumphant Year One

From deftly handling hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Oct 9, 2025

Readers Comments: “Anti-Capitalism” as Political Pre-Crime; Enemy Within; 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid Canceled; Palestinians Are Going Nowhere; The Case for Universal Social Policies; Trump Coin a Violation of Federal Law; Announcements; Cartoons..
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Culture

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Proprietary

Randall Mann
Drawing on his experience in the technology sector, poet Randall Mann discloses how much he can't disclose.

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Go See One Battle After Another Right Now

Eileen Jones
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians.

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The Story of White People

Tony Hoagland
Poet Tony Hoagland commemorates the transition from innocence to knowledge, from privilege to guilt.

Labor

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Unleashing Retirement Scammers

Bryce Covert In These Times
The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients’ expense.

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Work Therapy or Wage Theft?

Amy L. Eisenstein On Labor
If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.

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Gaza Has Sparked Italy’s Biggest Protests in Years

Jacopo Custodi Jacobin
Today’s general strike in Italy paralyzed transport and brought two million people into the streets. Even after years of setbacks for organized labor, it staged a historic protest in solidarity with Palestine.

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