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Friday Nite Videos | October 3, 2025

'Unhinged and Unwell': Trump's Mental Decline Raises Alarms. Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester in Daring Overnight Raid. Netanyahu | John Oliver. Paige Gebhardt Cognetti Political Ad. Epstein Update Rocks Trump World.

CA to Cut $$ to Universities That Cave to Trump

California Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign the ‘radical agreement’ Trump has proposed to impose cuts to departments, students and speech. He vows that schools that sign Trump's 'compact' will 'instantly' lose state funding.

Judge Hits Trump ‘Assault on the First Amendment’

The Reagan-appointed judge's opinion was remarkable in its candid assessment of the Trump administration’s effort to squelch political speech in general — not just on college campuses — and Trump’s autocratic tendencies as a leader.

Jane Goodall’s Legacy: Three Ways She Changed Science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

This Professor Lets Strangers Ask Him About Being Trans

Even offensive questions are welcome and are answered. The goal, to create empathy for a stranger, is one of the most effective ways to ease cultural tension, experts say.

How Mamdani’s Predecessors Built Democratic Socialism

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin’s Freedom Budget is the key to understanding the appeal of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. The class-based universalistic politics of the socialists of the 60s and ’70s hold important lessons for today.

Celebrities Relaunch Committee to Defend Free Speech

On Wednesday, over 550 celebrities relaunched a group first organized during the post-World War II Red Scare: the Committee for the First Amendment. Their intent is to stand up in what they call a "defense of our constitutional rights,"

Global Sumud Flotilla Latest Bid to Break Gaza Blockade

The Global Sumud Flotilla the latest humanitarian mission to try to breach Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza drew around 500 participants from nearly 50 countries. Israeli forces intercepted the mission in international waters on Wednesday evening.

Remembering Ann Fagan Ginger, Championed Human Rights

For refusing to sign a loyalty oath she was barred from practicing law, targeted by the FBI. Founder of Berkeley’s Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, pioneered the field of “peace law,”wrote the resolution establishing Berkeley-a Human Rights City

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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.

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MAGA Is Coming for the WNBA

Alex Keeney Politico
The nation’s most prominent — and most politically active — women’s pro sports league is on a collision course with Donald Trump.

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My Grandpa Was Two

Peter Neil Carroll
Stopping in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, during a trip along the Mississippi, historian and poet Peter Carroll contemplates the flow of time.

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Riefenstahl Exposes the Nazis’ Favorite Filmmaker

An interview with Andres Veiel Jacobin
Darkly influential, the cinema of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a powerful blend of art and propaganda. She’s now the subject of a new documentary that wrestles with the question of the culpability of a talented artist working for a vile regi

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Labor Relations in Germany – Three Snapshots

Thomas Klikauer Z Network
German labor relations aren’t dead. Workers are fighting – in courts, in meat factories, in airports. These workers will not surrender. Whatever dirty tactics management throws at them – they stand firm.

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‘A Leader Who Will Fight for Us’

Ralph Palladino The Chief
Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani’s decisive win over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic Party primary has the billionaire class, large corporate real estate owners and the many in the moderate Democratic establishment freaking out.

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The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power

Shawn Fain Jacobin
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”

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Paige Gebhardt Cognetti Political Ad

The mayor of Scranton, PA, announces a run for a key swing Congressional seat with a blistering message about inherited privilege and economic inequality.

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Epstein Update Rocks Trump World

Trump’s Epstein problem just got much worse, with accusations from a top Trump official. Plus the latest on the Republican shutdown.

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Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal

When Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as a member of Congress next week, she will be the crucial 218th vote to force a vote on release of the Epstein files. What comes next?