Friday Nite Videos | October 30, 2026

Historian Debunks The Biggest Witchcraft Myths. The Activist Fighting for America's Persecuted Billionaires | The Daily Show. Patrick Stewart's Extraordinary Career. We Spoke To Trump Voters In Rural Florida. Digger | Movie.

A Decade After Theranos, Scientists Want You To Know

“Trust in science is fragile, and ‘a drop of blood’ now sounds like a scam. Honest companies pay that tax. Patients and real people pay the price with lack of working diagnostics and technologies that deserve to be in the market.”

Boo! It’s a Scary Billionaire Tax!

California voters are considering a one-time, 5 percent billionaire wealth tax. The billionaires spending big to oppose it have seen their wealth grow 64 percent.

The Greatest Little League Season of All Time

The baseball diamond became a classroom. The lesson was not that racism can be defeated in an afternoon, or that we could make injustice disappear. The harder lesson was: When someone is harmed, we have a choice.

In a Country That Needs Heroes, Some Election Standouts

Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes – and during this election year, many have emerged. Here are five of the notable ones.

Winning 19 Seats, Arab Citizens Wonder if It's Enough

Celebrations over high voter turnout at the Joint List and Mansour Abbas' UAL headquarters have given way to frustration and concern. While Abbas is keeping his options open, the Joint List has offered to work with Eisenkot to unseat Netanyahu.

We Know What You’re Against. What Are You For?

A humane and decent society provides people with opportunity to fulfill their potential and find happiness and meaning, including meaningful work. Two key ingredients make this more likely-shared prosperity and robust democracy. Both are essential.

ICE Spying Against Left Activists Rivals COINTELPRO

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations are engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

The Question Before Los Angeles

Challenger Nithya Raman is no more and no less a socialist than incumbent Karen Bass.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Oct. 29, 2026

Reader Comments: Dolores Huerta - Rest in Power; Worldwide Kiss of Death; Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad; France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt; Israeli elections; Ox-y-moron; “Who Built America?” Launch Event: Rethinking the U.S. History Textbook
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Culture

poetry

Dakota Homecoming

Gwen Westerman
Dakota poet Gwen Westerman invites us to eavesdrop on a revealing conversation she had with a non-Native speaker.

books

An Organization of Organizers

Alan Wald New Politics
Reviewer Wald says this book "is entirely convincing that the IS achievement in this era should earn a well-deserved place in any accurate history of the 1960–70s Left."

food

A Great Moral Blind Spot of Our Age

Nicholas Kristof The New York Times
The sickening situation in American meatpacking plants could soon get worse, for the Trump administration proposed raising the maximum normal speed of chicken slaughter lines from 140 birds per minute to 175 per minute.

poetry

Why Hadn’t We Seen Them Before

Dr. Mary Jane Castle
Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle shows us that poverty can have many faces.

Labor

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Mass Worker Education: Governing From the Shop Floor

Nantina Vgontzas and Sanjay Pinto New Labor Forum
Photo of smiling people celebrating. A mass worker education program could support legal co-enforcement while also equipping workers with resources to exercise greater control over their conditions, addressing shop-floor challenges before they become acute.

labor

Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta Dies at 96

Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dolores Huerta, a founder of the UFW, helped expand the meaning of feminism. She showed that women’s equality could not be separated from the fight for fair wages, immigrant rights, racial justice, reproductive freedom and political power.

labor

Dockworkers Worldwide Are About To Strike for Palestine

Peter Cole Jacobin magazine
The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, in solidarity with Palestine and against militarism, begins this Friday — and could be the largest worker action against war in history.

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Meta Must Reinstate Brazilian Bank Workers’ Union on WhatsApp, Says UNI

UNI Global Union UNI Global Union
Just days before Brazil's presidential run-off, Meta shut down the WhatsApp channel of a major union. WhatsApp was a key tool for organizing voters for the election between the former union leader Lula and the son of ousted authoritarian Bolsinaro.

labor

Profits Are Soaring. Workers’ Share of Income Is Sinking.

Conor Lynch Jacobin magazine
Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.

Friday nite video

Historian Debunks The Biggest Witchcraft Myths

Historian of Witchcraft & Demonology Mikki Brock deep-dives to separate fact from fiction: the Salem witch trials, the original witch hunts and what modern-day witch hunts look like.

Patrick Stewart's Extraordinary Career

Patrick Stewart was both a staple of the British stage and a global star known for his role in Star Trek and X-Men. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Stewart reached millions worldwide.

We Spoke To Trump Voters In Rural Florida

They're begging for help. Senate candidate Angie Nixon pitched Medicare For All to Trump voters, a message she's hoping will take her to Congress in November.

 

Digger | Movie

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything. Tom Cruise,  Riz Ahmed.