Friday Nite Videos | September 13, 2024

School Lunch | John Oliver. Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy. How to Debate | Sarah Cooper. Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty. The GOP’s Three-Part Plan to Subvert Elections.

The Naked ‘Survivor’ Guy Theory of U.S. Politics

If reality television began as a crude simulacrum of real life, today the opposite can feel true — that actual life is approximating reality television, and we’ve all been conscripted as cast members. The contagion has leaked from the lab.

The Young Woman Making the Strongest Case on Abortion

Hadley Duvall helped a Democratic governor win in a red state. The vice president is counting on her to deliver votes in multiple battlegrounds.

The World's Conspiring To Make It Look Like Trump Lost?

Why did so many journalists describe the debate similarly? Matt Taibbi, a popular commentator who has migrated from liberal-hating leftist to liberal-hating Trump apologist, suggests the entire news media was taking orders from the Democratic Party.

Monkey Brains Age More Slowly on a Cheap Diabetes Drug

A daily dose of the common medication metformin preserved cognition and delayed decline of some tissues

Project 2025 - Its Plans for the Nation’s Public Lands

If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.

Uncommitted Cofounder Explains the Movement’s Strategy

We spoke with Uncommitted movement cofounder Abbas Alawieh about the movement’s accomplishments at the DNC, the disaster of a Trump presidency for Palestine, and Uncommitted’s vision to change the Democratic Party’s support for slaughter in Gaza.

Silencing the Voice

This January 26 was the first “Australia Day” following October's defeat of landmark constitutional referendum recognizing Australia’s first nations people by enshrining in the Constitution an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament

Reader Comments & Tidbits, September 5, 2024

Reader Comments: 2024 Elections - The Debate, Young Voters; Not One Child; Israeli Protesters, Netanyahu Sabotages Hostage Deal; Remembering Michael Lerner; Govt Knew Ethel Rosenberg Not Spy Before Trial; Fight for School Integration; Announcements;

Declassified Memo Sheds Light on Ethel Rosenberg Case

According to a recently declassified memo that her sons say proves their mother was not a spy and should lead to her exoneration in the sensational 1950s atomic espionage case.
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Counting the Dead

Susan Cossette New Verse News
Minnesota poet Susan Cossette addresses the ultimate misogyny—“Faceless, nameless shadows…/Now, we matter more in death.”

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Sermon on the Mount 2024

Susan Cossette
As Minnesota poet Susan Cossette reminds us, watch out for prophets!

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America’s War on Theater

Daniel Blank Los Angeles Review of Books
Between 1935 and 1939, the New Deal-sponsored Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions nationwide, reaching an audience of 30 million. It was an early target of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC).

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Boeing Machinists Strike

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
Workers in yellow jackets holding Strike Against Boeing signs. The rejected contract covers 32,000 workers in Washington and Oregon, members of Machinists District 751 in Washington and W24 in Oregon. Most work at the two plants near Seattle. It’s the largest strike in the U.S. this year.

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‘Hard No’: Boeing Workers React to Tentative Agreement

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
Hundreds of workers chanting “Strike! Strike!” at Boeing’s Everett, Washington, factory marched out during their lunch break on September 8, a few hours after the Machinists union recommended a tentative agreement with the company. They will vote Sep

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Why More Doctors Are Joining Unions

Lambeth Hochwald Medscape
With huge shifts over the past decade in the way doctors are employed — half of all doctors now work for a health system or large medical group — the idea of unionizing is not only being explored but gaining traction within the profession.

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Interview: Bridging Political Divides Through Solidarity

Katy Habr interviews Steve Lawton Labor Notes
How should unions engage with members drawn to right-wing, anti-worker politics and candidates? One union trying to tackle this disconnect is the Communications Workers (CWA).

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A Thousand Tennessee Autoworkers Just Joined the UAW

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Workers at Ultium’s Spring Hill electric vehicle plant, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution of Korea, have unionized. It’s the latest case of the UAW’s Big Three strike bearing fruit.

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School Lunch | John Oliver

John Oliver discusses school lunch programs in the US and why giving kids free lunch is in all of our best interest

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How to Debate | Sarah Cooper

Same words, same voice, but Sarah Cooper brings a whole different perspective to The Debate