Friday Nite Videos | October 23, 2026

With a Little Help From my Friends | Playing for Change. Can Trump Supporters Define Communism? Why Trump Wants Ukraine To Lose – and What To Do About It. Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Documentary. Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant.

Religious Left Makes a Play for Red-State Conservatives

Black clergy — including Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock — have a history of political action. But white clergy are stepping up to run as Democrats in substantial numbers, including U.S. candidates James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas.

Palestinian Voters Could Determine Israel’s Future

Many Israeli political parties, including those seeking to replace Netanyahu, continue to resist the idea of an Arab party participating in a governing coalition. But some of them also understand that a high turnout could help change the government.

How Tech Billionaires Are Disrupting Biomedical Science

Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done?

Trump’s Vile Defense of ‘That Ad’

The press is overhyping the “bipartisan” revulsion at Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad. In fact, the Trump and Republican responses bode ill for the last 12 days of the election campaign, and after.

Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad Is Trumpism in a Nutshell

The Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate’s ad against Amy Acton is disqualifying. It’s also precisely what you would expect from a MAGA regime that protects abusers.

Antisemitic Olive Trees and Settler Violence

Three such cunning phrasings help stoke settler attacks on American journalists and European diplomats, keep Palestinian farmers off their land, and portray the Israeli army and civilians in the West Bank as the people in danger.

The Accidental Activists of Data Center Alley

These would-be rebels in Northern Virginia joined the fight against data centers mostly to stop the encroachment on their homes and exclusive private communities. Here is the country’s thickest concentration of data centers—233 centers in all...

For Texas School Kids, Minor Misbehavior Can Mean Jail

More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school. Children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution after incidents in schools more than 47,000 times since 2014...

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Oct. 22, 2026

Reader Comments: Susan Collins - No Friend of Injured Workers; Israel Has Destroyed Gaza, Now Southern Lebanon; New Meaning for Chainsaw Massacre; Trump Has Made Socialism Mainstream; Trump's DEI; Jack Metzgar, Labor Educator - R.I.P.;
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Why Hadn’t We Seen Them Before

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

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Poet Christine Holland reminds us of the sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell, who performed a self-immolation outside the Israeli embassy in Washington.

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Coal Miners and Class War: Review of Matewan Blood & Coal

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The West Virginia coal wars-fought between the United Mine Workers and coal operators, from 1912 to 1922 -there have been books and films about the conflict, it is little remembered. Kevin Corley’s novel, Matewan Blood & Coal, seeks to bridge the gap

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Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis

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A promise of a union is that workers will share in the profit they create. As soon as wealthy executives saw their bottom lines under threat, they attacked unions. The research proves what workers have always known: It's better in a union.

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How To Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

Nancy Folbre Dollars & Sense
How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Documentary

A 1972 party engineered by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves brought together living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. This film brings the reunion of this extraordinary group to the screen, as they reminisce, critique, argue, laugh and drink. 

Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant.

The I-194 ballot initiative would stop artificial persons, including corporations, from contributing to campaigns and political parties.Your state could be next.

Death by Firing Squad

When the murderer's dead and his head's in a bag, will it help you forget the way that you got had?