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March 23, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | March 23, 2018

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Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: 'We Spent $1M Harvesting Millions of Facebook Profiles'. Hallelujah Parody - Letter to Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. Robert Mueller Is Following the Middle East Money. What 1,600 Students Think About School Shootings. New Scandal Shows Zuckerberg Still Puts Kremlin

Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: 'We Spent $1M Harvesting Millions of Facebook Profiles'

March 23, 2018

Christopher Wylie, who worked for Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalized political advertisements

Hallelujah Parody - Letter to Wayne LaPierre and the NRA

March 23, 2018

Parody of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah, based on the arrangement by Pentatonix

Robert Mueller Is Following the Middle East Money

March 23, 2018

Mark Mazzetti, investigative correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller's consideration of undue influence on Donald Trump's Middle East policies on behalf of Saudi Arabia and UAE.

What 1,600 Students Think About School Shootings

March 23, 2018

We asked students across the US to share their thoughts on school shootings. Over 1,600 responded.

New Scandal Shows Zuckerberg Still Puts Kremlin Over U.S.

March 23, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg breaks his silence and admits a “breach of trust” after a hidden video scandal reveals political dirty tricks. Roger McNamee, a former mentor to Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook calls the response “totally inadequate”.

March 23, 2018

Siren Song

Roy J. Adams

With current media celebrating the role of the soldier, US Army veteran/poet Roy J. Adams offers an ironic antidote.

March 22, 2018

2018 Elections - How to Win; What are the Lessons of Lamb's Victory

By Kate Aronoff; Robert Borosage

Conor Lamb ran as an anti-establishment, labor-backed candidate who defended the welfare state. To keep winning, Democrats will need to embrace a bold, redistributive program. If anything, the problem is that the progressive efforts are too weak, not too strong.

March 22, 2018

How to Organize to Win

Marshall Ganz The Nation

Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy. Mobilizers only turn out people with whom they agree. Organizers engage these people in reaching out to other people with whom they don’t agree.

March 22, 2018

Why Europe's Center-Left Keeps Losing Elections

Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus

Voters can't tell the difference between the center left and the center right, and they don't want either. As the center-left accommodated itself to capital, it eroded its trade union base. Where center-left parties embraced unabashedly progressive policies, on the other hand, voters supported them