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Friday Nite Videos | March 22, 2019

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"Secret Agent Manafort." President of Planned Parenthood Calls Out Lies About Abortion and Health Care. Whatever You Do DON'T Follow @DevinCow. #MeToon. Means TV: For All of Us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now

Eric Levitz New York Magazine
A conversation about the revived debate over reparations, the 2020 Democratic primary, and the power of pop culture to advance progressive change

"Secret Agent Manafort"

Roy Zimmerman nails it again. "There’s a man who leads a life of treason/Now he can’t believe the trouble he’s in/He gave insider polls/To Putin and his trolls/Odds are he‘s in Leavenworth tomorrow"

Whatever You Do DON'T Follow @DevinCow

The captain of the Donald Trump fan club, Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, is suing Twitter and two anonymous twitter accounts for $250 million. He is suing @DevinNunesMom & @DevinCow. The @DevinNunesMom account was suspended yesterday, but @DevinCow is still going and we can't have that. We cannot have livestock insulting our esteemed elected officials! So please in the interest of civility we're asking you, please do NOT follow @DevinCow.

#MeToon

Sam Bee introduces #MeToon. In your favorite cartoons the good guys always win, but this time the good gals won. Produced and animated by an all-female team led by Kaitlin Fontana with Julie Levitsky. Edited by Daphne Gómez-Mena.

Means TV: For All of Us

Means TV is a worker-owned digital streaming platform with original shows and movies of various genre: news, talk shows, documentary, sitcoms, stand-up comedy, adult animation, dramas and more, featuring your favorite leftist journalists, activists, comedians and influencers.

School photo: The Jewish school, Warsaw 1929

Jane Spiro Intimate Riches in a Little Room
For the London-born poet Jane Spiro, her father’s school photo taken in 1929 represents the “before” but cannot foresee the changes that await a Polish-born Jewish boy.