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September 6, 2025

US Lawmakers Urged To Follow Merkley and Van Hollen’s Lead After Senators Denied Access to Gaza

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams

CAIR said that they "have taken a bold and necessary step by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and US-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on. Their mission must not stand alone."

September 6, 2025

‘Hard Work of Hope’: A Memoir of the New Left, Antiwar Movement, and Working Class Politics

Roger Bybee Foreign Policy in Focus

While not providing a clear antidote to Trumpism, Michael Ansara’s “Hard Work” still delivers indispensable insights into activism from the 1960s to today.

September 6, 2025

Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He’s Delivered the Opposite.

Khury Petersen-Smith Newsweek

Any expectation that Trump would bring a new era of reduced wars is being dashed by the brutal, opposite reality.

September 5, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | September 5, 2025

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The Ballad of Big Balls. The Most Corrupt Stock Traders in Congress. Could the Epstein Vote Take Down Trump? Graham Platner for U.S. Senate | Launch Video. Chuck Schumer's Fantasy Couple | John Oliver.

The Ballad of Big Balls

September 5, 2025

Politically charged musical commentary. Listen for yourself.

The Most Corrupt Stock Traders in Congress

September 5, 2025

How do members of Congress get so rich? Hint: they're scoring record returns in the stock market, raising questions about their use of insider information.

Could the Epstein Vote Take Down Trump?

September 5, 2025

Epstein survivors are pushing back against Speaker Mike Johnson’s claim that withholding the files protects them, raising the question: who is really being shielded?

Graham Platner for U.S. Senate | Launch Video

September 5, 2025

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

Chuck Schumer's Fantasy Couple | John Oliver

September 5, 2025

John Oliver discusses Joe and Eileen Bailey, a middle-class couple from Massapequa, Long Island, who have been a guiding force in Chuck Schumer’s career

September 5, 2025

A (Scientifically Based) Guide to Fall 2025 Vaccines

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist

Vaccines are one of the best things you can do this fall and winter to stay healthy and minimize disruption. Here is the Who, What and When guide to vaccination against Covid-19, RSV and influenza in the upcoming "flu season."