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.

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The Most Corrupt Stock Traders in Congress

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.

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Could the Epstein Vote Take Down Trump?

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?

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."

Epstein Survivors Have Had Enough

Mimi Rocah MSNBC
Trump's DOJ shoved Epstein's survivors too many times, and now they are determined to push back and to demand justice. "We are here today, and we are speaking, and we are not going to stop speaking,” said one survivor.

The Cost of Children Is Too Damn High

Nancy Folbre Dollars & Sense
Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

A Two-State Solution for Israel and Palestine Is Still Possible

Limor Yehuda Haaretz
The E1 settlement bloc and ethnic cleansing are meant to foreclose Palestinian liberation. But if we revisit our assumptions about partition and reclaim the principle of equality, we can rethink what a two-state solution looks like.