Friday Nite Videos | July 18, 2025

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Crossroads | Playing For Change. Jordan Klepper on the Trump-Epstein Relationship. Wall Street Jacked Up Your Electricity Bill. The Fiercest Debate in Linguistics. Three Phrases That Get You Arrested While Filming Police.

Tidbits- July 17-Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story Behind Removal of Univ of Virginia President – Eliminate DEI As Fight Against Anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; More;

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Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story behind removal of Univ of Virginia president - eliminate DEI as fight against anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; Announcements; more...

Zohran Mamdani Has Awakened a Powerful New Political Force

Errol Louis New York Magazine
Where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall.

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Omer Bartov The New York Times
A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.