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Friday Nite Videos | January 16, 2026

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That's How Every Empire Falls | John Prine. 60,000 Trump Voters Just Elected a Socialist. Minnesota Tells ICE To F**k Off. "Who's Shitting on Who?" What Bernie Learned Running For President.

What Bernie Learned Running For President

“I believe if the Democratic Party is to survive — maybe it will, maybe it won't — the transformation has to be to open the doors to bring in millions of people to hear what they have to say,”

The First Politically Viable Wealth Tax

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg The New York Times
A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Mamdani for NYC Mayor: The Fight We’ve Been Waiting For

Tom Gallagher The Stansbury Forum
This is our race. Who’s the we in “our”? Anyone who feels that we the people have to find a way wrest control of the economic future of this country from the likes of Trump, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, all of the billionaires.

They Didn’t Have To Do This

Jonathan Chait The Atlantic
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
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