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Friday Nite Videos | October 30, 2026

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Boo! It’s a Scary Billionaire Tax!

Chuck Collins OtherWords.org
California voters are considering a one-time, 5 percent billionaire wealth tax. The billionaires spending big to oppose it have seen their wealth grow 64 percent.

Medicaid Cuts Could Kill Safety-Net Health Centers

Maria Esch Convergence
Federally qualified health centers are an essential source of medical care for poor and working-class Americans, especially in rural areas and neighborhoods of color. Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could shut them down.

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Class War in Sugartown

Joe Allen CounterPunch
The C&H Sugar strike was shaping up to be the most politically significant strike in the country. If the ILWU returns to the picket line in sixty days, they deserve wide support.

Fire Sale

Chelsea Kirk and Moira Birss Dissent Magazine
In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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