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Journalist Jelani Cobb on Race in Donald Trump’s America

David Smith The Guardian
‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy.

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

Benjamin Balthaser Jacobin
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.

Pervasive Impunity

Cora Currier The New York Review of Books
Richard Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

Trumpism, It Was Ever Thus

Van Gosse Substack
Trump's brand of thoroughly vulgar and outlandish demagogy, his politics of racism, cruelty, vindictiveness, and gleeful resentment is not new, it has deep roots and is deeply, fundamentally American.

Friday Nite Videos | October 17, 2025

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The Policy That Zohran and Trump Voters Agree On. South Park Dismantles MAGA Christians. Orwell 2+2=5 | Documentary Movie. The Ballad of the Portland Frog Brigade. Trump Cashes in Bigly, the "Hate America" Rally & RFK Jr Crazes Out.

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South Park Dismantles MAGA Christians

This "Twisted Christian" episode is a funny, yet thought provoking take down of MAGA's right-wing hyper-nationalist bastardization of Christianity. Spoilers.

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