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FIFA Bows to King Trump Under Gianni Infantino

Luca Pisapia Il Manifesto Global
FIFA has always loved dictatorships. Italy was chosen in 1934 because fascism would ensure discipline. When the Soviet Union refused to play a 1973 match in Pinochet’s Chile (because the pitch was a concentration camp), FIFA disqualified the USSR.

Friday Nite Videos | April 10, 2026

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Is This the End of Viktor Orbán in Hungary? Purple Rain | Bruce Springsteen. Trump Had No Idea Melania Was Making an Epstein Statement. Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax. A Housing Scam Trapping Millions Of Americans.

Democrats Are Badly Failing To Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran

Aída Chávez The Nation
Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.

Trump’s Wreckage of Social Security and Medicare

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them. Taxing the rich to save social insurance has the further virtue of splitting Republicans, who are divided....

Kathy Hochul Has One Last Chance To Do the Right Thing on Climate

Ilana Cohen The New Republic
Instead of weakening New York’s landmark climate law, Gov. Hochul could choose to meet its targets. Hochul’s choice to roll back the law inevitably signals a concession to fossil fuel interests, which have spent millions seeking to lobby the governor

Tidbits-Apr 9-Reader Comments: Everything on Hold for Two Weeks-Time To Protest, Call on Congress: No More War With Iran: After 8 Million in the Streets — What Comes Next?; Abuse and Exploitation in the Restaurant Industry; May Day Rally, March NYC

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Reader Comments: Everything on Hold for Two Weeks-Time to Protest, Call on Congress: No More War With Iran: After 8 million in the Streets — What Comes Next?; Abuse and Exploitation in the Restaurant Industry; May Day Rally and March New York City;

This Is No TACO: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure

Phillips P. OBrien Phillips’s Newsletter
Iran has basically proposed a detailed plan for its victory and Trump has accepted it as the basis of negotiations. And in the end, the people who will really suffer are those Iranians who want a different, better future.

“Give Me the Names of All Your Jews”

Daniel Spector Thoughts-letter Substack
Is this a prelude to asking for the names of all Black people on campus who could have experienced or witnessed racism in the workplace? Or all women, queers, or trans people? Probably not – that would be woke DEI and critical race theory stuff.
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