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Friday Nite Videos | August 22, 2025

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Putin Is Trapped by Trump's Misunderstandings. The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio. Lonely Avenue | Jon Batiste. White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off.

The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Is a Stain on Both Parties

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike. Epstein just enjoyed the perks of life in one of the very top tiers of a society where laws are for little people.

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McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again?

Paul Buhle Portside
Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.

Friday Nite Videos | April 25, 2025

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Who's Breaking Immigration Law: Not Who You Think. Trump & Tariffs | John Oliver. Amateurs Solve a Famous Computer Science Problem. Trump Administration Arrests Judge. 20 Lessons on Tyranny | Read by John Lithgow.

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Tony Kahn: Boy Fugitive in the Cold War

Paul Buhle Portside
This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg

Phillip Deery The Nation
A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.
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