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Friday Nite Videos | July 24, 2026

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AOC’s Speech Electrifies Michigan Crowd. Trump on TikTac | The Daily Show. Bryan Stevenson | Confronting America’s Legacy of Slavery. The Most Conservative District in South Texas. Trump Suffers Major Defeat in Journalists' Case.

The Freedom To Be Woke

David Cole The New York Review of Books
A court ruling striking down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act is both a major affirmation of academic freedom and a window into the free-speech debates dividing the right.

Friday Nite Videos, June 19, 2026

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Zohran Mamdani Is Right To Condemn West Bank Land Sales

Ben Burgis Jacobin
After a rowdy protest outside a real estate event at Park East Synagogue, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely criticized for supporting the protest by condemning the sale of West Bank properties. But the criticisms don’t stand up to scrutiny.

Tidbits-May 7- Reader Comments: Voting Rights Overturned by Trump Administration and Supreme Court; Kamala in ’28?; Haymarket Monuments; Barbara Kopple’s Labor Films; Black Employment Under Trump; a Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur

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Reader Comments: Voting Rights Overturned by Trump Administration and Supreme Court; Kamala in '28?; Haymarket Monuments; Barbara Kopple's Labor Films; Black Employment Under Trump; A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur;

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Can Workers Have Free Speech Rights?

Andrew Strom onlabor
Freedom of speech doesn’t count for much if workers have to worry about being fired just for expressing a point of view that their boss doesn’t like.
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