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Friday Nite Videos | July 26, 2024

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Trump Still Appears Headed for September Sentencing. Fox's Kamala Problem. Private Equity Is Coming for Gaming. Project 2025: The Radical Conservative Plan to Reshape America Under Trump | WSJ. RNC & ”Migrant Crime” | John Oliver.

Fox's Kamala Problem

“Cackling,” “ho,” “ditsy,” “bimbo,” “DEI Vice President.” Right-wing media’s favorite jabs against Harris and why they're misfiring this time.

books

The Writers Who Went Undercover To Show America Its Ugly Side

Samuel G. Freedman The Atlantic
In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America. Their books — along with Sinatra’s song and film; Richard Wright’s memoir, coincided with a surge of activism.

film

Blonde Is Marilyn Monroe Abased All Over Again

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, Andrew Dominik’s film Blonde ignores the assertive and hardworking real-life Marilyn Monroe and instead gives us a lurid tale of perpetual victimization.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil

Sarah Posner The Nation
The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.
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