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Friday Nite Videos | August 21, 2026

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Rosie Sings an Irish Classic for a Very Special Boy. We Investigated Uber Again. It’s Worse Than Last Time. Was Mamdani's Mandarin AI? The Blooper Reel Reveals the Truth. John Oliver: Trump & Crypto. Trump in Diapers and Losing Control?

Was Mamdani's Mandarin AI? The Blooper Reel Reveals the Truth

Mamdani promoted free Broadway tickets for high-school students, speaking to them in Bengali, Mandarin, and Spanish. Critics accused Mamdani of using AI, so he released a blooper reel of his attempts to get each language right.

 

Tidbits-Aug. 13: Reader Comments: Credible Threat?; Todd Blanche?; Contempt of Congress – No Question; New Health Care Crisis; Howard Zinn; Dr. Anthony Fauci; Prairieland; Abortion Rights; How Domestic Workers Built POWER; Announcements – New York;

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Reader Comments: Credible Threat?; Todd Blanche?; Contempt of Congress - No Question; New Health Care Crisis; Howard Zinn; Dr. Anthony Fauci; Prairieland; Abortion Rights; How Domestic Workers Built POWER; Announcements - New York City; Cartoons;

New York’s Socialist Victories Can’t Be So Easily Dismissed

Michael Kinnucan Jacobin
Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.

Tidbits-Aug. 6: Reader Comments: Mainstream Press Covers DSA, Elections; the ‘Red Scare’: Then and Now; Todd Blanche; Dr. Fauci;; New Howard Zinn Biography; Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes Against War and Genocide – Oct 30

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Reader Comments: Mainstream Press Covers DSA and Elections; The ‘Red Scare’: Then and Now; Todd Blanche and The Art of the Steal; Dr. Fauci;; New Howard Zinn Biography; Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes Against War, Genocide

Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One

Errol Schweizer Jacobin
A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.
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