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Friday Nite Videos | May 8, 2026

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The Next Generation of Gene Editing | SciShow. The Most Shocking Election In America. Attenborough's Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter | BBC Earth. Leonard Cohen's Secret Chord from 'Hallelujah.' Hegseth and Patel Iran Press Briefing Cold Open | SNL

Friday Nite Videos | May 1, 2026

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AI Chatbots | John Oliver. Hegseth's Holy War. Donald Trump Wants Jimmy Kimmel Fired “SOON".Union of Hearts and Minds. SCOTUS, Voting Rights, and NASA Chief’s Ears | The Daily Show.

Hegseth's Holy War

His 2020 book is titled American Crusade. The final chapter is titled “Make the Crusade Great Again.”

The Trump Dictatorship Is Cracking Up

Greg Sargent The New Republic
In the president’s warped world, his increasingly deranged demands are never the problem—only his underlings’ failures to meet them.

Friday Nite Videos | March 27, 2026

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Trump Claims War Is Won, But Recruitment Videos Say Otherwise | The Daily Show. Female Sperm Whales Aide Birthing Mother. J.D. Vance | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Forbidden Fruit | Movie. No Kings! No Kings!

The ‘Big Man’ at the Pentagon

Casey Ryan Kelly The Conversation
I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action‑movie one‑liners and gloating over dominance
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