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Friday Nite Videos | October 9, 2026

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Grifts | The Daily Show. Buddy Guy and Big Mama Thornton | “Ball And Chain”. Putin’s Winter Campaign Won’t Decide the War. Protests Erupt in NYC After ICE Agents Shoot Father. "60 SECONDS" - Hegseth Talks Competence.

US Meddling in Brazil May Decide Latin America’s Future

Benjamin Fogel Jacobin magazine
Brazil’s presidential election is on a knife-edge. Right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro has powerful interests on his side but is also counting on the Trump administration’s help to push him over the line.

Tidbits-Jun 25 – Reader Comments: Democratic Socialists Surge in Mayoral Races; Brad Lander: Why We Won; Orange Vandal of Reflecting Pool; Israel’s New Party; American Family; Author Corrects One-Sided Article NYC Elections and DSA and WFP

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Reader Comments: Democratic Socialists Surge in Mayoral Races; Brad Lander: Why We Won; Orange Vandal of Reflecting Pool; Israel's New Party; American Family at Breaking Point; Eric Blanc modifies criticism of DSA and Working Families Party; Cartoons

Tidbits – June 18 – Reader Comments: Art of the Deal; MAGA Inequality; Everyone Loves the Knicks; Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund; Jews for Salah Vigil; Fight Ellisons’ Takeover of American Media; America at 250: A Conversation; Socialism 2026!

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Reader Comments: Art of the Deal; MAGA Inequality; Everyone Loves the Knicks; Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund; Jews for Salah Vigil; Fight Ellisons' Takeover of American Media; America at 250: A Conversation; Socialism 2026! - Early Registration

Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency

Andy Merrifield Monthly Review
Almost 200 years after Nikolai Gogol wrote The Government Inspector, has the Trump Administration brought back the need for humor and satire to address political corruption to shock audiences to awareness of their own implication in the plot.

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Rogues in a Nation

Robert Burns
Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, criticized the members of the Scottish aristocracy who in 1707 signed the Act of Union thereby ending Scottish home rule.

Tidbits – May 15- Readers Comments: What’s the Latest Grift, Foreign Gift, Emolument; Congress Silent on Gaza Nightmare; Year’s Cost of Public Television or 6 Hours of Pentagon Bombs; U.S. Bandmember Arrested Before European Tour; More…

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Readers Comments: What's the Latest Grift, Foreign Gift, Emolument; Congress Silent on Gaza Nightmare; Year's Cost of Public Television or 6 Hours of Pentagon Bombs; U.S. Bandmember Arrested Before European Tour; Mass-Care Medicare for All Conference

Two Grifters Off To Seize the World*

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Most fascist dictators have been more about ideology and absolute power than about personal wealth. Trump and his crony Musk are at least as interested in personal enrichment as they are in destroying the deep state or the rule of law.
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