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Why Los Angeles Must Resist

Max Benavidez The Stansbury Forum
The city that raised me—this dazzling, sprawling place of freedom and invention—is under siege

Friday Nite Videos | September 12, 2025

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Bolsonaro Joins a Rogues’ Gallery of Coup Plotters

John Joseph Chin and Joe Wright The Conversation
When defeated at the polls, both Donald Trump and Bolsonaro tried to overturn the official results. Both attempted to alter vote totals after they had lost and block an election winner from being inaugurated. Bolsonaro faces 27 years in prison.

Appeals Court Judges Publicly Admonish Supreme Court Justices

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney Politico
“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rulings.

The Other End of the Weight Spectrum: Very Thin People

Ute Eberle Knowable Magazine
Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?

Susan B. Glasser The New Yorker
While others were praying for a sane conversation around how to end the rapidly escalating problem of violence, for the President and Stephen MIller it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it

Trump, Tyranny and the Need for a People’s Program

Richard Rubenstein CounterPunch
We urgently need to create a people’s movement. Meeting locally and nationally, interested Americans of all backgrounds can form “committees of correspondence” to develop ideas, programs and leaders essential for reconstructing American politics.
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