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Friday Nite Videos | June 6, 2025

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I Love a Parade! (Trump Military Parade Song). We Asked 5 Young Men: Are They Struggling More Than Women? Meet Tim Pool: Podcaster With a WH Press Pass. Musk-Trump Feud Goes Nuclear. Gaza: Journalists Under Fire.

Who Does Harvard Owe?

Harvard Crimson Editorial The Crimson
The question of who gets a say is not a sideshow. It is Harvard’s defining issue. A university that silences students and sidelines faculty becomes reactive, brittle, and beholden. A university that distributes power, though, becomes resilient.

Drilling for (Renewable) Energy Reaches New Depths

Joe Salas New Atlas
Quaise Energy demo-ed its maser drill bit to go deeper into the Earth's crust than humans have ever gone. The plan is to drill down 12 miles, where temperatures reach nearly 1,000 degrees F, to tap into Earth's bottomless well of clean energy.

Tidbits- June 5-Reader Comments: Freedom Flotilla Sets Sail; That’s Antisemitism; What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean; RFK Jr. Broke 60 Years of Vaccine Decision-Making; the Upside-Down Priorities of House Budget – the Black Left & Labor…

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Reader Comments: Freedom Flotilla Sets Sail; That's Antisemitism; What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean; RFK Jr. Broke 60 Years of Vaccine Decision-Making; The Upside-Down Priorities of House Budget - The Black Left & Labor: What are we doing

Polling Conundrums: Activist Government, Sí; Democrats, No!

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Building a progressive populist movement requires Democrats to talk about Wall Street, which most are reluctant to do. If they’re going to benefit from the public’s anti-oligarch turn, however, they’re going to have Bernie-fy themselves.
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