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Friday Nite Videos | October 10, 2025

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Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon | The Daily Show. “I Was Born With Male and Female Parts.” AI Is Our Ultimate Test. Letitia James' Badge of Honor. Trump's Plan To Steal the 2026 Election.

Bringing Down a President

Timothy Braatz Z Network
How does an antifascism movement halt and reverse the expansion of Trumpism? Perhaps the U.S. antiwar movement of 1965-75 offers some clues. After all, it caused two elected presidents to give up the presidency.

A Chorus of Defiance

David Cortright Boston Review
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the of World War II on the European continent. This week is also fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end. What are the lessons for today from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance

What Happens Now?

Andy Borowitz The Borowitz Report
Not satire from Borowitz, but a couple of history lessons. In 1984 after Reagan romped to victory with 59 percent of the popular vote and 525 electoral votes, Reaganism was declared unstoppable. But two years later, Democrats proved the pundits wrong

Consequences of the Choice We Make in November

Dr. James J. Zogby Washington Watch
This isn’t a normal election. My community has been deeply traumatized by the genocide in Gaza and now the devastating war on Lebanon...Explain how punishing Vice-President Harris and enabling Donald Trump to become president will end the genocide...

This Week in People’s History, Feb 6–12

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Cartoon showing Uncle Sam, John Bull, and the Kaiser riding heavily on the shoulders of servants of colorof A Sad Day for Liberty (in 1899), Strikers Kill a Wage Cut (1894), If Men Were Angels (1788), Women Close in on the Right to Vote (1919), The Times They Are a-Changing' (1964), Strikers Shut Seattle Down (1919), Nixon in Crisis (1974)

This Week in People’s History, Nov. 14–20

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Striking students protesting the right-wing Greek government Dictators on the Skids (in 1973), Dockworkers Say No to Japan (1938), Free Speech Is the Future (1928), Not Only a Crook, but a Liar Too (1973), Three Cheers for Yellow Fever (1803), Crime Doesn't Pay (1873), Measuring Time Pays Off (1888)

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues To Hide

Peter Kornbluh The Nation
Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.
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