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Friday Nite Videos | May 9, 2025

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Transgender Soldiers: Why Trump’s Ban Is Bogus | Daily Show. Gov. Pritzker Blasts Republicans and ‘Do-nothing Democrats.' Why This Red State Made Preschool Free. 'Is Elmo a Communist?' Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability.

How the United States Underdeveloped Somalia

Jason C. Mueller Marxist Sociology Blog
US’ historical legacies of brutality in Somalia, connecting these patterns to the US corporate interests in extracting natural resources in Somalia, and the broader legacies of militarized accumulation, environmental destruction, and racist brutality

Friday Nite Videos | May 12, 2023

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Tuberville on White Nationalists in the Military: ‘I Call Them Americans.’ The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna. MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried. Native Americans Demand Accountability. Where Are All the Denisovans?

Trapped by Empire

Van Jackson Dissent Magazine
The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.

Inside Google’s Quest To Digitize Troops’ Tissue Samples

James Bandler ProPublica
The tech giant has long sought access to a priceless trove of veterans’ skin samples, tumor biopsies and slices of organs. DOD staffers have pushed back, raising ethical and legal concerns, but Google might win anyway.
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