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Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023

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Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing. Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover). Malcolm X at 98 | Angela Davis. We Talked to The Wire’s David Simon About the Writers' Strike. Pussy Riot's Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin.

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?

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Is a Civil War Ahead?

David Remnick The New Yorker
A year after the attack on the Capitol, the country is suspended between democracy and autocracy. That sense of uncertainty radically heightens the likelihood of episodic bloodletting in America, and even the risk of civil war.

The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”

George Yancy and Robin D.G. Kelley Truthout
This year marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre, where roughly 300 people — predominantly Black people — were killed; Black churches, schools and businesses were burned to the ground, and the homes of Black people were looted.

The John Birch Society Never Left

Rick Perlstein and Edward H. Miller The New Republic
Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe. When Republican lawmakers had a chance to draw a bright line between their party and conspiracy theorists and insurrectionists, the vast majority voted to acquit.
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