Friday Nite Videos | October 31, 2025     xxxxxx October 31, 2025 xxxxxx Trump's Shockingly Corrupt Donor Network. IL National Guard Members Say They Won't Obey Trump's Orders. Young Russians Ready To Pay a Price To Defy the Kremlin. Zohran Mamdani - Reimagi…

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween     Meredith Shiner October 31, 2025 The New Republic Parents are fighting back. Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobi…

God’s Chief Justice     Doug Bock Clark October 30, 2025 ProPublica Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverber…

Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right To Remain—and Return     David Vine October 24, 2025 Foreign Policy in Focus Trump's peace plan includes a promise not to expel any Palestinians from Gaza. Can that promise be kept? Displaced Palestini…

Could Lab-Grown Chocolate Be the Future of Halloween?     Adrienne Matei October 31, 2025 The Guardian It could eventually cut down on the production of traditional chocolate, which degrades soil and requires much fertilizer and pesticides "Choco…

Portside Culture The War Works Hard     Dunya Mikhail Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail offers a bleak assessment of American involvement in the Middle East. ,   How magnificent the war is! How eager and efficient! Early in the morni…

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught     Dana Goldstein October 27, 2025 The New York Times History lessons are being wiped from the internet, California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are se…

Over 1,000 Jewish Clergy Can’t Be Wrong on Mamdani and Anti-Zionism – or Can They?     Rabbi Brant Rosen October 27, 2025 Shalom Rav “The Jewish Majority” statement is an effort to stem Mamdani’s surging lead – and his popularity with young leftist Jews. T…

How a Mass Movement on the Italian Coast Disrupted the Israeli Supply Chain     Giacomo Sini, Dario Antonelli October 27, 2025 The Progressive In Livorno, a port city off the coast of Tuscany, a coalition of labor unions, local organizations, and everyday …

Donald Trump’s Plan To Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way     David A. Graham October 28, 2025 The Atlantic Our election system is reaching a breaking point. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kep…

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What Graham Platner Said When a Trans Mainer Asked: ‘Will You Stand Up for Me?’     Julia Conley October 29, 2025 Common Dreams “I believe that you are a better person than you once were because I am a better person than I once was,” said the potential vot…

Global Left Midweek — October 29, 2025     October 29, 2025 xxxxxx Mass unrest and power shifts A demonstrator in front of Congress during a protest against the newly installed President Jose Jeri in Lima, Peru, Oct. 15, 2025. Credit, AP photo by M…

How Designating Antifa as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Could Threaten Civil Liberties     Thomas E. Brzozowski October 27, 2025 Just Security Once an organization is designated as an Foreign Terrorist Organization, providing “material support” to it be…

2 Illinois National Guard Members Speak Out: “I Won’t Turn Against My Neighbors”     Nicole Sganga October 28, 2025 "When we have somebody in power who's actively dismantling our rights — free speech, due process, freedom of the press — it's really hard to …

Portside Culture A “Blueprint” for a Different Future in Israel-Palestine     Robert Gottlieb October 25, 2025 The Guardian A new book, published just before the ceasefire deal, describes in granular detail the conditions for dismantling apartheid …