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Sesame Street With Donald Grump

Given Mr. Trump's recent, ahem, "popularity," this Sesame Street episode about Donald Grump has renewed relevance.

Friday Nite Videos -- January 29, 2016

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Stephen Colbert Moderates An All-Trump Debate. Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation. Planned Parenthood Indictments: Seth Meyers. Sesame Street With Donald Grump. An American Disaster: The Crisis in Flint.

The Last of Christopher Hitchens

Terry Eagleton The Guardian (UK)
The last posthumous collection of Christopher Hitchens's essays we are likely to see, the book under review shows the incomparable polemicist moved from being a practicing Trotskyist (though he never practiced enough to get good at it) to cosying up to the Washington neocons.

AFSCME President: Members Organizing For Clinton To Lift Wages For All

Pat Rynard http://iowastartingline.com/2016/01/27/afscme-president-members-organizing-for-clinton-to-lift-wages-for-all/
AFSCME President Lee Saunders explains why his union endorsed Hillary Clinton and what they are doing to help her win the Democratic Party nomination.

Bernie Sanders and Unions’ Relationship Status: It’s Complicated

David Moberg Working In These Times
Many union members, both Democrats and independents, believe in the policies and the overall vision of an expanded New Deal that both the labor movement and Sanders have long promoted. Yet Sanders appears to have more confidence that the broad American public will back those ideas and reject likely Republican and media attacks on his proposals than do many top union officials who often complain about Democrats who will not support labor and its agenda.