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Tim Hjersted
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ADDED Oct 29, 2026
We Need a Movement for Self-rule – and It’s a Play
We Need a Movement for Self-rule – and It’s a Play
At some point(s) in our history we had the ability to govern ourselves ripped from us, and concentrated in the hands of kings and aristocrats, then governments, and now, it seems, tech...
ADDED Oct 29, 2026
Staying Grounded in an Unraveling World | Frankly 163 17 min
Staying Grounded in an Unraveling World | Frankly 163
In the face of increasing chaos in our world, Nate turns inward in this week’s Frankly to examine a more personal question: what allows an individual to remain grounded, authentic, and...
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The First to Trust
The First to Trust
What happens when the rescued become the rescuers?
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AI & Animals: a Documentary
AI & Animals: a Documentary
AI & ANIMALS, a groundbreaking new documentary by @AnimalEthics
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System Update | Rebooting Our Future
System Update | Rebooting Our Future
System Update isn’t just a film—it’s a rallying call for a better future. This film shows how radical shifts in political, economic, and social systems can protect people from climate...
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After Capitalism: a Cooperative Economy
After Capitalism: a Cooperative Economy
Many of us have heard the term "co-op", but what does it really mean?
ADDED Oct 25, 2026
How the Left Should Talk to Trump Voters According to Naomi Klein | Radical Thinking 15 min
How the Left Should Talk to Trump Voters According to Naomi Klein | Radical Thinking
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Aditya Chakrabortty on Radial Thinking to discuss how New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani offers a blueprint to fighting modern day fascism.
ADDED Oct 23, 2026
Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant. Your State Could Be Next 10 min
Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant. Your State Could Be Next
How do you get money out of politics without overturning Citizens United? Montana has a solution.
ADDED Oct 23, 2026
Capitalism Is Failing... What Comes Next? 28 min
Capitalism Is Failing... What Comes Next?
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I explore the concept and political framework of ecosocialism. Specifically I look at why we need ecosocialism now more than ever...
ADDED Oct 23, 2026
How to Stop Trump's Coup: Lessons From South Korea
How to Stop Trump's Coup: Lessons From South Korea
How do you stop a would-be dictator? The first requirement is knowing that it’s possible.
ADDED Oct 21, 2026
How to Live on Earth 97 min
How to Live on Earth (2026)
What if the solutions to building a better future already exist?
ADDED Oct 21, 2026
How Did It Get This Bad? 10 min
How Did It Get This Bad?
Second Thought argues that billionaire success and a decent life for everyone else can’t coexist, because the fortunes at the top are built from resources, power, and influence taken...
ADDED Oct 21, 2026
How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections 32 min
How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections
Trump is setting in motion a series of events to invalidate and coerce the outcome of the midterms. If he succeeds, the iron doors of fascism will slam shut.
ADDED Oct 19, 2026
What Happens When Fascism Wins Elections | a Tragic Optimist's Guide 128 min
What Happens When Fascism Wins Elections | a Tragic Optimist's Guide
Okay before we even get into this, check your voter registration status. It's real quick, less than two minutes.https://midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/?utm_source=dasiadoesit
ADDED Oct 19, 2026
The Economics of Eating 19 min
The Economics of Eating
In this powerful 18-min documentary, Helena Norberg-Hodge uncovers the hidden global market that lies behind the food we consume. It's a system that drives biodiversity loss, accelerates...
ADDED Oct 19, 2026
France Protests Are a Western Spring. America Is Next 9 min
France Protests Are a Western Spring. America Is Next
Your government used to own things on your behalf. Land. Housing. Utilities. Rail. Water. Energy. Then since the 1980s, they sold nearly all of it while cutting taxes on the buyers. They...
ADDED Oct 19, 2026
What Evangelicals Can Teach Us About Organizing
What Evangelicals Can Teach Us About Organizing
Belonging before belief, joy before jargon, and the art of bringing people in
ADDED Oct 19, 2026
NAZA 3 min
NAZA (trailer)
From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the 2024 Oscar-winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a film examining the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of...
ADDED Oct 19, 2026
Midterms 2026 Won't Save You 4 min
Midterms 2026 Won't Save You
“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We...
ADDED Oct 18, 2026
This Is Our Final Video. Here's What We Couldn't Say Before About Epstein & Israel. 30 min
This Is Our Final Video. Here's What We Couldn't Say Before About Epstein & Israel.
This is the last video we will be posting on this channel. Throughout the almost 2 years we have been running this channel there’s one story that we have avoided covering.Honestly...
ADDED Oct 17, 2026
'Western Civilization' Is a Myth: USA Demands Global Dominance, Praises Colonialism, Erases History 40 min
'Western Civilization' Is a Myth: USA Demands Global Dominance, Praises Colonialism, Erases History
The US government has called to revive Western domination of the planet. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech in Greece that openly praised colonialism and erased history...
ADDED Oct 17, 2026
The Medievalization of Work and the Cooperative Cure 42 min
The Medievalization of Work and the Cooperative Cure
With the economy getting more technofeudal, work is getting more medieval. What if this could play into the hands of creating a more cooperative economy that's better for everyone and...
ADDED Oct 17, 2026
This Is How We Win 63 min
This Is How We Win
What if they were already giving us the tools we need to beat them?
ADDED Oct 15, 2026
Why Hollywood's Defenders of Israel Still Deny the Gaza Genocide
Why Hollywood's Defenders of Israel Still Deny the Gaza Genocide
Two years after condemning Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech, ten signers of a Hollywood open letter remain steadfast in their defense of Israel, rejecting genocide findings by major human...
ADDED Oct 15, 2026
The Lesbian Mask Bar Meltdown and the Future of the Left 28 min
The Lesbian Mask Bar Meltdown and the Future of the Left
In reaction to the viral “lesbian mask bar meltdown” story which appeared in the Boston Globe on sept 22, 2026, activists and influencers on the left started openly discussing...
ADDED Oct 15, 2026
How Trump Is Expanding the Definition of ‘Terrorism’ | Dan Boguslaw & Chris Hedges 42 min
How Trump Is Expanding the Definition of ‘Terrorism’ | Dan Boguslaw & Chris Hedges
In communities throughout the United States, the infrastructure required to surveil and track anyone is rapidly being constructed, from Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) systems to...
ADDED Oct 15, 2026
Zohran Mamdani on Theo Von Is a DISASTER for MAGA! 13 min
Zohran Mamdani on Theo Von Is a DISASTER for MAGA!
USDS Host Tony Hinderman breaks down Zohran Mamdani's appearance on Theo Von's podcast right before the midterms!
ADDED Oct 1, 2026
The REAL Reason Your Algorithm Sucks 17 min
The REAL Reason Your Algorithm Sucks
This Soy Pill investigates the prevalence of right-wing political propaganda on social media, showing how much of it is not organic but rather the product of organized "clipping" operations.
ADDED Sep 30, 2026
Julian Assange Is Back — Here's What That Means 20 min
Julian Assange Is Back — Here's What That Means
Follow Glenn Greenwald's writing and other journalism at Substack, where you can become a member: https://greenwald.substack.com/
ADDED Sep 30, 2026
How AI Could Be Used to Revolutionize Democracy and Challenge State and Corporate Power
How AI Could Be Used to Revolutionize Democracy and Challenge State and Corporate Power
The same technology that could create the most powerful surveillance state in history could also create unprecedented tools for decentralisation.
ADDED Sep 30, 2026
MUSK 3 min
MUSK (trailer)
A thorough and unvarnished analysis of Elon Musk, a technology billionaire who serves as the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.
ADDED Sep 29, 2026
Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil.
ADDED Sep 28, 2026
I Watched Ben Shapiro's Zionist Action Movie 38 min
I Watched Ben Shapiro's Zionist Action Movie
In this video I review Run Hide Fight: Infidels, the 2026 Daily Wire film starring Jonathan Majors as Delta Force veteran Clay Saunders. Released September 16, 2026 on DailyWire+, Run...
ADDED Sep 24, 2026
When Monsters Walk Among Us
When Monsters Walk Among Us
To imagine Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu, or other architects of authoritarian violence simply as monsters risks placing them outside history, as if...
ADDED Sep 24, 2026
I Found Out Why Germany's Anti-Gay Party Is Led by a Lesbian 17 min
I Found Out Why Germany's Anti-Gay Party Is Led by a Lesbian
Germany has a new political problem.The far-right Alternative for Germany just won nearly 44 percent of the vote - more than twice its previous result and just three seats short of a...
ADDED Sep 23, 2026
Why "Woke" Is a Right Wing Political Ideology 49 min
Why "Woke" Is a Right Wing Political Ideology
It’s fifteen years too late, but the left is finally starting to have a debate on “woke”. Sort of.
ADDED Sep 21, 2026
The Swarm of Corporate Executives Is the AI Threat We Should Be Most Frightened Of
The Swarm of Corporate Executives Is the AI Threat We Should Be Most Frightened Of
We need better AI safety. We need better monitoring. We need stronger safeguards. We need independent oversight. But we also need to confront corporate power.
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Kinfolk | a Film About Activism | Vandana Shiva & Maria Westerberg
Kinfolk | a Film About Activism | Vandana Shiva & Maria Westerberg
Kinfolk is a 19 minute documentary film which brings together two women who have never met, yet whose lives seem to echo one another across continents.
ADDED Sep 20, 2026
Ai Doom Is So Hot Right Now 11 min
Ai Doom Is So Hot Right Now
All I'm really trying to say is, maybe we should all just calm down a little.
ADDED Sep 20, 2026
The AI Purity Test Is Coming for Every Writer and It Sucks 12 min
The AI Purity Test Is Coming for Every Writer and It Sucks
Alexandre Dumas ran a content factory in 19th century Paris with 73 collaborators. His books are in the literary canon. If he published today, Reddit would tear him apart.
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