January 2023

  • Monday 16 January '23 show notes

    • MLK wanted to end poverty & legal discrimination
    • House Republicans are "Playing with Fire" with Our Economy
    • Full Employment for All - Algernon Austin, Dir. of Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research / he was previously director of the Economic Policy Institute's Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE)
    • It's always been about control
    • Is DeSantis running for Prez on the bodies of women?
    • As long as GOP uses race as a political weapon - we're going to see hate crimes intensify...
    • Russia has stolen 700,000 Ukrainian children - Where is QAnon when you need them?
  • Friday 13 January '23 show notes

    • Progressive Town Hall - Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Author of 2 books, his latest Dignity In A Digital Age: Making Tech Work For All Of Us
    • Wisconsin GOP is openly boasting about voter suppression
    • The Taliban has arrived in Missouri
    • It's Anything Goes Friday!
    • Will Americans Embrace the politics of fear or trust?
    • The French vs American fight about Social Security
    • "This Is Corruption" - Manchin Chief of Staff Now Chief moves to be a Lobbyist for Big Oil
  • Thursday 12 January '23 show notes

    • Hairdryer Climate Mathematics Revealed
    • The New house rules continue to embrace Reaganomics that will further destroy the middle class and poor...
    • On the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine - Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent
    • Republicans Bring Back Smoke-Filled Rooms on Capitol Hill
    • Geeky Science! Does kindness cure depression and anxiety?
    • How can we say George Santos won when everything was a lie? What's more important integrity or power?
    • Crazy Alert! Trump wanted to use a nuclear weapon on N Korea & blame it on someone else?
  • Wednesday 11 January '23 show notes

    • National Progressive Townhall Meeting - Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Former Co-Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Appropriations / Also, Education & Labor)
    • In the New "McCarthy Era," This Column Could Get Me Thrown In Jail
    • Will we find out all about the promises—and threats—McCarthy made to get his hands on the gavel?
    • Revealed: George Santos got secret campaign money from bused Italian migrant smuggler - surprised?
    • House Republicans focus on abortion rights and putting women in jail
    • Brazil judge orders arrest of top security officials in Brasília riot
    • Geeky Science! Everything is getting hotter.....and what that means for our weather...
  • Tuesday 10 January '23 show notes

    • Why Is the For-Profit Health Industry Like a Giant, Bloodsucking Tick?
    • Framing Hunter Biden
    • DEBATE!!! Republicans want to raise Social Security to 75 - Shouldn't we lower it to 60? - Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do / podcast Pardon My Parsing
    • MI Nessel opens criminal probe of fake electors - tired of waiting for feds
    • GOP turn their back on Katie Hobbs' ask for collaboration
    • Dems blast GOP adding $114B to deficit by embracing tax cheats
    • Crazy Alert! Martha MacCallum Claims Female M&M Characters Embolden Enemies: 'Makes China Say, Oh Good' ...really?
    • Geeky Science! How kids get asthma
  • Monday 09 January '23 show notes

    • How GOP Treason Is Stalking Democracy Around the World
    • Looks Like DeSantis Is all in on fascism and Putin too...
    • The secret history of a riot - Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter / Author & Filmmaker - latest film is "Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman"
    • Who wants MTG and Jim Jordan getting America's most sensitive secrets?
    • Will this next year be all about the privatization of medicare and social security? - Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security
    • Is the GOP more dangerous than ever?
    • Crazy Alert! Did Mike Pence buy up his own book to get on the bestseller list?
    • Geeky Science! Can gardening save you from cancer?
  • Friday 06 January '23 show notes

    • Is the Anti-McCarthy Crowd in the Bag for the Billionaires, Putin, or Both?
    • It's Anything Goes Friday!
    • They Said No!
    • 'Bold-faced lie': George Santos caught falsely claiming that he voted on multiple bills before being sworn in
    • Corporations Gave $10M to election deniers after pledging to cut them off
    • Biden immigration plan would restrict illegal border crossings
    • Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Is Using PGA Suit to Get Data on 9/11 Families
    • We could lose 50%of glaciers this century even if warming Is kept to 1.5°C
  • Thursday 05 January '23 show notes

    • The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think
    • Crazy Alert! Will anyone be bringing a gun into the capitol?
    • What Hakeem Jeffries should demand if approached by McCarthy for support
    • Russia-Ukraine war latest updates: Putin orders 36-hour unilateral cease-fire - Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine
    • What happens if they never pick a speaker?
    • Photo-Journalist attacked by the J-6 mob while on assignment for Rolling Stone Magazine - Nate Gowdy, Photojournalist, INSURRECTION / Project Lead, American Superhero Project, a Photo-Journalist who was attacked by the J-6 mob while on assignment for Rolling Stone Magazine
    • How the senate could fill more federal court seats
  • Wednesday 04 January '23 show notes

    • Should Dems strike a deal for House Speaker? Perhaps retired Rep Fred Upton?
    • Is the Right to Contraception About To End in America?
    • What is the future of Bitcoin? is there a role for alternative money? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Economist / Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books including The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself / Host - Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff on FSTV
    • The Jan 6th summary - What did Trump know & when did he lie about it?
    • What are Putin's red lines?
    • Pete Buttigieg has declared an end to neoliberalism
  • Tuesday 03 January '23 show notes

    • When Will Republican Voters Wake Up to Their Own Oppression?
    • Will Kevin McCarthy's disastrous day cause a blue wave to the democratic party?
    • Where will Trump flee to?
    • What does the Santos candidacy & swearing in say about the Republican Party?
    • Canada banned most foreigners from buying homes - can America do the same?
    • The Republican Vote Tracker Revealed
    • How did far right extremist groups infiltrate the secret service?

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