Big Picture Fact Of The Day

Thom talks to Chris Lewis of Public Knowledge about what Donald Trump's election means for the future of net neutrality. Later on in the program, Thom talks to Eleanor Goldfield of Occupy.com and Sam Daley-Harris of the Center for Citizen Empowerment about the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, the coup staged by North Carolina Republicans, and why it's time to say goodbye to the electoral college.

Big Picture Panel: Eleanor Goldfield, Act Out!/Occupy.com & Sam Daley-Harris, Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation/RESULTS/Reclaiming Our Democracy. So will Democrats choose to embrace the future and vote Ellison for DNC chair - or will they stick to the failed politics of the Clinton/Obama years and get behind Tom Perez? Will they embrace the tradition of FDR and actually try to win elections again, or will they bow to the corporatist donor class and accept defeat - probably for a generation?

Big Picture Interview: Christopher J. Lewis, Public Knowledge. The election of Donald Trump has effectively killed healthcare reform - financial reform - and maybe even the fight against global warming. Has it also killed off the internet as we know it?

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Big Picture Interview: Medea Benjamin, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection/CODEPINK/Global Exchange. As the world continues to look with horror at the situation in Syria - the United States is aiding and abetting a famine in Yemen. Why are we sacrificing the lives of Yemeni children to pad the profits of defense contractors?

Big Picture Panel: Siraj Hashmi, Red Alert Politics & Medea Benjamin, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection/CODEPINK/Global Exchange. Donald Trump is setting up a cabinet of plutocrats. As Quartz reports - the 17 people he’s chosen for cabinet level positions so far have. “…well over $9.5 billion in combined wealth… greater than that of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined—over one third of the 126 million households total in the US.” This shouldn’t surprise anyone - no matter how populist Trump sounded on the campaign trail. Billionaires and millionaires are flocking to the Trump administration for one very simple reason: his policies are going to make them a whole lot richer

In tonight's Big Picture Rumble, Thom talks Trump's plutocratic cabinet, the Republican coup in North Carolina, and the GOP's joke of an Obamacare strategy with Siraj Hashmi of Red Alert Politics and Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK. Thom also talks to Medea Benjamin about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Yemen and American complicity in it.

Big Picture Panel: Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC & Angela Morabito, StandUnited.org. Republicans like Newt Gingrich are already bragging about how they're going to use the Trump administration to undo the New Deal. Are we watching the beginning of the end of the American middle class?

Big Picture Interview: Mike Papantonio, America's Lawyer/Ring of Fire Radio/Law and Disorder. The Koch brothers have their tentacles all over Donald Trump's transition team and cabinet. So is it time to start calling Trump's election a Koch coup of our democracy?

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Thom talks with America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio about Republican the latest Republican skulduggery in North Carolina, Big Oil taking over our government, and the ongoing Koch coup of our democracy. Later on in the program, Thom talks with Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio and Angela Morabito of StandUnited.org about the Republican war on the New Deal, the coming crackdown on climate science, and how Portland is taking a stand against outrageous CEO pay.

In tonight's Lone Liberal Rumble, Thom discusses the GOP Medicare privatization scam, the future of net neutrality under Trump, and the new threat to labor with Charles Sauer of the Market Institute and Gianno Caldwell of Red Alert Politics. Later on in the program, Thom asks Alan Tonelson of Reality Chek if Trump is right about China.

Big Picture Interview: Alan Tonelson, RealityChek/The Race to the Bottom. Donald Trump has been ramping up the rhetoric against China since day one of his presidential campaign. But is he actually right? Do we need to have a trade war with China?