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April 19, 2024Earlier this week, a whistleblower testified to Congress about massive and deliberate safety violations in the manufacturing process at Boeing, and how these violations boosted profit at the risk of American lives – lives that wer
April 18, 2024In the last election, the American voters, in their infinite wisdom, gave a majority to Republicans in the House of Representatives. Since that happened, things have … well, been a bit of a zoo. The House GOP has expelled one Spea
April 17, 2024The Trump trial is off and running as lawyers from both sides begin the jury selection process. Trump, like any other criminal defendant, is required to be in the courtroom, but no one told him he had to be awake. Several reports
April 16, 2024It’s Tax Day, America. And by Tax Day, we mean it’s the one day of the year when we do more for the wealth class than we do on any other day of the year. As we pay, they dodge. As we dig deep, they pop champagne. And as we scrimp
April 12, 2024The American economy is the strongest in the world, and every indicator says we are doing well … so why don’t Americans feel optimistic about it? There are a number of reasons, and many powerful entities involved, and on today’s s
April 11, 2024Today we have a special guest - Michael Harrison of Talkers Magazine. With decades of experience in the industry, Michael has been a witness to massive changes over the years, yet no matter how many new forms of media emerge, talk
April 11, 2024At election time, we tend to forget that a president is not a single person, but an entire team, not only when they campaign, but when they actually govern. For working people, a president is who he appoints to critical roles that
April 10, 2024The American economy is booming. Huge job numbers. Record-breaking unemployment. But with how we funnel all the profits to the immorally rich, working people are seeing very little of this success. Instead, we are making a small n
April 8, 2024Over the weekend, Trump held a fundraiser, and he claims he raised $50 million (which just happens to be twice what Joe Biden raised at his fundraiser last week). And true to form, our media covered the claims as if they were true,
April 8, 2024Many of the right-wing attacks on everything from education to democracy itself, can be traced back to a foundational document called The Powell Memo, which is a document written by a former Supreme Court Justice and designed to “s
April 5, 2024In red states all over America, strange things are happening. Schools are being crippled and replaced with scam voucher programs, child labor laws are being rolled back, and Republicans are openly attacking Social Security and Medi
April 4, 2024When Roe fell, many sounded the alarm that the extreme right in America would not stop at ending bodily autonomy, and they were right. Now the right is going after IVF procedures and targeting contraception as well. Trump is on the
April 2, 2024Trump Media, like Trump University, Trump Vodka, and Trump Steaks, and a dozen others, is losing money – a lot of money. In 2023, Trump Media lost $58 million while generating only $4 million in revenue. We discuss this newest busi
April 2, 2024The Supreme Court is preparing to decide on Grant’s Pass v. Johnson, a case that essentially makes homelessness illegal by removing any and all safe places for those who do not have a home. For the first time, homelessness itself m
April 1, 2024Throughout our history, working people have had to fight for just about everything. Things we take for granted today had to be fought for by those who came before us. And now that corporate wealth is growing in ridiculous ways, it’
March 29, 2024These days, with the Trump campaign flailing and Trump himself in need of massive amounts of cash to pay off his legal bills and judgements, the right-wing machine is in need of new and more creative ways to sheer its flock. The n
March 28, 2024Right-wing political elites are simply laughing at the justice system here in America … and they are paying no consequences for it. In just the last week, Trump had his bond in the NY fraud case reduced, Texas Attorney General Ken
March 27, 2024For as long as there have been corporations, those corporations have wanted full control of their industries so they can make the maximum profit with a minimum of responsibility to the public. And every time we give corporations t
March 25, 2024During the Reagan administration, we started a massive selloff of American manufacturing, choosing to buy cheap goods from China rather than make things here to be used here. It was a massive windfall for the wealth class, but sin
March 25, 2024Saying things that aren’t entirely true has long been an American tradition during election season, but this time around, there appear to be no guardrails of any kind between the truth and the boldest of lies. Depending on which n
March 22, 2024Corporations will do anything – and we mean anything – to keep profits away from workers and funnel them to the rich. Layoffs, stock buybacks, offshore tax havens – that’s where most of the money you earn goes, and the way to get
March 21, 2024Many of us use Tik Tok. Some of us are fully addicted to it. But whether it’s an addiction or an occasional distraction, this much is true: every bit of data we create as we watch is being mined by foreign adversaries who will use
March 20, 2024Every time we privatize a public need to create a profit motive, people get hurt. Nowhere is this more evident than in our push to privatize Medicare. Our guest today is Jenn Coffey, a former State Representative and EMT who bough
March 19, 2024American workers are more productive now than they have been at any point in human history, yet this increase in productivity is not leading to better lives for American families. The massive increase in profits is being entirely
March 18, 2024While the right-wing media machine has always fed its audience a ridiculous amount of lies and conspiracy theories, they seem to have created more “believers” for these lies ever since Trump came down that escalator in 2015. Now w
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