#1709 Monthly-ish Mix: Government Power & Its Misuse, Vulnerable Communities & Civil Rights, Cultural & Societal Transformation, Opposition & Resistance
Air Date: 5-6-2025
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at government surveillance overreach, challenges facing immigrant and refugee communities, the shifting landscape of American culture brought on by Christian Nationalism and the emerging broligarchy, and grassroots movements challenging institutional power.
Read more#1708 Rent Asunder: From the Moderation of Pope Francis to Extremism of JD Vance, the Catholic Church is Deeply Divided
Air Date: 5-2-2025
We're taking the passing of Pope Francis as an opportunity to explore the deeper political implications of the extremist, rightward turn for some in the Catholic Church, including many recent converts.
Read more#1707 Tariffied: Exposing Trump's Artless Deal
Air Date: 4-29-2025
The economic and political fallout of Trump’s misguided tariffs, exposing his self-proclaimed deal-making prowess as a fraud and his grasp of the relevant issues to be childlike at best.
Read more#1706 Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation
Air Date: 4-26-2025
For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getting exactly what we expected. For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise, and yet, here we are.
Read more#1705 Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies
Air Date: 4-22-2025
We knew for decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade that Republicans wanted to repeal abortion rights. But I recall an argument I heard many years ago from someone ostensibly on the left about how wrong the left was to worry about it because George W Bush had been in office for 8 years and didn't stop abortions. I knew that was a profoundly uninformed point at the time but it's also evidence that some people just don't understand the time horizons over which plans to dismantle cherished rights and government programs play out. George W. Bush also proposed privatizing Social Security and didn't succeed there either. But in both cases, groundwork was being laid as part of a multi-decade effort that would, they hoped, pay off in the future. So don't be surprised when they come for your earned benefits programs just as they came for the fundamental right to bodily autonomy.
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