Air Date: 5-6-2025
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PART 1: ECONOMIC CONTROL
(00:01:20) #1707 Tariffied: Exposing Trump's Artless Deal
1: From “Liberation Day” to Chaos: Trump Pauses Most Tariffs While Escalating Trade War with China - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-10-25
2: Trump is "punching America in the face" as the 'biggest loser" in trade war - Times Radio - Air Date - 4-24-25
3: “Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-24-25
(00:26:46) #1713 Yes, GOP Policies Really Are That Bad: Trump's Corruption and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
4: All the president's side hustles - Today, Explained - Air Date 5-15-25
5: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is Baloney - The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich - Air Date 5-17-25
6: Trump-GOP Tax Bill Cuts Medicaid, SNAP To Give Handouts To Billionaires Part 2 - The Majority Report - Air Date 5-20-25
(00:49:50) #1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers
7: Why Do Workers Need Welfare: How Billionaires TRICKED Us into Keeping Wages Low & the Poor Desperate - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 6-3-25
8: Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back. - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 6-6-25
9: Labor Movement v. Fascism Worker Organizers & Labor Educators Are Under Attack - Laura Flanders and Friends - Air Date 5-4-25
PART 2: INFORMATION CONTROL
(01:12:17) #1711 How It Started, How It's Going: Assessing the Flooded Zone Full of Shit
10: 100 days of payback - Today, Explained - Air Date 4-29-25
11: Trump Is Losing A Lot In Court. Plus, the First Episode of The Divided Dial (S2). - On The Media - Air Date 5-9-25
12: 100 Days of Chaos w/ Skye Perryman - Future Hindsight - Air Date 5-1-25
(01:34:36) #1714 Trump's Anti-Knowledge Agenda is Inviting the Next Authoritarian Dark Age
13: As Trump cuts funding, researchers look for opportunities outside the U.S. - Soundside - Air Date 4-21-25
14: Trump's Dark Age Admin is 'attacking the foundations of empirical knowledge', journalist says - MSNBC Reports - Air Date 5-28-25
15: Trump's Rants about Harvard Get Darker as He Loses a Big One in Court - The Daily Blast - Air Date 5-29-25
PART 3: SOCIAL CONTROL
(01:57:51) #1708 Rent Asunder: From the Moderation of Pope Francis to Extremism of JD Vance, the Catholic Church is Deeply Divided
16: Why Pope Francis successor could have great influence on U.S. politics - MSNBC Reports - Air Date 4-23-25
17: Weekly Roundup The Pope, JD Vance, and Anti-Christian Bias - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 4-25-25
(02:12:57) #1710 The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Race, Religion, Culture and the Stories we Tell
18: “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires Part 2 - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-25-25
19: Trump's first 100 days, but it's just the racism - Garrison Hayes - Air Date 5-2-25
(02:30:51) #1712 Eugenics Redux: A Gilded Age Ideology Brought Back for the Second Gilded Age
20: Even More News: Grok's Meltdown, Donald Trump's Rampant Corruption, and Ms. Rachel w/ Mehdi Hasan - Some More News - Air Date 5-16-25
21: “Absolute Nonsense”: As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-18-25
22: MORE NAZI STUFF: Republican-Proposed Birthrate Solutions Include NAZI MEDALS & MENSTRUAL CLASSES!!! - Brittany Page - Air Date 4-22-25
(02:53:26) #1715 The Weaponization of Antisemitism and Counterproductive Violence
23: Noem Makes WILD Claims About "Hamas Agents" At Harvard - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 5-23-25
24: CNN Attempts To Make 'Free Palestine' Offensive - The Rational National - Air Date 5-23-25
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