#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
Air Date: 6-14-2024
We're in the middle of Supreme Court opinion season, which is not going well for non-extreme conservatives in the country, at the same time as scandal, corruption, and justices Thomas and Alito's refusal to recuse in the face of clear bias are reaching a modern peak.
Read more#1603 Clarence Thomas and the Highest Court in the Land with the Lowest Standards of Ethics
Air Date: 1-13-2024
The Supreme Court began to lose its legitimacy in the eyes of many when President Obama wasn't allowed to fill the open seat left by the death of Antonin Scalia but, in truth, the scandal and manipulation of the nation's highest court go back much, much farther than that. However, in a bygone age, scandal was handled much differently than today, putting our current state of dysfunction and hyper-partisanship into sharp focus.
Read more#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips (Money in Politics) (Throwback)
#1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup)
Air Date: 11–30-2022
Today, we take a look at the context of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar including the labor abuses endemic in the construction of the facilities, the authoritarianism and anti-LGBTQ policies of the Qatari government, and the corruption fundamental to the inner working of FIFA that brought the tournament to Qatar in the first place.
Read more#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Repost)
Original Air Date: 7–5-2019
Today we take an unflinching look at Mitch McConnell and what a bad, bad man he is for basically all of the reasons.
Read more#1464 Fighting to Preserve Democracy With Only Democrats to Turn To
Air Date: 1–5-2022
Today we take a look at a few of the recent failures and challenges facing the Democratic Party in the face of an oncoming wave of anti-democratic forces bent on establishing an entrenched, minority-rule government through aggressive gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Read more#1395 The Arab Spring, Bin Laden Killed, Giffords Shot, Occupy Wall St. and Birtherism (A Look Back at 2011)
Air Date 1/31/2021
Today we take a look back at the year 2011 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2011 was an enormous year of news which included the death of Osama Bin Laden, the manufactured budget crisis in Wisconsin, the shooting of Gabby Giffords, Occupy Wall Street, the birth of Trump's Birtherism and much more.
Read more#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Repost)
Air Date: 7–5-2019
Today we take an unflinching look at Mitch McConnell and what a bad, bad man he is for basically all of the reasons.
Read more#1356 The Many, Many Problems with Cops and Why Reform is Impossible
Air Date: 7–6-2020
Today we take a look at the problems with cops that aren't the obvious, racist problems. We're talking about the rules that help protect bad cops from accountability, the police unions that insist on those rules and the lack of state or national policies that would structurally disincentivize the hiring or continued employment of problem officers.
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