#1511 Economic Underclass, Political Pawns (Immigration and Asylum Seeking)
Air Date: 9–6-2022
Today, we take a look at the precarious state of our immigration and asylum system, the legacy of neoliberalism and imperialism in South and Central America, the inhumanity practiced by both of our political parties (though not equally), and the ever-present possibility that things could get worse.
Read more#1510 Avoiding Accountability
Air Date: 8–31-2022
Today, as we wait to see if Trump will ever be indicted for any of his many, many, many crimes, we take a look at the long and illustrious history of powerful people avoiding prosecution in the United States.
Read more#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools (Repost)
Original Air Date 8/10/2021
Today we take a look at the mechanisms by which the legacy of White Supremacy is harmful to the health and wellbeing of individuals and society as a whole.
Read more#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment
Air Date: 8–10-2022
Today, we take a look at the origins of the European colonial land-grab, the need for the #Landback movement, and the benefits to society and the environment in the context of the climate crisis to return stewardship of the land to native peoples.
Read more#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All
Air Date: 6–9-2021
Today we take a look at the motivations behind legislation being introduced in statehouses around the country to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory, criminalize the right to protest and limit the right to vote. Now if only there were some theory we could look to to understand the complicated interconnectedness of these subtly racist ideas...
Read more#1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality)
Air Date: 6–1-2022
Today we take a look at the current conspiracy theory known as "The Great Replacement" which posits that a cabal of elites is conspiring to eradicate Whiteness as a culture and as a people in Europe, North America and other countries colonized by White Europeans. We also look at the history of the cabal of elites that conspired to eradicate Native peoples and culture from colonized lands in a pattern of genocide and dispossession.
Read more#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future
Original Air Date: 5–8-2021
Today we take a look at the culture that Disney has helped create and how they did it, using cuteness as a weapon to push ideas from racist stereotypes and segregation to the masterful use of hollow nods toward progressivism while reinforcing the ethics of individualism in order to give systemic injustice a pass.
Read more#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster (Repost)
Original Air Date: 4–14-2021
Today we take a look at the one element of our government that, above all others, has contributed to the absolute disfunction of our democracy. The filibuster was never intended by the founders, always anti-democratic, often used for racist ends and is now being abused at a rate never before seen.
Read more#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful
Air Date: 4–20-2022
Today we take a look at the bizarre halo effect that seems to surround Elon Musk and then thoroughly puncture it by just explaining a few things about him and his companies.
Read more#1481 A New Voice of Dissent on the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson)
Air Date: 4–6-2022
Today we take a look at the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, what her confirmation would mean for representation on the court and what the hearing tells us about the state of our politics.
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