Interview:
Monday, December 26, 2022
The Referrals Have Been Made. Now What Will It Take To Convict? (Opening Arguments podcast OA667)
Andrew gives us that signature OA approach, having read every case relevant to the law Trump has potentially violated. What does the case law tell us about how to convict him?
Former Republican Joe Walsh Reveals his DISGUST of MAGA and Today’s GOP (Anthony Davis; The Weekend Show)
Former Republican Congressman and Presidential candidate, Joe Walsh, talks to Anthony Davis about losing everything for denouncing Trumpism.
Interview:
Jeremy Peters Traces the GOP’s Descent to Trump (Al Franken podcast)
The NYT journalist on How the Nutcase Right Took Over the GOP.
Interview:
Elon Dumps 42 Million More Shares of Tesla (Opening Arguments podcast OA663)
...and does other totally normal things that indicate everything is completely awesome with him. Why is he offloading so much stock? And he isn’t the only one. What does it say about Tesla? (btw we recorded this before he started banning journalists on Twitter for… sharing publicly available info about his flights.)
Also, Trump replies to the Tish James injunction in Florida, and NBC files its answer to the Devin Nunes v Rachel Maddow suit!
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Evangelical Threat (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
Tis the season to report on state/church entanglements, as well as state/church victories. This week we listen to professor Anthea Butler, author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America and contributor to the 1619 Project, deliver her "Do Mess With Texas" speech at FFRF's 45th annual convention in San Antonio, warning us about religious threats to democracy.
Interview:
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Emmett Till And His Mother Posthumously Awarded Congressional Gold Medal | HuffPost Latest News
Till was a Black 14-year-old who was kidnapped and lynched in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His mother, who died in 2003, insisted that he have an open casket, so as to make clear the brutality of her son's death and the racism and injustice that led to it. Till's death is today considered a catalyst of the American civil rights movement...
Kari Lake loses bid to overturn election results in Arizona - The Washington Post
Tom Liddy, an attorney for Maricopa County, confirmed to The Washington Post that the county will be seeking sanctions.
"A lawyer may not go to court without the evidence necessary for a chance to prevail," Liddy said. "Lake had to make up 17,117 votes. She failed to identify one lawful ballot that was not counted, or one ballot that was counted that should not have been — and she knew that before she filed the contest."…
Trump rails against Jan. 6 committee following final report release | The Hill
Trump falsely claimed that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser refused his push for deployment of the National Guard. The president serves as commander-in-chief of the D.C. National Guard and has authority to deploy them to a situation.
January 6 report review: 845 pages, countless crimes, one simple truth – Trump did it
The House committee has done its work. The result is a riveting read, utterly damning of the former president and his followers…
Far Right Turns on ‘Faker’ & ‘Liar’ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Her one-time allies are now targeting her with the same rage they had once reserved for Democrats…
Republicans calling Trump’s tax returns ‘private’ don’t understand privacy
The norm that presidential candidates release their tax returns is not about citizens' nosiness, but their rightful concerns that powerful beings might be beholden to corporations and foreign powers – all red flags in Trump's case in particular, of course...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/24/republicans-calling-trumps-tax-returns-private-dont-understand-privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/24/republicans-calling-trumps-tax-returns-private-dont-understand-privacy
Trump, Bankman-Fried and Musk are the monsters of American capitalism
If this past week presents any single lesson, it's the social costs of greed. Capitalism is premised on greed but also on guardrails – laws and norms – that prevent greed from becoming so excessive that it threatens the system as a whole...
‘When in doubt, plant a nut tree’: the push to seed America with chestnuts
Chestnut forests could provide food security for communities, be a boon for farmers and benefit the environment
The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2022-12-23
Domestic
The House Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol released its final report this week, recommending that Donald Trump be prosecuted by the Justice Department on four criminal counts. Several members of Congress were also referred to the ethics committee for their role in the insurrection.A massive winter storm is moving its way through the country and affecting holiday travel for millions of Americans. Thousands of flights have been canceled, leading many to change their plans this holiday season.
The DEA’s end-of-the-year list is a tad grimmer than many circulating at the moment. The agency says it’s seized enough fentanyl this year to kill every American.
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International
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the U.S. this week to address a special joint session of Congress asking for continued support in his country’s war against Russia.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban has moved to ban women from attending universities. The highest level of education a woman may now achieve in the country is the equivalent of 6th grade.
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Saturday, December 24, 2022
The F.D.A. Now Says It Plainly: Morning-After Pills Are Not Abortion Pills - The New York Times
Up to now, packages of the brand-name pill, Plan B One-Step, as well as generic versions of it have said that the pill might work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb — language that scientific evidence did not support. That wording led some abortion opponents and politicians who equate a fertilized egg with a person to say that taking the morning-after pill could be the equivalent of having an abortion or even committing murder...
Librarian Shames Conservatives Who 'Threatened' Her Over LGBTQ Books
A Michigan librarian ripped into conservatives who have "threatened" and "cursed at" her...
Congress approves new election certification rules in response to Jan. 6 | PBS NewsHour
The provisions amending the 1887 law — which has long been criticized as poorly and confusingly written — won bipartisan support and would make it harder for future presidential losers to prevent the ascension of their foes, as Trump tried to do on Jan. 6, 2021.
"It's a monumental accomplishment, particularly in this partisan atmosphere, for such a major rewrite of a law that's so crucial to our democracy," said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California Los Angeles. "This law goes a long way toward shutting down the avenues Trump and his allies tried to use in 2020, and could have been exploited in future elections."…
‘Morning after’ pill label changed to clarify it does not cause abortion - The Washington Post
But the FDA's new guidance on its website makes it even clearer that the medication is not an abortion pill.
"Plan B One-Step will not work if a person is already pregnant, meaning it will not affect an existing pregnancy …," it wrote. "Evidence does not support that the drug affects implantation or maintenance of a pregnancy after implantation, therefore it does not terminate a pregnancy."…
The full January 6 report is out. Here are the key details and recommendations : NPR
In addition to the criminal referrals to the DOJ, the committee laid out 11 recommendations aimed at better protecting the American democratic system from future attacks. Those recommendations include clarifying that the role of the vice president in the transition of power is purely ceremonial and a new federal law enforcement emphasis on anti-government extremist groups...
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