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#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See Things Clearly (Voter Suppression)
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08/25/20 • 69 min
Air Date 8/25/2020
Today we take a look at the long history and motivations for voter suppression, explain why it tends to help one party over the other and why vote-by-mail is the best solution to the majority of our voting problems.
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Ch. 1: Jay explains that voter suppression is like pointillism in that it can only be understood by taking a wide enough view
Ch. 3: The pointillism of voter suppression (continued)
Ch. 4: Victoria Bassetti of the Brennan Center on the myth of widespread voter fraud - @DecodeDC - Air Date 10-20-16
Ch. 7: Carol Anderson on the Realities of Voter Suppression - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 9-12-18
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments
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Let People Vote - State-by-State Rules & Options (ACLU)
Volunteer for a 2020 Voter Protection Team (FairFight)
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08/25/20 • 69 min
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#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Repost + Bonus Clips)
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10/13/21 • 84 min
Air Date 10/13/2020
Today we take a look at the myths of Columbus and American ExceptionalismTM that we cling to and turn our gaze to some of the less-understood but more accurate and important aspects of our collective history
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This is a heavy episode of our show. Discussions include Blood quantum and its use in Tribal Enrollment, American·s false love affair with President Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus.
Ch. 2: Why the US celebrates Columbus Day - Vox - Air Date 10-8-20
For centuries, the destruction and disease he ushered into the Americas have been set aside, allowing the myth of a pioneering sailor who discovered America and proved the world was round to embed itself in US culture.
Ch. 3: Columbus In His Own Words - Let's Talk Native TV - Air Date 10-12-19
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on a small island in the Caribbean... these are his words.
Ch. 4: In Search of a Better American Myth - Progressive Faith Sermons, Dr. Roger Ray - Air Date 10-11-20
A civilization’s shared myths account for why things are the way they are. They can bolster loyalty to a religion or a nation, and they can excuse class and race privilege.
Jon Schwarz on social silence and hidden history.
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Ch. 7: City Upon A Hill: A History Of American Exceptionalism - BackStory - Air Date 1-22-16
Tracing the origin and misappropriation of the idea of America as a "City upon a hill."
Ch. 8: The American Exceptionalism Mythology - Loud & Clear - Air Date 7-5-19
Exploring the origins and falsity of the idea of "American ExceptionalismTM"
Ch. 9: Columbus redux! - Let's Talk Native - Air Date 7-17-19
The irony of telling dissatisfied progressives of color to "Go back where they came from" is that America is only so full of white people because they left their old countries rather than staying and trying to improve them.
Ch. 10: Why The Right Is So Dishonest About American History - Cracked (Some More News) - Air Date 11-21-17
Happy almost-Thanksgiving. What could be better than football and turkey? Well, there·s genocide and stuff, but we don·t want to ruin your holidays. We·ll leave that to the disingenuous folks who would like to pretend that there is nothing wrong.
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Ch. 11: In response to Craig from OH about the progressive myth - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 12: Conservative blindspot on climate - Craig from Ohio
Ch. 13: Is 'kids in cages' really a conservative blindspot? - Larry from Minnesota
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 14: Final comments on the blindspots fr...
10/13/21 • 84 min
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Bonus Edition #205 A Pandemic of American Myths
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/29/20 • 54 min
Air Date 4/29/2020
Today, we discuss clips that highlight two of the most powerful American myths that consistently drive us into calamitous territory: the primacy of market-based solutions and hyper-individualism
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Public safety is built on latent capacity. We pay for people and equipment to stand idle, over-prepared for emergencies. We’ve left no latent capacity in health care.
Ch. 2: A whole new problem with a profit-driven health care system
Ch. 3: Pandemic, Protests and Profits - Reveal - Air Date 4-25-20
Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders, even though health experts say that could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. Some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.
Ch. 4: A pandemic of individualism
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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04/29/20 • 54 min
Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/16/20 • 59 min
Air Date 4/16/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss a few of the aspects of life during a pandemic that's causing mental fog and affecting our work.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: We all make mistakes but we’re making a lot more of them right now
Ch. 2: The Burnout Generation
Ch. 3: Survival Mode
Ch. 4: Hidden Mental Health Toll of Coronavirus with Alisa Kriegel - WhoWhatWhy - Air Date 3-22-20
The COVID-19 pandemic is going to have a huge toll on mental health, what can we do to mitigate the damage?
Ch. 5: Soft Launch of my secret project
Ch. 6: Showing the ShowSharerTM
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04/16/20 • 59 min
#1347 Locked in a Petri Dish (Mass Pandemic Incarceration)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/12/20 • 113 min
Air Date 4/12/2020
Today we take a look at the way mass incarceration is coming back to bite the US as jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers are becoming Petri dishes for the coronavirus that will help perpetuate the pandemic as well as non-virus related deaths throughout the population.
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Ch. 1: Prisons and Jails Are a Coronavirus Time Bomb - Deep Background with Noah Feldman - Air Date 3-24-20
Homer Venters, the former Chief Medical Officer for the NYC Jail system, says that we need to stop the spread of coronavirus in prisons, jails, and detention centers.
Alarm is growing about the safety of more than 37,000 people held in immigrant detention centers and private jails that contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, where it is nearly impossible to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Ch. 3: Coronavirus Behind Bars: Crisis In New York Part 1 - News Beat - Air Date 4-8-20
Rikers Island now has more than 200 coronavirus cases and recorded its first COVID-19-related death last weekend. Advocates warn that anyone held in the jail is in mortal danger.
Ch. 4: COVID-19 and the border - The Weeds - Air Date 4-7-20
Dara, Jane, and Matt on the intersection between the pandemic and Trump's border crackdown.
These community bail funds are freeing people by paying bail and bond and are also fighting to abolish the money bail system and pretrial detention.
Ch. 6: No Hierarchy of Humanity Part 1 - Off-Kilter - Air Date 3-20-20
Tom Jawetz and Emily Galvin-Almanza on the steps leaders need to take to reach the nation’s 5,000 prisons, jails, and immigrant detention facilities.
Ch. 7: Dispatches from People Stranded in Place - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 4-3-20
WNYC Investigative Reporter Matt Katz brings us calls from inside immigration detention centers.
Ch. 8: The Emergency in Our Jails - Social Distance - Air Date 4-8-20
Everyone is being ordered to social distance. Except those who are being ordered into places where that’s impossible. Jim and Katherine talk with Conor Friedersdorf about what can be done.
Ch. 9: No Hierarchy of Humanity Part 2 - Off-Kilter - Air Date 3-20-20
Tom Jawetz and Emily Galvin-Almanza on the steps leaders need to take to reach the nation’s 5,000 prisons, jails, and immigrant detention facilities.
Advocates say marginalized communities are going to suffer the worst from the consequences of a broken economy, neglect, and a decaying social safety net.
04/12/20 • 113 min
Bonus Edition #201 Forget Positive Thinking, Feel Better by Contemplating the Worst
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04/08/20 • 59 min
Air Date 4/8/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss the extremely counterintuitive practice of Negative Visualization and how it could be one of the most powerful tools to help you feel better about your circumstances and the state of the world during the pandemic crisis.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Discussing the book “A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy” and the practice of Negative Visualization
Ch. 2: Take it like a Stoic coping in the time of coronavirus - Ideas - Air Date 4-3-20
Ch. 3: Discussing how stoicism has impacted us personally
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Middle - American Moon Bicycle
- Closer - American Moon Bicycle
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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04/08/20 • 59 min
Bonus Edition #200 Mental Taxation
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/01/20 • 23 min
Air Date: 4-1-20
Today, Amanda and I discuss the silent, ever-present taxation that is robbing all of us of our normal levels of mental energy during the pandemic.
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04/01/20 • 23 min
#1346 Pandemic Economics and the Reverse Robin Hood Bailout
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/04/20 • 112 min
Air Date 4/4/2020
Today we take a look at many of the economic angles of the COVID-19 pandemic including the role of the shock doctrine in the wake of the coronavirus, calls for a socially just economic recovery, calls for the elderly to be turned into Soylent Green and the biggest Reverse Robin Hood bailout of all time.
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Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis, like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities.
Ch. 2: Prof. Richard Wolff on Pandemic Economics - The Zero Hour - Air Date 3-20-20
Prof. Richard Wolff explains the failure of capitalism to prepare or respond to the pandemic
Ch. 4: AOC on a Socially Just Pandemic Response - Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 3-31-20
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks about the federal relief package which is to include cash payments to everyone, as well as rent and mortgage relief
Ch. 5: An economic crisis like we’ve never seen - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 3-23-20
Annie Lowrey on the coronavirus depression
Ch. 6: Jim Naureckas on COVID-19 - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-20-20
The coronavirus is highlighting existing faults and fissures in US society. Stark evidence of government priorities and their impact is coming fast and furious.
Ch. 7: Is the cure worse than the disease? - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 3-26-20
Are we overreacting to coronavirus? An economist and a bioethicist weigh in.
Ch. 8: The Cyanide for Septuagenarians Movement - The Bugle - Air Date 3-27-20
A look at the growing movement to ritually sacrifice the elderly and otherwise vulnerable
Ch. 9: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 - Deep Background with Noah Feldman - Air Date 3-16-20
Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor of Economics at Harvard, discusses the economic harms of COVID-19.
Ch. 10: Trump Shows How Woefully Unprepared He Is For Coronavirus - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-26-20
Commenting on an article from Matt Stoller on the changing nature of our economy
Ch. 11: Stephanie Kelton MMT, the Crisis, and the Real Economy - The Zero Hour - Air Date 3-28-20
Stephanie Kelton explains the role of Modern Monetary Theory in the governmental response to the pandemic and economic collapse
04/04/20 • 112 min
#1280 Modern Monetary Theory: We already use it, now we need to understand it (Repost)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/01/20 • 70 min
Air Date 6/11/2019
Today we take a look at Modern Monetary Theory and the neoclassical economics it is looking to replace. It’s very important to understand the logistical and political mechanisms by which money for progressive policy priorities would be appropriated by Congress and the debate over MMT gets to the core of those issues and seeks to change the paradigm we use to think about government spending.
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There’s a pattern to the Republicans’ selective concern about increasing the deficit, and it all depends on who holds the power. When you look at the behavior of people in politics, they don’t really care about the national debt as much as they like to ta
Is government debt real? Is anything real? Professor Stephanie Kelton gives Nick and Goldy a master class on the hottest idea in economics right now: Modern Monetary Theory.
Ch. 3: Why should we care about deficits? Part 2 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 2-20-19
Stony Brook University’s Stephanie Kelton, an influential proponent of Modern Monetary Theory, and Jason Furman, President Barack Obama’s chief economist, discuss whether we should worry about government deficits and if so, when?
Stephanie Kelton is here to break it all down - the national deficit, the nature of money itself, federal spending, and why it’s time to stop comparing it to a household budget.
Ch. 5: Why should we care about deficits? Part 3 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 2-20-19
Stony Brook University’s Stephanie Kelton, an influential proponent of Modern Monetary Theory, and Jason Furman, President Barack Obama’s chief economist, discuss whether we should worry about government deficits and if so, when?
Prof Richard Wolff warns about the asymmetric politics of increasing and decreasing government spending
Stephanie Kelton is here to break it all down - the national deficit, the nature of money itself, federal spending, and why it’s time to stop comparing it to a household budget.
Ch. 8: Dealing with the politics of managing Modern Monetary Theory - Planet Money - Airdate 9-26-18
We must take the fingerprints of Congress off the economy in order to manage inflation concerns.
04/01/20 • 70 min
#1348 Not the Great Equalizer, the Amplifier of Disparity (Coronavirus)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
04/22/20 • 121 min
Air Date 4/21/2020
Today we take a look at the ways that COVID-19 are impacting the most vulnerable communities the worst and how our legacy of discrimination is being put on full display.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Race and Risk - Coronavirus Fact vs Fiction - Air Date 4-9-20
CNN's Chief Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta breaks down the various factors and demographics that may make some people and communities more susceptible.
The south, rural America and black Americans are all at higher risk during the pandemic.
A closer look at how and why the U.S.’s coronavirus outbreak is disproportionately hurting the black community.
The south, rural America and black Americans are all at higher risk during the pandemic.
Milwaukee’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Jeanette Kowalik, discusses the Wisconsin Supreme Court's reckless disregard for public safety as they force the state to conduct in-person voting.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi discusses what the data tells us about race and coronavirus in America and draws historical parallels between the Trump administration response and the Mississippi flood of 1927.
Ch. 7: “I will not apologize for my needs” Part 1 - Off-Kilter - Air Date 3-27-20
With the ongoing debate around health care rationing and ventilator shortages amid COVID19, Rebecca talks to Ari Ne’eman, Alice Wong, and Sam Bagenstos about the importance of disability non-discrimination in health care.
Ch. 8: Discounting the disabled and all those with pre-existing conditions - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-3-20
Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at AP‘s coronavirus boilerplate.
Ch. 9: “I will not apologize for my needs” Part 2 - Off-Kilter - Air Date 3-27-20
With the ongoing debate around health care rationing and ventilator shortages amid COVID19, Rebecca talks to Ari Ne’eman, Alice Wong, and Sam Bagenstos about the importance of disability non-discrimination in health care.
Ch. 10: Janine Jackson takes a quick look at scapegoating China - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-27-20
Stoking anti-Chinese sen...
04/22/20 • 121 min
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