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Trump-Vance's Project 2025, with quotes and citations, on: Abortion and reproductive rights. Mass immigrant detention and deportation. Medicaid and Medicare. Ending DEI, CRT. Schedule F and an Executive Office power grab. Ending Head Start. A sledgehammer to climate change. Access to birth control. On the viral post on the only valid family where...
Part IV and the long-awaited conclusion to this series: Abigail Spanberger looks to oust the incumbent Trump ally Brat in Virginia's 2018 election. The Pelosi Tactic and the (only) debate - but first an awkward chicken festival encounter. Also: getting pissed off, some of the double-standards when women run, one aspect of 2018's Blue Wave tallied,...
Part 3 of 4: Abigail Spanberger faces Dan Ward in the Virginia 7th CD Primary. Plus: Edith Childs and Obama, EMERGE origins, MVP, HRC, AOC, spellcasting, and more.
Part 2 of 4 on Abigail Spanberger: Virginia's 7th district (VA07) transforms from rural to suburban to (grassroots) political activism by 2017. Women explore candidacies at unseen levels. Money greases the political machine, like it or not, Spanberger finds a way to keep crowds engaged with her CIA experience as the grueling Primary whittles down...
Abigail Spanberger's run for CD VA-07 can offer some key insight for today, be sure to catch all of this 4-part series. Part 1 covers the wake of the 2016 Election, how that time was a regrouping moment for Democrats, Spanberger's decision to run, and much more.
ChatGPT is the focus today. Kedro prompts ChatGPT to write poetry about this dawn of AI - from an introduction to exploring the difficult-to-quantify optimism and most extreme concerns within the AI itself, ChatGPT explains itself to non-tech folks by comparing itself to C3P0 from Star Wars, teachers and students grapple with ChatGPT, naturally...
Best of 2022: Parts 4-6 of the John Lewis / Voting Rights Movement series from earlier this year. This event, published over the summer, is a landmark for the show.
Best of 2022: Parts 1-3 of the John Lewis / Voting Rights Movement series from earlier this year. This event, published over the summer, is a landmark for the show.
With friend of the show JOHAN, the history whiz. A mixed bag of good times.
The many angles and myths of the quite entertaining 1919 Black Sox Scandal with Kedro and Johan. The rise of baseball amidst the backdrop of World War I and a new American sense of individualism, gamblers and opportunistic Champions, Arnold Rothstein, carrying $200k in cash at all times, fictitious hitmen, connections to current events, crispy...
With friend of the show JOHAN, the history whiz. A mixed bag of good times.
Part 4 and the conclusion to this special series: Jonestown and Jackie with KEDRO AND JOHAN! **graphic content warning** The last day. Several Jonestown members are discussed. Plus, the White Nights, selections from many recordings, and much more. Thank you to the Jonestown Institute, a crucial resource for this series.
Jonestown and Jackie Part 3 of 4 with KEDRO AND JOHAN! The night before and the morning of. Rep Ryan and Jackie Speier finally get to Jonestown as Jim Jones begins to lose it, creeping ever-closer to initiating his doomsday.
Part 2 of 4: Jonestown and Jackie with KEDRO AND JOHAN. The early life of Jim Jones and his obsession with life and death. The social work that established him as a community leader and the rainbow Jones family. Jones moves his operation from Indiana to Ukiah and then on to San Francisco - where he develops real tentacles that...
