May 16, 2024

Joe Biden just announced a number of new tariffs on Chinese goods, but no one is hearing about it because corporate media is busy cashing in on tangerine-flavored courtroom drama. There’s also a monumentally important union vote going on at Mercedes in Alabama, and teachers are busy giving away books at a time when radicals are trying to ban them. Once again, corporate media is busy giving us the same hour of clickbait 24 times in a row. These stories and more with our guests: Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage, and Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers.

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May 15, 2024

Infrastructure is more than bridges and potholes. It’s how we keep up in a very competitive world, and it’s about creating better lives for American families. It’s also the difference between saying and doing, as the last administration talked about it endlessly but did nothing, while the Biden administration got the legislation passed in very difficult circumstances and put America to work. We discuss this and more with today’s guests – Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing, and Irene Tung of The National Employment Law Project.

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May 14, 2024

Every election cycle, we see the same thing over and over. The right floods the zone with fiction, and the left can’t get off the couch for long enough to compete. Dems call this a “messaging problem.” That’s incorrect. It’s a delivery problem, and no one is serious about fixing it. This and more on today’s show, with guest Emily de La Bruyere of Horizon Advisory.

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May 13, 2024

Well, the Republicans are impeaching Biden again, though no one knows why, and Trump just tried to sell the planet to Big Oil for a billion in campaign cash. These stories are so strange they shouldn’t be true, but when right-wing media is running the show, every day is a bit crazier than the last. We’ll talk about these stories and more with today’s guests – Liliana Calderon of International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, and Journalist Sarah Burris of Raw Story.

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May 10, 2024

Earlier this week, Joe Biden went to Racine, Wisconsin, to the site of Trump’s failed Foxconn disaster, to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft that will bring the jobs to the area that Trump promised but never delivered. It’s just another example of the difference between saying something and doing something. Today’s guest is Corey Hill, President of UAW Local 3250.

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May 9, 2024

On today’s show, we start with a discussion of child labor in America. In its never-ending search for cheap exploitable workers, corporate America has used its stable of GOP legislators to weaken child labor laws in many states and find ways to get around existing laws in order to force kids into dangerous industrial jobs. We discuss this and more with our guests: Greg Regan of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, and former GOP Congressman Bob Ney.

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May 8, 2024

We’ve done it. We’ve finally done it. For the first time in American history, the wealth class now pays a lower tax rate than the working class. Now we just have to wait for all the wealth we simply give the rich to “trickle down” to the rest of us. Unless it was all just a big lie … Our guests today are Julie Hedrick – President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, and Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing.

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May 7, 2024

Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota and wannabe Trump VP-pick just released a new book, and it appears to be full of carefully chosen lies. In fact, so much of what comes from the right these days is just carefully chosen lies. On today’s show, we discuss why this is the case, and what we can do about it. We also spend some time with Will Bunch of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and our resident expert on all things China – Emily de La Bruyere of Horizon Advisory.

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