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Juneteenth Special: Harriet Tubman Was A Real Person, Not A Superhero
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 19, 2024 17:45 - 23 minutesThis Juneteenth, we explore the real human story behind the myths about Harriet Tubman, including her spirituality, her relationship with nature, and the disability she lived with while liberating so many enslaved people. On Today's Show: Tiya Miles, professor of history and former chair of th...
Senator Gillibrand: Trump Banned Bump Stocks. Will Senate Republicans Allow That To Stand?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 18, 2024 19:24 - 18 minutesAfter the Supreme Court ruled a ban on "bump stocks," how are lawmakers in Congress thinking about the politics of gun policy? On Today's Show: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about her work in Washington, including recent Supreme Court decisions and President Biden's immigration p...
Congressman (and Candidate) Bowman's Stance on the Israel-Hamas War
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 17, 2024 18:19 - 19 minutesThe Israel-Hamas War is a New York Democratic Primary issue. On today's show: Congressman (and Candidate) Jamaal Bowman (D-NY16) discusses his stance.
Monday Morning QB - Monday, June 17, 2024
Monday Morning QB - June 17, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSue Goodwin & Chris Bangert-Drowns
Oregon’s transportation system is ‘hemorrhaging.’ Is there a fix?
Beat Check with The Oregonian - June 17, 2024 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsAcross Oregon, county and city leaders say they don’t have the money to maintain their streets and sidewalks. In the Portland area, a pair of mega transportation projects years in the making remain unfinished and drastically underfunded. All the while, the Oregon Department of Transportation says...
Blackballed Rewind: Seymour Hersh
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 16, 2024 18:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis interview from 2023 features legendary reporter Seymour Hersh. Hersh breaks down the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing and who was actually responsible for it, plus gives insights re what sound reporting is and used to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...
UK Elections: They’re Not Like Ours! Plus, the Messy Family Behind Paramount
On the Media - June 14, 2024 23:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratingsOver the past two decades, 900 British postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for fraud. On this week’s On the Media, hear how a TV show about the Post Office Scandal sparked a political reckoning in the U.K. Plus, meet the Redstones – the complicated family behind Paramount Global. [00:00] ...
How the G7 Summit is the "Hottest Club" for World Leaders
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 14, 2024 19:16 - 25 minutesWorld leaders of the G7 are flocking to Italy for the annual G7 Summit, and so are world leaders from everywhere else. On today's show: Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a column on life in Biden's Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on "The ...
Blackballed Rewind: Jully Black
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 14, 2024 03:33 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMiss Jully Black is one of the most prolific and talented RnB singers Canada has ever produced. Her rendition of Canada's national anthem created controversy and ultimately won her praise as a trailblazer inside music culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Presidential Polling Update, And SCOTUS's Mifepristone Decision
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 13, 2024 18:11 - 21 minutesDuring today's live show, news broke that the Supreme Court upheld the FDA's approval of mifepristone, a medical abortion drug. On Today's Show: Listeners reflect on the news, and Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of "The Campaign Moment" newsletter for The Washington Post, shar...
Israel Unmasked: A Serial Killer Society High On Hate, w/ Abby Martin & Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek Dispatches - June 12, 2024 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsTo discuss Israel’s holocaust in Gaza, Rania Khalek was joined by journalist Abby Martin, creator and host of The Empire Files. Watch the extended version of this interview on our Patreon. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusiv...
The Israel/Hamas War As A NY Democratic Primary Issue
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 12, 2024 18:24 - 21 minutesThe conflict Gaza has created divisions within the Democratic party over human rights, and support for Israel. On Today's Show: George Latimer, Westchester County Executive challenging U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D, NY 16) in the New York State's June 25th primary, talks about his primary campaign...
Is Love is Blind a Toxic Workplace?
On the Media - June 12, 2024 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratingsThis week's midweek podcast comes from our colleagues at the New Yorker Radio Hour: On the Netflix reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” contestants are alone in windowless, octagonal pods with no access to their phones or the Internet. They talk to each other through the walls. There’s intri...
Maxime Bernier on Foreign Interference, Pride and Immigration
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 11, 2024 17:40 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMaxime Bernier is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Stephen Harper government, and the leader of the People's Party of Canada. He returns to Blackballed to discuss the current foreign affairs scandal, how he feels about Pride Month, and shares his thoughts on immigration. Learn more ...
George Packer on Phoenix as a Bellweather For Us All
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 11, 2024 17:38 - 24 minutesWhat makes a particular city in Arizona a good indicator of the future of both American democracy, as well as the climate crisis? On Today's Show: George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), reports ...
The Political Dark Arts Show w/ David Wallace
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 11, 2024 02:56 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Political Dark Arts Show is a Blackballed production, featuring former political fixer David Wallace. We venture down the alley and talk openly about how dirty politics permeates in Canada and internationally, and why it is so difficult to report efficiently about the role dirty tricks plays ...
Defending the Influx of Migrants
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 10, 2024 19:56 - 21 minutesLast week, President Biden issued an executive order that prevents migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border when crossings surge. On today's show: Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), explains his opposition to the executive order and argu...
Monday Morning QB - Monday, June 10, 2024
Monday Morning QB - June 10, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSue Goodwin & Chris Bangert-Drowns
Diving into why college going rates are declining in Oregon
Beat Check with The Oregonian - June 10, 2024 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsWay back in 2011, policymakers in Oregon set an ambitious goal. By 2025, 80 percent of the state’s 25- to 34-year-old residents would have some kind of college credentials. The deadline is next year, and the state won’t come close. Instead, college-going rates have been on the decline in Oregon f...
Big Joe Goes to Little Oakville (ft. Scott Martin)
Big Shiny Takes - June 10, 2024 03:00 - 1 hourOakville Town Hall is under siege from a red scourge and Sun journalist Joe Warmington is on the case after a hot tip. Can the People's Champion make sense of the situation? Will anyone talk some sense into these misguided youngsters? Freelance journalist Scott Martin (@YouCaughtScott) helps u...
Casual Friday: The Miscellaneous Episode
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 08, 2024 09:57 - 4 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames, Ashley, Ryan, Douglas, Leanne and David Wallace talk excrement, swinger culture, politics etc...James leaves early...again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Former Disinformation Reporter is Running The Onion. Plus, Birds ARE Real.
On the Media - June 07, 2024 22:51 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratingsThis week, the Department of Justice accused one of the most influential right wing outlets of laundering tens of millions of dollars. On this week’s On the Media, a former reporter on his progression from defining the disinformation beat to running one of the most famous fake news outlets, The ...
Tracie McMillan on Her Life’s “White Bonus”
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 07, 2024 19:04 - 21 minutesA new book explores attempts to put a price on whiteness, based on explorations of generational wealth and experience. On Today's Show: Tracie McMillan, journalist, former managing editor of City Limits and the author of The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Mc...
Israel’s AI Killing Machine & Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide, w/ Lowkey
Rania Khalek Dispatches - June 07, 2024 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsRania Khalek is joined by Lowkey, rapper, activist and host of 'The Watchdog' podcast on MintPress News, to discuss Israel’s use of artificial intelligence in Gaza, the complicity of tech giants, and how the genocide is impacting British politics.
Max Fawcett talks Mark Carney, the PBO, and Foreign Interference
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 06, 2024 18:48 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMax Fawcett is back. He and James discuss the Conservative Party's intense focus on Liberal-in-waiting, Mark Carney. We then talk about the Parliamentary Budget Office's mishandling of the carbon tax rebate report. Finally, Max helps us understand the muddy waters after a scathing report of possi...
On D-Day, Europe is Freaking Out About a Second Trump Term
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 06, 2024 16:33 - 22 minutesEuropean officials are reportedly convinced that former president Trump Trump is going to win the election in November. On Today's Show: McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), shares his reporting, and why some foreign leaders...
BONUS episode: How the Portland airport carpet design became a civic icon
Beat Check with The Oregonian - June 06, 2024 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsLaura Hill was about 30 years old when she helped create one of Portland’s most-iconic designs. When the Port of Portland was redesigning Portland International Airport in 1986, architecture and design firm SRG Partnership led the project. Hill retired from the firm in 2008, but at the time she w...
Strip Away the Lies: Israel’s Naked Colonialism Nears Its End, w/ Prof. Joseph Massad
Rania Khalek Dispatches - June 05, 2024 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsTo discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the myths its supporters use to justify it, Rania Khalek was joined by Joseph Massad, Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University and the author of many books including “The Persistence of the Palestinian Question,” “...
Biden's Political Calculations On The Border, Cease Fire And More
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - June 05, 2024 18:14 - 20 minutesPresident Biden's executive action on the southern border, his son's trial and the latest on the role of the U.S. in cease fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. On Today's Show: Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big...
Blackball Rewind: The Jordan Peterson Interview
Blackballed With James Di Fiore - June 05, 2024 15:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom James' short-lived radio program, The Starting Point Show. This interview with Jordan Peterson is refreshing in that he does not come off as some far-right flame thrower. Worth the listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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