Voices: River City
292 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsVoices: River City is an independent, socialist news podcast based out of Sacramento, discussing California politics. Local radio listeners can hear us Tuesdays at 5 pm on KUTZ 103.1, with a second airing on Wednesdays at 8 am.
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176 - Leaving Afghanistan (8.17.2021)
August 17, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBAfter two decades of military occupation and over $2 trillion in spending, United States troops are leaving Afghanistan as the Taliban regains control of the country. Who could have seen this coming? According to a 2019 Washington Post investigation, just about every US military and political official with knowledge on Afghanistan knew that the war was an utter disaster, despite bald-faced lies to the American people. Maybe if President George W Bush had accepted the Taliban's surrender o...
TEASER: 175 - Chief Daniel Hahn retires (8.13.2021)
August 13, 2021 07:09 - 5 minutes - 6.14 MB[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron here today!] On the four-year anniversary of his swearing in as chief of the Sacramento Police Department, Daniel Hahn has filed his intent to retire to Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan. This comes at the end of a complicated tenure that included the police killing of Stephon Clark, police violence during 2020's George Floyd protests, and a 2021 report showing racial bias within the ranks of Sac PD. The crew discusses Chief Hahn's tim...
174 - A czar's master plan, for homelessness (8.10.2021)
August 10, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBSacramento is finally moving forward on a vote to enact its $100 million master plan addressing homelessness, a move that could potentially help a good percentage of the estimated 11,000 people in Sacramento County who find themselves without housing over the course of a year (most of them live within city limits), with identified sites for shelter throughout the city. While this may seem like a local issue, the entire state of California is watching to see what Mayor Darrell Steinberg is...
174 - A czar's masterful plan, for homelessness (8.10.2021)
August 10, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBSacramento is finally moving forward on a vote to enact its $100 million master plan addressing homelessness, a move that could potentially help a good percentage of the estimated 11,000 people in Sacramento County who find themselves without housing over the course of a year (most of them live within city limits), with identified sites for shelter throughout the city. While this may seem like a local issue, the entire state of California is watching to see what Mayor Darrell Steinberg is...
TEASER: 173- Everything is great, all the time (8.6.2021)
August 06, 2021 07:08 - 6 minutes - 7 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!] Since MOST of the crew is back, we have resident epidemiologist Dr Flo discuss the ins and outs of the rise of the delta variant of the coronavirus in California. We also discuss the absurd recall election against Governor Gavin Newsom. Even though we dislike Democrats almost as much as Republicans, there's still some room for concern. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flo...
UNLOCKED - 170: Ranger danger
August 03, 2021 05:33 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWe're joined today by our good friend Niki, who has witnessed in recent months a drastic uptick in Sacramento County Parks Rangers terrorizing the unhoused community. They are bulldozing people's homes (killing a litter of kittens in the process), stealing people's cookware, and generally causing a sense of unease and fear at established encampments. We talk with Niki about what's happening, how folks are fighting back, and what people can continue to do to let county authorities know that ...
TEASER: 172 - When rents go up, tents go up (7.30.2021)
July 30, 2021 08:40 - 3 minutes - 4.15 MB[Wanna see/hear the full episode? Become a patron today!] We begin this episode on the rise in Sacramento's rent-gouging ceiling, which has gone up from six to nine percent. While Mayor Darrell Steinberg and others who were on the dais in 2019 think they passed something akin to rent control, the fact is that renters in post-pandemic Sacramento are in for a very difficult time. "Upzoning" laws don't appear to be as exciting as politicians make them out to be, and massive quality public ho...
171 - Maya's story, with her mother, Rose Disney (7.27.2021)
July 27, 2021 07:41 - 58 minutes - 67.4 MBMaya Disney was a victim of countless systemic failures in California: public schools that did not provide the support she deserved, a deeply punitive carceral system, horrific gaps in mental healthcare availability, and so much more. Weeks before she lost her life to suicide, Disney saw how American media would write her own story. Today we speak with her mother, Rose Disney, on the nuances of Maya's life, and why telling her story is important, not least because it happens to marginalize...
TEASER: 170 - Ranger danger (7.23.2021)
July 23, 2021 13:38 - 3 minutes - 4.34 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!] We're joined today by our good friend Niki, who has witnessed in recent months a drastic uptick in Sacramento County Parks Rangers terrorizing the unhoused community. They are bulldozing people's homes (killing a litter of kittens in the process), stealing people's cookware, and generally causing a sense of unease and fear at established encampments. We talk with Niki about what's happening, how folks are fighting back, and what peopl...
169 - Death by SEIU 1000 cuts, with Jonah Paul (7.20.2021)
July 20, 2021 08:04 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBToday we're joined by rank-and-file SEIU 1000 member Jonah Paul, who wrote this exhaustive piece on concerns over the union's new populist, right-wing leader Richard Louis Brown, who recently announced to his Twitter followers, "I am YOUR VACCINATION against this VIRUS." Brown also loves to discuss his favorite sequence of numbers with his followers, 7437: "Those numbers came from God. [...] Seven days to start life, right. Seven days to end life. If you take the numbers 7437 and add them ...
TEASER: 168 - Runaway Hahn (7.16.2021)
July 16, 2021 08:00 - 2 minutes - 2.51 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!] Chief Daniel Hahn and the Sacramento Police Department have dropped out last-minute on Monday's joint meeting between the Sacramento Measure U Advisory Committee and the Community Police Review Commission. Thankfully, we've got Flo and Keyan to walk us through the central points. Three topics of note: - How many Measure U tax dollars will be going to Sacramento's police next year? (Interested to discuss the school-to-cop pipeline th...
167 - Skyler the champion, with Councilmember Katie Valenzuela (7.13.2021)
July 13, 2021 06:53 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBToday we discuss the immoral treatment of Skyler Henry by elected officials and their proxies, and how he and Councilmember Valenzuela crushed them in the courtroom. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. Also, if you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach...
TEASER: 166 - Mutual aid in a heat wave (when you can't rely on your government) (7.9.2021)
July 09, 2021 08:47 - 2 minutes - 2.89 MB[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron today!] The gang discusses our government bureaucracy's repeated failures in the face of rolling heat waves caused by climate change. Instead of focusing on humanitarian emergencies, officials like Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan prefer to focus on the whims of downtown hotel managers. But there are a WHOLE lot of people in Sacramento ready to take care of one another in the form of mutual aid. We discuss the anarchist beginnin...
165 - Oil baron summer (7.6.2021)
July 06, 2021 07:42 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBThe more we watch Big Oil get away with the worst crimes against humanity in the modern era, the more we're reminded of the old-school oil baron crushing his enemies and grinding their bones into the dirt. Capitalism has been winning for a long time. So it's perhaps not surprising--if still infuriating--that the same day we learned about an Exxon lobbyist saying the quiet part loud about just how much they know about their hand in ending humanity as we know it, an American woman was senten...
TEASER: 164 - The slander of Skyler Henry by the coward Howard Chan
July 02, 2021 09:23 - 9 minutes - 10.4 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!] Ah, what a lovely month of rest it's been. Did we miss anything? Not much to report from the VOICES: crew, other than the fact that our cohost Skyler has a new job at city hall with Sacramento's socialist councilmember, Katie Valenzuela. Fox News covered it. Then City Manager Howard Chan threw a fit. And City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood asked the city council to vote to file a restraining order against Skyler. They obliged, with an ...
163 - Omar Ameen's immoral ICE detention, with federal defense attorney Rachelle Barbour (6.1.2021)
June 01, 2021 11:11 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBOmar Ameen, a father of four and Iraqi refugee who had made his home in Sacramento, was handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department last month after he proved in an historic extradition case that he was in Turkey at the time of a 2014 killing of an Iraqi police officer. Now Sacramento residents and concerned Americans are fighting to get Ameen released so that he can be with his family while he fights ICE's bogus charges. Today we're tal...
TEASER: 162 - A year after George Floyd's murder (5.28.2021)
May 28, 2021 13:07 - 4 minutes - 5.3 MB[To view/hear the full episode, become a patron today!] For all the California legislature's claims that they're champions of progressive politics, neither the super-duper Democratic majority Assembly nor the Senate pay their interns. This has a warped affect on who is able to be an intern at the Capitol--and, thus, gain the skills, connections and access to future positions in state politics--with affluent folks whose parents can pay their rent more likely to be able to afford six months ...
161 - Asmaa AbuMezied on the Israeli attacks on Gaza (5.25.2021)
May 25, 2021 09:49 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBToday we're speaking with Asmaa AbuMezied, who joins us from the Gaza Strip to discuss Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians, and what United States citizens can do to help stop them. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. Also, if you require a ...
TEASER: 160 - Kempa killed Carole Baskin (5.21.2021)
May 21, 2021 07:18 - 5 minutes - 5.99 MB[To see/hear the full episode, become a patron today!] Governor Gavin Newsom has a new budget proposal ready to go, but the lack of funding for public health has people scratching their heads, especially coming out of a pandemic (which isn’t all the way over yet, by the way). As the state of California poises to open up on June 15, it does seem like there are a few reasons to be cautiously optimistic. Many areas in Sacramento have high vaccination rates, cases are down around the state, an...
159 - Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion editor, man (5.18.2021)
May 18, 2021 13:08 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBWe're joined this episode by special (and invisible) guest, Sac Snark! In California media news, Gil Duran is mysteriously stepping down from his position as Opinion Editor at the Sacramento Bee. This comes in the months after his high-profile Twitter spats and bizarre opinion pieces targeting the region's leftists, followed by weeks of uncharacteristic quiet from the former press secretary for Governor Jerry Brown. Duran has a long history of fighting against working class Californians in...
TEASER: 158 - Identity politics in blue, protofascism in red
May 14, 2021 10:56 - 3 minutes - 4.48 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!] We start with the news that Sacramento District 5 2022 candidate Caity Maple has endorsed District 1 Councilmember Angelique Ashby for Dr Richard Pan's soon-to-be-vacated California state Senate seat. Maple has supported a number of progressive causes, so it has surprised a number of people to see her support for Ashby, who has a long history of being pro-cop, anti-homeless and against CalCare for all (AB 1400). On Maple's public post...
157 - Timothy Spikestrip McVeigh (5.11.2021)
May 11, 2021 10:05 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MBIt's been quite a week for the region's law enforcement, with one Sacramento police officer facing two counts of filing a fake police report and another looking at domestic violence charges. (The latter was involved in a December 2019 police shooting of a man's dog outside the Midtown Safeway, for which the city had to pay $99,000.) Is this an aberrant streak of cop misconduct in the region, or is Sac PD leadership finally responding to public pressure? On the county level, meanwhile, we're...
156 - Councilmember Katie Valenzuela discusses the city manager vote (5.7.2021)
May 07, 2021 12:29 - 59 minutes - 67.8 MB[NOTE: We've unlocked this special Friday episode for public consumption] We're joined today by Councilmember Katie Valenzuela to discuss the city's controversial vote to give City Manager Howard Chan a 21 percent raise. The vote was unanimous--meaning that both progressive councilmembers Valenzuela and Mai Vang landed in favor of it--raising the ire of a number of progressives. We also briefly touch on the inner workings of the city, and how hard Valenzuela had to push to get the police '...
155 - Old habits die hard (5.4.2021)
May 04, 2021 07:02 - 59 minutes - 68.2 MBCities and counties throughout the US are listening to their constituencies and moving funding away from their police departments and toward programs that actually serve the community. Sacramento? Not so much. Next year the city is set to fund the equivalent of five new cops. Per Mayor Darrell Steinberg: "I'm not for 'defunding,'" Steinberg said. "There are some things that are part of running a city, like collective bargaining and binding arbitration, and genuine needs for the police depar...
TEASER: 154 - Folsom prison blues (4.30.2021)
April 30, 2021 14:22 - 7 minutes - 8.76 MB[Want to hear/see the full episode? Become a patron today!] Folsom State Prison is showing all of us just how bad the prison guard culture in California (and beyond) is. To put it bluntly, they're a state-sanctioned gang responsible for unspeakable acts. Take, for instance, the guards being accused of conspiring to kill inmates. (There's video evidence of this, per sources.) Or the guard who was found dead after acting as a whistleblower on his colleagues' abhorrent behavior. Or the guard...
153 - The monstrous Anne Marie Schubert (4.27.2021)
April 27, 2021 12:14 - 59 minutes - 68.5 MBSacramento County's vile district attorney, Anne Marie Schubert, has decided that she will be running for California Attorney General in 2022 against the progressive, governor-appointed incumbent Rob Bonta. We take a moment to introduce the Schubes to the people of California. Her highlights include: Not charging a single cop in nearly 35 police shootings during her tenure Letting Stephon Clark's killer cops go free Needlessly assassinating Stephon Clark's character on national TV when s...
TEASER: 152 - On labor and climate justice, with Aaron Ziemer of the Sunrise Movement (4.23.2021)
April 23, 2021 16:04 - 4 minutes - 5.62 MB[Want to listen to/view this full episode? Become a patron today!] California's Democratic leadership has outright given up on fighting climate change. Earlier this month, a bill to end fracking--a practice Governor Gavin Newsom claimed he was against as recently as last September, before going silent in the midst of fighting a recall effort--died in the state Senate's Natural Resources and Water Committee, with key Democrats refusing to cast their votes. One of the deadbeat senators was B...
151 - Whose streets? (4.20.2021)
April 20, 2021 15:19 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBFacing a recall campaign on his right, California Governor Gavin Newsom is also feeling pressure from the Left to support a bill that would provide universal health care to all Californians. CalCare, as they calling it, would expand medical coverage to nearly 3 million uninsured residents, so why wouldn't he support it? Well, Newsom's close relationships with the medical establishment don't help the cause. But you know what might help? Some direct action. Stay tuned for next Monday, when th...
TEASER: 150 - "FUCK YOU PHIL!" (4.16.2021)
April 16, 2021 15:04 - 2 minutes - 3.32 MB[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron today!] The city and county of Sacramento are set to get a windfall of federal stimulus funds, to the tune of $420 million. The question is, where does this money go? The People's Budget of Sacramento have their own ideas. So do the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and Sacramento Police Department. Thankfully, there's a nationwide effort to ensure that the country's violent cops don't get a single cent. Here in Sacramento County,...
149 - Domestic terrorist Daniel Hahn (4.13.2021)
April 13, 2021 15:01 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBAn unhoused woman was found dead Saturday near the American River bike trail, and evidence suggests that she was killed. She was not a regular guest at Loaves & Fishes, but her death has left other women experiencing homelessness here in Sacramento understandably shaken up. Shannon released a statement to FOX40 on Monday. Meanwhile, a bunch of doofuses over the weekend staged 'White Lives Matter' events throughout the country--one of them taking place in Sacramento's McKinley Park. Barely a...
TEASER: 148 - Guns: an American story (4.9.2021)
April 09, 2021 16:07 - 7 minutes - 8.94 MB[Become a patron today and listen to/view the full episode here!] After another mass shooting--this one in South Carolina, claiming the lives of five people, including two children under 10--the Biden administration is tightening restrictions on guns nationwide. Some of the new regulations seem like common sense to most Americans, but is there more to consider here? Gun ownership has risen sharply in the communities of color since the rise of the Trump administration. Circumventing the r...
147 - The thinning blue line (4.6.2021)
April 06, 2021 14:50 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBPolice abolitionists and the Defund the Police movement have seen a number of wins throughout the nation, with qualified immunity being outlawed in New York City, Portland cops leaving the department in droves, and Austin, TX, defunding their police force in favor of affordable housing. California saw a few small wins in last year’s legislative session, but most major bills leveled at police accountability never even came to a final vote. Can the Golden State make good on holding increasing...
TEASER: 146 - Safe Ground at last (4.2.2021)
April 02, 2021 15:54 - 4 minutes - 4.91 MB[Wanna hear/see this whole episode? Become a patron here!] Sacramento's library galleria warming center has closed, and guests are being encouraged to check out the new Safe Ground location near Southside Park. This location--the culmination of over a decade of hard work from the region's homeless advocates--will be stocked with tiny homes, and will serve as a triage center and space for folks to get medical attention and vaccines. Meanwhile, Marcos Breton has a new piece out and it’s uh...
145 - House calls (3.30.2021)
March 30, 2021 15:30 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBBefore beginning this episode, it’s important note that Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and his long-term colleagues have blood on their hands for years of gross negligence toward our unhoused neighbors and a constant, obstinate refusal to hold our police force responsible for their violence. The same goes for City Manager Howard Chan. So it should come as little surprise that when Darrell pulled together his usual cast of characters to publicly denounce the ‘violence’ of a group plann...
TEASER: 144 - Thank you, but no cops (3.26.2021)
March 26, 2021 15:33 - 3 minutes - 4.46 MB[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron today!] This week the Sacramento Bee lauded the libs in this piece elevating the ever problematic police reform approach coming straight out of the city of Sacramento. We take some time to unpack the absurdities, amplify the truth to power takes, and generally get a tad yelly. Speaking of the city, where is Sacramento County in all of this? The're also talking about alternatives to policing. Our friend Delphine breaks it all down for us ...
143 - A century of losing (3.23.2021)
March 23, 2021 13:09 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBWe start today's episode with a talk on COVID-19 and vaccinations in northern California. Nearly 15 million jabs have been administered throughout the state, and folks are beginning to talk about when and how to get back to "normal." Dr Flo leads a discussion on what a vaccination means for returning to society, wearing masks, what we can reasonably look forward to, and what we should be holding off on for a little while longer. Then we turn to the Democrats. Skyler recently wrote an opin...
TEASER: 142 - On fighting white supremacy (3.19.2021)
March 19, 2021 16:15 - 13 minutes - 14.9 MB[To listen to the full episode, become a patron today!] After a white gunman in Atlanta targeted Asian massage parlors this week, killing eight people, the US is again faced with its ingrained racism and white supremacy. Here in California, where the AAPI community makes up about 15 percent of the state's 40 million people, the response is one of deep grief, but little surprise. We have a long, long history of both anti-Asian racism and misogyny in this country, and this week's devastating ...
141 - Dr Beatrice Tetteh on equity gaps in the vaccine rollout (3.16.2021)
March 16, 2021 15:36 - 59 minutes - 68.2 MBToday we're joined by Dr. Beatrice Tetteh, a pediatrician based in the South Sacramento/Pocket area. She’s been involved in an effort to get vaccines to folks in underserved communities that have been hit the hardest by COVID-19. As the vaccines come into supply and the government clears more people to begin receiving them, slow rollout and manufacturing concerns continue. Transit workers, anyone 16 and over with health concerns, unhoused folks, janitors, food service workers and others a...
TEASER: 140 - The thin red line (3.12.2021)
March 12, 2021 17:16 - 3 minutes - 3.9 MB[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron today!] California Governor Gavin Newsom gave his state-of-the-state speech Tuesday night in Dodger Stadium, and the reception has been... mixed. Did he really "meet the moment" with COVID? How has he addressed homelessness, which was his pet issue in 2020? Although he didn't ever say the word “recall," it appears that it’s likely to move forward and is clearly at the front of his mind. In happier news, advocates were victorious this w...
139 - The hairy area (3.9.2021)
March 09, 2021 13:53 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MBToday we begin with the pleasantly surprising rise in popularity of universal basic income--a policy which former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs tested in his city, to phenomenal results. Friend of the show Erika Smith mentions in the Los Angeles Times that the city of Compton is on its way to piloting a similar program. To date, more than 40 mayors have joined Tubbs in Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. Could this be the start of something on a large scale? For some reason California transport...
TEASER: 138 - Councilmember Mai Vang on racism (3.5.2021)
March 05, 2021 16:46 - 6 minutes - 7.27 MB[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron here!] We're joined by Sacramento District 8 Councilmember Mai Vang to discuss the rise in racism against the API community, and what we can do about it. It's also the two-year anniversary of the night Sacramento police illegally kettled and arrested 84 people (including clergy and press) at a demonstration in East Sacramento protesting District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert's refusal to charge the cops who killed Stephon Clark in his g...
137 - On Aggie Square and displacement, with Tamika L'Ecluse (3.2.2021)
March 02, 2021 16:53 - 58 minutes - 67.5 MBToday we're joined by Tamika L'Ecluse of Sacramento Investment Without Displacement, a grassroots collective that is fighting the displacement that is sure to follow if Oak Park's Aggie Square is to continue as planned with no serious community benefits in place. SIWD last December sued to stop UC Davis's construction of the project since the school refused to continuously engage with community members on how it would could help mitigate gentrification and rent increases in the area. Furiou...
TEASER: 136 - Democrats behaving badly (2.26.2021)
February 26, 2021 16:45 - 3 minutes - 4.54 MB[If you want to view/listen to the full episode, become a patron here!] Over the course of Democrat Anthony Rendon's tenure as Speaker of the California Assembly, his wife has taken in over $500,000 from corporations who were concurrently fighting big battles in the state legislature. The biggest donor? For-profit utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which is responsible for multiple California wildfires, including the Camp Fire, which killed over 85 people in northern California. After th...
135 - Kula Koenig of Social Justice Politicorps (2.23.2021)
February 23, 2021 08:26 - 59 minutes - 67.6 MBWe're joined today by friend of the show Kula Koenig, founder of Social Justice Politicorps, a grassroots operation dedicated to raising social justice narratives in discussions over how county, city and school board governments work in the Sacramento region. We discuss how a deepening rift between progressives and moderates is starting to form in the region, and what that means for the future of movement politics. Kula also shares with us her newest project, the Social Justice Now PAC, wh...
TEASER: 134 - Texas goes dark (2.19.2021)
February 19, 2021 15:46 - 4 minutes - 4.85 MB[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron here!] The gang talks about Democrats scoring political points on the Texas rolling blackouts, which left up to 4 million people without electricity in freezing temperatures, and last summer's California blackouts, which Republicans used to score political points as well. But these blackouts aren't a red or blue problem; they're a capitalism problem. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guill...
133 - Extremely thick and incredibly big (2.16.2021)
February 16, 2021 09:59 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBWe start the show with a moment for Mark Bell, a deeply impressive poet/author who spent years in the streets of Sacramento. We then reluctantly discuss this piece by the Bee's Opinion Editor Gil Duran, wherein he lobs many bombs toward good people, and offers up an entire menu of awful takes. Take one quick scroll through his Twitter feed and you'll find that our guy has simply lost the plot. Finally, we take a look at The push to reopen schools in California, and what that means for all...
133 - Extremely Thick and Incredibly Big (2.16.2021)
February 16, 2021 09:59 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBWe start the show with a moment for Mark Bell, a deeply impressive poet/author who spent years in the streets of Sacramento. We then reluctantly discuss this piece by the Bee's Opinion Editor Gil Duran, wherein he lobs many bombs toward good people, and offers up an entire menu of awful takes. Take one quick scroll through his Twitter feed and you'll find that our guy has simply lost the plot. Finally, we take a look at The push to reopen schools in California, and what that means for all...
TEASER: 132 - Dis-appointing (2.12.2021)
February 12, 2021 17:05 - 4 minutes - 4.68 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron here today!] Governor Gavin Newsom will perhaps soon be appointing a replacement for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. But first Becerra needs to get by Senate Republicans who are eyeing him as their target Biden appointment to shoot down. Canada recently listed the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization. And it appears the US Justice Department is beginning to reach the same conclusion, arresting five Proud Boys for conspiracy in r...
131 - On state-sanctioned violence (2.9.2021)
February 09, 2021 16:13 - 56 minutes - 64.8 MBWe're joined today by friend and longtime human rights advocate Niki to discuss the long history of state-sanctioned violence against people experiencing homelessness. Last Saturday a group of demonstrators went to Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg's house, chalked his driveway, and put signs and placards on his lawn to honor the hundreds of people who have died in the streets over the mayor's four-year tenure. They also appear to have piled brush over a waste management receptacle outside...
TEASER: 130 - The numbers game (2.5.2021)
February 05, 2021 17:13 - 5 minutes - 6.34 MB[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron here today] The gang discusses all the ways the city and county work to harm their constituencies through budgets. We also touch on Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is the future of the Republican Party incarnate.