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LAPD Right-Wing Bias in Violent Response to UCLA Protest Was No Surprise

U.S. law enforcement has long sided with the right against peaceful anti-war, environmental, racial and economic injustice protesters...

Update, 5/17/24: Paradox of police power covered by newly released Netflix film, 'Power'...

‘First Domino Falls’ With TN Win in Landmark UAW Effort to Unionize the South: ‘BradCast’ 4/22/2024

Guest: Labor journalist Steven Greenhouse; Also: House finally passes aid package for Ukraine; Prosecutors accuse Trump of 'election fraud' in NY criminal trial opening statement...

Bad Climate News for Home and Car Owners; Good Labor News for Workers in the South: ‘BradCast’ 4/18/2024

Also: 12 jurors now seated in Trump's NY criminal trial; NV Supreme Court approves ballot measure to protect 'reproductive freedoms'; OH Republicans still refusing to put Biden on the 2024 ballot...

SCOTUS Suddenly Concerned About Over-Criminalization … for J6 Insurrectionists: ‘BradCast’ 4/17/2024

Guest: LawDork's Chris Geidner; Also: Scam GOP impeachment trial ends in one day; AZ Repubs spike repeal of 1864 abortion law (again); Voter turnout doubles in AL's new majority minority U.S. House District...

Biden Closes ‘Gun Show Loophole’; Republicans Are Turning Desperate: ‘BradCast’ 4/11/2024

New RNC Chair suggests Ukraine a U.S. enemy; GA Lt. Guv facing fake elector probe; OH, AL may keep Biden off ballot; Fox 'News' hides AZ abortion ruling, then Hannity blames Dems; Liberal WI Justice to retire...

More GOP Election Fraud and Long-Overdue Justice for Crystal Mason: ‘BradCast’ 4/2/2024

Also: AZ Repubs move to end early and mail-in voting; Trump coughs up $175M bond in NY, sees gag order expanded; FL Supremes approve abortion ban, allow abortion rights ballot measure in November...

Last Week Today with OG Bloggers: ‘BradCast’ 4/1/2024

Guests: 'Driftglass' and Frances Langum of 'The Pro Left' podcast on (almost) everything we missed last week, and why it matters this week...

Biden’s Bold SOTU, Britt’s SOTU Border Lies: ‘BradCast’ 3/11/2024

Listeners ring in on that, Brad's hack of Daylight Saving Time and more...

Subsequent Wednesday: Results, Problems, Fallout From Super Tuesday: ‘BradCast’ 3/6/2024

Biden, Trump (mostly) sweep; Haley drops out; McConnell endorses; Protests haunt Dem victories in MN, CA; Few (though some noteworthy) Election Day voting system failures...

Biden Should Federalize Texas National Guard Amid State Defiance of SCOTUS Order

In a major address, POTUS must also expose the 'moral crisis' brought on by GOP hypocrisy, cruelty and dehumanizing anti-immigrant propaganda...

Special Coverage (For Some Reason) of the GOP’s Fourth 2024 ‘Presidential Primary Debate’: ‘BradCast’ 12/7/2023

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'ProLeft Podcast'...

Off-Year Elections Prove Another Huge Victory for Democracy, Democrats, Reproductive Freedoms: ‘BradCast’ 11/8/2023

Results from OH, KY, MS, PA, VA, elsewhere; Guest: 'Handbook for a Post-Roe America' author Robin Marty of the West Alabama Women's Center...

The Old Normal (But With Democracy Itself and Life on Earth at Stake): ‘BradCast’ 10/5/2023

Media woefully misleads on Biden and the border wall; AL to finally add second Black-majority House district; September heat 'gobsmackingly bananas'; Prez warns democracy in peril in perfectly normal interview...

Odds, Ends, Follow-Ups, and More GOP Voter Fraud and Voter Suppression: ‘BradCast’ 9/7/2023

Navarro 'guilty'; Prigozhin's interference; DeSantis law v. Idalia recovery; Lee strengthens; OH GOP lawyer sentenced; AL GOP Rep. arrested; 'Crooked' Coffee County, GA; Solution to 'Rich Men from Richmond'...

‘The Next 18 Months Are Going to be a Bumpy Ride’ (or, ‘I Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore’): ‘BradCast’ 9/5/2023

Election officials grapple with Trump's Constitutional ballot disqualification; Also: Proud Boy boss gets 22 years for 1/6; Courts order lawless AL, FL to restore Black-majority U.S. House Districts...

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