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Veterans Push Back Against Trump, Musk Plan to Slash Health Care, Benefits, 80,000 V.A. Jobs: ‘BradCast’ 3/27/2025

Guest: Former Rep. Max Rose of VoteVets; Also: Stefanik nomination to UN withdrawn amid Trump, GOP fears of special elections losses...

Signal Scandal Gets Worse for Trump, GOP; Big Special Election Victories for Dems in PA: ‘BradCast’ 3/26/2025

Also: Musk tries to buy next week's WI, FL elections; Trump's attempted Executive Order election 'power grab' would 'disenfranchise millions'...

‘Emptywheel’ on Why Trump NatSec Team Should ‘Resign in Disgrace’ After Signal Chat Debacle: ‘BradCast’ 3/25/2025

Guest: National security journalist Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net...

Trump EPA Unveils Plans to Endanger, Sicken Americans (We Don’t Have to Let Them): ‘BradCast’ 3/13/2025

EPA chief Zeldin lies about U.S. energy dominance, 'EV mandate', vows to increase pollution, cancer, deadly toxins; Also: Judge orders thousands of fired federal workers back to work 'immediately'...

Trump Nixed Enforcement Actions Against Nearly 100 Favored Corporate Lawbreakers: ‘BradCast’ 3/12/2025

Guest: Rick Claypool of Public Citizen; Also: Senate Dems block GOP budget resolution (for now); DoJ guts Public Corruption unit; USAID ordered to shred, burn documents...

WI Supreme Court Election Could Flip the Scales Again, So Musk Puts His Thumb and Money on It: ‘BradCast’ 3/10/2025

Guest: Wisconsin's John Nichols of 'The Nation'; Also: New Canada PM vows fight against U.S. tariffs; Trump blocks satellite images to Ukraine...

‘A Litany of Atrocities’: The Longest, Dullest, Most Lie-Filled ‘SOTU’ Ever: ‘BradCast’ 3/5/2025

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'; Also: SCOTUS narrowly rules against Trump on USAID funding...

‘A Very Dire Situation’: Ethics Expert on Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption: ‘BradCast’ 2/11/2025

Guest: Craig Holman, Ph.D., of Public Citizen; Also: Bannon pleads guilty; Blago wins full pardon; DoJ drops charges against Adams in NYC...

‘Two-State Solution — State of Confusion and State of Chaos’: ‘BradCast’ 2/5/2025

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast' on the disastrous, illegal, authoritarian state of play in Trump/Musk World, and its rising Opposition...

‘They Know They’re Lying’: The Fossil Fueled War on Science and Humanity: ‘BradCast’ 1/29/2025

Guest: Climate scientist, author Dr. Michael E. Mann; Also: Trump backs down on federal spending freeze; Dems flip 'red' IA seat; Whole Foods unionizes in Philly; Unlawful Trump firing shuts down Nat'l Labor Board...

Trump Gets Trumped in Our Musky End-of-Year Roundtable: ‘BradCast’ 12/19/2024

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

Mistallied Contests Discovered in Ohio County, as Oligarchy Rises in D.C.: ‘BradCast’ 12/16/2024

Hand-count reverses results in Ashtabula County; FBI informant pleads guilty to Russian lies about Ukrainian bribes (not) paid to Bidens; Trump Cabinet picks donated millions; Tech/media billionaires pay tribute...

Trump Admits He Can’t Lower Grocery Prices (Though the Biden Administration Just Did): ‘BradCast’ 12/12/2024

Also: 1,500 Presidential commutations in one day; DOJ I.G. report released on the FBI and Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection; NC Repubs pull off massive power grab; Film and TV legend Dick Van Dyke sends us home smiling...

Trump Barely Won Nationally, But in ‘News Deserts’ It Was a Landslide: ‘BradCast’ 12/10/2024

Guest: Media reporter Paul Farhi; Also: Trump DoJ spied on Kash Patel...

‘The Mind Boggles at Potential for Corruption’ in Trump Tariff Scheme: ‘BradCast’ 12/4/2024

Guest: Author, financial journalist David Dayen of The American Prospect; Also: Final U.S. House seat called in CA, flips from 'red' to 'blue'; '2000 Mules' filmmaker apologizes for film's fraudulent 'fraud' claims...

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