Brad is still under the (non-COVID) weather today, so guest host Nicole Sandler joins us to take the captain’s chair for today’s BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
FIRST: We start with some of today’s breaking news (and there was a lot of it that came after airtime today, which we’ll try to get to tomorrow), beginning in Congress, with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announcing plans to retire from Senate leadership (although not from the Senate itself) after this November’s election. Also, the question of whether the House GOP majority will be able to agree on a government funding package to avoid another Republican government shutdown by Midnight on Friday.
Also today, what to make of the reported results of Tuesday’s Primary elections in Michigan, where both Joe Biden and Donald Trump easily won each of their respective party’s contests, but where the New York Times and other corporate outlets found a strange way to spin the results. (As Brad pointed out on Twitter last night, Biden faced “significant challenge” in winning over 81% of the vote, while Trump “coasted to victory” with just over 68% on the GOP side against Nikki Haley’s 27%, according to the Times’ headlines.)
Biden did face just over 13% of Democratic voters who selected “Uncommitted” on Tuesday to register a protest vote against the Administration’s policies in Israel amid its brutal invasion of Gaza. We try to offer a bit of context, however, amid the corporate media’s too often misleading and/or context-free coverage.
THEN: Nicole speaks with investigative reporter JORDAN GREEN of Raw Story, who has spent months investigating a group of neo-Nazi teenagers who are working to recruit and indoctrinate even younger white kids online. Green reports on the neo-Nazi hate groups who are using the Internet to draw in teenage boys, “grooming children for a race war”; how their parents are reacting; and how these extremist groups have now turned to targeting Green, attempting to menace and intimidate him into halting his reporting.
He reports on being doxxed and seeing protests outside his own home, as the groups use similar fear and intimidation tactics against him that they also use to terrorize blacks, Jews, LGBTQ+ people and others.
Green discusses his investigation of the teen neo-Nazi recruitment group, his fight to protect his family and himself, and his resolve to continue: “That’s not going to deter me from reporting,” he tells Nicole. “This is the bedrock principle of democracy, to report without fear or favor. So I will continue to do that….They are certainly using the same tactics against journalists that they use against other groups that they dislike.”
FINALLY: We finish up today with our latest Green News Report (featuring an ailing Brad!) which happens to be our 15th Anniversary episode! As a new study reveals that extreme weather disasters displaced 2.5 million Americans from their homes in 2023; Texas home prices have plunged in areas affected by a new state flood risk disclosure law; Chicago’s lawsuit against Big Oil over climate damages. All of that as we celebrate 15 years of environmental news, politics, analysis and snarky comment over your public airwaves! (Thanks to YOU!)…
And the supreme people took the case of one of their own after the legal eagles said they wouldn’t (Here Come De Conservative Judges – 11, 2009-2024).
Just above, I was in reference to https://www.politico.com/news/2...unity-00143985
Desi, as punishment for making Brad sick, you should host the show yourself. Like, why not??
Nermeen Shaikh took over for Amy Goodman for a few days when Amy got covid. Pat Ford (producer) took over for David Pakman a couple of times.
You can dooo it!