{"id":11980,"date":"2016-12-30T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2017-01-02T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:32:01","slug":"imagine-the-us-without-california-plenty-of-californians-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11980","title":{"rendered":"Imagine the US Without California. Plenty of Californians Are: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/30\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_logo_mixer.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, I&#8217;m in for Brad again. We start by pick up where we left off yesterday, with another review of fake news &#8211; this time, contrasting it with lazy, bad, or mistaken news reports.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; about that reported book contract a flamboyant neo-Nazi is crowing about: why it&#8217;s way too early to say, &#8220;We&#8217;re boycotting Simon &#038; Schuster!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then <strong>Natalie Blake<\/strong> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.californianational.party\/en\/\">the California National Party<\/a> explains how a state can secede from the US (hint: more than one option here). This is NOT the same California independence group allied with Russia, although you&#8217;d never get that from most media.<\/p>\n<p>And an excerpt from a live conversation with author and culture critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffchang.net\"><strong>Jeff Chang<\/strong><\/a>. Kind of fun to hear the Executive Director of Stanford&#8217;s Institute for Diversity in the Arts explain how diversity is problematic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/ BradCast_AngieCoiro_NatalieBlakeCNP_JeffChang_123016.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230; <\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/ BradCast_AngieCoiro_NatalieBlakeCNP_JeffChang_123016.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, I&#8217;m in for Brad again. We start by pick up where we left off yesterday, with another review of fake news &#8211; this time, contrasting it with lazy, bad, or mistaken news reports. And &#8211; about that reported book contract a flamboyant neo-Nazi is crowing about: why it&#8217;s way too early to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,882,675,21,379,479,594,106,6,14,217,332,46,406,126,894],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-adolf-hitler","category-bradcast","category-california","category-cbs","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-fox-news","category-judith-miller","category-lgbt","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-media-reform","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-social-media","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}