{"id":12656,"date":"2018-07-27T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2018-07-29T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T19:17:37","slug":"california-is-burning-and-we-all-pay-%e2%80%98bradcast%e2%80%99-7272018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12656","title":{"rendered":"California is Burning, and We All Pay: ‘BradCast’ 7\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, I’m sitting in for Brad and Desi. Nice to be back!<\/p>\n

Today’s news roundup includes this eternal riddle: is the tendency to be loathsome genetic? C.f. Trump, Trump Jr.: a deconstruction of yet another lying tweet, this time about market growth. Hint: again, TrumpCo trumpets financial news that only benefits the very few. <\/p>\n

More news: Facebook’s market drop sets a record “\u201c in fact, there’s so much going on with Facebook it’s sprinkled throughout the show. A nod to an excellent Charles Pierce column<\/a> in Esquire<\/em>. And something small but wonderful on the medical marijuana front: a jury in Dublin Georgia solemnly listened to the case against Javonnie McCoy, who admitted he had marijuana for personal medical use. And yes, that’s against the law. And the jurors shrugged and sent him home anyway. Seems they couldn’t get a head of steam up about a nice guy who wasn’t hurting anyone. <\/p>\n

GARY FERGUSON<\/b>, author of Land On Fire<\/i><\/a>, joined me to tie the California conflagrations to global warming. This is a twofer: I include an earlier conversation<\/a> I had with him on In Deep<\/i>, explaining how the costs of a regional disaster become everyone’s financial problem.<\/p>\n

JOHN R. PLATT<\/b>, editor of The Revelator<\/a>, delves into a story that’s too low-profile: shockingly high numbers of attacks on and murders of environmental activists<\/a> overseas. Then JODI JACOBSON<\/b>, Editor-in-Chief at Rewire News<\/a>, tallies up what’s happening in legal and political realms on repro justice issues.<\/p>\n

Lastly “\u201c it’s Facebook again. Freedom from Facebook<\/a>, a project of the Open Markets Institute, is one of a number of groups working to force Facebook to reform. BARRY LYNN<\/b>, Executive Director of the Institute, explains how laws already in place can be used to make Facebook a better corporate citizen — and help save news organizations at the same time. <\/p>\n

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