On today’s BradCast, on the day following Sunday night’s Academy Awards show, we’re joined in studio at KPFK/Pacifica Radio for the hour by our friend MIMI KENNEDY, Advisory Board Chair of Progressive Democrats of America and star of the CBS sit-com Mom (which also stars last night’s Best Supporting Actress winner Allison Janney). [Audio link to show follows below.]
We’ve got lots to discuss today with Kennedy, a longtime progressive activist and leader (that’s her and me in the photo above, just after today’s show), and we also open up the phone lines to callers as well.
Among the many issues and items we chat and/or bicker about today:
- What Best Actress winner Frances McDormand was referring to when she, somewhat cryptically, called for “inclusion riders” Sunday night during her barn-buster acceptance speech;
- How Hollywood and its politics have changed very quickly over the past year or two in light of the #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite movements;
- Whether Democrats chances to retake the U.S. House this November are as good as many Dems seem to think;
- Conservative Democrat Connor Lamb’s chances of winning next week’s U.S. House Special Election in the “Trump Country” of Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional district;
- Big turnout in advance of Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation 2018 primary elections in Texas;
- Serious concerns about election integrity that still undermine democracy in 2018 (Mimi and PDA have been longtime champions for the cause!) and whether the solutions being offered by a number of states and large jurisdictions — including a disturbing move to computer-printed and computer-counted paper ballots — is a good idea, or if we’ll be left with the same or worse lack of ability for the public to oversee election results that we already have in many places. (Among them, see the 100% unverifiable computerized touch-screen style voting systems used in much of Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania, etc.);
- And whether elected Democratic officials and 2020 Presidential hopefuls are finally understanding the importance of single-payer “Medicare for All” (or, as PDA has been advocating for years: “Healthcare not Warfare!”).
Also on today’s show: More tentatively encouraging news on the Korean Peninsula (at least until Trump screws it up again); Trump’s artificial DACA deadline hits, endangering hundreds of thousands of young immigrant ‘Dreamers’; Another senior Republican U.S. Senator, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, announces that he is resigning, as of next month.
All of that and a bunch of great callers ringing in on all of the above on today’s BradCast!…
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