On today’s BradCast,
On today’s BradCast, Brad is out and I’m in! Angie Coiro, of In Deep with Angie Coiro. Brad’s on vacation this week.
Today was just another day when someone of talent, depth, grace, and style glowed in serious contrast to the Toddler in Chief.
On the same day Trump started whining and shrieking early on Twitter — and his minions scrambled to regroup after Rudy Giuliani cut loose on Fox — the rap alter-ego of Donald Glover dropped the video for the song he debuted on Saturday Night Live. It’s shocking. It’s a revelation about race and manhood and American pop culture. It’s – oh, just go watch it.
If Trump finally gets around to thanking the Waffle House hero for saving lives, maybe then he’ll commend Glover for this stunning piece of art.
Nah.
Then it’s a quick review of the headlines, including a story almost lost in the roar: news from the CDC about a scary rise in sexually transmitted diseases. Maybe the grimmest bit: a twenty-eight percent increase in syphilis among newborns. Medical professionals who haven’t be presidentially stifled yet are tying the rise to a lack of comprehensive sex education in schools.
My first guest after that rundown is author Morgan Jerkins with her book, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America.
A key voice from the Daily Stormer has been uncovered as an IT consultant living in Montreal. Good time to review a conversation I had earlier this year with author and investigative journalist Dave Neiwert. His book Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump traces the route of hate and white supremacy in America from the country’s beginnings right up to today.
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