New Report Finds Freedom, Democracy ‘Under Siege’ Around Globe, in U.S.: ‘BradCast’ 3/8/2021
It’s not only in the U.S. where democracy is now under attack. Unfortunately, as discussed with our guest on today’s BradCast, when freedom and democracy begin to collapse here, it gets even worse everywhere else. [Audio link to show follows below this summary.] But, first up today, a quick word or two on Harry and […]
Sunday ‘Tex-Ass Backwards’ Toons
Pandemic Profits of 664 U.S. Billionaires Could Pay For Most of $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Bill: ‘BradCast’ 3/5/2021
Prepare to be outraged by some gobsmacking and maddening numbers from today’s guest on The BradCast. [Audio link to show is posted below summary.] But first, speaking of startling numbers, statistics from this year’s flu season prove that masks and social distancing do indeed help to prevent viral transmission and death. That, of course, is […]
Democracy Strikes Back (Sort Of): ‘For the People’ v. For the GOP Fraudsters: ‘BradCast’ 3/4/2021
We’ve got mostly democracy-related stories to report on today’s BradCast. Some good news, and some bad. But there’s a whole bunch of anti-democracy GOP fraud throughout, because what democracy story in the U.S. these days doesn’t include Republican fraud and/or attempted voter suppression? [Audio link to full show is posted below summary.] Among the stories […]
‘Green News Report’ – March 4, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: The Gulf Stream is the weakest its been in a thousand years, and climate change is likely to blame; The COVID carbon rebound begins as global emissions rise; Biden Administration to raise US climate target under Paris Agreement; PLUS: Volvo is […]
Mann on Gates: Climate Scientist Says Microsoft Founder ‘Wrong-Headed’ on Climate Solutions: ‘BradCast’ 3/3/2021
Unlike Microsoft Windows, says our guest on today’s BradCast in response to Bill Gates’ new book on climate change, “if the global climate system crashes, you can’t reboot it.” Of course, what does a billionaire software engineer know about how to save our climate anyway? Well, our guest — an actual Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist […]
Haaland’s Historic Interior Nomination Becomes ‘Proxy Fight’ Over Much More: ‘BradCast’ 3/2/2021
As Washington State’s Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell suggested last week, the phony GOP uproar over Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM)’s nomination by Joe Biden to become the first Native American Secretary of the U.S. Interior Department is a ‘proxy fight’ over something else entirely. It might be over the dim future for fossil fuels. It might […]
‘Green News Report’ – March 2, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Water crisis persists in Texas and Jackson, Mississippi, two weeks after extreme winter storm; Latinos disproportionately exposed to worst water in US, new study finds; US House passes Biden’s COVID relief bill boosting heating assistance for low-income families; PLUS: As cities […]
Post-Surge: ‘We’re Screwing it Up All Over Again’: ‘BradCast’ 3/1/2021
Plummeting COVID rates and FDA approval of a brand new, one-shot vaccine seem like very good news! And it is…if it weren’t for our propensity to screw it all up again, as our guest on today’s BradCast explains. [Audio link to today’s full show is posted below this summary.] But first, in other good/bad news […]
Sunday ‘Party Unity’ Toons
SCOTUS Could Soon Kill the Voting Rights Act: ‘BradCast’ 2/26/2021
I’m sorry to end the week on such a scary note, but I don’t make the news, I just report it. It’s NICOLE SANDLER again, guest hosting another edition of the The BradCast today. [Audio link to the full show is below.] I read an article at Vox titled “Two Supreme Court cases could destroy […]
Texans Pay Big Price for Enron-Like Deregulation
Contrary to GOP gaslighting, the source of the Lone Star State’s disastrous power outage cannot be found in the yet-to-be adopted Green New Deal or in a failure of wind turbines, which account for only a small percentage of the energy supply in Texas. As Naomi Klein observed, when she recently appeared on Democracy Now, […]
You Never Forget Your First: ‘BradCast’ 2/25/2021
I’m back! It’s Nicole Sandler, filling in for Brad and Desi for a couple of days so they can celebrate Desi’s birthday. Any excuse for some downtime. Welcome to today’s BradCast. It was another busy news day, as confirmation hearings continue for Biden’s cabinet picks.The Equality Act passed the House today, but not before Rand […]
‘Green News Report’ – February 25, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Historic Interior Department nominee Rep. Deb Haaland pledges balance amid GOP attacks; New U.S. Postal Service trucks won’t be all-electric; Texas deregulation cost electricity customers $28 billion more than a regulated utility market; PLUS: Refineries legally released tons of toxic air […]
SCOTUS Puts Both Trump and Future Elections in Serious Legal Peril: ‘BradCast’ 2/24/2021
On today’s BradCast: Try as they did, Donald Trump and the Republican Party were unable to steal the 2020 Presidential election. But they’ve got their plans in place for how to try and do it next time. They just need their currently stolen and packed Republican U.S. Supreme Court majority to help them pull it […]