Progressive Climate Journo Warns Progressives: This Is Our Last Chance: ‘BradCast’ 8/13/2021
Our guest on The BradCast today is virtually begging those on the environmental center and left to come together, to put aside their various (if important) pet projects, in hopes of coming together for two key elements in the blueprint for the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package. It is, he details, our last, best […]
Leaked (or Stolen?) Dominion Voting Software Released at MyPillow CEO’s ‘Cyber Symposium’: ‘BradCast’ 8/12/2021
Okay. Now it’s not just insane. It could also be criminal, as a leak of actual voting system software at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s three-day, so-called “cyber symposium” in South Dakota may have imperiled the security of the Gubernatorial Recall election now under way in California. We’ve got some exclusive details on today’s BradCast. [Audio […]
‘Green News Report’ – August 12, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Senate Democrats pass bipartisan infrastructure bill and budget reconciliation framework, setting the stage for historic climate action; Wildfire smoke reaches North Pole for the first time in recorded history; PLUS: Tropical Depression Fred heads to Florida, as the rest of the […]
‘We Don’t Need a Miracle, Bill Gates. We Need Political Willpower’: ‘BradCast’ 8/11/2021
The Washington Post leads its story on this week’s startling new climate assessment by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by calling back to the earliest, prescient warnings issued by the panel more than 30 years ago “that humans were fueling a dangerous greenhouse effect and that if the world did not act […]
Elections and Governors Matter (Election and Science Deniers Shouldn’t): ‘BradCast’ 8/10/2021
As Desi notes on today’s BradCast, the underlying theme to our boatload of stories is that “elections matter”. Then again, that seems to pretty much be our underlying theme every day on this program. Glad she’s finally noticed! [Audio link to full show is posted below summary.] Among the too-many stories covered on today’s show… […]
‘Green News Report’ – August 10, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: New U.N. climate report described as ‘code red for humanity’; California’s Dixie Fire now the largest in the U.S. and in state history; PLUS: Apocalyptic scenes from wildfires around the world demonstrate climate change is already here… All that and more […]
‘Code Red’ For Climate and ‘Highly Exploitable’ Touchscreen Vote Systems Before CA Recall: ‘BradCast’ 8/9/2021
Today on The BradCast, it’s both “Code Red for humanity”, according to the authors of the new report released today by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, synthesizing some 14,000 climate studies from the past 8 years. And it’s also “code red” for American elections, most immediately, here in California. [Audio link to full […]
Sunday ‘Leave the Rest to Me’ Toons
‘Facts Are Biased, Jon’: ‘The Daily Show’s’ Co-Creator on its Origins and Legacy After 25 Years: ‘BradCast’ 8/6/2021
Over the past two and a half decades, The Daily Show on Comedy Central has arguably helped change the news landscape in America. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a question we discuss on today’s BradCast with the show’s co-creator and original head writer, as the seminal fake news shows recently turned 25 […]
‘Highly Exploitable Vulnerabilities’ Found in GA’s New, Unverifiable Touchscreen Vote Systems: ‘BradCast’ 8/5/2021
As it turns out, after so many years of warnings on The BradCast and at The BRAD BLOG, the local nightly news in Atlanta tonight sounds just like us, when it comes to concerns about the state’s new touchscreen voting systems, and the same type of systems that are now used in at least 20% […]
‘Green News Report’ – August 5, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Record heat wave in Europe accelerates record outbreak of wildfires; Wildfires are sending carbon offsets up in smoke; Shipping company buys all-electric cargo planes; PLUS: California tourist town on the verge of running out of water… All that and more in […]
Establishment Dem Tops Progressive in OH’s U.S. House Special Election and ‘Death by DeSantis’: ‘BradCast’ 8/4/2021
Oddly enough, covering good old fashion primary special election results for the U.S. House feels like a palate cleanser today on The BradCast, with all of the other ongoing nightmares around us. Even a scrappy one between Democrats in Ohio. [Audio link to full show is posted at end of this summary.] Two vacant U.S. […]
New York is Going Through Some Things…and Other Dark News of the Day: ‘BradCast’ 8/3/2021
It’s one of those dark days on The BradCast. But we don’t make the news, we just cover it. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among the stories covered on today’s program… NY Attorney General Letitia James releases a report finding Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed as many as 11 staffers and retaliated […]
‘Green News Report’ – August 3, 2021
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Looks like Infrastructure Week is finally happening; Major U.S. interstate in Colorado shut down indefinitely by wildfire-related mudslide; County in Washington State passes America’s first-ever ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure; PLUS: Massive new wildfires force evacuations in Greece, Turkey and […]
The 4th Surge and Callers on Why They Finally Got Vax’d (Or Still Haven’t): ‘BradCast’ 8/2/2021
On today’s BradCast, we open the phones to talk vaccination again, though for a different reason than we’ve done so in the past. [Audio link to full show follows the summary below.] Among the stories discuss today… The third highest Republican in the U.S. House, Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY) lauds Medicare and Medicaid and the […]