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June 12, 2018EpisodesAlice Johnson, Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian, Tana Ganevachampagnesharks

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Today we’re joined by Tana Ganeva to discuss the case of Alice Johnson, the nonviolent drug offender Kim Kardashian got Donald Trump to pardon. Tana Ganeva is a reporter covering criminal justice, drugs, politics and gun violence. Her work has been featured in the the Washington Post, Intercept, Glamour, Rolling Stone, and Gothamist. She’s also a Senior editor at the Raw Story and can be reached at tganeva@gmail.com

Discussed in this episode:

Tana’s story on Alice Johnson’s pardon: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/06/alice-johnson-im-looking-forward-to-holding-and-rocking-my-twin-grandchildren/
Tana’s previous stories on Alice Johnson: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/meet-62-year-old-woman-kim-kardashian-wants-save-dying-prison-nonviolent-drug-offense/ and https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/continue-fight-desperate-prisoner-prays-pity-trump-kim-kardashian-lobbies-white-house-prison-reform/
Tana’s NRA story: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/american-gun-culture-solutions-w519710
Alice Johnson in her own words: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/opinions/clemency-for-alice-johnson-kim-kardashian-to-trump-opinion/index.html
Van Jones interviewing Kim Kardashian about the pardon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUTCLL4_ng
Van Jones a few weeks ago already announced he is working with the White House on Prison Reform himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6nXrhCheA

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CS 061: The Shithole Shuffle (01/19/2018)

January 27, 2018EpisodesDonald Trump, Haiti, Mia Love, Racism, Shitholechampagnesharks

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Mentioned in this episode:

Mia Love’s history of being an apologist for racism, especially Republican racism, including defending Steve Scalise’s attendance at a white nationalist conference, “Mia Love Will Get No Love From Us” by Denise Oliver Velez: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/1/11/1355846/-Mia-Love-will-get-no-love-from-us
Mia Love’s statement on Trump’s comments: https://twitter.com/RepMiaLove/status/951603160254238720. Also her followup statements with Jake Tapper, where she brings up her parents were Trump supporters: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-rep-mia-love-trump-s-vulgar-remarks-i-can-n837616
My Twitter thread about Mia Love https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/951620218094317568
Hillary Clinton having the audacity to call out Trump on Twitter for calling Haiti a shithole, only for someone to respond in a killer thread to list all the bad things she herself did to Haiti https://twitter.com/MannarinoJoey/status/951896033000411136
The slideshow where immigrantsss try to own Trump using their resumes and selfies https://twitter.com/i/moments/951914528622743553
Two threads explaining how Europe, America, and Canada created the mess in Haiti. One by Jonathan M. Katz https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/951656979658870785 and another by me: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/813272746650140672
John Avlon’s tweet trying to own Trump by mentioning Alexander Hamilton (the version from the musical) https://twitter.com/johnavlon/status/951671012671844354

Teaser for CS 048: Rio, Brazile feat. Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)

November 22, 2017Episodes, Podcast EpisodeDonald Trump, Donna Brazile, Fake News, Glenn Greenwald, Wikileakschampagnesharks

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Glenn Greenwald joins us to discuss his recent article about Donna Brazile and Wikileaks, “Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That Are False” https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/

CS 047: Trumptown feat. Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) (11/11/2017)

November 15, 2017EpisodesDonald Trump, Election, Johnstown, Michael Kruse, Politicschampagnesharks

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Today senior staff writer at Politico Michael Kruse (https://twitter.com/michaelkruse) joins us to discuss his recent article about Trump supporters in Johnstown, Pennsylvania both before and after the election, “Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.” https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800

Also discussed this episode:

“Clinton Campaign Staffers Accuse Brazile Of Buying Into ‘Russian Propaganda’” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/open-letter-attack-onbrazile_us_59fe9cd1e4b0c9652fffc493

Preview of CS 037: The Arrogance of Dismissal (10/18/2017)

October 18, 2017EpisodesDonald Trump, Heather Heyer, Pras, Racism, White Supremacychampagnesharks

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This is a solo episode where I discuss something called The Arrogance of Dismissal. I got the term from an interview DJ Vlad did with Pras, formerly of the Fugees. It’s a concept that describes why white people often fall prey to cultural phenomenons that are utterly predictable and avoidable, but keep making the same mistakes due to a blind spot in their analysis that comes from a cognitive bias created by white supremacy that keep them from learning from examples that involve nonwhite people

Discussed in this episode:

“How the Founder of the Fugees Became a Big-Time Political Donor Without Anyone Knowing” http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/03/pras_michel_funded_super_pac_black_men_vote_limited_liability_companies.html
Youtube interview: “Pras on Hillary Clinton Almost Interviewing with VladTV” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfIiC9S9eA
“White Families Are In Trouble Too” by Nicholas Eberstadt “http://www.aei.org/publication/white-families-are-in-trouble-too/“
“Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt: The Democrats lost the white working class. The Republicans exploited it. Can Clinton win it back?” by George Packer https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/hillary-clinton-and-the-populist-revolt
“From Charlottesville To Athens, People Around The World Mourn Heather Heyer” by Tasbeeh Herwees https://www.good.is/slideshows/tributes-to-heather-heyer-from-charlottesville-to-athens

CS 034: Restaurant Chains and Slave Chains (09/24/2017)

September 28, 2017EpisodesColin Kaepernick, Donald Trump, Food, Police Brutality, Racismchampagnesharks

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The first half hour is us talking about chain restaurants like Cheesecake Factory for some reason, then the conversation turns to Colin Kaepernick and the #takeaknee controversy.

Two books that cover all the addictive engineering of food products by scientists and labs. The End of Overeating by David Kessler http://amzn.to/2wWJyK7 and Sugar Fat Salt by Michael Moss http://amzn.to/2yacoa9.
Related articles to the two books: “How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With ‘Salt Sugar Fat'” by Nell Boeschenstein from NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/26/172969363/how-the-food-industry-manipulates-taste-buds-with-salt-sugar-fat, “You Really Can’t Eat Just One, and Here’s the Reason” by Scott Mowbray http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/books/salt-sugar-fat-by-michael-moss.html?mcubz=0, and ‘The End of Overeating’ by David Kessler (excerpt) http://onpoint.legacy.wbur.org/2009/07/02/the-end-of-overeating-excerpt.
My original twitter thread about #takeaknee https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/911696707611750400 and the followup twitter thread after Trump did what I predicted https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/912349207431974913.
40 Million Dollar Slaves by William C. Rhoden http://amzn.to/2xHrNNC
When Affirmative Action is White by Ira Katznelson http://amzn.to/2yHDNgF
The Black lesbian comic writer who went on Breakfast Club to discuss her comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZjJb6xhgxE
Jason Black doing commentary on how bad the Breakfast Club interview went. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdGFnhcRzhk
“Folie A Deux: When Two People Go Insane Together” https://io9.gizmodo.com/5955095/folie-a-deux-when-two-people-go-insane-together

Preview of CS 023: Boston Wrong (8/19/2017)

August 20, 2017EpisodesAlt-Right, Amy Schumer, Donald Trump, FightSupremacy, Lena Dunhamchampagnesharks

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We talk about the most recent rally by racists taking place in Boston, the Free Speech Rally, and the counter-rally scheduled to fight it, #FightSupremacy.

We also cover a host of other topics in the news.

Resources mentioned:

Filmmaker Xavier Burgin: How It Feels to Explain Nate Parker to White Hollywood http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmmaker-xavier-burgin-how-feels-explain-nate-parker-white-hollywood-952467
Circling the Square of Trump’s Relationship With Race https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/trump-blacks-african-americans-girlfriend-charlottesville.html
Boston Rally Touting Free Speech http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-rally-latest/index.html?sr=twCNN081917boston-rally-latest1214PMVODtop
Counterprotesters Being Marching Ahead of Controversial Boston Rally http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-free-speech-rally/index.html
I Think For Myself: Trump Voters Voice Their Support Despite Charlottesville Comments https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-voters-charlottesville-virginia-car-attack/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g
Crowdfunding for the Fight Supremacy Rally https://www.youcaring.com/blmnetworkblmcambridgeresistanceresponsefund-903133
These Trump Supporters Fall for a Ballot-Destroying Hoax https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/trump-drudge-post-office-troll/
My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/
Obama Administration Earmarks $12M for Holocaust Survivors https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/
U.S. Government to Pay $492 Million to 17 American Indian Tribes http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/27/495627997/u-s-government-to-pay-492-million-to-17-american-indian-tribes
Obama Administration Approves Nearly $1-billion Settlement with Native Americans http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-tribes-settlement-20150917-story.html
An example of a B.I.L.L. story (Black Interpersonal Lifestyle Liberalism) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nev4kd/black-women-share-their-awful-interracial-dating-stories
A Thread by Ocky J. Critiquing the Jamilah Lemieux tweet we discussed https://twitter.com/OckyJ83/status/897615375822671872