This week’s live discussion with Journalist Liz Plank and Scholar Laura Bates is a powerful one. Despite the growing danger: •Corporate media is failing to rebuke Trump’s attacks on free speech, and •Lawmakers are failing to stop AI’s radicalization of young men & the harm it is causing women
Free Speech & How AI Is Radicalizing Men
I'm joined by Liz Plank and Laura Bates to discuss free speech and one of the most horrifying new developments in tech and misogyny
Trump wants Lindsey Halligan as US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA. Halligan spent 8 years defending insurance companies. In 2022 she joined Trump's legal team & is currently tasked with removing mentions of Black history from the Smithsonian. She's NEVER tried a Federal Case. This is their "meritocracy." In reality, it's white mediocrity. It's white supremacy. And we are all less safe as a result.
On this week's recap: •Let’s Address This Merch Is Here •The Qasim Rashid Show Episode 188 - DNC Vice Chair Shasti Conrad •WATCH: We Must Call Out Billionaire Exploitation •How We Can Elect A Pro-Justice & Anti-AIPAC Governor To Wisconsin •The Cancellation Of Jimmy Kimmel •My 33-Year-Anniversary Of Becoming A U.S. Citizen - What It Means To Me Read and subscribe at the below link!
Weekly Recap: Let's Address This
Summarizing a full week in one email, plus our weekly dad joke
An orthodox Jewish man named Jeremy Fistel, 44, has been charged with a terroristic threat against Zohran Mamdani for calling him a terrorist, telling him to "check his beeper," and threatening that "I’d love to see an IDF bullet go through your skull." Mamdani has a plurality of votes from Jewish New Yorkers, but the MAGA & Corporate Dem demonization of Mamdani is further enabling this actual danger. Where are the calls to decrease the political rhetoric against Muslim American candidates? 🤔
Trump just signed an EO increasing the H1-B visa by $100,000, a visa that typically costs around $5000 This is likely illegal—but if upheld—understand these facts: 1. USA already has a doctor shortage 2. ~25% of doctors are international 3. In our for profit system this will ⬇️ doctor access, ⬆️ medical costs, & ⬆️ mortality rates In short, this scheme further lines the pockets of billionaires and advances structural eugenics to kill poor people. This is just another tentacle of Trumpian fascism.
Remember Chief Magistrate James Gosnell, who presided over the initial hearing for Dylan Roof and whitewashed the massacre of 9 Black Christians by equating it with the pain that Roof and his family are going through? Well—yesterday authorities arrested Gosnell on child pornography charges. Just horrific. He's been denied bond. Seems like the Venn Diagram of white supremacists and PDFiles is a circle. Every case he ever presided over must be reviewed. Every Last One. image
One underreported fact is Brendan Carr—the FCC chairman who got Kimmel suspended—spent the last four years warning that government censorship of critics leads to authoritarianism. Carr co-authored P2025. He know he's advancing authoritarianism. That's the point.
The Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel
By indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister a...
BREAKING: Senate confirms 48 of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the chamber’s rules This is exactly why I was screaming at Biden and Senate Dems to abolish the Jim Crow filibuster and pass the legislation that the American people wanted and deserved. But feckless leadership was so beholden to "norms" they refused. We knew the GOP would do this. And now they've done it. And Schumer is still pointing at an irrelevant rule book of norms. smh
Easy call to action: Congress passed the 340B program to let hospitals buy medications at deep discounts for low income patients. Hospitals are instead charging full price, defeating the point & exploiting patients. Sign to demand Congress pass "340B ACCESS Act" to stop this abuse:
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•ABC fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller •MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech •FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless Corporate Media Has Failed Us And as the receipts show, this Trump regime knows exactly what its doing as it enacts fascism
The Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel
By indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister a...