Facepalm America

Dan Baer, author of The Four Tests: What It Will Take to Keep America Strong and Good, breaks down the four tests of Scale, Investment, Fairness, and Identity of America to see how the country will keep up with today’s fraught global and political climate.

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John Rothmann of Around The Political World with John Rothmann joins us to discuss anti-Semitic and anti-Arab attacks in the US, the new House Speaker, the 2024 presidential race, and the state of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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50o0 trucks full of potatoes are slated to be destroyed if we don't act! What is to be done? We discuss this and municipal grocery stores.

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We speak with Susanne Posel, host of the podcast This Week Again, about the horrors going on in Gaza and Palestine and the horrific new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Please listen to This Week Again here.

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I review Killers of the Flower moon and bring you the latest news in Big Oil greenwashing.

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We speak with Alexandrea Ravenelle, author of SIDE HUSTLE SAFETY NET: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times about how vulnerable workers in the gig economy really are.

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John Rothmann of Around The Political World with John Rothmann joins us to discuss the ongoing lack of a House Speaker and whether Donald Trump will be removed from ballots across the country.

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"From praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-building qualities of child labor, rich corporate overlords have gone to astonishing, often morally indefensible lengths to defend their profits."

Joan Walsh and Nick Hanauer, authors of Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America, join us to break down exactly what sorts of lies and half-truths the wealthy have gotten away with and how to recognize their misformation with an illustrated road map for navigating through hypocrisy and deception.

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Killers Of The Flower Moon is out and we speak with Julie O’Keefe, lead Osage cultural consultant for wardrobe on the film. Killers Of The Flower Moon is directed by Martin Scorsese and distributed by Apple Original Films. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone.

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Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of GRAY AREAS: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It , breaks down how racism can unintentionally seep into the workplace, how mandated diversity training doesn't help, and how to instead properly reduce racial disparities at work.

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