Facepalm America

Guest Caroline Nagy, Senior Policy Counsel for Housing, Corporate Power and Climate Justice at Americans for Financial Reform, joins us to talk about the rent housing cost crisis. We discuss tenant protections, how the government helps landlords exploit poor communities, the criminalization of being homeless, and the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

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Guest and cofounder of RootsAction, Jeff Cohen, joins us to talk about Step Aside Joe. Step Aside Joe is a project of RootsAction, a progressive coalition that works to defend the public interest and expand social justice, intended to educate and inform voters about why there's much better Democratic alternatives to Biden.

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The Marion County Record of Marioun County Kansas is raided and ransacked by fascists in the United States of America.

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Luke Nichter, author of The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968, joins us to break down the 1968 presidential race and the contentious battle between vice president Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace.

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The Marion County Record of Marioun County Kansas is raided and ransacked by fascists in the United States of America.

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Beowulf performs a heartful performance of Censored Shakespeare after Florida has banned parts of "Romeo and Juliet" for containing sexual content.

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Sections of "Romeo and Juliet" are being censored in Florida schools for "sexual content".

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Wouldn't it be nice to have a sociey that was more like a public library? Visit your public library today!

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Thanks to Ron DeSantis, Florida schools are censoring Shakespeare. By the pricking of my thumbs, something fascist this way comes.

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Do YOU experience Avocado Anxiety and other stresses about the source of your food when go to the grocery store? Then "Avocado Anxiety: and Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From" is for you! We speak to the author, Louise Gray.

Note: This is a reupload of an episode initially aired 4/26/23.

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