The gang is back with an episode teeing off on the life work of the ghoulish Ron Haskins who  retired this week from the Brookings Institution. Haskins spent his whole career in politics making life hard on the poor while pretending he cared. We go over what this all means for our politics and discourse and cultural notions of poverty.

Fuck Ron Haskins. Fuck Welfare Reform. Fuck the Success Sequence.

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Guest Mark Paul on his new book by Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Guest Mark Paul on his new book

I know this is not of interest to everybody, which is why I've made it a separate bonus episode you can skip. But if you are extremely online like many of us are, you may have seen the spate of articles about Sean McElwee, his departure from Data for Progress, and allegations about participating in illegal straw donor conspiracies. Carl Beijer is one of the great Sean chroniclers and so I've brought him on to fill in all the details.

His website --> https://carlbeijer.com/

BONUS: Carl Beijer on Sean McElwee

Audio Grab Bag; Alito's Draft Opinion on Roe/Casey

For the whole episode, titled "Top Ukraine Takes; Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel; Solar Update" go to patreon.com/thebruenigs

CLIP from Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel

For all the episodes go on over to patreon.com/thebruenigs

Fuck Ron Haskins. Fuck Welfare Reform. Fuck the Success Sequence.

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