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Wendy Weaver is the executive director of the Montana Freshwater Partners organization. We discuss the challenges of maintaining the watersheds in the state, how human infrastructure interferes with the environment & how people can get involved in helping maintain our land. 

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The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade and now the right to an abortion has been reverted to the will of each state. We're discuss what the Democrats plans are, the rationale of the Republicans & what everyone should do going forward. 

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Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-abortion-move-sparks-calls-ending-senates-filibuster-2022-05-04/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65c-_nTAQY

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10779485/Manchin-Sinema-say-WONT-killing-filibuster.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/abortion-state-laws-criminalization-roe/

https://www.270towin.com/2022-senate-election/

https://aidaccess.org/en/

https://wrrap.org/

https://brigidalliance.org/

https://www.iwrising.org/

Steven Olikara is a Democrat running for Senate in the state of Wisconsin. In this episode we discuss who he calls the "exhausted majority", gun reforms. inflation, ranked choice voting & why he's a good fit for Washington.

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Sabrina Salvati is the host of the Sabby Sabs podcast on YouTube & a member of the Revolutionary Blackout Network. She joins the show to talk about a variety of topics. We discuss what inspired her to start her channel, overcoming political apathy, the war in Ukraine & the Democratic Party. 

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Inflation hasn't been this high in over 40 years & it's crushing millions of people with higher costs of living. The Republican Party blames the rise of inflation on President Biden's stimulus package, but is that true? In this episode we take a look at the rise of inflation & how it may be tied to corporate greed.

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https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/corporate-profits-drive-60-of-inflation?s=r

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-30/fattest-profits-since-1950-debunk-inflation-story-spun-by-ceos

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/economy/may-inflation-gas-prices/index.html

https://www.axios.com/2022/03/31/corporate-profits-new-record-high-2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSGJHPpKsM

Joey Desatnik is a former Amazon employee from the Cleveland 2 fulfillment center. He's now trying to organize his previous warehouse to become the 2nd unionized Amazon location in the world. In this episode he details what led up to him wanting to form a union, how Amazon treats their employees on the job & why it's so important for workers to stand up for themselves.

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After the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas & in Buffalo, New York, the country is once again talking about gun control. In this episode we discuss the different types of gun control measures that are being proposed, whether they work or not, & can we live in a country without gun violence? Topics:  

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdRrQNemFoQ&t=275s

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102842024/new-york-bill-age-buy-own-rifles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g&t=85s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENw2y0ek1Jg&t=183s

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/strictest-gun-laws-by-state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sD_1UOn0w&t=376s

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/26/gun-buying-age-texas-handguns-rifles-uvalde/

Intense scrutiny has befallen the Uvalde police department, since the mass shooting that claimed the lives of over 20 people last week. We discuss why the police are under attack & what might happen next. 2nd half - China's Xinjiang province is once again in the news for the forcible detainment of millions of Uyghurs. I catalog some of the reporting that has come out of the province & ask that people amplify this story even more.  

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In this episode, I am joined by Zach Knoll & Hailey Sinoff, two members of the Montana State Climate Coalition. We discuss what exactly is divestment & why the climate coalition is asking the university to make this transition. We also discuss the administration's response to the coalition & outside money influencing the school.

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The Oklahoma, Idaho & Louisiana state legislatures have all introduced bills recently that would restrict, completely ban & criminalize abortion. We discuss those bills, as well as, the mass shooting in Buffalo, a COVID test corruption scandal in Nevada & the U.S. sending troops into Somalia 

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Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/oklahoma-ban-abortions.html

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-dam-removal-17187703.php

https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-testing-nevada-false-negatives-northshore?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1331631

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/16/trump-biden-deploy-us-troops-somalia-00032782

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/idaho-abortion-bill-rapist-families

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/13/louisiana-abortion-bill-homicide-patient-roe