Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos.

The Democrats Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's SOTU speech, and the Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the January 2023 jobs report.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement, Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President for Infrastructure Implementation preview of the President’s State of the Union address tonight.

American Federation of Teachers Secretary-Treasurer and immediate past president of the Florida Education Association on the banned course, and the myriad of other issues Florida's students, parents and teachers face which DeSantis ignores.

Twenty-one years of investigative journalism by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham has resulted in their new book on the history of brutality, racism and corruption on the part of the Oakland police.

Daniel Golden of ProPublica joins.

Daily Kos is unspared from media layoffs as Markos shares on this week's Thursday Kos. Also, the latest on U.S. and German equipment headed to Ukraine.

Professor Felicia Kornbluh on the role her mother, Beatrice Kornbluh, played in establishing Roe, and on the role her neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, played in ending sterilization abuse disproportionality victimizing African American, Latina and Indigenous women, as told in her new book, A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.

Secretary Fudge joins to discuss the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which continues the work of MLK and the realization of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.

Secretary Cardona joins to discuss the Education Department's milestones at the halfway point of the Biden Harris Administration.

The turmoil in the House, and the inability to govern begs the question. Also Santos's pathology, Hunter Biden, the difference between Trump's classified docs and Biden's, and the latest on Ukraine.

Markos Moulitsas joins for the first Thursday Kos of 2023!