Ali Breland of Mother Jones on Sen. Josh Hawley’s obsession.

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Elie Mystal of The Nation and author of the new NYT Bestseller, “Allow Me To Retort: A Black Man’s Guide to the Constitution,” on GOP Senators’ racist and sexist attacks against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the underlying reason for their accusation that Judge Jackson has been lenient when sentencing pedophiles.

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The Rev. Dr. E. Faye Williams, President of the National Congress of Black Women (NCBW) discusses the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and demonstrates the impact her nomination to the Supreme Court has had upon little Black girls with a video the NCBW produced highlighting youth holding their own confirmation hearing for the Judge Jackson.

This conversation originally aired as a live social media conversation on March 22, 2022.

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It's #ThursdayKos with Markos Moulitsas, Founder of DailyKos and Civiqs and host of podcast "The Brief."

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) describes Day 2 of the SCOTUS Confirmation Hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the attacks by Republicans, including their effort to change the connotation of the nominee’s initials, “KBJ,” to be synonymous with “CRT,” as in Critical Race Theory.

This episode originally aired live on social media on March 22, 2022.

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William Spriggs, AFL-CIO Chief Economist, Howard University Professor, and former Assistant Secretary of Labor, disputes the phenomenon labeled the “Great Resignation,” and calls it more of a Great Job Mismatch as employees are leaving employers who raised minimum wages only because state laws forced them, and are seeking jobs where they are more valued by employers. He discusses the roots of inflation, high gas prices and the fight to unionize workers at corporations that are anti-union—like Starbucks. Also, he explains how influential SCOTUS is in employment cases, in arbitration and in upholding corporate power, as the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson commence.

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Chad Stone, Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, returns for a quick review of the February jobs report and the state of our economy. We’re still climbing back from the job losses at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the numbers do show we’re in a better place. But as per usual, women and people of color are struggling to recover the most.

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This is a “Best of MIP” episode from the archives. One of the most common reasons a person does not leave a domestic violence situation is because they don’t have the cash to do it. At FreeFrom, an organization dedicated to knocking down the barriers that prevent domestic violence survivors from holding economic and community power, Tannia Ventura and the team work to get direct cash payments to survivors so they regain their power. Tannia is the Director of Service Provider Engagement and Education and in today’s episode, we learn the ins and outs of getting those cash payments to survivors, how to heal the implicit mistrust of survivors when they ask for what they need, and what are the hopes and fears for the $5 billion dollars pledged by the Biden administration to supply cash payments directly to survivors. Mark and Tannia also dig into the fact that domestic violence needs to be solved at the community level and should not solely be the task of independent organizations, and what FreeFrom found in their independent research collected from surveying 1,000 domestic violence survivors.

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This is a “Best of MIP” episode from the archives. What’s the likelihood of an American experiencing poverty? Turns out, it’s the majority. That’s what Mark Rank covers in his new book (co-authored by Lawrence Eppard and Heather Bullock) out now, “Poorly Understood: What Americans Get Wrong About Poverty.” There’s a common misconception that poverty is an issue of “them” when it’s really about “us” -- not an individual failing, but a structural one. What does that play out in our society and economy? Mark explains that, and what can be done to make systemic changes, in this eye-opening episode.

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This is a “Best of MIP” episode from the archives. Closing out our coverage of the 56th Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Mark speaks with Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who details the significance of Selma to both himself and the country-at-large. He is then joined by Ilyasah Shabaaz, daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, as well as author, community organizer, and activist.

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