Objection to the Rule

Reese and Jasmin discuss the decision not to punish officers who killed Kawaski Trawick in his own home in 2019, the police killing of Dexter Reed in Chicago, the shocking stabbing attack in a Sydney, Australia shopping mall, and the untimely passing of Atlanta producer Rico Wade.

Matthew, Jasmin and Reese talk about Mayor Adams' plan to put weapons scanners in NYC subway stations, the current H5N1 (bird flu) outbreak in the United States, and Mexico suspending diplomatic relations with Ecuador after Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Janet, Jasmin and Reese talk about the stabbing death of Samyia Spain in Brooklyn, a recent terrorist attack in Moscow that killed over 100 people, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders' propose a Green New Deal for public housing.

Jasmin and Reese discuss the shooting that took place inside the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station, US Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to a Minnesota abortion clinic, and Haitian gangs seeking a seat at the table politically as Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns down.

Janet, Reese and Jasmin talk about a music therapist in NYC who helps dementia sufferers, attacks on DEI programs from the right wing, and an extreme anti-LGBTQIA+ bill that recently passed in Ghana.

Matthew, Jasmin and Reese discuss an escalation of Trader Joe's anti-union tactics, the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell, the US dropping aid in to Gaza, and Ruth Gottesman's donation to the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx making tuition free for its students.

During the last 2024 Black History Month episode, Reese and Jasmin talk about the sad passing of Flaco, New York City's free-flying Eurasian eagle-owl, a Texas judge ruling that a school can legally punish a Black student for his hairstyle, and the escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

Reese, Matthew, and Jasmin discuss the NYPD union trying and failing to block reforms to how they respond to protesters, the DC council advances an amended "Secure DC" tough-on-crime bill with some amendments, Senegal's President Macky Sall postpones this year's presidential election.

Reese and Jasmin talking about a young father killed at an illegal construction site in Brooklyn, US librarians facing smear campaigns, death threats and more from far-right extremists, an Irish nationalist being appointed First Minister of Northern Ireland, and a blood test that can detect brain cancer.

Jasmin, Reese and Janet talk about a NY midwife who was paid to give children homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines, GOP governors support TX Governor Abbott's defiance of federal government at US/Mexico border, an update on South Africas' genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice, and thousands pardoned for cannabis possession in US.