This time on Code WACK!

Now that the COVID health emergency has ended and millions of Americans are losing Medicaid coverage, we’re thinking about the nearly two million Americans who never got it in the first place because their state did not adopt the Medicaid expansion back in 2014. How did this affect them?

To find out, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes about radio personality and performance artist, Eliska Hahn, who was struggling with multiple sclerosis while living in a state that did not accept the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. How did she avoid financial ruin? This oldie but goodie episode is an excellent reminder of why we need Medicare for All in America.

The BradCast 07-18-2023 by Progressive Voices

Background Briefing 07-17-2023 by Progressive Voices

Summer of Extremes --- Heat and floods strike simultaneously across the Northern Hemisphere; Corporate media mostly ignores climate change in extreme weather disaster coverage; PLUS: Another major insurer ditches Florida in the middle of hurricane season... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

On the radio show this week we bring you guests recorded LIVE from Netroots Nation in Chicago, including from NAACP, MoveON, Working Families Party, and the National Women’s Law Center discussing the road ahead, how you can effectively be involved, and what’s happening in our nation right now.

*Special guests include: Jamal R. Watkins, NAACP, @NAACP; Rahna Epting, MoveOn, @MoveOn; Maurice Mitchell, Working Families Party, @WorkingFamilies; Melissa Boteach, National Women’s Law Center, @NWLC

It is distressing—disorienting, really—to watch the former party of law and order flip the script and attack the FBI, DOJ, and the law enforcement establishment, all on extremely weak and totally political grounds. The Former Guy cries witch hunt, and previously respectable Republicans pick up the pitch forks and torches. Moreover, they have tried in the most undemocratic ways to tilt the playing field to the advantage of their fever dream culture wars, leaving rational thought in their wake. We take a look choices good and bad in today’s essay. I hope you’ll listen.

Mark Riley The Intersection S8 Ep15 US Student Loans. Biden. AI And Copyright Infringement by Progressive Voices

Record Temperatures and your food; This Screen Is the Worst! Karel Cast #228

It's 112 here in Las Vegas and the temperatures are setting records all over the world. And according to climatologist this is just the starting point, not the new normal. And as it affects my life and mood it is directly effecting our food. Do you even know where your food comes from? And what the weather is there? Then, it's the most dreaded screen in America and it's starting to piss a lot of us off. Why are we being asked to tip on everything? And what will SAG/AFTRA strike mean to us in terms of entertainment? Get ready for dubbed Korean series and old shows being rehashed. Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com

The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.

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Next time on State of Belief – Elizabeth Reiner Platt. I’ll talk with the Director of the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School about the Supreme Court’s ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis, and how this case made it all the way to the high court. We’ll also get into some of the other important rulings of the session that just ended, and discuss some of the real-life implications of these kinds of pro-discrimination decisions. And of course, one narrow view of religion always seems to be behind these kinds of cases – something that’s increasingly important to watch very carefully.

I’ve long believed that to confront challenges like climate change, we need to move public opinion to the point where a majority favor policies that respond effectively and fairly. I’m afraid that’s no longer true. I read with alarm STAN COX’s article MAGA Legislators Increasingly Force Taxpayers to Support Fossil Fuel Industry by, among other things, outlawing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing. Here’s my conversation with STAN COX of the Land Institute and JOHN FEFFER of the Institute for Policy Studies, about this anti-democratic and destructive strategy and other aspects of the politics of climate.