Background Briefing 12-06-2021 by Progressive Voices

The BradCast 12-6-2021 by Progressive Voices

Karel Cast Dec 6 Printers are trash, Headlines are worse

A simple task of printing return address labels turns in to a nightmare and symbolizes our relationship with most technology these days; as in, it doesn't work and we put up with it. Then, we look at the headlines, and they're not great. But, I bottom line them for you and tell you what you really need to know about them. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com

On the radio show this week we cover capturing the moment to Build Back Better via Congress, including to finally pass a national paid family/medical leave policy; we hear about what’s at stake in the U.S. Supreme Court with Roe v. Wade under fire and how you can help protect reproductive rights; we get the inside scoop on inside the beltway; and we close the show turning the tables on interviewer and interviewee!

*Special guests include: Josephine Kalipeni, Family Values at Work, @FmlyValuesWork; Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet, @UltraViolet; Xochitl Oseguera, MomsRising and MamasConPoder, @MomsRising @MamasConPoder

Nicole Sandler 12 - 6-21 What's News Extended by Progressive Voices

Mark Riley The Intersection S5 Ep3 Abortion, Gun Violence And Omicron by Progressive Voices

This world is a mess. The pandemic rolls on, and the climate is changing—environmentally and politically. In our race to the bottom, it’s a toss up to see whether democracy gets there before rising oceans wipe out our major cities. It’s a little depressing, I know, but burying our heads in the sand isn’t a solution. Here then, is a quick guide to authoritarianism around the world.

With the biggest threat to abortion rights in fifty years reaching the Supreme Court this week, in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—which centers around Mississippi’s fifteen-week abortion ban—Rebecca sat down with two of The Century Foundation’s top experts on reproductive rights and health: Dr. Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform and senior fellow at TCF, and Anna Bernstein, a health care policy fellow at TCF. They unpack what overturning Roe v. Wade would mean for women and people who can become pregnant in the United States; why reproductive justice is critical to economic justice and gender equality; and why low-income folks and people of color are likely to face the most devastating consequences. But first, Rebecca sat down with Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, author of The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America, and Off-Kilter’s resident longtime court-watcher, for a recap of this week’s oral argument in Dobbs.

Another day in the United States of Serfs and Lords.

illegitimate SCOTUS is set to drag women to back alleys.

USA is turning out a generation with PTSD thanks to uniquely American "active shooter drills."

Poppy Champlin calls to discuss the madness.

We discuss the madness.

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FYINation's Thomas Reynolds calls in to talk about Republicans doing another NAZI imitation and blaming COVID on immigrants.

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Some more compassionate CONservatism for you! Bar Rescue Host and Laura Ingraham Discuss Cutting Unemployment Aid to Make Workers “Hungry” Like an “Obedient Dog”

We discuss the madness.

On the next State of Belief Radio,

A foremost expert on religious violence offers clues to how Qanon might end. We’ll hear from Professor Mark Juergensmeyer.

Also, Meredith Stone, who heads up Baptist Women in Ministry. The group is taking part in a growing initiative to provide “Respite for Rev’s.”

And Religion Reporter Mya Jaradat, with the chilling answer to a question she recently posed in Deseret News: “What is Biblical Citizenship?”