The Dom Salvia Show

Jim Santelle, host of Amicus: A Law Review, joins us as cohost for the day. This week, the courts have been extremely busy challenging unlawful orders of the Trump administration. They secured at least a temporary reprieve for probationary federal workers fired last month, who they order must be rehired immediately. Federal judge Beryl Howell came to the defense of law firms targeted by Trump, issuing a temporary restraining order against the President’s illegal executive order. In all, 123 lawsuits challenges have been filed against executive orders and actions of this administration in under two months. It’s going to be a long, bumpy 4 years, friends.

So stick with us during those bumpy times! Don’t give up on democracy, we’ve got our next election Tuesday April 1st. Check your voter registration and all items on your ballot, then make a plan and vote! And remember to find the good in each day. That’s why we end each day by sharing something good ^_^

Join Dom Salvia every afternoon from 4-6pm for news (some), humor (more), and great conversation (always)! Listen throughout the state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media network and worldwide on the Civic Media app. Call or text to join the fun at 855-752-4842. If you love our music and want to listen to our full bumper library, check it out!

Jim Santelle, host of Amicus: A Law Review, joins us as cohost for the day. Today, our President, in a shattering of norms, address HIS Department of Justice. Once a department that prided itself on their independence from the whims of the Oval Office’s executive, the DoJ is now firmly Trump’s. In an over hour-long address, Trump directed the Department to pursue his enemies, whose actions he deems illegal. And who would that be? Oh, you know, the press. This is an enormous departure from the norms that guided the Department of Justice for decades. Justice should be impartial, guided by principles of law. Instead, here we see a president directing them to go after specific people and organizations. This isn’t justice, it’s an atrocity.

Justice will face a reckoning in Wisconsin on Tuesday, April 1st as we elect our next state Supreme Court justice. Check your voter registration and all items on your ballot, then make a plan and vote by April 1st!

Join Dom Salvia every afternoon from 4-6pm for news (some), humor (more), and great conversation (always)! Listen throughout the state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media network and worldwide on the Civic Media app. Call or text to join the fun at 855-752-4842. If you love our music and want to listen to our full bumper library, check it out!

The Morning Show on March 14 featured information on kidney donations and the story of Kreg Perkins. Kreg sat down with Phil to talk about receiving a kidney transplant and his journey.

Earl Ingram joins us as cohost for the day. We turn to national news that affects us right here in Wisconsin. The federal government led by President Trump and his shadow Elon Musk has operated on a platform that says that empathy is bad. Two weeks ago, Musk expressed that he wants to save western civilization from the weakness of empathy. Their actions reflect this: gutting essential services and mass firings that disrupted tens of thousands of families and attempts to strip citizenship of those owed it by the 14th Amendment. Today, we celebrate a small win as a federal judge orders the reinstatement of thousands of fired federal probationary workers. This will include many Wisconsinites who abruptly lost their jobs. We also celebrate a stand for empathy coming from 21 Attorneys General suing the federal Department of Education for this week’s efforts to gut it.

Empathy is a vital human ability, not an evil. That’s why we celebrate it here. And it’s one of the reasons we end each day by sharing something good with one another. These moments of human connection reinforce the good in the world. So don’t let the noise drown that out- embrace empathy!

Join Dom Salvia every afternoon from 4-6pm for news (some), humor (more), and great conversation (always)! Listen throughout the state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media network and worldwide on the Civic Media app. Call or text to join the fun at 855-752-4842. If you love our music and want to listen to our full bumper library, check it out!

Earl Ingram joins us as cohost for the day. We begin by checking in on the state of the markets, which now enter correction territory. This isn’t surprising- President Trump’s tariff chaos imparts far too much changeability to a system that desperately wants consistency. Today, Trump considers imposing a 200% tariff on European alcohol imports.

Then, we move into discussing last night’s first and only debate between the two candidates running for Wisconsin Supreme Court. When it comes to chameleons, changeability is great- it’s their survival mechanism! So it is for a politician as well. But when it comes to a judge, when it comes especially to a Supreme Court Justice, changeability is deadly. Not for them, but for We the People. In the debate, we saw the constancy and certainty of Judge Susan Crawford. We did not see the same from her opponent, Judge Brad Schimel, who presents an entirely different face to private audiences aligned with his own political agenda than he does to a public group. Just last week, Schimel declared that he needs to be elected to provide a support network for Trump. Last night, he gave lip service to “impartiality.” We don’t buy it. Check your voter registration and all items on your ballot, then make a plan and vote by April 1st!

Join Dom Salvia every afternoon from 4-6pm for news (some), humor (more), and great conversation (always)! Listen throughout the state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media network and worldwide on the Civic Media app. Call or text to join the fun at 855-752-4842. If you love our music and want to listen to our full bumper library, check it out!

The second part of the Morning Show on March 13 featured Towne Taxi's Free Rides being offered to the elderly who need rides to get to the doctor.

The first part of the Morning Show on March 13 featured doctors from the Richland Hospital as they were on the program to talk with Phil about raising awareness for colon cancer during Colon Cancer Awareness Month.

Matt Rothschild and Angela Lang, Executive Director of BLOC- Black Leaders Organizing for Community guest host today. Continuing the discussion Dom started with Angela yesterday, what should be the focus of the constantly expanding campaign for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin? Well, how about the Constitution? Many ads in these SCoWis races attempt to frame opponents as “soft on crime,” which both serves as a racist dogwhistle and to reopen community wounds. Yet the state’s highest court doesn’t address common crime. It’s time for change in these races- and we don’t mean change as in money. With $59 MILLION already invested into this race, we desperately need LESS money in our judicial races. Regardless, this is the race we have this time. BLOC endorses Judge Susan Crawford for SCoWis Justice. Check your voter registration and all items on your ballot, then make a plan and vote by April 1st!

Then, moving on to another threat to our Constitution, this time our nation’s. Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is currently being held in an ICE detention facility after the Trump administration revoked his status as legal permanent resident. He has not been charged with any crime. So why is he there? Because of speech- a right protected in our First Amendment.

We end our day with something good- always. And as Matt joins us, we have a poem. Enjoy Audre Lorde’s “A Woman Speaks,” some bird calls, and a call to come together in community.

Join Dom Salvia every afternoon from 4-6pm for news (some), humor (more), and great conversation (always)! Listen throughout the state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media network and worldwide on the Civic Media app. Call or text to join the fun at 855-752-4842. If you love our music and want to listen to our full bumper library, check it out!

Staff from the Richland School District were in the studio for the Morning Show to provide their monthly update on what's new in the district during the program on March 12.

Angela Lang, Executive Director of BLOC- Black Leaders Organizing for Community– joins us to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court of Wisconsin (SCoWis) race. Read her latest piece up on The Recombobulation Area- now part of Civic Media- on how the SCoWis campaigns have changed over the past decade. The focus has shifted to emphasize candidates being “tough on crime,” which so frequently carries racist tones. That’s particularly problematic when we consider that SCoWis doesn’t hear cases about common street crimes. So what does our state Supreme Court do? Tune in, and make sure you have a plan to vote by April 1st in the general election. Check your voter registration and all items on your ballot, then make a plan and vote!

We continue the conversation with audio from Wisconsin Attorney General, Josh Kaul. Attorney Kaul shares his concerns regarding Judge Brad Schimel, facing off against Judge Susan Crawford for a spot on our state’s Supreme Court. Schimel failed as our state’s Attorney General. That’s why Josh Kaul won that election in 2018 and earned re-election in 2022.

And of course, we conclude our day by sharing something good.

Join Dom Salvia every afternoon from 4-6pm for news (some), humor (more), and great conversation (always)! Listen throughout the state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media network and worldwide on the Civic Media app. Call or text to join the fun at 855-752-4842. If you love our music and want to listen to our full bumper library, check it out!