Why, America? with Leeja Miller

Go to https://ground.news/Leeja to stay fully informed on US Politics and see all sides of every story. Subscribe through my link for 40% off for unlimited access on the Vantage plan. | A very brief history of US-Cuba relations so you have the context to understand the Trump regime and Marco Rubio and their current Cuba strategy.

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0:00 Intro

13:32 Cuba & The Colonies

15:15 Industrialization

18:02 Cuban “Independence”

24:50 The Rise Of A Dictator

28:15 The Rise Of A Revolution

30:19 Cozying Up To The USSR

33:32 A Crisis Unfolds

38:50 The Fall of the Soviets

42:28 Cuba In The 21st Century

BUT FIRST: Primary results in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Karoline Leavitt steps down, Todd Blanche is officially AG, Trump cuts vaccines for kids, droughts and wildfires across the world, ICE wants shock gloves, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo evidence, and a third death at Delany Hall. This is your Friday roundup.

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Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/miller. | Marco Rubio just called communists "Enemies of Civilization" and the US State Department and DOJ are on a mission to root out the evil of far-left "terrorist" cells, foreign and domestic. Make no mistake, this is absolutely a new Red Scare. Only time will tell how bad it gets.

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0:00 Intro

10:28 Pre-WWII Context

17:25 Post-WWII Unrest

20:06 The Red Scare Begins

24:50 The Hollywood 10

26:22 The Hiss-Chambers Affair

31:05 Dennis v. US

43:08 Aftermath

48:36 What Do We Do?

But that's okay because we're going to read it together. This document was revolutionary when it was written, and yet it purposely and willfully left out most of the population and declared "liberty" to be an "inalienable right" while the writers owned humans. That stain on our history has, so far, been impossible to completely remove.

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A lot of decisions dropped for the final week of the Supreme Court term, some of them better for Trump than others, none of them give me warm fuzzy feelings. We'll discuss birthright citizenship, trans athletes, campaign finance, and more. TLDR: we DESPARATELY need Supreme Court reform!

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The Trump regime wants you to pray more, and they say it's because the US was founded on Christian values. It's a talking point that pops up over and over again. But is it true?

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Last week, 15 activists in Minnesota were indicted on federal charges, accused of being members of an "antifa" cell. This week, a group of activists in Texas got DECADES of prison time for their roles in an alleged "antifa" plot. Today I tried to get into the weeds here a bit so we can get our heads around what these recent lawsuits and sentencings mean for activists on the ground.

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Surprise! I live in Dublin now. Today we're discussing why I left, why I chose Ireland, and what that means moving forward.

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A judge in Delaware has upheld a law allowing corporations (and other "artificial persons") to vote in municipal elections. FIRST OF ALL: this is not a NEW law, it's been in the charter since 2008. I'm seeing a lot of headlines misconstruing that this judge made this new ruling and now all of the sudden corporations can vote. This has BEEN the law. And corporations have had more rights than you for literally hundreds of years. Strap in for the explainer on "corporate personhood" cuz it's a doozy. 

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Tensions outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey boiled over this weekend, with Senator Andy Kim attempting to intervene and de-escalate and instead getting hit with pepper spray by DHS agents. The conditions inside Delaney Hall are so bad that 300 detainees are currently participating in a hunger strike. This is all part of the larger fascist plan to dehumanize immigrants so we all look the other way.

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