A 45min episode of an #NPRFreshAir interview with NYT's #EricLipton who exposes an insanely large grift by the Trump family in the crypto and international affairs space. Jaw-dropping audacity and corruption.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1249592912/president-trumps-conflicts-of-interest
@emptywheel.bsky.social
It is clear that cutting costs, waste & fraud are not real targets for DOGE â everything cut so far = miniscule % of total US Government spending. DOGE is this administration's goon squad threatening American democracy, US democratic institutions & our allies -- and so, the world.
Suggest listening to/reading @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
#NPRFreshAir yesterday https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/1232435542/
#RegimeChange #authoritarianism
@parismarx @makenakellyx
Threat goes beyond future of government services & those who depend on them. It is clear that cutting costs, waste & fraud are not real targets â everything cut so far = miniscule % of total US Government spending. Threat is to American democracy, US democratic institutions & our allies -- and so, to the world.
Suggest listening to/reading @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
#NPRFreshAir yesterday https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/1232435542/applebaum-regime-change
"End of an Era" https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/end-of-an-era
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. as an 'organizer of the people' â
Scholars Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude speak with Tonya Mosley and reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that trump is sworn into office as President again
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43300/a-conversation-about-mlks-legacy-and-a-second-trump-administration
#NPRFreshAir #MLK #MLKday #MartinLutherKingJr
I don't think there is a better interviewer alive today (and only the late Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci is in the running for best IMO) â Former President Jimmy Carter: The "Fresh Air" interviews (Part 1; audio and transcript)
Terry Gross: "... Jimmy Carter... died yesterday at the age of 100. Rest in peace."
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/g-s1-40405/former-president-jimmy-carter-the-fresh-air-interviews-part-1 v #NPR #NPRFreshAir #JimmyCarter #TerryGross #journalism #news
#NPRFreshAir #TFG #LuckyLoser #SusanneCraig #RussBuettner
This was a deep look into the shiny Trump empire where if you scratch the golden surfaced, it's plywood everywhere. I recommend reading the transcript.
CRAIG: The power of repetition of that opening scene in "The Apprentice" can never be underestimated. And in some ways, I think it's the greatest political commercial of all time. And I think that that image then fueled his rise to the White House. I think a majority of Americans believed what they saw, that Donald Trump was a successful billionaire in New York who had come back from adversity and had built an empire from nothing because over and over, it was repeated, year after year, on that show.
#NPRFreshAir #NPR #MinorityRule #USPolitics #PatBuchanan #VotingRights #AriBerman
Another good listen, and scary. Looking back at the founders (a minority rule by definition) and how we are dangerously close to losing the democracy we have. Several current examples where it's already worked---SCOTUS, State laws, minority politics especially in the House.
Rich Stein (he/him)
Ross of Ottawa
Wm.son