SUNDAY 02.22.26 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Feb 22 26 Social media addiction, algorithm bias (00:58:00)
Segment 1: How do people become addicted to social media and what are the implications of such an addiction?
Segment 2: Most of our activity on the internet interacts with posts, memes and videos that are driven by algorithms. How might algorithms be biased, racist, or sexist, and how might they amplify those biases in us?
EARTH RIOT RADIO #209: There’s A Lion In The Lobby of JP Morgan Chase (00:29:00)
Wild animals, Mountain Lions!, are invading the new world headquarters of the big bank, all the way up to the 70th floor office of Jamie Dimon. The Church of Stop Shopping has provided six bullhorns to project the upsetting screams of the famous apex big cat. The church services are held at the public garden on Madison Ave, between 47th and 48th, the behemoth buildings back door. The largest bank in the world and top investor in fossil fuel, including the four major pipelines in North America, including Israeli weapons. The screams of the lion will be echoing in the fortress-like Chase HQ, as employees find angry Pumas on their phones and computers, in their minds.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Messages in a Bottle and Ten Pounds (00:28:00)
Harper Thorne: Messages in a Bottle (Harper discovers secret love letters hidden in used books at a used book store)
Barnaby Druthers: Ten Pounds (A classic Druthers short story, at the Grey Gryphons Club, a mysterious guest makes an interesting wager) Barnaby Druthers – written created and produced by J Timothy Quirk (c)2026 created for community radio.
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN February 21, 2026 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Bill Curry and Jamie Rowen. We discuss the proliferation of ICE human warehouses, centers where detainees will be kept. What are the implications of such local “concentration camps” for the neighborhoods and towns where this will be done?
Segment Two
We then catch up with David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect. We discuss how lobbyists have a greater than ever influence in government. Specifically, we focus on the economic issues: mergers, takeovers, and trusts. We discuss recent cases, and how they have altered the financial markets and landscape. We look at how Epstein’s network of the very rich are connected.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS February 19, 2026 (00:59:00)
Justice With the Arrest of the Former Prince Andrew in the UK But In Contrast, a Coverup by the Consiglieres at DoJ Protecting the Mob Boss in the Oval Office | Will the Environmental Movement Become More Radical as Trump Kills Off Efforts to Curb Global Warming?
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Bayo Akomolafe – The Times Are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down 00:59:00)
Bayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian born recovering psychologist and professor, and author of THESE WILDS BEYOND OUR FENCES: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home. In this brilliant and powerful presentation from April 26, 2019, entitled The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down, Bayo talks about a new kind of activism to help us address the injustice, grief and despair we face today, that he calls post activism, which he says isn’t what comes after activism, but a different way of seeing these issues and our relationship to them.
He also tells a few stories to illustrate what he’s talking about.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: The Surveillance State is Expanding…(00:58:53)
This is an episode of FOUR deep dives into how we are losing our human rights…
And we are helping it happen.
Facial Recognition is becoming in escapable and Meta is about to make that problem a thousand times worse. On top of this, an open communications platform was blocked by a government and the overall expansion of surveillance in the USA is getting cover from the legal system. We also cover so much more and you do not want to miss this episode.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-dive-radio-show-and-nicks-nerd-news/id1262505658
SATURDAY 02.21.26 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Chris Gilliard on Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us (00:59:30)
When the Amazon Ring commercial aired during the Super Bowl, many people were horrified to realize that Ring can spy on them and their neighbors. Privacy expert Chris Gilliard discusses what people should know about Amazon’s “luxury surveillance”.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Kids Are Alright (00:57:20)
After Charlie Kirk, and thanks to ICE, kids are moving left. While the hard right has had significant success in rallying young people (mostly males), the anger at ICE and a desire for a sense of belonging is moving more and more kids to the populist left. Look how many high school anti-ICE walkouts there’ve been; they matter. And in a long great American tradition of similar organizing venues, the Young Organizer Boot Camp brings kids together in a sense of belonging to connect, and yield real social and political change. Rev. Liz Theoharis of the Karois Center and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign on this show talks about young people across the country who are becoming inspired and taking grassroots progressive action in a number of fields. After all, real political change comes from the ground up.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Aging and Employment Recruitment (00:58:00)
By their sheer number, the growing age 50+ population means more older Americans want to remain in the workforce or seek employment as a means to having purpose, social connection, and mental stimulation. Ageism and negative perceptions may hinder this population from seeking employment often leading to reduced self-worth and lower financial security.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com/
GROWING GREENER: A Trees Perspective on Pruning (00:29:00)
Is your pruning aimed only at gratifying your aesthetics and needs? Chris Roddick also views pruning from the plants perspective, promoting techniques that enhance their growth patterns and ecological function as well.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Michael Parenti: How I Became an Activist (00:29:00)
Parenti (1933-20260 rarely talked about his life. How does a NYC street kid get accepted to Yale? How does he lose the privilege of his PhD. in an arrest at a demonstration against the war on Vietnam, and become an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer?
Michael Parenti grew up in a poor, working class Italian community in New York City. When he received his PhD in political science from Yale in 1962 he was the success and pride of his family. He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam. Ultimately the choice he made then was a good one. He became an independent political writer and thinker and author of over 20 books. Invitations to speak came from all over North America. His topics were history, fascism, US Imperialism, globalization and terrorism. His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
THE BOPST SHOW: She Said (00:56:21
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide variety of music that knows no one genre era, or inspiration. On this edition, you’ll hear the raw primal rock of Hasil Adkins, space age pop from Esquivel, and dance floor inspirations from Basement Jaxx as well as tunes form Steve Clayon, Nick Drake, as many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #624 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes J.B. Branch (Public Citizen’s Big Tech accountability advocate) to discuss some of the sectors that Big Tech is disrupting with artificial intelligence. Then, Steve, David, and Hannah speak to Russell Mokhiber about the latest issue of the Capitol Hill Citizen. Finally, Ralph speaks on the legacy of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/
FRIDAY 02.20.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday February 20, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Lake lovers beware: Winter ice isnt always what it used to be (00:01:30)
Warmer winters can result in thinner ice, so knowing safety rules is essential.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Songs of Revolution and Protest (00:55:00)
This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour, we bring you an all-music special from The Downbeat Music Show (Florence, Oregon), featuring powerful songs of revolution and protest. From historic anthems to contemporary voices of resistance, this hour explores how music has fueled movements, challenged injustice, and sustained working people in the fight for dignity and democracy.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Destroying Vaccine Science (00:58:00)
The reign of stupid continues, as America’s leading institutions are ordered to drop their world-changing development of life-saving vaccines.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Dr. Neha Pathak: Climate Change and Human Health (00:29:00)
Nowadays human health is affected by a whole new array of variables: from the impacts of climate change to the vast amount of both accurate and inaccurate health information propagated by the internet and public officials. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Dr. Neha Pathak, a practicing medical doctorand medical journalist who serves as WebMD’s Chief Physician Editor. We look at some of the health impacts of a warming planet, discuss the ever-expanding role that the internet plays in modern medicine, and talk about WebMD’s new Embody platform.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Epstein, Trump & How Misogyny Fuels Fascism (00:28:00)
Donald Trump has a long record of demeaning and berating women. Hes also linked to Jeffrey Epstein and his name appears literally thousands of times in relation to what is arguably the biggest, sickest sex abuse scandal ever. So why is the sexism at the heart of Trumpism taken so lightly? In this episode, we look at how sexism functions in todays fascist resurgence with experts Nina Burleigh, Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart and Annie Wilkinson. Burleigh is a journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of American Freakshow on Substack. Rev. Washington-Leapheart is a minister, professor, and the first-ever Strategic Partnerships Director at Political Research Associates (PRA), a social justice research and strategy center founded in 1981 by the feminist political scientist Jean Hardisty. In 2025 PRA dedicated an entire issue of their journal to the relationship between gender and authoritarianism, with a lead essay written by Wilkinson. Hear what our guests are taking away from the Epstein story, why authoritarians are afraid of feminism, and how womens leadership poses such a threat to fascists. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on impunity in our times
THE BOPST SHOW: She Said (00:56:21)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide variety of music that knows no one genre era, or inspiration. On this edition, you’ll hear the raw primal rock of Hasil Adkins, space age pop from Esquivel, and dance floor inspirations from Basement Jaxx as well as tunes form Steve Clayon, Nick Drake, as many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 2/19/2026 Accountability Everywhere But Here (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of an attempted coup in December of 2024 and sentenced to life in prison. Former Prince Andrew, younger brother of King Charles III, was arrested on allegations he shared sensitive trade information with the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Top government officials in Great Britain, Norway, France and elsewhere have faced accountability related to information revealed in the Epstein Files. We are seeing accountability everywhere but in the US, where Donald Trump’s corrupt Justice Department is blatantly covering up for him, violating the law. New reporting finds that FBI documents detailing credible Epstein-related allegations against Trump have disappeared, and examines potential links to Trump’s theft of classified documents after his first term. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 02.19.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday February 19, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The clean energy coach next door (00:01:30)
People who love their heat pumps are now teaching neighbors to go electric.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Speed Bump: Permafrost To The Sea (00:58:00)
Warning: Speed Bump. The deep freeze holding thousands-year carbon is thawing faster. The Arctic tosses gigatons of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. The newest permafrost science with Christina Schaedel, Senior Research Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts. Strangely, the third worst warming gas may become less serious as the world heats up. Atmosphere scientist Michael Prather with sort of good news on nitrous oxide. Satellites reveal global algae is expanding, in new places. It that good or bad? We ask Dr. Brian Barnes from the University of South Florida about the latest science.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Vlad is Having a Really Great Year (00:58:00)
The Cycle’s Dr Rachel Bitecofer joins Thom for a deep dive- was manipulating Trump to deeply undermine America from the oval office the most successful foreign policy intervention is human history?
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2026-02-17 (00:58:30)
This week, well open the show with legendary civil and human rights activist Dolores Huerta, Founder & President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and Co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America. Shell reflect on anti-ICE organizing. Then, abolitionist academic Alex Vitale joins us to give an inside look at New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s approach to policing and public safety. Finally, Dania Munoz, a nurse practitioner at Mount Sinai hospital in New York City joins us to share lessons from the biggest nurse’s strike in the city’s history.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 31-33 (00:22:38) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WINGS #45-25 The Web of Life (00:29:00)
Sherri L. Mitchell (Wena’hamu’gwasit) is both a lawyer and an indigenous rights activist. She also works to preserve and revitalize the worldview and rituals of her Penobscot people, whose territory is in the US state of Maine. Her indigenous name means She Who Brings the Light. She authored the book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. This is the talk she gave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, emceed by OISE scholar Angela Miles. It was titled: Web of Life: Re-Aligning with the Value of Life, an Indigenous Perspective. (Sherri’s many credentials and activities can be viewed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Mitchell)
THE BRADCAST: 2/18/2026 Antisemitism Rising Inside MAGA, with investigative journalist Art Levine (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: After Trump FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to rewrite Equal Time rules for late-night talk shows, the venerable CBS television network, now owned by rightwing billionaires, immediately surrendered, barring ‘Late Show’ host Stephen Colbert from broadcasting his interview with U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX). The move backfired, with the interview on YouTube garnering many millions more views than it might have otherwise. Journalist Art Levine discusses his deep dive documenting the rise in blatant, public antisemitism in the Republican MAGA movement that is causing a slow-motion implosion. Levine also covers nutty MAGA conspiracy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, how the Trump Administration weaponized campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza to extort universities and other organizations, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 02.18.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday February 18, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Floating gardens could offer a beautiful fix for polluted water (00:01:30)
Researchers in Florida are testing flower-covered mats that could remove pollution and restore water quality in the states canals.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Alice Driver, PhD, author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on Americas Largest Meatpacking Company, describes work inside Tyson meatpacking facilities (00:28:00)
Did you know that the Tyson meatpacking company reaps enormous profits on the backs of immigrant, prison, and in some cases even child labor? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with James Beard award winning writer, Alice Driver, PhD, author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on Americas Largest Meatpacking Company. Driver describes the life-threatening and thankless work inside Tyson facilities in Arkansas and beyond. She discusses unsafe working conditions, common injuries, lack of COVID protection, and more.
Related Websites: https://www.alicedriver.com/
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT # 1977: Don Lemon: Process Is the Punishment+global LGBTQ news+more! (00:28:59)
Trumped-up charges plague Black gay journalist Don Lemon; Happy Birthday Anais Nin; same-gender couples get property rights in the Philippines, U.K. trans people can use toilets anywhere except at work, the U.K.s Education Department orders teachers to out trans students, the third veto of an anti-trans bathroom bill is the charm for the Republican governor of New Hampshire, and A.G. Bondi’s anti-semitic taunt infuriates Jewish Vermont lesbian Congress member Balint. Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will GOP Women Senators Stop the Virulently Anti-Female SAVE Act? (00:58:00)
Will Republican women in the Senate stop the virulently anti-female SAVE Act? The Epstein Files: Its now officially a cover-up…But, wait – there’s more. Christopher Armitage – What would happen if insurance companies were banned? Most Americans still assume elections alone will decide whether this stops, but our allies abroad ” who’ve seen this movie before in their own countries in their grandparents lifetimes ” appear far less certain. They’re acting as if the United States has entered a phase nations rarely reverse once fully established.
CIVIC CIPHER: Things a Racist Might Say / The 8 White Identities by Barnor Hesse (00:59:00)
First Half:
In the first half of the episode, we comb through several statements typically made by folks who intend to distance themselves from racists but they end up sounding racist themselves. We examine the intention typically found behind these statements, but also how they can be perceived as problematic.
Second Half:
The second half of the show is dedicated to The 8 White Identities by Barnor Hesse – a supposition by the professor that segments different White identities based on their level of racist/anti-racist behavior. We give our thoughts on this insightful chart and share examples of how we see these behaviors played out in real life.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 29-30 (00:30:15) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity is the thing that drives you to figure out who you really are. (00:28:00)
James Hatch spent 26 years in military service, 22 of them as a Navy SEAL.
His military career ended in 2009 when he was severely injured, his life saved by his teammates and their working dog. That marked the beginning of a long and challenging recovery that included multiple surgeries and mental health struggles.
In 2019, at age 52, Jimmy enrolled as Yale Universitys oldest freshman ever.
Now, as a Yale graduate, he tries to bridge the growing divide between the two worlds that have shaped him.
“Basically, being comfortable is dangerous. If you’re not asking questions and trying to figure out more about life, are you really living?” ~ Jimmy Hatch
THE BRADCAST: 2/17/2026 ‘SAVE America Act’ Designed to Disenfranchise Voters, Undermine Democracy, with election integrity advocate Jennifer Cohn (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The critical 2026 midterm elections are now underway with early voting for primaries in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas. Civil rights leader and voting rights advocate Rev. Jesse Jackson passed today at 84. Polls show Donald Trump sinking to new lows in public opinion. Congressional Republicans’ voter suppression law, the deceptively named ‘SAVE America Act’, would make it much harder to register to vote and much easier to purge legal voters from the rolls, using a notoriously inaccurate database. Election integrity advocate JENNIFER COHEN explains what’s really in the GOP’s voter suppression law, the ‘sneaky’ ways it ensnares legal voters and erects new barriers to the ballot box, how voters can act to protect their voting rights, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 02.17.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday February 17, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: This teen is taking on dirty air (00:01:30)
Nathan Tan founded a nonprofit that monitors pollution in Dallas neighborhoods.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Air and Light: Clearing Stagnation Without Forcing a Fix (00:29:00)
On this show, were exploring Air and Light: Clearing Stagnation Without Forcing a Fix ” and why sometimes the spaces in our lives that feel overwhelming, forgotten, or beyond repair may not need a dramatic overhaul they may just need a little air and light. Have you ever walked into a room thats been closed up for years? The air feels thick. The smell is stale. The silence almost hums. You hesitate before stepping in, not because its dangerous, but because it feels untouched. Undisturbed. Like time stopped there.
MAKING CONTACT: Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore) (00:29:00)
On today’s show, we take a look at the life and legacy of a central organizer of the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an openly gay civil rights leader and a trusted advisor to labor leader A. Phillip Randolph and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This show first aired in June 2021.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: What Really Happens at an Ice Processing Center? (00:58:00)
Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box details alleged abuse at Baltimore ICE Facility as protests grow – New allegations of corporal punishment, unsanitary conditions emerge as demonstrators gather outside federal building – Plus – What Is an ICE Processing Center? Lawyers of a Chicago woman shot by federal agents say documents show how DHS lies about investigations. Crazy Alert! RFK Jr. boasts hes not scared of germs because he used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats. Did we need to know this?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Underground Railroad (00:53:00)
On this episode of The Children’s Hour, kids learn about the Underground Railroad and the life of Harriet Tubman. Bilingual fourth graders from Mrs. Charles’s classroom at Coronado Elementary School in Albuquerque teach listeners what they discovered while studying American history. They explain how the Underground Railroad was not a real train, but a secret system of people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom. Listeners hear about Harriet Tubman’s childhood in slavery, her courage, and how she escaped to the North. After gaining her freedom, Harriet returned again and again to help others escape. She used songs, disguises, star maps, and secret messages to guide people safely. The kids explain why many people traveled at night, hid during the day, and followed the North Star on their journey.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 28 (00:19:41) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
ALAN WATTS: It Will Give You Goosebumps – The Eternal Now (00:09:43)
An inspirational and profound speech on the eternal now by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts Limits of Language-2″ “Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” – Alan Watts. (1915 – 1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oI0Q62RkE&t=116s
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: A Miserable Revenge (half) (00:29:00)
George Newman, born to free Black parents in 1855, was only 21 or 22 when he wrote the novel, A Miserable Revenge: A Story of Life in Virginia. Newmans granddaughter, Ruth Toliver, talks about the just-published novel with Virginia Humanities Center for the Book director Kalela Williams. Also: Mollie Godfrey and Brooks Hefner helped bring Newmans fascinating novel into digital and print publication.
THE BRADCAST: 2/16/2026 Encore: End of ‘New START’ Nuclear Treaty, with nuclear weapons analyst Stephen Schwartz (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 2-5-2026. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Following the Trump FBI raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections warehouse in service of Donald Trump’s ongoing delusions about losing the 2020 election, his top Administration officials had promised to ‘confront’ the bipartisan National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) – – but they all cancelled their appearances at the last minute. At midnight on Feb. 4, Donald Trump allowed the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the U.S. and Russia to expire. The New START nuclear agreement capped the numbers of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads and included an extensive verification regime. Nuclear weapons policy analyst STEPHEN SCHWARTZ delves into the history, context and specifics of the agreement; what its expiration means; Trump’s ill-advised ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense concept; and much, much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 02.16.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday February 16, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Solar farms turn from lawn mowers to sheep (00:01:30)
The grazing flocks trim the grass around solar arrays, and the sheep farmers get a new revenue stream.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #89: Agroforestry (00:29:00)
You’re working on agro-forestry ” what does that mean?
Sub-divisions of agroforestry
wind breaks,
silvopasture,
riparian buffers,
forest gardening, and
forest farming,
alley cropping — if you want to talk about the differences and why I would call your project a forest garden as opposed to a forest farm”we could pick that apart)
Should these types of agro forestry focus on native plants and biodiversity or what about just any old plant?
Can you explain how to begin a forest garden when there’s no forest?
goals
-insects
-soil
-wildlife
-investment in plants, mulch etc.
income potential
-tours
-propogate plants to grow and for sale
-sell fruit, nuts, timber
education that’s needed
-soil health
-plant cultivation
-working with the public
amount of land and materials required
-budget
-scrounging materials ” mulch, plants, fencing to protect young plants
Your goals for impacting climate change?
climate change and the implications of government subsidies for farmers to experiment with this stuff”because its often so hard for farmers to change gears
cities pay farmers to experiment with agroforestry because its great for the planet
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: How The U.S. Tax System Worsens Inequality (00:29:00)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.K. PM Starmer’s trade visit to China, the new head of the Federal Reserve, and the escalation of a general strike in Minneapolis and its spread across the U.S. as people gear up against government assaults on cities. In the second half, Professor Wolff interviews Professor Ray Madoff of Boston College Law School to discuss the flaws in the U.S. tax system and her new book, The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: New Explosive Trump Allegation in Epstein Files (00:58:00)
One of Trumps top allies and dinner-party guests is now calling for American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps. Why does this keep coming up? Dem lawmaker flags explosive Trump allegation in Epstein files. Here’s the interesting line – Witness calls FBIs [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her. Also journalist John Parker reports from Minnesota. Plus Phil Ittner with the Ukraine Briefing
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Sissy Gagged: Sex, Gender, and Jesus (00:55:00)
We’re fortunate to have Peterson Toscano back today as guest-host for Spirit In Action, is bringing us segments from his Bubble & Squeak podcast. This episode is about sex, gender, and Jesus – and what happens when our bodies get wrapped in shame, pleasure, politics, and power. It comes in 4 parts including a visit with Rev. Dr. Tina Beardsley, a priest, theologian, and trans woman who’s been quietly transforming the Church of England from the inside out. Part 2 is with Kyle Casey Chu, aka Panda Dulce, a drag queen, writer, and survivor of a Proud Boys ambush at Drag Story Hour. There’s talk about sacred drag, queer disappointment, and how to live when the fantasy of queer community doesn’t match reality. Part 3 is with Rev. Dr. Beverly Dale who is a poet, preacher, and the founder of the Incarnation Institute for Sex & Faith, and her recent book is Who Told You That You Were Naked?. And part 4 is a sound slice from a rousing dance at a Quaker gathering in Florida. Peterson uses the audio-scape to draw a delightful image.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 26-27 (00:24:08)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
ALAN WATTS: How to Enjoy Life (00:05:44)
Buddhist teacher Watts reflects on life. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and lecturer who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy and religion for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man, and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOoxOwjwHiE
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: Breast Cancer in a Bottle (00:29:00)
Are your personal care products putting your health at risk? This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the EPA changing the risk/benefit calculation for pollution, the glyphosate case goes to the Supreme Court, the administration’s secret committee to challenge climate change, and eggs in England contaminated with forever chemicals. Then Polly Marshall, founder and executive director of non-profit BreastCancerOverTime.org talks about the pioneering work of her group, speeding up the process for evaluating the links between chemicals in personal care products and an increased risk of breast cancer.
THE BRADCAST: Encore: Josh Kovensky of TPM on Trump turning ‘War on Terror’ against domestic foes (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 2-4-2026. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration claims it is ‘drawing down’ the deployment of ICE and CBP goons in Minneapolis, but is still leaving 2,000 thugs on the streets. So many Trump Justice Department attorneys have resig ned from the Minneapolis federal field office, refusing to participate in the administration’s violent immigration tactics, that it has caused severe staffing shortages. Talking Points Memo’s investigative reporter JOSH KOVENSKY explains the Trump Administration’s new effort to revive the nutty ‘ItalyGate’ conspiracy theory that Donald Trump believes cost him the 2020 election. Kovensky also covers a very disturbing series of Justice Department memos that repurpose a post-9/11 federal terrorism statute to turn it against peaceful protesters and those regarded as political opponents of Trump with ‘domestic terrorism’ charges, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 02.15.26 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: February 15, 2026 Racism in health care, health justice (00:58:00)
Why do health care outcomes in the U.S. differ so much for different races? How much is the discrepancy because of structural and historical racism? And what changes could promote health justice?
EARTH RIOT RADIO: (00:29:00)
Millions of us environmentalists are stuck. Big Oil & their banks corrupt whole countries as mass extinction accelerates. What have we done lately? Cultivate our self-pitying trance? NO! – let’s be a WOKE MONSTERS FOR THE EARTH. The new 70 story Chase Bank HQ – top climate poisoner – is a fortress. The signal is clear. We can’t get in. They live. We die. Let’s not throw ourselves against the walls. Let’s turn around. GO OUTSIDE!!! The Earth has more much more power than Jamie Dimon. The Earth gives us our vision of change. Something more than hope. Earthalujah!
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers and the Secret Lighthouse of Owl Rock (00:28:00)
While Barnaby Druthers visits his friend in Maine, a nighttime boatride leads to a discovery of strange occurrences emanating from a Victorian style house in a hidden section of the bay.
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN February 14, 2026 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Mark Joseph Stern, Senior writer at Slate who covers courts and legal matters. We discuss how the Department of Justice appears to be collapsing. Many lawyers have left, and those who remain are being assigned to ICE matters, rather than investigating crimes, such as cartel crimes, and other, serious Federal crimes. In effect, Americans are LESS safe as a result.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Bill Curry and Robert Hennelly. We discuss Pam Bondi’s reprehensible testimony before Congress. Eugenics appears to be a prime motivator to the administration to allow the wealthy ‘elite’ members of the United States to proceed as they have been.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: February 15, 2026 (00:59:00)
Trump and Rubio Turn the Screws of Collective Punishment on the Cuban People | Rubio Makes Nice in Munich Without One Word About Ukraine | Trump Issues a Death Sentence on Our Children, Grandchildren and the Planet With His Payoff to the Fossil Fuel Industry.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Part 2 – Meta-Relationality Emerging Intelligence and AI with Vanessa Machado De Oliviera (00:59:00)
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira is a LatinX professor and a senior academic leader at the University of Victoria. She held the Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, and the David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education at the University of British Columbia. Vanessa has led educational and research programs in the UK, Finland, New Zealand, Brazil and Canada. Her research focuses on the entanglements of historical, systemic and ongoing forms of violence and unsustainability of modernity. Vanessa is one of the founders of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, an Arts and Research Collective, and she is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, and her new book is Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion; and co-author of Burnout From Humans: A Story About AI That’s Not Really About AI.
In this interview conversation we talk about the possibilities of working with meta-relationally trained AI, as a relational mirror to reflect back to ourselves our responsibility with accountability and compassion, so that we may be able to stop destroying our world before it’s too late.
This is the second half of my interview with Vanessa.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Protecting Yourself In A Surveillance State (00:58:00)
When talking about defending ourselves It’s important to start with this concept: A surveillance state rarely needs to hack you. Instead, It relies on lawful interception, compelled disclosure, bulk metadata collection, commercial data brokers, and correlation across systems. In this Deep Dive, we discuss in-depth how to best defend yourself from the prying eyes of a government. This is beyond important. We also cover so much more and you do not want to miss this episode.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-dive-radio-show-and-nicks-nerd-news/id1262505658
SATURDAY 02.14.26 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Peter Dear, “The World As We Know It” and how we interpret AI (00:59:30)
Science historian Peter Dear joins Mark to discuss his book “The World As We Know It” – with stories of how we came to understand science. That’s relevant today in how we understand AI.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Why Did Trump Try to Kill the American Auto Industry? (00:42:28)
Why would an American president stab Americas signature industry in the back? Our guest today, Ryan Cooper senior editor of The American Prospect argues that it makes no actual economic sense but that Trump is dragging his obsessive anti-green agenda into killing EV jobs at the big three automakers. In what Cooper calls “The whims of a mad dictator,” he is taking away subsidies for the production of EVs that Biden put in place in the Inflation Reduction Act, instead putting that money into tax cuts for the richest and keeping the oil industry happy. Meanwhile our biggest Detroit-made auto-buying country Canada will gladly take it’s business elsewhere. Trump is giving a gift to China in his “America First” agenda [Please note, due to technical difficulties, this show is about 44 minutes only]
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
ALAN WATTS: Relief of Anxiety (00:05:08)
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
AGING MATTERS: Social Security (00:58:00)
Social Security isa form of social insurance for over 66 million people. Participants pay into the program through federal payroll taxes, and in return receive coverage against specific threats to their and their families’ economic well-being.
Walter Gottlieb, Director of Communications, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. https://www.ncpssm.org/ talks about Social Security history and purpose, program eligibility, retirement benefits, beneficiary enrollment and participation, and the programs long-term sustainability challenges.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: O Canada ” A Garden Activist Enriches and Beautifies Lawns with Local Prairie Flora (00:29:00)
Travel with Growing Greener to Winnipeg, Manitoba to learn how Ash Burkowski is collecting seed from local prairie remnants to raise indigenous grasses and wildflowers that can be integrated into lawns, restoring populations of native flora while relieving homeowners of the need for fertilization and irrigation and reducing the need for mowing.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Michael Parenti: Superpatriotism and the Importance of Being Number One (00:29:00)
What does it mean to love one’s country? Why is it so important to be number one? In this sharp and funny speech MP dissects the uses of patriotism.
That was the introduction to a Michael Parenti talk given in 1988, at the end of the Reagan administration. That talk became a TUC Radio program and 2004 book published by City Lights. Superpatriotism: How hype, fear, and mindless flag-waving are supplanting informed debate and commitment to democracy.
Now, in 2018, so many years later, slogans such as: America First, America the Greatest Country on Earth are having a powerful come back. Resistance to Superpatriotism ” even if it is simply remaining seated or taking a knee during the national anthem at a sports event, can draw a hateful response from those who Parenti was concerned about a generation ago.
Michael Parenti received his PhD in political science from Yale. He is the author of 23 books and many more articles. His works have been translated into eighteen languages. He grew up in an Italian-American working-class family in NY City. His PhD. from Yale would have guaranteed him a career in academia. He knowingly gave up that chance when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam and was arrested. He decided to become an independent author, lecturer and activist.
Parenti spoke in 1988 in Boulder, CO, recorded by KGNU Radio.
Michael Parenti died on January 24, 2026.
THE BOPST SHOW: All You Fascists Bound To Lose (00:55:05)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide variety of music that knows no one genre, era, or inspiration. On this edition, you’ll hear the soothing, easy listening sounds of Perry Como, folk from Richmond native Aimee Man, and the spiky punk of the Television Personalities as well as tunes form Silver Jews, Sonny Terry and Woody Guthrie, as many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #628 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, to discuss his Senate testimony about the many ways the Trump Administrations assault on fraud is itself fraudulent. Plus, Ralph informs us of a report from Aljazeera about the MK-84 weapon the IDF is using in Gaza that is designed to generate so much heat it literally vaporizes people.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 02.13.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday February 13, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A familiar tree turned up at a shockingly high elevation (00:01:30)
An ecologist spotted Jeffrey pines growing far above their usual range in the Sierra Nevada.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Striking At Kings (00:55:00)
Latest labor arts news, including Lottie Walkers one-woman show about East London union leader Sarah Wesker and the return of the Labor Oscars. We hear from songwriter Mindy Murray about her powerful new song Striking at Kings, inspired by the 1938 King Farm strike, plus a Labor History in 2:00 look at the 1903 Oxnard Strike. Young adult author J. Albert Mann interviews labor journalist Kim Kelly about Fight to Win and teaching labor history to young people, and we close with a fearless, funny, and furious moment from Carsie Blanton, calling for solidarity and dignity for working musicians
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Mary Trump – Tariff Loss, Pam Bondi, and More… (00:58:00)
Donald Trump goes after GOPers for canceling White House meetings that excluded Democrats. Did no one tell them you have to be 100% loyal or you’ll be kicked out? Also journalist John Parker reports from Minnesota. Plus from France to Germany to Canada, governments are recalibrating their security, technology, and defense policies around one unspoken reality: America can’t be counted on Special Guest Mary Trump gives insights on the Tariff loss, Pam Bondi, and more.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Fishing Alternatives: Shrimpbox + Finless Foods (00:29:00)
This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a dip into the archives to learn about two companies trying to get seafood to the market in unusual new ways. First, we speak with Daniel Russek, the founder and CEO of Atarraya, as he describes his company’s Shrimpbox technology: an innovative approach to shrimp farming. Then, we hear from Shannon Consentino-Roush, the former Chief Strategy Officer at Finless Foods, a California-based startup that is hoping to bring cell-cultured seafood alternatives to your dinner plate.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Outmaneuvering MAGA: Christopher Armitage & Sumathy Kumar on Soft Secession (00:28:00)
There are countless strategies for resisting authoritarianism ” many of which weve discussed on this program. This time, were looking at ways to stop the MAGA Right using the power of cities and states. Whats possible when people take federalism seriously and partner with state officials to protect their constitutional freedoms ” and elections ” from being violated by the federal government? Our guests are organizers and strategists with experience and plans for outmaneuvering MAGA at the state and municipal level. Christopher Armitage is a U.S. Air Force veteran, former law enforcement officer, writer, and founder of The Existentialist Republic on Substack. He is the author of a handbook on Oppositional Federalism. Sumathy Kumar is the Executive Director of Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc. She was the former Co-Chair of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America and under her leadership, NYC-DSA elected six socialist legislators to the New York State Legislature, including mayor Zohran Mamdani. From withholding federal revenue to building social housing, hear the creative ways people and local governments can turn up the heat. All that, plus a commentary from Laura.
THE BOPST SHOW: All You Fascists Bound To Lose (00:55:05)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide variety of music that knows no one genre, era, or inspiration. On this edition, you’ll hear the soothing, easy listening sounds of Perry Como, folk from Richmond native Aimee Man, and the spiky punk of the Television Personalities as well as tunes form Silver Jews, Sonny Terry and Woody Guthrie, as many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 2/12/2026 Harpy Tantrums, Legal Losses, Election Fails, Retreating ICE and Hopeful Signs, with Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration continues to lose in the courts and in special elections. Some MAGA folks are calling for US Attorney General Pam Bondi to resign following her ridiculous performance in a congressional hearing, ICE claims to be leaving Minnesota altogether, and new polls show voters now think Joe Biden was a better president than Donald Trump. Longtime OG bloggers, HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the ‘Pro Left Podcast’, bring insight, context, history and hilarity as they delve into the Trump Administration’s growing list of failures, the Epstein Files, the rising resistance and resilience of the American people, and much, much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 02.12.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday February 12, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Intense storms, rain, and waves leave Great Lakes coastal properties exposed (00:01:30)
But living shorelines can help protect beaches, homes, and roads.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: AI SWARMS: we are not ready (00:58:00)
AI swarms – self-directing fake persons around us. Dr. Daniel Schroeder Lead Author of the new paper “How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy”. Clips from Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points “AI Bots Plot Human Downfall On Moltbook Social Media Site”. Alex rants on emergent group cognition and the last stand of consciousness.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Why Are ICE Thugs Safer than School Children? (00:58:00)
Lisa Graves, the executive director of True North Research and president of the board of the Center for Media and Democracy explains why Trump is getting away with his paramilitary raids? Plus – whats up with the confiscated Georgia election ballots? ICE doesnt need their masks; they are safer than school children. Guess who is not safe, though? Grandmothers! Also why does a lie that has never been proven, never worked, and never been real still hold the power to undermine an entire democracy? Plus journalist John Parker reports from Minnesota.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2026-02-10 (00:58:30)
This week, well examine what the latest trove of released Epstein files says about global elites networking together to further their own interests while engaging in widespread human and sex trafficking. My guest Jeet Heer of The Nation has analyzed the files and will share his insights. Then, as one of the world’s richest men, Jeff Bezos, decimates his own newspaper, the Washington Post, media analyst Victor Pickard will offer solutions for rebuilding journalism from the ashes of billionaire ownership. Finally, Ruben Torres, organizer with the Maine Immigrant’s Rights Coalition will share with us how the whitest state in the nation is defending itself from ICE terror.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 25 pt. 3 (00:23:56)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WINGS #44-25 Rosemary Brown Black History (00:29:00)
Trailblazing Black Feminist and Canadian Politician Rosemary Brown was also a trained social worker, a columnist, and a women’s studies professor. WINGS co-founder Katherine Davenport recorded her address to Canadian women journalists in 1991. Brown died in 2003. In 2009, she was honoured on a Canadian postage stamp for Black History Month. Her warning about backsliding on the matter of equality is even more important today. See Wikipedia entry for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Brown_(Canadian_politician)
THE BRADCAST: 2/11/2026 Trump to Reverse EPA’s Landmark ‘Endangerment Finding’, with Dan Becker, Center for Biological Diversity (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suddenly shut down the air space above the El Paso, Texas airport, and the Trump Administration’s shifting explanations don’t add up. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi embarrassed the nation (and herself) again during U.S. House testimony on the DOJ’s unlawful cover-up of the Epstein Files. In a victory for the fossil fuel industry, the corrupt Trump Environmental Protection Agency is poised to demolish the legal foundation for all US climate regulations by overturning the landmark ‘Endangerment Finding,’ the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health by causing catastrophic climate change. DAN BECKER of the Center for Biological Diversity explains the history and context of the Endangerment Finding, what overturning it will mean for public health and climate action, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 02.11.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday February 11, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Wisconsin farmer says extreme weather is hurting his harvests (00:01:30)
Excessive rain followed by pests and disease is decimating his garlic crop.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Christopher Gardner, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Nutrition Scientist at Stanford University discusses the Dietary Guidelines. (00:28:00)
Did you know that cost, convenience and taste almost always beat out health when it comes to making food choices? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Christopher Gardner, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Nutrition Scientist at Stanford University. Gardner, who served on the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, discusses the latest edition of our Dietary Guidelines, including the new confusing graphic of an upside-down pyramid. He explains the science behind protein requirements, and discusses dairy fat, seed oils, and how to make the best food choices to promote health while emphasizing the importance of enjoying delicious food.
Related Websites: https://med.stanford.edu/nutrition/news/press/2025_2030_Dietary_Guidelines
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1976: Thank you, Langston Hughes + global LGBTQ news + more! (00:28:59)
Langston Hughes reads a story of Black family values; Alice Walker’s birthday and notable February events are celebrated in the Rainbow Rewind; Uganda drops its first Kill the Gays case after destroying the defendant, new research debunks an advantage for trans female athletes, decreasing worldwide trans homicides remain alarming, a U.S. appeals court flunks a pronoun-adverse Maryland teacher, at least 44 queer Olympians compete in Italy’s Winter Games, and Melbourne’s Midsumma Parade celebrates Pride.
All that and more this week when you find This Way Out.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Georgia Judge Sounds the Alarm Over FBI’s Raid (00:58:00)
The people running todays ICE hunt clubs may feel untouchable now. After all, people like them always do. But history keeps receipts and is utterly merciless with those who choose to hunt human beings. So did the American South after Reconstruction, when posses and night riders were praised as patriots until, in the 1950s and 1960s, we finally admitted to ourselves what they really were and did something about it. Georgia Judge Sounds the Alarm Over FBI’s Raid. Trump Throws Childish Tantrum at Canada Racist Alert! Laura Loomer is very upset at Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl – and “This isn’t White enough for me.” How can we push back on the normalization of racism?
CIVIC CIPHER: What is Needed in Congress? A Conversation with Congressional Candidate Elizabeth Lee (00:59:00)
Congressional candidate Elizabeth Lee is a nationally recognized nurse, board-certified patient advocate, and reproductive healthcare policy expert with over a decade of experience advancing access to care. She built a career helping thousands of patients navigate complex medical, financial, and ethical barriers”while also advising lawmakers on federal IVF and reproductive health protections.
First Half:
We begin this segment by discussing Elizabeth Lees background as a national figure and advocate for IVF treatment for individuals struggling with conception. She makes her case as a congressional candidate and discusses what she plans to bring to Washington D.C. if elected.
Second Half:
The second half of the show is dedicated to uncovering some of the shortcomings of the current administration and discussions of how Elizabeth Lee plans to interject common sense, diversity of thought, and a scientific/fact-based approach to problem-solving if elected.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 25 pt. 2 (00:21:29) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity, Kids & Learning to Learn, with Elizabeth Bonawitz (00:28:00)
Kids are learning machines! But how do they do it? Cognitive scientist Elizabeth Bonawitz is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role curiosity has to play in those processes. From dinner table placemats to trading stickers for science facts, she finds creative ways to get at the heart of this most human of mechanisms.
“I think about curiosity as a sort of ‘mise en place’ for learning. It gets the mind ready and set up — so that when that information comes in, it’s ready to learn from it and encode it most effectively.” ~ Elizabeth Bonawitz
THE BRADCAST: 2/10/2026 Trump Presidency Now Little More Than Racism, Corruption, Culture War Nonsense (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Republicans love the ‘culture wars’ because they keep their voters perpetually outraged and divert attention from solving real problems. Some of Donald Trump’s MAGA followers are ignoring his edict to hate Puerto Rican U.S. citizen Bad Bunny’s spectacular Super Bowl Halftime show. CBS News’ ratings plummet after rightwing takeover. Internal DHS documents expose the Trump Administration’s lies, revealing that less than 14 percent of detained immigrants have been charged or convicted of violent crime. Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty Commission’ sued for religious discrimination. Trump threatened to block a vital new border bridge with Canada for corrupt reasons. Unsealed affidavit in the FBI’s seizure of Fulton County 2020 election records is based on long-debunked allegations. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 02.10.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday February 10, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Most Christian leaders accept climate science (00:01:30)
But many aren’t talking about it with their congregations.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Reclaiming the Middle: Life Between Milestones (00:29:00)
On this show were talking about reclaiming the middle by exploring life between the milestones. What it means to stay engaged, motivated, and grounded when you’re no longer at the beginning but not yet at the finish. Have you ever noticed how much energy surrounds the start of something, and how much celebration shows up at the end, but how quiet it gets in between?
MAKING CONTACT: A Dream Remembered? Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement (Encore) (00:29:00)
On this special edition of Making Contact, Gary Younge, author of _[The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream](https://bookshop.org/a/84225/9781642599602)_, talks about Martin Luther King Juniors Dream and the story behind it. Special thanks to the New School for the recording.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Donald is Sicking the FCC on “The View” (00:58:00)
Our authoritarian president is weaponizing the federal government to try to silence political expression once again- this time the target is daytime TV… The fascist push continues…
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Love (00:53:00)
Love is something we all feel, but it can mean many different things. On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we celebrate love in all its forms. Love between friends, families, pets, neighbors, and even love for music, art, and the world around us. This special Valentine’s Day show is our love letter to every listener. On the show, we learn where Valentine’s Day comes from and why people exchange cards in February. We travel back to ancient Rome to learn about St. Valentine and the history behind the holiday. Then we explore the science of love and discover what happens inside our bodies when we care deeply about someone. From racing hearts to happy feelings, love is powered by amazing chemicals in our brains.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 25 (00:26:54)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: The Grand Mothers (half) (00:29:00)
Lucille Clifton survived cancer four times. She maintained that her mother would not let her die until she had finished her work on Earth. That work? Writing poetry. A year before she passed away, Lucille Clifton was honored at the Furious Flower Poetry Conference at James Madison University where she spoke to With Good Reasons Sarah McConnell about inheriting her mothers rage and commitment to writing. And: A whole lot can happen in a Southampton County minute. Latorial Faisons Pulitzer Prize nominated poetry collection Nursery Rhymes in Black animates the education of her rural Virginia childhood.
THE BRADCAST: 2/9/2026 About that FBI Raid of the Fulton County, GA Elections Warehouse, with elections expert Marilyn Marks (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The joyous, rollicking Super Bowl Halftime show with music superstar Bad Bunny drove Donald Trump into another tantrum. Yet another special election showed a major shift to Democrats, this time in a state legislative race in Louisiana. MARILYN MARKS, election integrity and security expert at the Coalition for Good Governance, explains the rising alarm among election officials over the Trump FBI’s unprecedented confiscation of 2020 election materials, including ballots and voter rolls, in Fulton County, Georgia. Marks explains the details of what we know so far about the raid; how genuine problems with Georgia’s unverifiable touchscreen elections are ripe for cherry-picking by bad faith actors, and could be used to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections; actions voters can take to help secure elections in their own communities; and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 02.09.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday February 9, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Ohio farmers face weather whiplash (00:01:30)
In 2025, fields swung from soaking wet to bone dry in a single growing season.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #88: Solar Pollution (00:29:00)
Growth of solar ” soon pollution will be a problem
Construction process
mining of materials
chemicals used in production
energy, heat and water used in production
Preparing site for array
damage to land, plants and animals
use of water resources
Disposal of waste after life of panels and electronics
Popular myths around solar and waste
What to do to solve the problem
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Venezuela – Looking Deeper [February 5th, 2026] (00:29:00)
On this weeks episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on how 73% of U.S. credit card debt is needed for everyday purchases, the issues with Venezuelan oil, and MAGA splits as Trump panders to the voting masses at the expense of a few giant corporations. The second half features an interview with Geo Maher, author, educator, and activist, on the crisis in Venezuela and its long-term implications for the U.S. and the rest of the world.
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Surprise Surprise?! TrumpRX is a fake! (00:58:00)
Surprise Surprise?! TrumpRX is a fake. Read the fine print. Alarm as Trump’s FBI called a “horrifying” meeting of state election officials. America is stronger when we recognize each other as fully human. The moment we let that slip, we all lose something precious. Also John Parker of Minnesota’s Progressive AM 950 Radio reports from Minneapolis. Plus Robert Greenwald reports on Gaza: Journalists Under Fire.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Peace & Women in Burundi: Parfaite Ntahuba (00:55:00)
(Originally aired 6/17/2023) Parfaite Ntahuba led a concerted effort in Burundi so that the 2020 national elections might have a much better outcome than the bloody results of the 2015 elections. Having lived through the 1994 civil war in Burundi in which her father and 300,000 others were killed, and having learned from the trauma healing workshops and nonviolent resistance training she has received with Nonviolent Peaceforce, Friends Peace Teams, Friends Women’s Association – Burundi, Parfaite has become a peace & women’s rights activist in the East African nation, while serving as one of a handful of women pastors in Burundi.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 24 (00:36:38)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
ALAN WATTS: Stop Thinking about Life -1968 full lecture (00:22:56)
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness, in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962). Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. Many of his books are now available in digital format and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his “writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gWnuU8Ltt8
THE BRADCAST: 2/6/2026 Encore: Bad and Good Bunnies, and an Electoral Shockwave Deep in the ‘Red’ Heart of TX (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 2-2-2026. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The federal government is in a partial shutdown, as Congressional Democrats insist on new guardrails for Donald Trump’s ICE and CBP goons and their violent immigration crackdowns. Grammy-winner Bad Bunny spoke movingly against the horrors of the Trump regime. A judge ordered 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father released from a Texas detention center that now reportedly has a measles outbreak. In Texas special elections, a Democrat won a long-delayed open U.S. House seat, further eroding the razor-thin Republican majority. In a race for state senate, the Democratic candidate stunningly flipped a deep red seat by a substantial margin, prompting Trump to lie that he knew nothing about the race or Republican candidate he had endorsed. Trump also lied about why he is shutting down the Kennedy Center. Callers weigh in.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 02.08.26 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Feb 8 26 State & Nature book author interview and Protests in Iran (00:58:00)
First, how does climate change affect violent conflict?? Why might it lead to violent conflict and humanitarian emergencies in some parts of the world but not others? After the break, what makes the latest Iranian protests and the state’s response similar or different form the country’s long history of demonstrations?
EARTH RIOT RADIO #207 – ICE Veterans Turn In Their Weapons (00:29:00)
CE Veterans Turn In Guns and Meditate
Who knew? At the end of Trump’s term in office, Americans were shocked as 70,000 ICE veterans turned to Buddhism after bursting into tears at ‘Truth and Reconciliation” sessions. Forced into abandoned government housing units for the mass healing process mandated by the courts, called by wags “The Asshole Hilton”, the ICE vets were stricken with guilt so paralyzing that they actually took the advice of the protesters to “SHUT THE EF UP AND GO HOME!!!” – which is similar to the practice of committing to long periods of silence with closed eyes.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Harper Thorne and the Majestic Pelican Inn (00:28:00)
Barnaby attempts to meet Harper Thorne but while she is away on a case, he is met by the less than enthusiastic Mrs. Kipling. Harper Thornes’s case in New Orleans takes place in the abandoned hotel, the Majetic Pelican Inn where strange occurrences may shed light on a murder from decades past!
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN February 7, 2026 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Matt Angle, Principal of Angle Strategies, and Director of the Texas Democratic Trust. We discuss the results of the recent special election in Texas for the Texas Legislature, where a newcomer Democrat beat a long-term Republican candidate by 14 points. The issues were local. We also discuss the upcoming US Senate race in Texas, for Cornyn’s seat.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Bill Curry and Laura Jedeed. We discuss the situation in Minneapolis, where ICE is still targeting people. The effect is to make the populace scarred for life, because they are living through an occupation by armed, masked, and aggressive interlopers. We discuss also the effect of immigration, as described by the conservative Cato Institute, which dis an analysis of immigrants’ contributions and costs. Even by their analysis, contributions far outweigh any costs of immigration.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS February 8, 2026 (00:59:00)
The DNI Gabbard Covered up an NSA Intercept of Someone Close to Trump Colluding With Foreign Intelligence | Trump’s Rupture of the Rules-Based World Order and When Will the Majority of Decent Americans No Longer Be Defiled by MAGA Ugliness?
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Meta-Relationality Emerging Intelligence and AI with Vanessa Machado De Oliviera Pt 1 (00:59:00)
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira is a LatinX professor and a senior academic leader at the University of Victoria. She held the Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, and the David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education at the University of British Columbia. Vanessa has led educational and research programs in the UK, Finland, New Zealand, Brazil and Canada. Her research focuses on the entanglements of historical, systemic and ongoing forms of violence and unsustainability of modernity. Vanessa is one of the founders of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, an Arts and Research Collective, and she is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanitys Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, and her new book is Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion; and co-author of Burnout From Humans: A Story About AI That’s Not Really About AI. In this interview conversation we talk about the possibilities of working with meta-relationally trained AI, as a relational mirror to reflect back to ourselves our responsibility with accountability and compassion, so that we may be able to stop destroying our world before it’s too late.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Protecting Yourself In A Surveillance State (00:58:00)
When talking about defending ourselves It’s important to start with this concept: A surveillance state rarely needs to hack you. Instead, It relies on lawful interception, compelled disclosure, bulk metadata collection, commercial data brokers, and correlation across systems. In this Deep Dive, we discuss in-depth how to best defend yourself from the prying eyes of a government. This is beyond important. We also cover so much more and you do not want to miss this episode.
SATURDAY 02.07.26 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: AI is spreading where it doesn’t belong (00:59:30)
As Big Tech continues to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into AI in a desperate attempt at growth, AI is causing widespread problems in classrooms, healthcare, and more. Are you ready for AI to draft airline safety regulations?
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Think You Knew The Story of Vietnam? Give a Listen. (00:59:00)
After an assassination attempt, Ngo Dinh Diem saw proof that he was God’s agent. In some ways he did try to do well for his people, but in others he and his family were ruthless against the majority Buddhist population as not- so-open-tools of the old Catholic hierarchy. In a soon to be published book Kennedy’s Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America’s Descent into Vietnam, journalist and author Jack Cheevers reveals the deep splits on both the Catholic and Buddhist sides, uncovers Diem’s “Strategic Hamlet” horrors which unintentionally benefited the communist insurgents. Eisenhower and the terribly flawed Domino Theory and LBJ’s missed opportunities. Can we ever learn from history?
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Heart Health (00:58:00)
February is American Heart Month, a time to raise awareness about heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. The illness includes a variety of conditions affecting the hearts structure and how the heart works. Heart-healthy living involves understanding heart disease risk and making healthy choices to reduce chances of having this condition. Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, talks about ways to manage heart disease risks, learn early disease detection, and adopt prevention strategies to promote longevity and improve quality of life.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Creating Crops that Thrive in Your Garden (00:29:00)
A replay of a February 2024 conversation in which Joseph Lofthouse, author of Landrace Gardening details how anyone can create genetically diverse vegetable and fruit crops that flourish in the local climate and soil with minimal inputs in just three years.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Michael Parenti: The Supremely Political Court (00:29:00)
In his extraordinary 26 minute history of the Supreme Court Dr. Michael Parenti warned us in 1995 that this partisan, aristocratic institution might one day empower an autocratic president. It seems that time has come and two Trump appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, can push the scales of justice in favor of their politics. Unless there is a groundswell to question and change the legal rules of that institution. Why is so much power being given to 9 unelected, non term limited judges.
Michael Parenti was born into a working class Italian family in East Harlem, New York City. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in political science at Yale in 1962. His academic career was cut short by his dismissal after he was arrested for protesting the US war on Vietnam. Parenti became an independent scholar, lecturer and author. And he remained an activist as well.
THE BOPST SHOW: Which Side Are You On? (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear new music from Katy & the Nulls Sets, Latin dance floor inspirations from Los Gatos, and instrument funk by the Harlem Experiment as well as music by Maynard Guy, Pete Seeger and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
ALAN WATTS: Relief of Anxiety (00:05:08)
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #622 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to discuss a wide range of topics, including NATO, Greenland, Gaza, and more. Then, Ralph speaks to Rabbi Alissa Wise (founding director of Rabbis for Ceasefire) about the Jews for Food Aid for People in Gaza” campaign. Finally, Ralph and the team address some current events.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 02.06.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday February 6, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Wisconsin group finds flood solutions upstream (00:01:30)
The Wisconsin Wetlands Association is helping communities restore wetlands, with the goal of protecting roads, bridges, and buildings downstream.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Songs for Minneapolis (00:55:00)
Highlights from the 2026 Labor Grammys – including the winning song – and we talk with singer David Rovics about songwriting, AI, and why stories move people more than slogans. Plus: powerful medleys from LHFs new Songs for Minneapolis playlist, a deep-dive interview with David Correia (Set the Earth on Fire) on the 1902 anthracite strike and the roots of modern policing. Plus, on Labor History in 2:00, the President calls in the feds.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The GOP is Now Fully Authoritarian (00:58:00)
Conservative Joe Walsh joins Thom to dissect the fascist project that the Republican party has become. This is not your father’s political party. Plus National Progressive Town Hall with US Rep. Mark Pocan.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Charles Komanoff: Congestion Pricing In NYC (00:29:00)
Congestion pricing refers to fees levied on drivers in particularly dense areas or at rush hour, the aim being to keep cars off the road and prevent traffic jams. Of course, strategies like these are most effective when there’s a corresponding plan to reinvest profits into public transit systems, bike lanes, and other equitable means of transport. As you can imagine, congestion pricing is not universally popular and often leads to vigorous debate. Singapore was the first city to introduce a congestion pricing model — since then cities from Milan and Stockholm to London and Rome have implemented similar systems. This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, Charles Komanoff, is a congestion pricing advocate who writes about New York City’s recent foray into the practice as a successful work in progress. We talk about the evolution of congestion pricing in New York, examine its effects one year into implementation, and discuss whether this type of model could be rolled out in other U.S. cities.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: The Data Center Revolt: John Cassidy & Faiz Shakir on People vs. AI Oligarchs (00:28:00)
An AI revolution is underway, but so is the resistance. People across the country are feeling the strain of the huge energy-sucking data processing centers that AI requires, and telling their elected officials to slow down or stop new big tech projects for firms like OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Data from a 2025 Pew study shows that only 17 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact over the next 20 years. But its a David vs. Goliath battle. Today’s guests say AI expansion is not a red or blue issue; it’s about who gets to decide how human and natural resources are distributed, who controls the technology, and who stands to benefit. Faiz Shakir is the Founder and Executive Director of the labor-focused news platform More Perfect Union, and serves as a political advisor for Senator Bernie Sanders. John Cassidy, staff writer at the New Yorker, is the author of the recent book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI, in which he draws our attention back to the Luddites, the 18th century workers whose revolt deserves our closer attention. Plus, our correspondent’s coverage of a shocking scene at a public comment meeting in Wisconsin when a local woman was arrested and dragged away. If AI is the new face of capitalism, what is the new alternative?
THE BOPST SHOW: Which Side Are You On? (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear new music from Katy & the Nulls Sets, Latin dance floor inspirations from Los Gatos, and instrument funk by the Harlem Experiment as well as music by Maynard Guy, Pete Seeger and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 2/5/2026 End of ‘New START’ Nuclear Treaty, with nuclear weapons analyst Stephen Schwartz (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Following the Trump FBI raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections warehouse in service of Donald Trump’s ongoing delusions about losing the 2020 election, his top Administration officials had promised to ‘confront’ the bipartisan National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) – – but they all cancelled their appearances at the last minute. At midnight on Feb. 4, Donald Trump allowed the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the U.S. and Russia to expire. The New START nuclear agreement capped the numbers of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads each country could have, and included an extensive verification regime. Nuclear weapons policy analyst STEPHEN SCHWARTZ delves into the history, context and specifics of the agreement; what its expiration means; Trump’s ill-advised ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense concept; and much, much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 02.05.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday February 5, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The solar-powered yachts that cruise without the roar (00:01:30)
They offer a quieter ride with far less pollution.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Climate Killer: Americas Fatal Oil Grab (00:58:00)
What does Trump’s push for more oil, gas and coal mean for our climate future? Alexis Normand, CEO of data firm Greenly adds it up: Texas, Venezuela, Greenland, …Canada? An in-depth review. Plus: fossil decline has tipping points and economic land-mines. “Fossil energy minimum viable scale” with Joshua Lappen and Emily Grubert with a new warning in Science magazine.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Separatist Zombie Armies (00:58:00)
Investigative Reporter at ‘Bette Dangerous’ and Substack, Byline Times, Heidi Siegmund Cuda explains the separatist movements as part of Russian-funded active measures to weaken and overthrow democracies, giving cover for imperialist invasions. Trump is to Alberta as Putin is to Donbas. All the talk about separatists is just a cover for invasion. The imperialist idea that Ukraine is not a real country but merely Russias backyard is mirrored in the American imperialist theme that Canada is not a real country but is only a dependency of the United States.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2026-02-03 (00:58:30)
This week, well kick off the show with a special report from the January 30th National Shutdown in response to ICE terror. I spoke with high school students, workers, and lawyers in downtown LA in front of City Hall where thousands gathered, as part of my on-going series Rising Up in the Streets. Then, well turn to filmmaker Ellen Gavin, whos new short film The People United has gone viral for depicting an ICE raid on an immigrant family that ends in neighbors standing up for one another. Finally, Terence Keel, a Professor of Human Biology & Society, and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles joins me to discuss his new book, The Coroners Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 23 (00:22:02)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WINGS # 42-25 South Africa Traditional Courts Bill (00:29:00)
Covers the history of struggle against the Traditional Courts Bill, which after 15 years of successful opposition has now been signed into law, giving unbounded power including discrimination against women, to so-called traditional chiefs in the rural areas.
Speakers: Erna Curry, producer; Sizani Ngubane, founder of the Rural Women’s Movement in Kwazulu Natal province; Nolundi Luwaya, Researcher at the Law, Race and Gender Unit at the University of Cape Town [now director of the Land and Accountability Research Centre]; Aninka Claassens, Chief Researcher, Land and Accountability Research Centre, University of Cape Town; Mnisi Weeks, Associate Professor in Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) [She previously worked in the Rural Womens Action Research Programme at UCT]; Patrick Mashego, community leader, Limpopo province, South Africa.
THE BRADCAST: 2/4/2026 Guest: Josh Kovensky of TPM on Trump turning ‘War on Terror’ against domestic foes (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration claims it is ‘drawing down’ the deployment of ICE and CBP goons in Minneapolis but is still leaving 2,000 thugs on the streets. So many Trump Justice Department attorneys have resigned from the Minneapolis federal field office, refusing to participate in the administration’s violent immigration tactics, that it has caused severe staffing shortages. Talking Points Memo’s investigative reporter JOSH KOVENSKY explains the Trump Administration’s new effort to revive the nutty ‘ItalyGate’ conspiracy theory that Donald Trump believes cost him the 2020 election. Kovensky also covers a very disturbing series of Justice Department memos that repurpose a post-9/11 federal terrorism statute to turn it against peaceful protesters and those regarded as political opponents of Trump with ‘domestic terrorism’ charges, and much more.
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WEDNESDAY 02.04.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday February 4, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How to spot climate misinformation on social media (00:01:30)
Simple questions can help you identify misleading claims before you spread them.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Seth Itzkan, cofounder of Soil4Climate, discusses soil restoration through regenerative grazing. (00:28:00)
Did you know that The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development (IVY 2026), the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, and the International Year of the Woman Farmer? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Seth Itzkan, environmental futurist and cofounder of Soil4Climate, an international nongovernmental organization advancing the science, policy and practice of soil restoration through regenerative grazing and agroforestry practices as a climate solution. Itzkan discusses the role ruminants play in agriculture, soil restoration and sustainability. For state policies on soil health, see: https://nerdsforearth.com/state-healthy-soils-policy/
and for the Friends of the Earth report on the misconceptions on No-Till Farming, see: https://foe.org/resources/rethinking-no-till/
Related Websites: www.soil4climate.org
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1975: Jenn Deerinwater Creates Change + global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
An Indigiqueer Creating Change keynoter calls for radical inclusion; the E.U.s rights council urges all member states to ban conversion therapy, Russia declares ILGA undesirable, Budapest’s mayor is officially charged with criminally allowing last year’s LGBTQ Pride march, Missouris top court upholds the states ban on pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, and an expelled trans Space Force colonel announces her U.S. congressional run.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Election Theft is Already Underway (00:58:00)
As more and more damning details emerge from the Epstein files, Trump’s strategy to undermine our democratic elections- by means legal and illegal- are ramping up.
CIVIC CIPHER: Racism is Killing Us Literally / National School Choice Week with Dr. Carrie Sampson (00:59:00)
First Half:
We begin this segment by discussing the importance of Black women and the fact that they continually work to heal this country and save America from itself. We also discuss a new study that reveals the lifelong effects of enduring racism and how it leads to early deaths in the Black population.
Second Half:
Todays Guest is the author of the book Navigating School Board Politics and an associate professor at Arizona State University. Dr. Carrie Sampson joins us again to discuss National School Choice Week here in the U.S. and what it means for communities across the country.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 22 (00:22:47)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity in Emergency Medicine, with Dr. Chris Ford (00:28:00)
How does an emergency department doctor manage the chaotic swirl of unknowns that show up at their door every day? What are they to make of the needs that emerge from the complex socioeconomic soup in which we all swim?
Is curiosity a tool of choice? And are there lessons the rest of us might learn from an ER docs hard-won experience?
Milwaukee ER doctor Chris Ford replies with a resounding Yes!
THE BRADCAST: 2/3/2026 Losing At Legal and Political Trench Warfare, Trump Threatens to ‘Nationalize’ Elections (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration is losing in the lower courts and earning scathing rulings from judges. A federal judge blocked the administration’s cancellation of legal protected status for 350,000 Haitian refugees in the U.S. and excoriated DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s thinly-disguised racist rhetoric. Donald Trump’s threats are escalating as his attempted fascist takeover of America stalls; while he has no authority to interfere with or ‘nationalize’ our elections, he is likely to try. Trump demanded the release of former MAGA Colorado election official Tina Peters, imprisoned over her criminal efforts to defraud the 2020 election and illicitly breach voting system software. ‘Saturday Night Live’ brilliantly satirized how some MAGA supporters are finding their way back to sanity, or at least away from Trump, and how to help them get back safely. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
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TUESDAY 02.03.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday February 3, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Tree ambassadors help Milwaukee residents fall in love with trees (00:01:30)
They’re not just planting trees – they’re building trust in the community.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: From Surface Chat to Soul Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (00:29:00)
On this show were talking about how to have conversations that matter by taking surface chat to soul talk:, and why so many of us are craving deeper connection in a world that talks constantly but listens very little. Have you ever walked away from a conversation that technically went fine but somehow left you feeling empty? Like you exchanged words, updates, maybe even laughs, but nothing really landed?
MAKING CONTACT: Origin Story: Making Contact | 30th Anniversary Capsule (00:29:00)
This week we take a look at 30 years of Making Contact, in conversation with founders Peggy Law and Norman Solomon.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Earthquake! Democrat Flips Deep-Red Texas State Senate Seat (00:58:00)
A closer look at the Epstein docs and the people – including Trumps nominee for Fed Chair – is mind-boggling Are millions to complacent on the upcoming election plot? Mystery Alert. Explosive whistleblower claim against Tulsi Gabbard locked in safe by Trump – Why? Earthquake! Democrat Flips Deep-Red Texas State Senate Seat by 17 points. Pathetic Alert! Why is Trump really closing the Kennedy Center? Hint: He failed. Also John Parker of Minnesota’s Progressive AM 950 Radio reports from Minneapolis.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Skin (00:53:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour, we explore the skin we are in. We are joined by Dr. Holly McGee and Dr. Nina Jablonski, who have written a book to explain the cultural and social history of skin color called Its Just Skin, Silly. Then we meet Dr. Adnan Mir, a pediatric dermatologist who helps us understand even more about our skin from a medical point of view. This episode comes with a learning guide filled with activities to learn more. Skin is the largest organ on our bodies, and it does much more than cover us. In this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore how skin works, why it comes in different colors, and why everyone’s skin deserves care and respect. Kids from the Kids Crew ask thoughtful questions as scientists, historians, and doctors help us understand skin from the inside out.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 21 (00:34:03) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: Staggered by the Fact of You (00:29:00)
Join us as we bring two nationally renowned Black poets conversation with a new generation of Black poets. This episode features former Virginia Poet Laureate and Old Dominion University poetry professor Tim Seibles talking with rising poetry star Ariana Benson about alien life, good grammar, and the dreams of Langston Hughes.
THE BRADCAST: 2/2/2026 Bad and Good Bunnies, and an Electoral Shockwave Deep in the ‘Red’ Heart of TX (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The federal government is in a partial shutdown, as Congressional Democrats insist on new guardrails for Donald Trump’s ICE and CBP goons and their violent immigration crackdowns. Grammy-winner Bad Bunny spoke movingly against the horrors of the Trump regime. A judge ordered 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father released from a Texas detention center that now reportedly has a measles outbreak. In Texas special elections, a Democrat won a long-delayed open U.S. House seat, further eroding the razor-thin Republican majority. In a race for state senate, the Democratic candidate stunningly flipped a deep red seat by a substantial margin, prompting Trump to lie that he knew nothing about the race or Republican candidate he had endorsed. Trump also lied about why he is shutting down the Kennedy Center. Callers weigh in.
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MONDAY 02.02.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday February 2, 2026
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: This vineyard now grows power, too (00:01:30)
Solar canopies over grapes at a Colorado State University research site protect the crops and generate electricity.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #87: Living Sustainably in a French Village (00:29:00)
Tell us a little bit about yourself, your family and where you live.
What was the reason you got interested in sustainable living in 2006?
What is your sustainability philosophy?
What changes have you made in the past few years in your life and with your home?
Tell us a little about the vehicle you drive? Are those vehicles common in France?
Tell us a little about the online direct purchase food program you belong to.
How has COVID impacted how you live? French people?
What is the French cultural attitude about living sustainably?
How does the govt support resiliency? Can you explain a little about your wind turbine and what is happening with the planning permission that was revoked?
Talk about France nuclear energy policies.
What do you plan to do next ” I know you have lots of ideas.
Examples: Collect more water with a tank. Green house. Canadian Well.
If you would like to know more about Olivier’s goal to keep his wind turbine you can follow him on Facebook at Planete de Domain. (pronounced Planet de Dumaaaah) Earth of Tomorrow (in English).
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: The Political Bias of Conventional Economics (00:29:00)
On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Pentagons investments into private companies, the end of electric vehicle subsidies in conjunction with the arrival of Chinese EVs in the U.S., the growing trade and produce exchange between Canada and China, and the nurses’ strike of NYC private hospitals grows to include 15,000. In the second part of today’s episode, Professor Wolff talks with Professor Clara Mattei about her new book, “Escape from Capitalism.”
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Greg Palast Explains the Real Story of Why the FBI Raided Georgia (00:58:00)
Don Lemon arrested for being a journalist after Trump demands he be arrested – this is meant to intimidate the press. Will it work? And Christopher Armitage is here reporting from Minneapolis on the siege…What’s Tom Holman up to? Plus Greg Palast Explains the Real Story of Why the FBI Raided Georgia.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Active Peace & Harmony – John Wilmerding (00:55:00)
John Wilmerding’s life as a traveling minstrel was cut short by a drunk driver, but it lead him into a vocation in peace, starting from his work with restorative justice. One of the fruits of his path and devotion has been the Theory of Active Peace, learned and lived in a wide variety of settings, like in prisons with AVP (alternative to violence project), around the Middle East, and through the John Woolman College of Active Peace. John Wilmerding joins us from his Vermont home. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Presbyterian, UU ” Unitarian Universalist, Baha’i, Quaker
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 20 (00:20:19) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
ALAN WATTS: It Will Give You Goosebumps – The Eternal Now (00:09:43)
An inspirational and profound speech on the eternal now by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts Limits of Language-2″ “Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” – Alan Watts. (1915 – 1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oI0Q62RkE&t=116s
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: Winning the War on Plastic (00:29:00)
Are we actually turning the corner on plastic pollution? This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about plastic pieces in ultra-processed foods, the promise of enhanced geothermal power generation, and pollution of the atmosphere and stratosphere with the chemicals from rocket launches and incinerated satellites. Then Mike Belliveau, founder and Executive Director of Bend the Curve talks about “peak plastic,” and how we may be finally seeing the beginning of the end for unlimited plastic production.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 1/30/2026 Encore: Jack Smith’s public testimony in the House, new secret ICE memo, with legal expert Keith Barber (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 1-22-2026. On today’s ‘BradCast: For the first time, former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified in a public hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the two criminal investigations and indictments of Donald Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 election and his theft of thousands of classified national security documents after he left office. Attorney (and former Republican) KEITH BARBER offers both legal and political insight on Smith’s testimony, and dismantles House Republicans’ specious false claims in their attempts to attack Smith and the integrity of his investigations. Barber also weighs in on the disturbing new secret whistleblower memo that instructs federal ICE agents to enter private residences without a judicial warrant, violating the Fourth Amendment, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
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SUNDAY 02.01.26 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Jan 25 26 Greenland (00:58:00)
Donald Trump’s demands for Greenland risked both alliance cohesion in NATO and the global order over a potential conflict. Why does the US want Greenland? Does this desire signal greater competition and conflict in the Arctic? Trump announced an agreement over Greenland. Has conflict been averted? or just delayed? While Donald Trump dismissed Greenlanders’ interests when demanding their land, has his campaign to acquire the island built support for Greenlandic independence?
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Renee and Alex, Our best neighbors. What are we learning? (00:29:00)
Are you asking this question? We need to learn something crucial about community, something we will never forget.Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They are role models. They were not reckless. They did not do the wrong thing. They were killed a stone’s throw from their homes. They were both just beyond their front doors. And instinctively they put their personal defense in the smallest acts of kindness. Renee died saying “I’m not mad at you” and Alex was helping a woman that ICE pushed to the sidewalk. Renee and Alex teach us that ordinary love is to be seen, to be thanked, to be practiced and protected.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers: Harper Thorne in The Architect of Tomorrow (00:28:00)
An Audio theater adventure: The death of a leading scientist on the cusp of a gigantic breakthrough brings Harper Thorne to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Meanwhile Barnaby Druthers considers a way to make a living in the modern age, and it involves solving mysteries with Harper Thorne!
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN January 31, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We sit with Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and talk show host. We discuss what is the future for Canada, after the Canadian Prime Minister’s speech at Davos. We are not friends any more, and the new reality is that Canada will likely sever many ties to the US. Canada will be spending more on its defense.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Sophia A. McClennen, Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. We discuss how we all should respond to the lies and propaganda that colors what he hear and see in the news and through social media posts that pretend to be news. Debunking is not enough, telling the truth should be swift and emphatic. Should be depend on the ‘normal’ institutions to protect us? What if those institutions (Congress, SCOTUS, law enforcement agencies) are useless? Are we complicit if we just give up?
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: January 29, 2026 (00:59:00)
Terrorising Minnesota, the Trump/Miller Administration is Violating the First, Second, Fourth and Tenth Amendments | Bezos’s $75 Million Bribe That Avoids Melania’s Early “Career” as a Naked Model and Friend of Epstein | Armed and Untouchable: The Deadly History of ICE
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception with Marguerite Rigoglioso (00:59:00)
Marguerite Rigoglioso PhD, teaches graduate and Undergradute courses in the US and the UK, and is the foremost authority on the history of virgin birth. She’s the founding director of the Seven Sisters Mystery School, dedicated to restoring knowledge about the Sacred Feminine & empowering people on their own unique spiritual journeys. She’s the author of The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece and Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity & her most recent book is The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception: Mary and the Lineage of Virgin Births.
In this fascinating interview we talk about the history of virgin conception and birth from the beginning of recorded history to the present day. And yes, there have been recent examples of this seemingly mythological or metaphorical occurrence. We are discovering that the world is a stranger and more miraculous place than we thought rationally possible. We also talk about the possible implications of this for the future of humanity, as this tradition has essentially been all about since antiquity.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Younger Generations Are Unplugging, And It’s About Time (00:58:00)
Half of Americans now deliberately spend less time on screens, and the choice is paying off… and this long overdue
The younger generations are realizing what Gen X and older generations have known… the real world isn’t on Twitter, it’s being face to face with friends and interacting. It’s creating real and actual connections and not simply swiping left or right. This is long overdue and we cover so much more as well this week!