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The Pentagon might have a budget of over $1 trillion but they're somehow short on whiteboards... Meanwhile, schools are literally falling apart and students are freezing, boiling and being piled into trailers in order to learn about the gloriousness and exceptionalism of 'Murica.  And absolutely relatedly, 11 million of the 70+ million children in the US live in extreme poverty.  In other news, cells taken without consent from a Black woman back in the 50s have been used for scientific research for more than half a century.  PLUS some updates/discussion on the Teamsters/UPS tentative agreement and is Flint getting UBI?   leecamp.net

Slap a new name on it and you got yourself a Trump-era policy in Democrat swatches! Biden's  asylum ban has recently been halted by a Federal Judge, but the administration is already challenging the Judge's order. Here's a scoop on the aslyum ban, and how so-called sanctuary cities are leaning on mutual aid groups in order to live up to their name.  From kids in cages to kids in deep fat friers, child labor laws are so last century! Indeed, why even bother paying a 10-year old mopping floors at 2am?? News outlets aren't just for peddling propaganda anymore! They can be frontline fighters in the push to overthrowing democratically elected governments! PLUS in the wake of record-breaking heat waves, our government is forcing through a fracked gas pipeline, and MORE!   leecamp.net  

Well, it's been a year since the honestly bare bones access to reproductive healthcare in this country was barred. Since then, the effect on people's basic right to bodily autonomy has suffered - primarily in low income and non-white communities, not least of all Indigenous. Still, there are some rad and powerful ways in which people are fighting to take control of our bodies!  Meanwhile, as the world becomes both hotter and more politically destabilized, the arms industry is directly fueling climate change. PLUS it's remarkable that this needs to be said but no, slaves did not benefit from being slaves.   leecamp.net

Well, they finally did it. The "neutral" nation of Sweden has slashed 200 years of political precedent and joined the dealth cult popularly known as NATO. Resident Swede Eleanor digs into how facocked this is while she and Lee give context via little tid bits like how Russia wanted to join NATO at its founding and documents showing NATO promised to not move east of the Elbe river in Germany.  Meanwhile up and to the left in England, activists put on a literal shit show in the name of stopping arms exports to Israel.  PLUS Feds could end homelessness by just using their own damn buildings and beach access is a class war!    leecamp.net

Soooo just when it seemed the US proxy war in Ukraine couldn't get any more facocked, Biden announced that he'd be raining down largely-banned cluster munitions so that people (not least of all children) can be maimed for decades to come.  Meanwhile, Japan has announced that they finally have a solution for the radioactive waste from Fukushima: the Pacific Ocean. Now that sounds horrifying (because it is), but wait til you hear how common of a practice this really is!  PLUS the cruel and usual punishment of using prisons as ovens and compounding the torture of inmates vis a vis lack of access to potable water, medical care, sanitation and more.    leecamp.net

Vive la revolucion! After French police murdered a 17-year old on the outskirts of Paris, Frane is once again in the throes of public rage and dismay. Could this latest wave be too much to keep Macron n friends afloat?  So, the Supreme Court sucks - and that's by design. Not only did they stomp out hope for even the most measley of college debt relief bills, but they stomped on the measliest of policies to address systemic racism in higher education. And I do mean measley. We've got more details for ya! PLUS what keeps billionaires awake at night, and you gotta fight for your right to...sit?    leecamp.net

Florida may be the punch line of jokes these days but there's a lot we can learn about the fascism to come (without proactive resistance to it) from this most southern state.  At this point, discussion of the imploded sub has reached feverishly repetitive tones. So we're gonna flip the script and talk about a tragedy that you may not have heard about - because, according to our media and cultural paradigms, it was geographically, economically, and racially not tragic. PLUS Zelensky announces a Russian attack that hasn't happened, SCOTUS suggests the Navajo die of thirst becuase it's not the US' problem & MORE!    Sign up to support this work AND get extra content at leecamp.net

UPS has until July 31st to stave off the largest single employer strike in US history. Will they do it? And regardless of the outcome, what does this mean for workplace organizing in any and all trades and companies? Also good news: the Empire's grip in the Middle East is slipping after Blinken just had yet another disappointing trip to Saudi Arabia where officials there pushed back considerably on US wishes for the region.  Hey, more good news! ICWA or the Indian Child Welfare Act was (shockingly) upheld by the US Supreme Court.  PLUS some bad news: updates on political prisoners, massive uptick in global refugee numbers & how that ties into US hegemony, reproductive rights now considered terrorism   leecamp.net 

We're back! It's been more than a minute but now Eleanor is back with the show so we can all pick right back up where we left off because sadly, this show is still necessary as the world has not drastically changed for the better nor has corporate media decided suddenly to give a damn about actual issues.  Speaking of which, actual journalists have been found guilty - well, of being actual journalists.  Meanwhile, the only folks to move unscathed thru the massive cuts that made the debt ceiling deal possible are the folks who make money off of mass murder. There's also a nice helping of legal handouts to massive dirty energy projects because why not.  PLUS bail fund organizers thrown in jail, and a most nefarious way that corporate media uses photographs to peddle propaganda.    leecamp.net    

Hey, let's start off with a proof of life from Eleanor and then get right into the nitty gritty. Like hey, did y'all know that the petrodollar is dying? And that doesn't bode well for the US economy.  PLUS does the Trump indictment even matter, AND MORE!    ** psst, for more on the US economy, check out Eleanor's recent interview with Prof. Richard Wolff on Project Censored   leecamp.net