Evening Roundup, October 7
Featuring Rep. Dan Goldman, Shalise Manza Young, Roberto Valadéz, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Meredith Blake, Lisa Graves, and the Contrarian Podcast
The Miller Meltdown & MAGA Shutdown with Rep. Goldman
Who is actually running our government? Stephen Miller and Russ Vought, apparently. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-D), who recently “got into it” with Stephen Miller, joins Jen to update us on the chaos inside this administration, subverted judicial orders
We can't compromise with people who want to take our liberties
By Shalise Manza Young
If Ezra Klein is the white liberal the rest of us are supposed to be counting on in the fight for our collective liberation, we’re cooked.
The UN and the Peril of Passivity
By Roberto Valadéz
The United Nations must assert its voice or risk its demise
ICE is out of control: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on raids, detention, and deportation
ICE raids have increased in frequency and aggression in the past few weeks, especially in Chicago where agents raided an apartment building with a helicopter in the middle of the night. Not only are ICE tactics becoming more militarized, they’ve become shockingly indiscriminate...
The Movie Iran Doesn't Want You to See
At a time when freedom of speech is under attack and too many artists are willing to ignore their supposed values for a lucrative payday, Jafar Panahi offers a model of creative defiance that should inspire us all.
Can our courts be reformed? With Lisa Graves
The Supreme Court is chipping away at our democracy’s system of checks and balances. As the judicial branch continues to cede its power to the executive branch, many are calling into question the Supreme Court’s legitimacy and constitutional loyalty.
Trump's Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Immigration Strategy
Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, has fundamentally altered our country’s treatment of immigrants: the lack of due process for detainees, ICE’s reliance on masks, urging the president to make up a need for the military to infiltrate our cities.
Much excitement here in wartorn Portland when Kristi Noem brought her hair extensions to Portland and climbed to the roof of the ICE building to survey the carnage. She was lookin' good up there. Word has it she prayed with the beleagered ICE personnel trapped by the antifa hoards.
As a woman…it seems impossible for me to see or believe a woman such as Noem and what she is doing. Nonetheless, we are stuck with her total disregard of people other than herself. Noem is totally incapable of any nurturing characteristics. She is Satan’s wife.