May 1, 2025
Happy May Day! Featuring April Ryan; Julie Chávez Rodríguez & Jen; Michael Podhorzer; Eliza Orlins; Ellen Blaine; Tom Joscelyn & Jen; Shalise Manza Young; Evgenia Kara-Murza & Jen
May Day and the intersection of civil rights and workers' rights
“There's a real inflection point this May Day,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, said about the day unions worldwide attempt to recognize workers, their contributions, and the importance of fair employment practices and worker rights.
Julie Chávez Rodríguez on the power of the people
Within all the chaos that the Trump regime is causing, people have a strong understanding that their basic rights are being attacked. From people being thrown into detention centers, to a shrinking economy, we can all sense that something is deeply wrong. Jen is joined by Julie Chávez Rodríguez to explain why every voice is needed in this critical moment.
The Trump Regime’s War on Working People
Over the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s regime, observers and analysts rightly highlighted his administration’s alarming attacks on fundamental democratic institutions—the judiciary, law firms, universities, philanthropies, non-profit groups, and the media.
You can’t “deport” American citizens
Earlier this week, ICE forcefully exiled three U.S. citizen children—including a 4-year-old battling cancer. The ever-lucid public defender and fellow Contrarian Eliza Orlins makes it clear: These are not lawful deportations—they’re kidnappings.
The Department of Justice has abandoned civil rights
By Ellen Blain
Two events this week do no less than turn upside down the enforcement of laws that protect the civil rights of all Americans.
Autocracy vs. Democracy in America: Tom Joscelyn on his 100 Days Report
This Thursday, State Democracy Defenders Action released a new report outlining the destruction of the first 100 days of the Trump-Musk chaos regime. But, at the same time, civil society organizations, voters, and pro-democracy coalitions have been fighting back — and winning! One of the authors of the report, Tom Joscelyn, joins Jen to break it down.
No, Saquon, you can't have it both ways
By Shalise Manza Young
You can respect the office of the president, but you don't have to hang out with the current one.
Dehumanizing the outsider: Evgenia Kara-Murza on political prisoners
In April 2022, the husband of Evgenia Kara-Murza, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was imprisoned in Russia for his public denunciation of the invasion of Ukraine and of the war crimes committed by Russian forces. What happened to Evgenia Kara Murza’s husband is unfortunately not exceptional in Russia. It is estimated that there are over
HEY DONALD...THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO GET YOU OUT OF OFFICE HAS ARRIVED.
IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE FOR YOU STARTING TODAY. EVEN THE NY TIMES CAN'T IGNORE IT ANY MORE!!!
Trump Policies Draw Outrage at May Day Protests Across the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/may-day-trump-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.-_wH._T6e5c5ODbgL&smid=nytcore-android-share
Happy May Day. I am hoping that we the people will learn from our history and realize,
Tyranny cannot be appeased. It never works.
Tyranny only wins when we submit.
Solidarity is how we win.
we must teach ourselves and our children the truth about us. About our history. Give them this knowledge and with it comes the opportunity for us to change and make different choices for our future. To be a different people. A peaceful people. The Germans did it. The Japanese, too.” As countries go we are a very young country, hopefully we are about to grow out of our gullible adolescence, and grow into a more mature, wiser country capable of exhibiting the courage to see our mistakes, learn from our mistakes, as horrific as they have been, and become that multiracial pluralistic peace loving democracy that our forefathers dreamed of for this country,
If everyone unites, workers, women, people of color, LGBTQAI+, seniors, other abled, veterans, civil servants, immigrants (all but Indigenous are immigrants), and all who trumps anti DEI are harming, united together to say we are the people and we are all deserving of equal protection under the law, and equal opportunities for the pursuit of happiness, we can bring this country into this century and become a much better country,