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9:05 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on Brazil's election at the edge of fascism.
Brian translated the recent articles Bolsonaro and the Institutionalization of Necropolitics and International Interests and the destruction of Brazilian Democracy for New Socialist.
9:25 - Journalist Tina Vasquez reports on the work of making #AbolishICE a reality.
Tina wrote the article Abolish ICE: Beyond a Slogan for Rewire.News and New York Review Daily.
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9:05 - Writer Brendan O'Connor profiles the Proud, White face of ruling class violence in America.
Brendan wrote the article Boys to Men for The Baffler.
9:35 - Writer Malaika Jabali explores politics in a Black, Midwestern city abandoned by the Democratic Party.
Malaika wrote the article The Color of Economic Anxiety for Current Affairs.
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9:05 - Live from Mexico City, correspondent Laura Carlsen reports on Trump, AMLO and the ends of NAFTA.
Laura wrote the commentary Trump and Mexico's Next President Are on Honeymoon. But It Won't Last for Fortune.
9:35 - Journalist Rachel M. Cohen examines a 50 year shift - in people and politics - between cities and suburbs.
Rachel wrote the article Taking Back the Suburbs: The Fair Housing Act at Fifty for Dissent.
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9:05 - Writer Eleanor Penny explores the Europe of Steve Bannon's identitarian dreams.
Eleanor wrote the article Steve Bannon’s European Dream for In These Times.
9:30 - Writer Aaron Timms watches the liberal order run out the clock on a world with little time left.
Aaron wrote the article This Is Not A Blip for The Baffler.
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Welcome to the Moment of Truth: the thirst that is the drink.
Brett Kavanaugh is unfit to be the judge of an ugliest dog contest, let alone a justice of the Supreme Court. In the hours after his crackpot performance before his questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, where he whined, hollered, spat, wept, and carped that he was the victim of a well-funded revenge conspiracy by the Clintons to destroy him and his family, I heard an NPR anchor say that he "came out swinging." He came out flailing. Flailing is different from swinging. By swinging, one might hit a target on purpose. Flailing is involuntary movement caused by panic and fury. While flailing, one will hit many unintended targets.
We all saw it. Those predisposed toward anger at the Dump regime under which we have been forced to live by a supposed safety valve in the electoral system, which it turns out only provides safety from punishment to wealthy criminals, we were already antagonistic to this over-privileged bigot, this Kavanaugh. Instead of disarming us with charm, or with his awkwardly sparse admission that sexual assault is, yes, a bad thing, he played the aggrieved victim. Women who have been through the consequences of reporting sexual assault already know what it means to be the victim of a massive conspiracy, a conspiracy entrenched in our culture for centuries. Kavanaugh's bitter rage at the thwarting of his entitlement only made him unsympathetic and, apparently, out of control of his faculties. Testerical.
Thursday morning, before Lindsey Graham and others attempted to pile on the Democrats by mimicking Kavanaugh's grotesque invocation, I was due to supply producer Alex with my tease for today's Moment of Truth. I could have supplied a tease that avoided commitment. I could've said, "Saturday, Jeffy scrapes grease off the skillet." That's pretty non-committal. Or I could have come at it obliquely, saying, "Saturday, Jeffy takes a close look at Kavanaugh's penis." Kind of just rude, without saying anything of substance. But what if it comes out tomorrow, I worried, after I've teased my tease, that Kavanaugh doesn't have a penis? That he lost it in nursery school? It wouldn't do to mention it. That's cruel, even if the guy is a sexual thug. And we're all assuming he is. Mostly because of his face. I mean, that guy's mug says entitled, cruel, misogynist sex criminal all over it.
Which isn't really fair of me. I mean, it... read more
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9:20 - Journalist Daniel Trilling follows the refugee crisis into Europe's exclusion apparatus.
Daniel is author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe from Verso.
10:05 - Writer David Dayen examines the big businesses powering the immigrant detention machine.
David wrote the report Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting From Immigrant Detention for In These Times
10:35 - Reporter Michael Hobbes explains what the health industry gets wrong about obesity.
Michael Hobbes wrote the article Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong for Huffington Post's Highline.
11:05 - Writer Adam Kotsko explains how neoliberalism swallowed the world.
Adam is author of Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital from Stanford University Press.
12:05 - Sociologist Brittany Friedman surveys state punishment of Black militant prisoners.
Brittany is co-author of the article Solitary Confinement and the Nation of Islam for The Immanent Frame.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen goes down the Kavanaugh hole.
Gross, however you read this.
