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Daily Take: The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare Feb 06, 2024

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Medicare Advantage is not Medicare: it’s private health insurance for seniors that’s largely paid for with our tax dollars. They make their money by routinely denying claims…

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Dick Durban & Blue Slips- WTF? Feb 05, 2024

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Will the Democrats learn to effectively counter Republican tactics? And- are the Europeans fighting for democracy in Ukraine getting an ugly education in American politics?

Also, Thom reads from "Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being" by Joseph Stiglitz.

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Daily Take: Do the Rich Dudes Want the Court to Ban Trump or Not? Feb 05, 2024

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Now that several of the Republican justices have been so heavily saturated with fat-cat money and thus regularly vote in favor of their morbidly rich “friends,” what do those rich dudes want?

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We Want our Post Office Back! Feb 04, 2024

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Biden has an opening to put new people over the post office- he needs to get on it! Meanwhile, the right is melting down over Taylor Swift and her football star boyfriend supporting Biden. Where will this all take us come November?

Plus - Thom reads from his recent book 'The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class"

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Why Customer Service is Terrible Now Feb 03, 2024

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The Biden administration is finally recognizing the failure of Reaganism- is this why companies no longer bother to take care of their customers? Plus- Nikki Haley says Texas can secede if they want to. Say what?

Also, Thom reads from "Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America" by Christopher Leonard, and from "Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment" by Robert Wright.

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Republicans Vs. Public Schools Feb 02, 2024

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Author and activist David Pepper joins Thom for a look at the Republican war on public schools. Will they succeed in subsidizing private educations for the better off?

Plus - every attempt at libertarianism has been a failure. So why does the right keep pushing for it?

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Daily Take: James Madison Warned us the Morbidly Rich Are the Greatest Threat to our Republic Feb 02, 2024

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Madison wasn’t talking about an abstraction or some highfalutin concept. He was talking about how some rich people will inevitably try to seize political power to screw everybody else.

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Breaking the GOP Death Grip Feb 01, 2024

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Ukraine Update: Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine, Philip Ittner reports that Zelensky plans to oust Ukraine’s top general amid tension over new mobilization. Guest Interview: Heidi Siegmund Cuda, Author & Emmy-award winning investigative reporter on breaking the GOP death grip. Also- it's a Celtic holiday - The pagan holiday of awakening...I'll explain. Also why do anti-abortion freaks want to freak-out first graders with graphic videos? Plus horrifying news: Son beheads dad - Is Donald Trump growing a Taliban movement in America?

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Daily Take: Why Can't Morbidly Rich Tech CEOs Be Sued or Arrested? Feb 01, 2024

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Not only has Section 230 turned the web into a stalking ground for sexual predators, it’s also given Putin cheap & easy access to Americans, an access he’s been using for years to tear us apart...

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GOP & MAGA Snowflakes Are Mobilizing Against Their Biggest Enemy...Taylor Swift...Really?! Jan 31, 2024

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Guest Interview: Staff Writer for The Atlantic, Tim Alberta explains his new book - The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals In An Age of Extremism. Also does the resuscitated "trucker convoy" reveal a dying MAGA movement?

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