What you may have missed on PDR last week
Following is our end-of-the-week summary of all the topics covered on our Politics Done Right on KPFT 90.1 FM program, which is also streamed on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitter, and Twitch.
Monday April 8th, 2024
Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill: A little-known data firm helps health insurers make more when less of an out-of-network claim gets paid. Patients can be on the hook for the difference. [More]
Why do we allow a GREAT JOBS REPORT to be spun as a bad one? WATCH THIS, PLEASE!: The jobs report is excellent, and we must not allow it to be tarnished. The Right would have you believe that good is bad, up is down for their electoral purposes. [More]
Billionaire: Truth Social investors are dopes. Everything Trump’s involved in is a scam. He’s a con: A billionaire called out Truth Social and Trump for the con they represent. Not too many in his class are willing to give him the truth medicine. [More]
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Tuesday April 9th, 2024
Official admits to the EPIC ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. FRAUD to elect Trump!: Many Democrats, Independents, and Republicans support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because they like neither Trump nor Biden. A Kennedy campaign official came clean. It is about electing Trump. [More]
Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill: A little-known data firm helps health insurers make more when less of an out-of-network claim gets paid. Patients can be on the hook for the difference. [More]
Wednesday April 10th, 2024
Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report: “This year $5,109 of the average American’s taxpayer dollars went to fund the military and its support systems,” said the co-author of a new analysis. [More]
Arizona Upholds 160-Year-Old Abortion Ban: The state’s highest court said the law, moribund for decades under Roe v. Wade, was now enforceable, but put the decision on hold for a lower court to hear other challenges to the law. [More]
In this interview, Joy-Ann Reid jettisons old-style journalism Trump & his ilk run rings around: In this interview with old-style journalist Jonathan Allen, Joy-Ann Reid uses new-style journalism to ensure that we are not left with Trump’s lies. [More]
Thursday April 11th, 2024
Chevron CEO Pay Jumped to $26.5 Million During Hottest Year on Record: News of Mike Wirth’s 2023 compensation came after March was deemed the 10th month in a row to be the hottest ever recorded. [More]
Neil Aquino is on deck: Houston Democracy Project’s Neil Aquino discusses the success of progressives in getting most of their candidates elected in Houston and Harris County, Texas. [More]
Higher gas and rents keep US inflation elevated, likely delaying Fed rate cuts: Consumer inflation remained persistently high last month, boosted by gas, rents, auto insurance, and other items, the government said Wednesday in a report that will likely give pause to the Federal Reserve as it considers how often — or even whether — to cut interest rates this year. [More]
Friday April 12th, 2024
Meet the Secretive Rich Funding Efforts to Keep Others Poor: With both millionaires and homelessness on the rise in the U.S., right-wing donors are bankrolling a nationally coordinated move to end experiments in basic income. [More]
Vietnam Sentences Billionaire to Death for White Collar Fraud: The trials of Tru’o’ng Mỹ Lan and 84 others are part of an anti-corruption campaign led by the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party. [More]
Hollywood publicist who jogged with Nicole Simpson message on O. J. Simpson’s death: Ilene Proctor, a Hollywood publicist, would jog alongside Nicole Simpson, the wife of O. J. Simpson. She said that often, she would be bruised. Proctor gives some thoughts on the day O. J. died. [More]
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