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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.

Oct 02, 2023

Monday September 25th, 2023

Association of Flight Attendants Prez Sara Nelson nails the union message in the Ali Velshi interview: The union movement is starting to hit its stride. Messaging from union leaders like Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants, is making a difference. [More]
Pete Buttigieg itemizes the effects of a Republican shutdown but fails to point out media failure: No one is better than explaining the administration's policies like Pete Buttigieg. He made it clear Republicans would be responsible for a government shutdown. But he failed to call out the media for a poll where Americans would blame Democrats. [More]
Proposed Budget Offers Horrifying Vision of What Republicans Would Do If They Could: It’s tempting to ignore a budget resolution released just days before the start of the fiscal year that it’s meant to guide, and amid the chaotic debate around a short-term extension of government funding to avoid a shutdown. But House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington’s proposed budget is important for what it illustrates about House Republicans’ disturbing vision for the country: health care stripped away from millions of people, higher poverty and hunger, capitulation to climate change, more tax cheating by high-income people, and large-scale disinvestment from the building blocks of opportunity and economic growth—from medical research to education to child care. It would narrow opportunities, worsen racial inequities, and make it harder for people to afford the basics. It reflects the wrong priorities for the country and should be roundly rejected. [More]

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Tuesday September26th, 2023

Miles Taylor on Trump supporters: We are living in a master class of silence and complicity: Former chief of staff of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor, did not mince his words as he said that we live in a master class of silence and complicity. He said we would have gotten what we deserve if Trump was reelected. [More]
Amanda Carpenter challenges General Milley on a statement in his book with a reality, Trump can win: A recent book stated that Mike Milley believes Trump would jail him if he is reelected. But he believes Trump won't win. Conservative editor Amanda Carpenter called out his and the naivete of others. [More]
GOP Congressman strongly defends Merrick Garland in Judiciary Hearing and said TRUMP LOST ELECTION!: Republican Congressman Ken Buck came out with a swinging defense of Merrick Garland and said Trump lost the election. [More]
Biden on the Picket Line Is Good. But He Must Go Further: Kudos for joining the UAW picket line tomorrow. You’re the first president to ever join a picket line. But please don’t stop there. Go on to criticize the CEOs of America’s big corporations who are now raking in more than 350 times what the average American worker is earning (in the 1950s, they took in 20 times). [More]

Wednesday September 27th, 2023

President Biden addresses the UAW strikers in Michigan alongside UAW President Shawn Fain: It was clear what side President Joe Biden is on with the UAW strike. And it is with the workers of America. He implied he supported the 40% increase in pay. [More]
Cassidy Hutchinson appeared on Rachel Maddow to discuss her New Book Enough and dissed Matt Gaetz: Trump's Chief of Staff Mke Meadows' Chief of Staff, Cassidy Hutchinson, did not mince her words as she called out Matt Gaetz as a flawed human being. [More]
On a Road Towards the American Nightmare: The day after my father died in August in Washington, DC, I was taking out the trash in my parents’ apartment building when I was intercepted by a garrulous 60-year-old janitor from El Salvador—we’ll call him César—who in the very short time he had known my dad had reportedly clocked double-digit hours of conversation with him. Hearing that my dad had succumbed to prostate cancer after his doctors had pushed counterproductive but highly lucrative chemotherapy treatments on him, César offered his condolences and proceeded to tell me of his own latest run-in with the US healthcare system. This transpired after he had a heart attack in the street and bystanders called the cops on him, assuming he was drunk. [More]
House GOP Want to Take Food Assistance Away From More Than 1 Million Low-Income People: The proposed SNAP amendments, which would take away food assistance that helps people with low incomes get enough to eat, would hurt many people and put them at risk of going hungry. As part of the Agriculture appropriations bill for fiscal year 2024 that the House is considering this week, the House Rules Committee has allowed three amendments to be offered that would take Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits away from more than 1.3 million individuals with low incomes, based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates. Those whose food assistance would be taken away include veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, young adults who were in foster care as children, and people who live in areas with relatively high unemployment. Policymakers should reject these harmful amendments if they come up for a vote. [More]

Thursday September 28th, 2023

MAJOR RANT: Congress is failing families. Your budget informs us about your overall values: More than 70,000 childcare programs are projected to close, and about 3.2 million children could lose their spots due to Congress allowing the end of the childcare stabilization grant program on September 30. [More]
Neil Aquino from the Houston Democracy Project is here: The Houston Democracy Project works daily to make democracy a top issue in 2023 Houston city politics & to inspire and strengthen pro-democracy coalitions. This week, we'll discuss John Whitmire's dismissal of civil rights concerns as he teams up with authoritarians & the hypocrisy of one of the HISD democracy-attacking Board of Managers. [More]
‘Unbelievably Cruel’: GOP Pushes Astronomical Cuts to Education, Housing, and Food Aid: Democratic lawmakers and policy analysts are expressing growing alarm over the House GOP’s pursuit of increasingly severe spending cuts that would decimate education programs, slash housing assistance and food aid for low-income families, undermine clean air and water safety, and compromise medical research. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called the Republican proposals “unbelievably cruel” and accused the GOP of “playing political games on the backs of the most vulnerable, working people, families just trying to get by.” [More]
‘One Job Should Be Enough!’: Vegas Hospitality Workers Vote by 95% to Authorize Strike: Members of two Nevada labor unions—including the state’s largest—on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to authorize a citywide strike at 22 Las Vegas casinos, while continuing to negotiate a new contract “in good faith” with gaming companies. Chanting “one job should be enough,” tens of thousands of cocktail and food servers, bartenders, cooks, porters, and other non-gaming hotel employees in the Culinary Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165—affiliates of the Unite Here—packed the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where they voted by 95% during two sessions to approve a work stoppage at Las Vegas Strip properties owned by MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, and Wynn/Encore Resorts. [More]

Friday September 29th, 2023

At last! Biden goes after Trump & MAGA in a well-designed speech: President Biden did not mince words as he went after Donald Trump and his MAGA base for their inhumanity and anti-democratic antics. [More]
Cassidy Hutchinson on de-culting from the Trump MAGA grip: Cassidy Hutchinson discussed the procedure she went through, including the help she received from Liz Cheney to de-cult herself from MAGA and Trump. [More]
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele explains why the Republican debate was an embarrassing crap show: Former RNC Chair Michael Steele didn't mince his words as he harshly critiqued the 2nd 2024 Primary Republican debate. He said it was a crap show and embarrassing. [More]
'It Will Be a Catastrophe': Student Loan Payments to Resume Even If GOP Shuts Down Government: Despite advocates' pleas for the Biden administration to slam on the brakes, the U.S. Education Department confirmed Thursday that student loan payments will resume for the first time in three-and-a-half years on October 1—even if the federal government shuts down. An unnamed Education Department spokesperson told Politico that payments will be due starting in October "even if Republicans needlessly shut down the government." Student loan debt began accruing interest again after the coronavirus pandemic-related pause. [More]

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