Background Briefing

As a Split in MAGA Emerges With Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance Jockeying to Succeed America’s Most Corrupt and Disastrous President–Trump’s Plan to Gut the Department of Education That Only Congress Has the Legal Right to Do–Trump is Pressuring a Weakened Zelensky to Accept a Sellout Peace Plan

A Weakened Trump As a Split in MAGA Emerges With Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance Jockeying to Succeed America’s Most Corrupt and Disastrous President We begin with a weakened Trump whose power to intimidate House and Senate Republicans appears to be waning as a split in MAGA emerges between competing factions of far right neo-Nazis … Continued


East Bay Yesterday

“We were here before California was a state” Talking Latino history with Jose Rivera

When Jose Rivera started researching the Bay Area’s Chicano history, he was frustrated by how difficult it was to find information. To remedy this problem, Jose created Oakland Latinos Unidos as a platform for sharing stories that are often left out of mainstream narratives. We recently met up at a picnic table in San Antonio Park where … Continued


Law & Disorder

Get the FLOCK Out! Oakland Rejects Surveillance Technologies

On today’s show, we speak with a number of guests about the Oakland Public Safety Committee’s rejection of FLOCK surveillance technologies that threaten the privacy and safety of residents. Sarah Hamid is Director of Strategic Programming at Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reem Suleiman is the senior campaign director at the anti-surveillance nonprofit Fight for the Future … Continued