The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA Fascism
We begin with an update on the legal road bumps Trump is hitting, as he and Musk run roughshod over the legislative branch, while the Democrats appear powerless, leaving the judicial branch, which is largely captured by Republicans, the only remaining barrier to MAGA fascism. Joining us is Lisa Graves, the Executive Director of the new corporate watchdog group True North Research and president of the board of the Center for Media and Democracy. She has served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government: as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, as Chief Counsel for Nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a Deputy Chief of the Article 3 judges division for the U.S. Courts.
The Threat to the Dollar and the Brazen Corruption of Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Then we examine Trump’s executive order to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve overseen by his AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, who, along with Musk and Thiel, have brought South African apartheid politics to the White House. Joining us is Jacob Silverman, a contributing writer for The New Republic and a contributing editor for The Baffler, covering tech and national security. He is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, the Golden Age of Fraud, which was a New York Times bestseller co-authored with Ben MacKenzie. His most recent book is Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. We will discuss his article at Zeteo, “Trump’s ‘Crypto Reserve’ Is Such Brazen Corruption.”
Trump’s War on Education will Create an American Idiocracy
Then finally, we look into Trump’s war on education, as he moves to shut down the Department of Education, while slashing the National Science Foundation by two thirds, crippling the NIH, and taking $400 million away from Columbia University. Joining us is David Halperin, a senior fellow at Republic Report. He was previously a senior policy advisor for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign; founding executive director of the American Constitution Society; White House speechwriter and special assistant for national security affairs to President Clinton; and counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee. His latest article at Republic Report is “For-Profit College Barons Backed Trump, But Now May Be Scared.”