• Episode Two: Immigration
    Nov 5 2024

    This second episode covers stats on immigration under Obama, Trump, and Biden, as well as the implications of the rhetoric used against any ethnicity/racial/cultural background that differs from Trump's vision of a "great America."

    We told you episodes would usually be shorter!

    Links used for things discussed in this episode:

    https://publicsafety.ieee.org/topics/high-tech-border-security-current-and-emerging-trends#:~:text=CONS%3A%20Largely%20ineffective%2C%20according%20to,through%20wide%20border%20wall%20gaps

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-immigration-asylum-reform-bill-released-senate-text-rcna136602

    https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-immigration-debate-0

    https://www.wsj.com/economy/how-immigration-remade-the-u-s-labor-force-716c18ee

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-analyzed-9-years-of-trump-political-speeches-and-his-violent-rhetoric-has-increased-dramatically/ar-AA1sYV19?ocid=BingNewsSerp

    https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/four-years-change-immigration-trump

    https://theconversation.com/ego-hubris-and-narcissism-where-donald-trump-ranks-among-the-other-45-american-presidents-241879

    https://www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.nr0.htm#:~:text=Labor%20Force%20In%202023%2C%20the,Blacks%20increased%20to%2061.3%20percent

    https://cmsny.org/publications/warren-undocumented-2016/

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/03/02/how-border-apprehensions-ice-arrests-and-deportations-have-changed-under-trump/

    https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-three-immigration-record

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    47 mins
  • Episode One: The Election - Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump
    Oct 29 2024
    First episode is an intro to your hosts, K.B. King and Kelly Wise, and our assessment of the election, the candidates, and the major issues. This will be the longest episode, by far, but given the gravitas of the subject matter, it makes sense. Join us every Tuesday! Next week's episode is about Immigration. Links used in episode one for reference: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-choice-2024-harris-vs-trump/ Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s economic plans, compared (msn.com) Kamala Harris as a prosecutor: What these 9 CA cases reveal - CalMatters https://apnews.com/article/tim-walz-ivf-fertility-jd-vance-fc5ebf8f37adb28cf45d0af51224a938 https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5065626/labor-unions-tim-walz-minnesota-running-mate-vp#:~:text=Labor%20advocates%20could%20not%20be%20happier%20about%20Vice%20President%20Kamala https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walz-policy-transgender-minors-explained-1937598#:~:text=Minnesota%20Governor%20Tim%20Walz,%20who%20was%20recently%20named%20as%20Vice https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/tim-walz-abortion-rights-ivf-strong-supporter-rcna165390 https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-free-school-meals-education-children-18fdcf4c360684b3f42f91fa22457d49 https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/nx-s1-5048000/for-much-of-kamala-harris-political-career-shes-been-the-target-of-online-trolls#:~:text=Now,%20we%20saw%20three%20different%20groups%20of%20narratives%20about%20her https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/kamala-harris-labeled-dei-candidate-makes-latest-recipient-emerging-in-rcna163842 https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4901880-why-kamala-is-more-likely-than-hillary-to-be-the-first-female-president/#:~:text=Forty%20years%20later,%20unique%20social%20factors%20could%20motivate%20a%20record https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/how-walz-responded-to-riots-in-minnesota-after-the-death-of-george-floyd/#:~:text=For%20years,%20Minnesota%20Gov.%20Tim%20Walz%20has%20been%20criticized%20by https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/tim-walz-minnesota-voting-rights/index.html https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walz-policy-transgender-minors-explained-1937598#:~:text=Minnesota%20Governor%20Tim%20Walz,%20who%20was%20recently%20named%20as%20Vice https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4816790-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-climate-record/#:~:text=In%202014,%20Walz%20voted%20with%20the%20House%E2%80%99s%20GOP%20majority%20and https://themarijuanaherald.com/2024/09/vice-presidential-candidate-tim-walz-says-marijuana-legalization-is-an-issue-for-the-states/#:~:text=Walz,%20who%20made%20history%20as%20the%20first%20top-ticket%20candidate%20from https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/father-of-child-killed-in-ohio-crash-begs-trump-vance-to-stop-politicizing-son-s-death/ar-AA1qp09L?ocid=socialshare https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/springfield-ohio-vance-campaign-wsj-report https://www.kqed.org/news/11998040/how-j-d-vance-went-from-never-trumper-to-maga-warrior https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4803398-jdvance-hillbilly-elegy-appalachia/#:~:text=There%E2%80%99s%20nothing%20wrong%20with%20reading%20%E2%80%9CHillbilly%20Elegy,%E2%80%9D%20but%20we%20need https://thehill.com/homenews/4819346-five-key-excerpts-from-jd-vances-forward-to-project-2025-leaders-book/#:~:text=As%20the%20Trump%20campaign%20seeks%20to%20distance%20itself%20from%20Project
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    1 hr and 6 mins