Part 1:
a conversation with Ben Miller, President of wellbeingtrust.org and chair of the advisory board of Inseparable, two leading mental health organizations.
​We discuss the blame being placed on people with mental illness whenever a violent event takes place. In fact, there is no correlation with violence and mental illness. Politicians take no responsibility for not helping people who need mental health care. We discuss the trauma that survivors endure as a result of these events.
Part 2:
We have a discussion with Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller, union organizers and authors of a new book “Standing Up”.
We discuss the need for workers to organize in order to be able to insist on their rights. Who benefits from the current situation: disenfranchisement, divisiveness, chaos. It is the people who profit from keeping workers apart from each other who want to keep the status quo. But Union demographics are changing, and younger workers are organizing.

Brian Bilston  https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7767279-america-is-a-gun-england-is-a-cup-of-teaPart 1:
We discuss the massacre in Texas, and the fact that the perpetrator had bought his weapons and ammunition legally. Abbott had preciously slashed $211 M from the mental health oversight agency. However, it is the case that mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims, rather than the perpetrators of gun deaths.
Weapons are part of the MAGA cult, and they proved it by the attendance of the NRA convention in Houston, days after the event, though weapons were not allowed in the meeting venues. There were plenty of opportunities to buy during the convention, however. Policies pursued after such horrific events have made it ever easier to buy weapons.
​Part 2:
We discuss how political economics have brought about shortages, especially shortages of baby formula, and other staples. The government has guaranteed monopoly to Abbott Manufacturing, But we continue to put faith in the “free market”, and when it fails, the administration is blamed.
There are many consequences of COVID: long Covid, medical bankrupties, general depression among people, especially the young.
Lincoln Mitchell teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.He covers the politics of NYC and San Francisco as well as International politics. He is the author of seven books and is a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, the San Francisco Examiner and Brussels Morning.
Val Endress received her B.S. and M.A. from Ball State University. She then earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1996.Endress is an Associate Professor of Communications at Rhode Island College. Endress is part of Rhode Island College's role in the American Democracy Project, and the driving force behind DebateWatch 2004 & 2008, Open Books-Open Minds project, and the VISTA/AMERICORPS Service Learning program. She is also a well-respected political analyst for the Rhode Island news media.
Robert Hennelly Award-winning investigative journalist, broadcast and print reporter for more than 30 years, covering federal, state and local politics, public policy, labor, the environment, law enforcement and national security. Currently Robert writes for Salon.com and InsiderNJ.com and author of Stuck Nation. Bob previously worked for WNYC and NJ public radio
Alex Sammon a staff writer at The American Prospect. He’s a former columnist and feature writer for the New Republic and former contributing politics writer at Pacific Standard. His work has also appeared in n+1, Wired, and Mother Jones.

Limerick by Skip Tenczar

The formula shortage has parents on the run,
Trying to feed their babies with little or none.
A nation is broken
When it is unspoken
That feeding your kid is harder than buying a gun.
Part 1:
We discuss how our political institutions are divided, and how this causes minority rule, rather than majority rule. The wealthy can buy the government that they want. Democrats need a cohesive message to convince voters to turn out en masse.
Part 2:
We talk about how the child tax credit resulted in the largest drop in child poverty. Unfortunately, it is now expired. But government can do something to fix things. We also need to recover the money that was not claimed by those who needed it the most. We also discuss the problem for ordinary people in attempting to buy homes. Investors are pushing them out of the ownership class, and sentencing them to be forever renters.
Our guests: 
Stephen Pimpare, Robert Hennelly, Dean Spiliotes

Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock about the end of the Bush dynasty, in the form of George G. Bush, grandson of George H.W.Bush. He is in line to be defeated for the A.G. position by Ken Paxton, who has amassed a large campaign chest 6:1 compared to Bush. Bush has also not performed well at his job as Land Office Commissioner. We also talk about Henry Cuellar, the only Democrat who is anti-abortion, and is being challenged by Jessica Cisneros. There have been nasty personal attacks on Cisneros.
We note the shutdown of 6 power plants in Texas, in the midst of 100 degree temperatures. Energy conservation alerts have been issued, despite assurances by the governor that power problems would be resolved after the Texas Freeze last year.
Scott Braddock  is a journalist and political analyst based in Austin, Texas.
He covers the Texas Legislature and politics in the Lone Star State by working with Austin legend Harvey Kronberg to produce the most successful political newsletter in Texas: The Quorum Report. In January of 2015, Scott became Quorum Report Editoras Mr. Kronberg assumed the role of Publisher and CEO.Scott served as the chief political reporter for the two biggest radio news operations in Texas: Newsradio 1080 KRLD in Dallas and Newsradio 740 KTRH in Houston. He has been honored with Edward R. Murrow and AP awards for investigative journalism and received recognition for excellence and fairness in political reporting from members of Texas’ Congressional delegation.

Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Lincoln Mitchell about the opportunity that Democrats now have to closely associate the Republicans with the abortion fight, and with the lack of gun safety. This should be used during the 2022 election cycle, and after. While economics are important, Democrats should point out that it is Republican policies that have created the economic problems we all perceive, but that the macro view of the economy is good.
Democrats need to reinforce the fact that the Republican party has now become the FASCISTS. We need to call Putin a fascist, and his friends fascists. That would not be name calling, but naming. Spokespeople like Tucker Carlson should be named for what he is, a fascist who is spouting lethal speech.
​Bill Curry is an American lawyer and politician who has been a two-time Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut and a White House advisor in the administration of Bill Clinton. He was head of Freeze Voter, a nuclear freeze group.
Lincoln Mitchell teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.He covers the politics of NYC and San Francisco as well as International politics. He is the author of seven books and is a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, the San Francisco Examiner and Brussels Morning.

part 1: 
The Outsourcing of Discrimination: Another SCOTUS Earthquake? https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/carson-makinWe discuss a policy memo written by Prof. Welner that examines some fundamental shifts, along with their real-world implications, within the past 60 years of Supreme Court jurisprudence, up to and including the current Carson v. Makin case. The Supreme Court is just a few small steps away from transforming every charter school law in the U.S. into a private-school voucher policy. Further, the nation may be facing a future of religious organizations proselytizing through charter schools that have been freed from obeying anti-discrimination laws—with LGBTQ+ community members being the most likely victims.
NEPC director Kevin G. Welner is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education, specializing in policy and law. He and Alex Molnar founded NEPC in 2010. Welner has authored or edited 12 books and more than 100 research articles and book chapters concerning education policy and law. His books include Education and the Law (2016, coauthored with Stuart Biegel and Bob Kim); Closing the opportunity gap: What America must do to give every child an even chance (2013, co-edited with Prudence Carter); NeoVouchers: The emergence of tuition tax credits for private schooling (2008); and Legal rights, local wrongs: When community control collides with educational equity (2001). He is an AERA Fellow and has received the AERA’s Early Career Award, its Palmer O. Johnson Award, its Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award, the Horace Mann League’s Outstanding Public Educator Award, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency, and the NAEd/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He received his B.A. in Biological Sciences from UCSB and his J.D. and Ph.D. from UCLA.
Part 2:
We discuss managed charging which means that drivers download their app and can turn over charging to them to maximize off-peak, clean energy generation, and other valuable grid-based benefits saving money and carbon. Ultimately it will be a good way to manage residential charging on a large scale to prevent overloading the grid and probably lead to bidirectional applications in the future as well. FlexCharging could sell the car's energy back to the utility when prices are high, for example.

​Barry Woods is based out of Portland, Maine, United States and works at Revision Energy as Director of Electric Vehicle Innovation.Barry is a director on the board with Plug In America, the only independent US-based non-profit who is the voice of EV drivers.  Ken Nichols of FlexCharging. You didn’t buy an EV to keep carbon emissions high.Charging at the wrong time can have the same or sometimes even worse carbon emission impact than a gasoline engine. Charging during evening peak, when all generators are running, means utilities have to ramp up natural gas or coal plants to meet your EV charging load. FlexCharging allows you to charge at the best time, automatically.