Biden's farewell & GA and TX data says immigrants less 'criminal' than we are
President Joe Biden's final address from the Oval Office was - of coruse - bittersweet, but also came with warnings similar to Dwight D. Eisenhower's "industrial complex" foreshadowing, only for Biden...
16 Jan 202544min
Weathering the storm: Georgia's trans community & climate change activism
With just five days before the inauguration of a second Donald Trump term, the trans community in Georgia (and throughout the U.S.) has had to weather a storm of antir-trans sentiment; some of it put ...
16 Jan 202544min
Why do Repubs bully trans people? "It works." / Voters 'saved' Trump
Jay Bookman wrote a blistering-yet-sobering piece last week for the Georgia Recorder where he spells it out plainly: Republicans pick on the trans community because 'it works," writing "Because transg...
14 Jan 202544min
Repubs aren't letting California crisis "go to waste"
Clearly, the blame for California's current, deadly (perhaps worst-ever) wildfire lies at the feet of (checks notes) Governor Gavin Newsom, L.A. mayor Karen Bass and D.E.I. and not wild climate shifts...
14 Jan 202544min
“A complicated place;' a NW Georgia family prepares for Trump-led deportation rift
A mid-December article in the New York Times focused on a Rome, Georgia family soon to be ripped apart by a looming second Trump presidency and the promies of mass deportations. Jaime Cachua has lived...
10 Jan 202543min
Meta bows to MAGA & Donald's latest display of 'crazy'
Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this week that Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is getting out of the "fact-checking" business - just eight years after allowing itself to be a useful tool for Rus...
9 Jan 202544min
Election integrity & privacy: how and why Georgia lacks both
Friend of the show, Marilyn Marks - executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance - joined me for a wall-to-wall conversation on election integrity in the state of Georgia. First, on the day...
7 Jan 202544min
Four years ago today has been (but cannot be) forgotten
I wanted to share the touching tributes from President Jimmy Carter's friends and loved ones today, and told myself that's what I'd do, yesterday. Then I awoke today realizing the date - January 6th -...
6 Jan 202544min
