CNN doubles down on cashing in on Trump, holding a “town hall” that allowed the disgraced president and convicted sexual assaulter to spew lies and deceit before a cheering audience. Republican fraudster representative from New York was arrested and accused of 13 crimes ranging from money-laundering, to fraud, to lying about his finances on congressional disclosure forms. Santos, of course, pleaded not-guilty and has pledged to not resign. Elon Musk gives Tucker Carlson a platform a new show on ...
May 13, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 449
Four Proud Boys , including their leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The corruption doesn’t stop when it comes to Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. New reporting in the Washington Post this week exposed that Leonard Leo the architect of the right-wing legal juggernaut, the Federalist Society, instructed Kellyanne Conway to use her nonprofit organization to pay Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas,...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 448
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, we'll be digging into the Pennridge School Board's decision last week to hire the far-right Vermillion Education to rewrite the district's social studies curriculum. The contract to hire Vermillion was posted to the agenda 24 hours before the meeting and at least four members of the board had no idea it was coming. Tonight, we'll get into the school board meeting, Vermilion's background, and increasing moves by Pennridge to turn the school district into a Chri...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 447
Raging Chicken's Friday Politics Roundup for April 14, 2023. We're here to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly in state and national politics. A lot happened this week and we're running on empty. You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress. Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community rooted PAC to in...
Apr 29, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 446
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, I welcome François Furstenburg to the show. François is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. We'll be talking about his latest article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Higher Ed's Grim, Soulless, Ed-Techified Future: Temple's Jason Wingard Championed "Skillification." He's Out, but His Vision Lives On." NOTE: we ran into a little issue with François's mic around 19m 15s. It only lasts about a minute, then we get it fixed. In the wake of un...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 445
GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy announced his party’s demands in the latest round of public hostage-taking around the nation’s debt ceiling . McCarthy and House republicans are calling for massive cuts to social programs, the elimination of the student-loan debt forgiveness plan, new work requirements for welfare recipients, cuts funds for improving the IRS, repeals green energy programs and incentives, and takes back any unspent COVID funds. It seems that flooding our communities with guns and ...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 444
This week I welcome Chris Ullery to the show. Chris covers extremism and social justice for the Bucks County Courier Times's PA State Team. We'll be talking about his new investigative piece, "Libraries to locker rooms: How a religious law firm is changing PA school policies." Co-written with Bethany Rodgers, USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania capital bureau investigative journalist, Chris exposes how a deep-pocketed, religious law firm is working with right-wing school boards across Pennsylvania to...
Apr 18, 2023•55 min•Ep. 443
Florida passed and Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a 6-week abortion ban , thanks to a legislature dominated by Republicans. Florida’s current 15 week ban is held up in court, but if that ban is upheld, the 6-week ban will automatically go into effect. A Federal appeals court refused to suspend the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, but upheld a ban on patients being able to sent the pills by mail . That pretty much guarantees the case will be headed to the right-wing dominated US Su...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 442
A new report from ProPublica exposed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s secret luxury trips from megadonor Harlan Crow. Thomas never disclosed the gifts as required by law. Republican media is crying about it wondering why people are being so mean to billionaires and their minions. Tennessee House Republicans expelled two black representatives for protesting guns. It doesn’t get any better for the Catholic Church. A new report on the Baltimore Diocese released last week shows more than 150 ...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 441
This week I welcome Karen Feridun back to the show. Karen is the founder of Berks Gas Truth and co-founder of Better Path Coalition who organize the PA Climate Convergence. We'll be talking about a renewed push for hydrogen to power a green economy coupled with initiatives for carbon capture and storage. Sounds great, right? We'll get to the truth of the matter. This October the PA Climate Convergence will bring advocates, activists, and concerned residents to Harrisburg to tell Gov. Shapiro, la...
Apr 04, 2023•55 min•Ep. 440
Donald Trump was indicted yesterday for misuse of campaign funds to pay hush money to porn star Stromy Daniels. He is the first former U.S. president to ever be charged with a crime. Trump’s indictment comes less than a week after he launched his presidential campaign with a large rally and speech in Waco, TX . Waco was the site of the 1993 raid of the militant Branch Davidian religious compound that led to the deaths of nearly 80 people. Waco has been a rallying cry for white supremacists and t...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 439
This week I welcome Cyril Mychalejko back to the show. Cyril is the editor-in-chief of the Bucks County Beacon and host of their bimonthly podcast, "The Signal." On today's show, we'll be digging into the latest with the creeping extremism on Bucks County school boards and the people working to take back public schools from right-wing ideologues. We'll also get the latest updates from the Beacon and their current fundraising drive to support and expand hard-hitting, independent media in Bucks Co...
Mar 28, 2023•54 min•Ep. 438
On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its most comprehensive and alarming report to date about the “closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” While this report and previous ones made it clear that the world needs to rapidly reduce and then eliminate using fossil fuels, a new fossil fuel emissions record was set in 2022. T he Guardian noted that the report foregrounded three signposts : 1) the climate crisis is fundamentally a cri...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 437
This week I welcome Alan Gratz to the show. We'll be talking about his latest #1 New York Times bestselling young adult novel, Two Degrees and the controversy over the Kutztown Area School District's canceling their "One Book, Once School" middle school program that was set to read Two Degrees. Why did they cancel reading his book? It's a familiar story of right-wing extremism infecting our schools. Right-wing members on the school board and in the community objected to reading a book that accep...
Mar 21, 2023•52 min•Ep. 436
The Supreme Court seems poised to strike down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program not for Constitutional reasons, but because the right-wing members of the court don’t like it. Biden’s pick to serve as an FCC commissioner, Gigi Sohn, withdrew her name after 16 months of targeted pressure and harassment by communication’s industry lobbyist groups. Sohn has a long history as a public interest advocate and would have been the first openly gay FCC commissioner. Weirdness in Congress in the Hous...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 435
This week I welcome Rohan Montgomery to the show. We'll be talking about his recent articles in In These Times about revolt against corporate greed in the tabletop role-playing gaming community - specifically Dungeons & Dragons - and labor organizing by anime voice actors. Rohan's piece, "Slaying the Gold-Hungry Dragon" reports on the Dungeons & Dragons community epic victory against corporate greed. In "Anime Voice Actors Speak Out: It's Not Kawaii When We Aren't Paid," he dives into or...
Mar 07, 2023•54 min•Ep. 434
This week I welcome Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller to the show. We'll be talking about her book, Demagoguery and Democracy and her work on the continued threat a culture of demagoguery poses to democracy, equity, and justice. In Demagoguery and Democracy she writes, "Demagoguery isn't about what politicians do; it's about how we, as citizens, argue, reason, and vote. Therefore, reducing how much our culture relies on demagoguery is our problem, and up to us to solve." Patricia Roberts-Miller, forme...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 433
Welcome to this week's Out d'Coup LIVE. This week I welcome Robyn Underwood to the show. Robyn leads KOFEE - Kutztown Organized for Educational Excellence which formed to push back against rising extremism on the Kutztown Area School District. The KASD middle school was planning on reading Alan Gratz's book, Two Degrees as part of their "One Book, One School" program. Two Degrees centers around the lives of four middle-school students struggling to survive disasters brought on by climate change....
Feb 21, 2023•44 min•Ep. 432
According to a new survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution , more than half of Republicans either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism. The survey also found that half of those who believe in Christian nationalism and 40 percent of those who sympathize with it “support the idea of an authoritarian leader in order to keep Christian values in society.” In Oklahoma, a judge stripped a lesbian mom’s parental rights to her son and han...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 431
This week I welcome Alyssa Bowen back to the show. Alyssa is a Senior Researcher and Managing Editor for the progressive watchdog group, True North Research. Tonight we'll be talking about her recent article in TruthOut, "The Right has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards." If we thought we'd get a break from extremism in our school board elections, we were VERY wrong. Alyssa received her PhD in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2021 with an i...
Feb 14, 2023•55 min•Ep. 430
More than 22,000 people have been killed by the devastating earthquakes that ravaged Turkey and Syria this week and the death toll keeps rising. There is a desperate need for humanitarian and medical assistance. You can help by donating to Doctors Without Borders ( DoctorsWithoutBorders.org ) or UNICEF ( UNICEFusa.org ). Biden does some effective political theater of his own, by saying some Republicans wanted to cut Social Security. On the spot, Biden got all the Republicans to stand and cheer t...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 429
This week I welcome Hannah Leffingwell to the show. We'll be talking about her recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Academic Career is Broken" and the need for fundamental change in higher education. She argues, "We are in the midst of a crisis in academe, to be sure, but it’s not an economic crisis. It’s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether our institutions pay faculty fairly, but whether any wage is worth the subservience and sacrifice that modern higher ed ...
Feb 07, 2023•50 min•Ep. 428
Raging Chicken's Friday Politics Roundup for February 3, 2023. We're here to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly in state and national politics. Today I'm joined once again by Amy Knecht! We'll take a look at the politics of the week and ongoing school board craziness. Then we'll dig into our takes on the The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon (and, who knows, maybe we'll even sneak in a little of The Wheel of Time). You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/m...
Feb 03, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 427
Welcome to this week's Out d'Coup LIVE. It's MLK Day. We've got an open show tonight. Taking a look at the headlines, your thoughts, and more. You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress. Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 426
The U.S. and Germany are sending a whole bunch of tanks to Ukraine as the war continues into its second year. Later today the Memphis, TN police will release video of the brutal and fatal police beating of 27-year-old Tyre Nichols . The five police officers who fatally beat Nichols have been fired and are facing second-degree murder charges. PA-based libertarian billionaire, Jeffrey Yass, is funding a new poliitcal action committee called “The Moderate PAC” that will target progressive primary c...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 425
The battle over voting rights has not let up. Republicans in several key states have kept up their agenda to restrict access to voting. New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern , announced that she’ll step down in a few weeks. A new Pew Research Center survey found that only about half of Americans think that colleges and universities are “having a positive effect on the way things are going in the country these days. About 38% say they are having a negative effect. And, as I bet you are alr...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 424
Welcome to this week's Out d'Coup LIVE. It's MLK Day. We've got an open show tonight. Taking a look at the headlines, your thoughts, and more. You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive ...
Jan 17, 2023•57 min•Ep. 423
Both-sider-ism prevails in DC as Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel to look into the confidential documents that turned up at Biden’s old office space and garage . Are you ready for non-stop investigations from now until the presidential elections in 2024? Catastrophic weather continues. In California at least 18 people are dead following climate change-charged “atmospheric rivers” that led to widespread flooding, mudslides, and power outages. The National Weather Service reports that Ce...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 422
Happy New Year!?!? Here we are crawling into the New Year. What's going on? You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress. Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our commu...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 421
Raging Chicken's Friday Politics Roundup for December 23, 2022. We're here to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly in state and national politics. We'll check in for a quick end-of-the-year wrap-up and see what's on your mind for 2023! You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress. Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to la...
Dec 23, 2022•58 min•Ep. 420
