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The Young Turks

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The Young Turks is Home of The Progressives. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and a host of progressive voices deliver the news and provocative commentary. Whether you are seeking a breakdown of current events, politics and the mainstream media or just a quick laugh, the TYT daily podcast will always keep you informed and entertained.
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Burning Bridges

Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine and four people were killed. A former Trump official said that Russian forces were “too gentle” on Ukraine. The Biden administration is seeking to ease oil sanctions on Venezuela as part of a broader U.S. strategy to temper oil prices that have skyrocketed because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump wrote a letter to Lester Holt that thoroughly trashed Bill Barr by calling him ‘slow, lethargic’ and ‘broken’ by t...

Mar 08, 202256 min

Costs Of War

Russian troops have seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine yet. Three commanders in Russia’s army have been killed after moving up towards the frontline in an apparent attempt to restore momentum to the invasion of Ukraine. President Biden wants no-strings-attached bailouts for profitable microchip giants that spent billion...

Mar 05, 202258 min

Criminal Clown Show

A Ukrainian MP said on Fox News, “You care more about whether you pay extra 50 cents for your gas” than “how many people die in Ukraine.” The January 6th committee says it has evidence showing Trump committed crimes including obstruction and fraud while trying to overturn the election. A homeless defendant with a double-digit rap sheet, accused of smearing his own feces on a woman inside a Bronx subway station, left a courtroom in handcuffs — for his months-old murder threat against a Jewish man...

Mar 04, 202259 min

2022 STATE OF THE UNION: TYT Coverage Hour 3

Hour 3. Join Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Francesca Fiorentini as they give live updates of the Texas Primary and offer live commentary of the State of the Union address. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 03, 202246 min

2022 STATE OF THE UNION: TYT Coverage Hour 1 & 2

Hour 1 & 2. Join Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Francesca Fiorentini as they give live updates of the Texas Primary and offer live commentary of the State of the Union address. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 03, 20222 hr 2 min

Ticking Time Bomb

Russia hit major cities across Ukraine with increasingly heavy shelling as the conflict escalated on its sixth day while a vast convoy of Russian forces is threatening the capital, Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a passionate speech to the European Parliament in defiance of Russia’s ongoing invasion of his country. His words were so moving that the English translator could be heard choking up. According to current and former U.S. officials, U.S. intelligence agencies have ...

Mar 02, 202257 min

Going NuclearDNP

A Russian State TV host threatened nuclear war and asked, “Why do we need the world if Russia won’t be in it?” An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by applying to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no deal but an agreement to keep talking. The U.S. Treasury Department announced further sanctions against Russia’s central bank, which would immobilize any of its assets in the U.S. or h...

Mar 01, 202259 min

""No to War!""

Russian tanks entered the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, on Friday morning as the city was rocked by explosions and gunfire. An entire garrison of 13 Ukrainian border guards was killed in the first day of fighting on the nation’s Snake Island after the soldiers refused to surrender to invading Russian forces. Over 1,000 Russians were arrested for protesting Putin’s Ukraine invasion. President Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Tucker Carlso...

Feb 25, 20221 hr 1 min

War of Aggression

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech announcing a military operation in Ukraine that countries that interfere with Russian actions will face “consequences you have never seen.” Steve Bannon and Erik Prince praised Putin and Russia for LGBTQ intolerance. A confused Trump told Laura Ingraham that U.S. Soldiers landed in Ukraine to fight the Russians. Stocks and energy markets reel after Russia attacked Ukraine. Last year, investors bought nearly one in seven homes sold in America’s to...

Feb 25, 202254 min

Moscow Mule

Trump praised Putin’s ‘genius’ incursion into Ukraine. Ukraine has urged its citizens in Russia to evacuate. The U.S. Supreme Court formally rejected Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. An alt-right and Nazi group attended a protest against a communist manifesto reading in a public library that was organized by an African American left...

Feb 24, 202255 min

Guilty Verdict

Ahmaud Arbery’s killers were found guilty on all counts in their federal hate crimes trial. Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster, advisers to President Biden have discussed elevating a unifying Republican foil not named Donald Trump. A new study says that ‘Stand your Ground’ laws are linked to an 11% rise in US firearm homicides. A jury found that an Atlanta officer accused of profiling Black trans woman must pay $1.5 million for false arrest. Candace Owens has called for th...

Feb 23, 202258 min

War Drums

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation on Monday, giving a lengthy speech in which he aired national grievances and laid out the historical claims he believes Russia has to Ukraine. Tulsi Gabbard’s newly-announced speaking appearance at CPAC draws ridicule. Trump's new social media app has 'technical problems.' Michigan coach Juwan Howard punched a Wisconsin Coach. A proposed Tennessee bill would designate some gun owners as law enforcement. Progressive Pennsylvania Senate candida...

Feb 22, 20221 hr 4 min

Den of Vice

Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. A new study says that 3.7 million more kids are in poverty without the monthly Child Tax Credit. Top Democrats told Axios that the ""hard-left politics"" of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the so-called ""Squad,"" once a dominant theme for vast numbers of elected Democrats, are backfiring big-time o...

Feb 19, 202258 min

Ammo over Americans

Progressive candidates have crashed this year’s Democratic primaries, hoping to unseat incumbents and push the party to the left. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the fifth-ranking Democrat in the House, has other plans. A D.C. police lieutenant has been suspended over alleged ties to a right-wing group. Factory workers in Haiti go on strike to demand higher wages. President Biden is set to seek more than $770 billion in 2023 defense budget. Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air Internati...

Feb 18, 20221 hr 6 min

Rudy's Bedroom

Rudy Giuliani claims that he has evidence that proves Hillary Clinton spied on Donald Trump following the 2016 election. Recordings from law enforcement conferences reveal how tech companies are lobbying cops for contracts. An Indiana school reportedly provided parents with a form to 'opt out' of Black History Month. The U.S. nuked an island and now refuses to help its residents. Truck drivers at the port of L.A. are unionizing. Hosts: John Iadarola, Wosny Lambre Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Feb 17, 202259 min

Trump Dumped

The Trump Organization’s trusted outside accounting firm has taken the unprecedented step of ditching its client, explaining that the former president’s family company has a decade of financial statements that can’t be trusted. Tucker Carlson was lampooned by social media users after he accused Canada’s prime minister of being a “Stalinist dictator” who “suspended democracy” amid anti-Covid mandate demonstrations. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Congress’ inner workings a ‘Sh!t Show,’ but she al...

Feb 16, 202258 min

""Imminent Threat""

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that Russia's ramp-up of forces around Ukraine over the past few days indicates Russian President Vladimir Putin could give an order for military action ""essentially at any time."" Support for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election has more than doubled that of President Joe Biden — among people who did not vote at all in 2020. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear that “defund the police” is not the position of the ...

Feb 15, 20221 hr 2 min

Deep Dive II

President Joe Biden issued a warning on Thursday to any Americans who remain in Ukraine as Russia continues to threaten an invasion. Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans. A Black FedEx driver said FedEx hasn’t ‘supported’ him after being shot by white men. A Purdue police officer used excessive force on a student. A GOP Rep., who disavowed Trump after Jan. 6, posted a humiliat...

Feb 12, 20221 hr 4 min

ToiletGate!

Dave Chappelle personally came to a city council meeting and threatened to remove $65m dollars of investments from his city if they allowed a developer to move forward with an affordable housing program. Repeat STOCK Act violator Senator Tommy Tuberville called a stock trading ban for Congress ""ridiculous."" According to a new book, while President Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president...

Feb 11, 202259 min

Canadian Confederates!

Striking concrete workers in Seattle have shut down the city’s $23 billion construction industry. Canadian protesters blocked the busiest international crossing into North America as tensions ramp up over Covid-19 rules. A lawsuit says that a Las Vegas bartender, who was robbed at gunpoint, should be forced to repay bosses' stolen money. Amazon has received $4.7 billion in subsidies globally. Ilhan Omar breaks down Congress’ ‘high school’ cliques. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...

Feb 10, 202258 min

Crying Wolf

Voting rights advocates in Congress and across the United States reiterated the need for stronger federal voting rights laws after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Alabama's GOP-drawn, racially gerrymandered congressional map to stay in place. President Joe Biden said Monday “it would be wise” for Americans other than essential diplomats to leave Ukraine amid the Russian military threat. A migrant encampment that has been a feature of the Tijuana-San Diego border since last February was ...

Feb 09, 202259 min

Shady Business

Former President Donald Trump improperly removed multiple boxes from the White House that were retrieved by the National Archives and Records Administration last month from his Mar-a-Lago residence. Trump also spent his whole presidency ripping up documents that aides had to tape back together. Delta Air Lines has asked the Justice Department to help set up a national ‘no-fly’ list of unruly passengers. Iowa introduced a bill that would require cameras in public school classrooms. A former clerk...

Feb 08, 202257 min

Old & Fat

The U.S. has accused Russia of an elaborate plot to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to take military action against its neighbor. The Congressional Workers Union announces staff efforts to unionize the offices and committees of the United States Congress. Fox News guest: “If AOC was fat and in her 60s, would anyone listen to another thing she ever said? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...

Feb 05, 202257 min

Bipartisan Love

United States Special Forces carried out a major raid in northwest Syria in the early hours of Thursday morning that reportedly resulted in the killing of more than a dozen people—including six children and four women. In a statement hours after the operation, U.S. President Joe Biden said that ""thanks to the skill and bravery of our Armed Forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi—the leader of ISIS."" The Democrats’ Senate majority is temporarily gone. Presid...

Feb 04, 202257 min

President Evil?

A Pentagon spokesperson on U.S. troop deployment amid standoff with Russia said, ""I want to be very clear about something: these are not permanent moves...Moreover, these forces are not going to fight in Ukraine. They are going to ensure the robust defense of our NATO allies."" The Biden administration appears to be trying to overturn a ruling that helps those who have been bankrupted by student loans. The BLM Mystery - Where did the money go? Thousands of day-care workers in Washington will ge...

Feb 03, 202258 min

False Alarm

Israel has called on Amnesty International not to publish an upcoming report accusing it of apartheid. At least six historically black colleges and universities received bomb threats Monday morning, disrupting campus operations and launching police investigations. Martin Shkreli must return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped from jacking up the price and monopolizing the market for a lifesaving drug. Garrett Soldano, a GOP candidate for governor in Michigan, says we must i...

Feb 02, 202259 min

Hell or High Water

DMFI PAC, the political arm of Democratic Majority for Israel, announced on Monday that it is backing 15 House candidates in the upcoming primary elections as part of its first round of congressional endorsements. A new survey has found that most Americans don’t think President Joe Biden should commit to replacing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with an African American woman. Former President Donald Trump spent his weekend eliminating any remaining doubt that he wanted to steal the 2020 el...

Feb 01, 20221 hr 2 min

No Escape

A 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet and form a human chain to reach occupants of a bus that had plummeted with the span into a park ravine. A federal judge on Thursday canceled oil and gas leases of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that the Biden administration did not sufficiently take climate change into account when it auctioned the leases late last year. As the United States weighs more involvement in...

Jan 29, 202255 min

Hypocrisy 101

A GOP Senator said he "never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children." A New Lines investigation revealed a network of charities funneling millions into left-wing platforms that take Beijing’s side on the genocide allegations — and they’re all connected to an American tech magnate. Ben Shapiro said we shouldn't be mad at Blackrock for inflating the housing market. The Fed is raising interest rates soon and making capitalists nervous. The Supreme Court ...

Jan 28, 20221 hr 1 min

Blame Game

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire, giving President Biden a chance to nominate a replacement. Biden’s Chief of Staff is getting thrown under the bus for Biden and the corporate Democrats' failures. Vivek Chibber, the author of “The Clas Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn,” joins TYT to discuss class and capitalism. The Democrats are rushing through a massive Ukraine defense bill. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he's 'not sure that it's necessary' to ban lawmakers...

Jan 27, 202255 min
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