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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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Brace For Impact

Shutdowns in China are having a devastating impact on the global economy and inflation. In a massive victory, Amazon workers recently won a union at a warehouse in New York. So now the company is trying every trick in the union-busting playbook to throttle worker organizing at a second facility. Hosts: Ana Kasparian *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protect...

Apr 20, 20221 hr 1 min

Vile Attacks

Israel launched a strike in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump called for a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine Monday, which he said must happen before “everyone is dead.” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) appeared on Monday’s Hannity to discuss his decision to bus undocumented migrants to Washington, D.C. He even threatened to send migrants to President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware. Detroit illegally overtaxed homeowners $600M resulting ...

Apr 19, 20221 hr 2 min

America's Hitler

Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin “will only stop when we stop him” as he was pressed about whether the United States should send troops to support Ukraine in the ongoing war. GOP Rep Mo Brooks says prime committee chairmanships cost a minimum of $1 million and are paid by special interest groups as “a quid pro quo” for favored legislation. Far-right wing website InfoWars filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankrup...

Apr 18, 202256 min

Mayhem Ensues

Israeli forces are accused of a 'barbaric premeditated attack' on Palestinian worshipers. The Russian Black Sea Fleet's flagship 'Moskva' sunk after Ukrainian Attack. What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election. A candidate mocks progressives on TikTok. Why Starbucks may exclude unionized employees from new benefits. Hosts: John Iadarola, Francesca Fiorentini, Farron Cousins *** The largest online progressive news show i...

Apr 15, 202259 min

Quiet Part Loud

Colleagues are worried that Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve. The Republican-led Kentucky legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto Wednesday evening and passed strict abortion restrictions that advocates say will force the state’s two clinics to stop providing abortions immediately. An NFT of the first tweet ever secured a bid of just $277 after selling for $2.9 million last year. Hosts: Ana Kasparian *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hoste...

Apr 14, 202253 min

Progressive Sellouts!

The NYC subway shooting suspect was a self-declared ‘prophet of doom’ on YouTube. The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC endorsed incumbent Shontel Brown over Nina Turner. More than a dozen Los Angeles gangs are targeting some of the city’s wealthiest residents in a new and aggressive manner, sending out crews in multiple cars to find, follow and rob people driving high-end vehicles or wearing expensive jewelry. Globally, inflation is surging amid persistent pandemic disruptions and war in Ukr...

Apr 13, 20221 hr 2 min

Shooting in Brooklyn

At least 16 people were shot or otherwise injured after a lone gunman in a reflective vest and a gas mask threw smoke bombs on a subway car in Brooklyn and began shooting Tuesday morning. A college is ‘fighting leftist academics’ by expanding into charter schools. NFL quarterback Cam Newton shared some opinions about what he believes to be the role of women in a new interview. Former Virginia police officer who stormed the US Capitol was found guilty on all charges. The crypto industry helps wri...

Apr 12, 202259 min

Moral Code

Russian Airstrike Reportedly Kills 30+ at Train Station Used to Evacuate Civilians, Mitch McConnell On Why He Would Back Trump In 2024: Party Comes First, Republicans Want Oil Execs To Stop Apologizing And Do Less To Avert Climate Disaster, U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row, 'Outrageous': Judges slam FBI for not breaking down rich suspect's front door to preserve 'aesthetics'" Hosts: John Iadarola, Jackson White, Jordan Uhl *** The largest online progressive news show in the world...

Apr 08, 202256 min

KBJ Confirmed!

Sen. Bernie Sanders and other progressives on Wednesday applauded President Joe Biden’s words of support for Amazon workers—and rejected the White House’s attempt to temper the president’s statement, calling on the administration to proudly and unequivocally align itself with pro-worker efforts. A new survey released Wednesday shows that Democrats are losing electoral support among recipients of the expanded child tax credit, a monthly program that lapsed at the end of December after Democratic ...

Apr 07, 20221 hr 2 min

Bad Takes

A White House reporter confronted White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and asked why the United States and its NATO allies can’t militarily attack Russia over its actions in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Senate Republicans threatened to tank a new $10 billion coronavirus relief package unless Democrats allow a vote on an amendment to preserve Title 42, a Trump-era border expulsion policy that the Biden administration is moving to end after months of sustained pressure from immigrant rights groups. ...

Apr 07, 20221 hr 2 min

Union Busters

By a bipartisan vote of 53-47, the Senate has forced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson out of the Judiciary Committee -- putting the judge on track for final confirmation by week’s end. Amazon’s internal messaging app now has an automatic word monitor that would block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees reli...

Apr 05, 202258 min

Obesity & Insulin

Rep. Matt Gaetz voted against capping insulin prices and said people should just lose weight. According to Fox Business, unionizing Amazon workers are driven by “anger” and “jealousy” about CEO pay. Accounts of alleged Russian atrocities, including the horrific images of dead civilians captured by Agence France-Presse, are emerging as its forces retreat from areas near Kyiv following a failed bid to encircle the capital. Fox News’ Martha MacCallum put Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) under pressure wh...

Apr 04, 20221 hr 1 min

Corrupt Influence

US home prices have soared to new heights and keep on climbing, and now some researchers and economists are saying they have seen signs of a housing bubble brewing. A CBS News boss told staff that Republicans will ‘take over’ before Mick Mulvaney was hired. An outside group planning to attack Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman for supporting single-payer health care is being led by a consultant whose firm works for the health insurance giant Cigna. Juan Williams, on Hunter B...

Mar 31, 202258 min

The After Party

Russia has been accused of intensifying its bombardment of the besieged Ukrainian city of Chernihiv and continuing to attack Kyiv despite claims the Kremlin would drawback out of respect for ongoing peace talks. Rep. Katie Porter: Private insurance spends 17x more on administrative costs than traditional Medicare—to pay for things like stock buybacks, executive pay, and ads. Sandy Hook families rejected a ‘desperate’ settlement offer from Alex Jones. Amazon colluded with the NYPD to arrest &...

Mar 30, 202258 min

No Sanity

Russia promised on Tuesday to scale down military operations around Ukraine’s capital and north, while Kyiv proposed adopting neutral status, in confidence-building steps that were the first signs of progress towards negotiating peace. Tucker Carlson issued a bizarre warning that if Putin is removed “it’s likely” Islamic extremists will “wind up with” a nuclear weapon and attack America. Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the Hous...

Mar 29, 202259 min

Off The Script

President Biden said that Putin cannot remain in power and everyone freaked out about it. Biden proposed a budget that includes more military & social spending and a new minimum tax on billionaires. Uninsured Americans will now be charged $125 for a single PCR Covid-19 test. A whistleblower is alleging that Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes. Fox News’ John Roberts cornered Rick Scott (R) when the Florida senator tried to write-off the controversy of his p...

Mar 28, 202255 min

The Big Lie!

Revealed: Ginni Thomas’ Shocking Big Lie Texts To Trump Aide | Biden Says Nato Will Respond If Russia Uses Chemical Weapons | Russian Forces Face Tough Battles As Ukraine Fights Back | Applebee’s Exec Says Gas Prices Could Help Cut Wages | Corporate Pacs Pose As Workers To Carry Out Political Bribes Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Maz Jobrani Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that spe...

Mar 25, 20221 hr 1 min

Thirsty For War

Repeated attempts by the United States’ top defense and military leaders to speak with their Russian counterparts have been rejected by Moscow for the last month, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear powers in the dark about explanations for military movements and raising fears of a major miscalculation or battlefield accident. The Biden administration has finalized a plan to overhaul the system for immigrants seeking asylum in the United States. One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who in...

Mar 24, 20221 hr

Racist Clown Show

Human rights advocates are demanding that the United States immediately release billions of dollars which it seized from Afghanistan’s Central Bank after ending its 20-year military occupation of the country last year, causing a devastating hunger crisis that has already killed thousands of Afghan newborns in 2022. A GOP Senator said the Supreme Court shouldn’t have legalized interracial marriage. Tucker Carlson says “a rap star off the street” would be a more mainstream choice for the Supreme C...

Mar 23, 20221 hr 2 min

Nuclear Threats

Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday that residents should brace for more indiscriminate Russian shelling of critical infrastructure, as President Joe Biden issued one of his strongest warnings yet that Moscow is considering using chemical weapons. Lindsey Graham claimed that ‘Putin owns Biden,’ and he also called for a no-fly zone if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine. Sean Hannity said Iraq should pay America for U.S. soldiers killed during the Iraq War. During the first day of Judge Ketanj...

Mar 22, 202257 min

All Talk No Solution

The U.S. and NATO officials are struggling to decipher the status of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. U.S. officials are saying that the reported detention of a Russian spy boss is showing tensions over the stalled Ukraine invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that the country is combining all national TV stations into a singular platform in an effort to combat Russian disinformation. Several gas stations in Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit against a compet...

Mar 21, 20221 hr 8 min

Christ & Crime

Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a Moscow stadium. You could score a $5 million payday fighting Russian corruption—if you play your cards right. Republican Senator Elaine Gannon of Missouri asked extremely invasive questions to a trans teen Avery Jackson who was testifying against a proposed anti-trans bill in the state. Sexual harassment went unchecked at Christianity Today for more than 12 years, and we’re now learning about it after the magazine self-re...

Mar 18, 20221 hr

Scum & Traitors

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday referred to pro-Western Russians as “scum and traitors” who needed to be removed from society, describing the war in Ukraine as part of an existential clash with the United States and setting the stage for an ever fiercer crackdown at home and even more aggression abroad. A Ukrainian man described the moment he found out that his wife and two children had been killed after recognizing them in a graphic photo on Twitter. Trump said he was taken completely by ...

Mar 17, 202254 min

Highway to Hell

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday peace talks were sounding more realistic but more time was needed, as Russian air strikes killed five people in the capital Kyiv and the refugee tally from Moscow’s invasion reached 3 million. A man was charged with attempted murder in what police have described as a “brutal hate crime” against an Asian woman in New York state last week, with video of the incident showing the woman being punched over 100 times. Jeanine Pirro went ballisti...

Mar 16, 20221 hr 3 min

Broken Promises

Why has the Biden administration hired 28 people with ties to Saudi Arabia and the UAE? About 400 people are reportedly being held as “hostages” in a Ukrainian hospital. According to a U.S. government report, a detainee at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leaving him with brain damage. Idaho is the first state to pass an abortion ban based on Texas’ law. Sen...

Mar 16, 202240 min

Hostility & Hearbreak

Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met again on Monday for another round of talks aimed at finding a way out of the war, even as Russian forces broadened their devastating offensive and the Kremlin insisted that it would not pull back until “all plans” for the invasion are fulfilled. A pregnant woman who was injured when a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was bombed on Wednesday has died, along with her newborn baby, a surgeon who was treating her confirmed on Monday. Accord...

Mar 14, 202229 min

Bioweapon Birds

Russia has widened its offensive in Ukraine, striking airfields in the west and a major industrial city in the east, while the huge armored column that had been stalled for over a week outside Kyiv was on the move again, spreading out into forests and towns near the capital. Russia is also claiming that the U.S. has trained birds to deliver Ukrainian bioweapons. An accused Russian double Agent donated to only one U.S. politician, Tulsi Gabbard. Sidney Powell has secretly been funding the legal d...

Mar 12, 202256 min

Ticking Time Bomb

The Biden administration has publicly warned that Russia might seek to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine as the White House rejected Russian claims of illegal chemical weapons development in the country it has invaded. Vice President Kamala Harris has been criticized for breaking into laughter after she was asked whether the US will take in Ukrainian refugees. Inflation hit another 40-year high as the Consumer Price Index jumped 7.9 percent in the past year. Republican-led state legi...

Mar 11, 20221 hr 6 min

Dumpster Fire

Russia’s Central Bank limited withdrawals of foreign currency, hoping to shore up the plunging ruble as Western economic penalties take a serious toll. In Ukraine, efforts to evacuate civilians from battered cities resumed, but many remain trapped in the areas of heaviest fighting. The Department of Defense rejected an offer from Poland, a fellow NATO member, to send fighter jets to a U.S. air base to then send to Ukraine for use against Russian forces. A Missouri lawmaker is seeking to stop res...

Mar 10, 202258 min

No Oil

President Joe Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine. A major religious leader in Russia has come out in support of the invasion of Ukraine and laid the blame on the support of gay rights. The United Nations has emailed staff advising them not to refer to the situation in Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion”, in a move to balance political sensitivities as powerful member state Russia cracks down domestically o...

Mar 09, 20221 hr
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