Tune in to episode 3 of Keeping Hope Alive to hear from the formidable Kirsten Levitt, Executive Director and Chef of Stone Soup Café in Greenfield.

Full video available here: youtu.be/v5BJDS4VAfU

Trump would roll out a red carpet for Adolf Hitler.

The GOP has gone from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” to “Mr. Putin, confirm our conspiracy theories.”

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Black American State of Emergency YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors

My opening segment today focused on the National Urban League’s State of Emergency Declaration and Trump’s effort to flood Black cities with federal law enforcement.

Black American State of Emergency
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Fragile Whytes Invade DC YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors

Yesterday, we explored what happens when the FragileWhytes Invade Washington DC. Enjoy!

Fragile Whytes Invade DC
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The Fragilewhytes: A Play on Words and the Fragile Nature of White Supremacy YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors

Yall remember Fraggle Rock? Well a few months ago, I introduced my @urbanviewradio.bsky.social audience to the Fragile Whytes: a similarly rare creature with its own unique take on the world:

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Here’s a fact that no one wants to face:

We are NOT going to be able to wait until the election in 2026 to stop that asshole from a total authoritarian take over of this country.

The TX capitulation is proof of that.

YES!

The Senate will vote to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer to be a U.S. circuit judge for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals at 5:30 p.m Monday.

Please send a letter to your Senators and give them a call to vote no on her nomination.

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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

Trump Slammed After Brazenly Comparing His Airstrikes On Iran To WWII His ego is truly obscene.

Is there anything bigger than this man's ego?

I keep thinking about how so many global conflicts boil down to one thing:

White people don't know how leave people alone. That's it.

White racists: "The apocalypse is here."

Everyone else: Y'ALL ARE THE APOCALYPSE we're trying to survive.

Necessary reading.

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Hey y'all!

I'm launching my own podcast this fall for @rewirenewsgroup.com and I need your support to get it off the ground!

So if you could donate, that would be amazing.

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Protest is not enough. Prepare to strike.

A reminder that 50% of Latino men voted to make themselves a target for racial profiling, and extra-judicial abductions.

This is what happens when immigrant populations ignore the hard lessons learned about the intentions of racists.

They ignored Black folks to their own peril.

The fucking moron befouling the WH did this for no fucking reason under the sun!

Whistleblower says DOGE took sensitive data. And, Harvard rejects Trump's demands A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.

UP FIRST: A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.

lolololol. Ya think!?! Haha buddy. Welcome to the club I guess.

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

April 6, 2025 (Sunday) After President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling.

April 6, 2025

buzz lightyear from toy story says " there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere .. " ALT: buzz lightyear from toy story says " there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere .. "

Setting in motion the absurd tariffs accomplished five things.
1. Protect Tesla from Chinese EV imports
2. Market correction (wealthy investors gobble up more stocks)
3. Squeeze businesses/countries relying on imports
4. Provide cover to raise prices
5. Set up the "Saved the Economy" for midterms.

White Christians: afraid of the Black neighbor they grew up with and the trans coworker using the bathroom meanwhile an actual demon is running the country and they voted for him.

Stocks in Asia and Europe Fall Sharply as Trump Doubles Down on Global Tariffs: Live Updates U.S. markets were set to open sharply lower as well. President Trump said on Sunday that he would not back off his trade war, reinforcing fears of a global economic downturn.

Global markets plunge in reaction to Trump’s tariffs.

Publishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends Four of the Big Five publishers and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress on April 3 expressing “deep concern” for the nation’s libraries following a week of unprecedented turmoil at the Institute of ...

Harper Collins didn't sign on to protect libraries. The other big four publishers (including my publisher, Penguin Random House) did. They are also part of the Murdoch empire.

Imagine being a publishing house and NOT supporting library funding.

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The US Constitution, of which US citizens appear to be very proud, seems to be failing its current stress test. There’s a lesson here for other nations.