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Jon Wiener

@jonwiener.bsky.social

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The Nation podcast 'Start Making Sense" host; co-author with Mike Davis, 'Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties"; KPFK podcast host, "Living in the USA"

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Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

Recent polls show strong support for CA's Prop 50, which would add 5 new Congressional districts to counter TX's gerrymandering. Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments on Democrats' "realpolitik" – on the podcast 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hhhZyb

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

David Cole calls Trump's strikes on Venezuelan boats "premeditated targeted killing of people who are civilians. They are not in an army. They have not attacked us" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

"You get on Trump's list for having opposed Trump and trying to hold him accountable for violations of the law; that's why Adam Schiff is in the on-deck circle of people Trump wants to have indicted" – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org – on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hhhZyb

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

There's no death penalty for drug smuggling; but on the high seas, "you have the president and the military now carrying out death penalty after death penalty with no trial, no charge, no evidence, and no war" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

"There's a growing through-point among [right wing judges], which is: a misunderstanding of history." Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on Fort Sumter and the appellate-level case of National Guard deployment to Portland – on the podcast 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hhhZyb

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's DOJ has indicted the AG of NY Letitia James—one of our heroes—& the AG of CA Rob Bonta who's been leading the resistance of the blue states against Trump's initiative. Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on the podcast 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hhhZyb

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

The Trump admin is "in a league of its own, in terms of international crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity." @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social discusses the US targeting of Venezuelan civilian boats – and the desultory press reaction – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7h

"Still up in the air": Harold Meyerson @prospect.org analyzes what's in the initial agreement between Israel and Hamas – and what isn't – on the podcast 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hhhZyb

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

A Trump-appointed judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked Trump from sending troops from any state to Portland, calling Trump's justification "simply untethered to the facts" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

On Mike Wallace's NYC history 'Gotham at War' @oxunipress.bsky.social – a moral quandary "doesn’t mean that you lack judgment and outrage, but you try to understand where people were coming from...even as you are critical of it." Brenda Wineapple – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump has targeted free speech, like really no president since the McCarthy era. And it is absolutely critical that courts stand up for free speech rights." And @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social argues that to an extent, they're doing it – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

IBM, GE, & GM all did business with Hitler in the 1930s. "It’s chilling actually, because there was a kind of willful ignorance that allowed these corporations to ignore what more and more people knew was happening." Brenda Wineapple -–on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

Lower courts have blocked about 130 of Trump’s actions with temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, & SCOTUS has agreed to hear arguments on only a handful of them. @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

In the 1930s New York "there were huge numbers of people who knew what was going on in Germany...who really were determined to try to stop it." Brenda Wineapple on popular boycotts - and industrial cahoots – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

Trump "has invoked and exercised emergency authorities in the absence of any emergency" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

20 minutes without Trump: writer and critic Brenda Wineapple on Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Wallace's wonderful new history of NYC from the Depression through WWII, ‘Gotham at War’ @oxunipress.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 2d

Trumpites in the US House have "come up with the brilliant idea of essentially giving the president a blank check to kill whoever he claims is a narco-terrorist" – but @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social points out, "We’ve been down this road before" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 4d

The story of New York City in World War II: Mike Wallace's "Gotham at War" starts with the day Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany — January 30th, 1933: Brenda Wineapple comments – on @thenation podcast – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T @OxUniPress

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 4d

How "the lower federal courts are doing the job they’re paid to do, which is to uphold the rule of law" – @DavidCole_Gtown explains on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things that’s admirable about the book is that the narrative itself is extremely fair-minded, but it never lacks a moral center. Brenda Wineapple on "Gotham at War" – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T @OxUniPress

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 4d

Trump in Court: From National Guard deployment bans to defending freedom of speech for noncitizens, to yet another court rejecting the end of birthright citizenship – Trump is losing – @DavidCole_Gtown comments – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7d

Trump said pregnant women should not take Tylenol because, he said, "it can be associated with a very increased risk of autism." Is that conclusion supported by scientific research? @gregggonsalves.bsky.social comments (spoiler alert: no) – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7d

"Claims being made by HHS Secretary RFK Jr are ludicrous, right? The point is that people believe them. People are taken in by them and it is no laughing matter." @gregggonsalves.bsky.social on herd immunity, Tylenol, autism, and more – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7d

Trump put a former Miss Colorado in charge of prosecuting James Comey – but Harold Meyerson @prospect.org points out that the judge in the case could be likely to dismiss the charges – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 7d

Medicaid cuts will likely increase infant mortality, but "the Trump administration just got rid of the entire division at CDC that follows maternal and infant mortality so that we can’t even tell what’s going on" – @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
– on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE