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Karel Cast Podcast #187 Trans Shooter, So What? Mammoth Meatballs? The shooter in Tennessee is trans, so what? Most are cis gendered right wing white men, is that ever the headline? Nope, it's just another way to hate trans people and you have to ask, why are they so afraid? Lab grown meat is here, and now, lab grown extinct meatballs are here. Would you eat a woolly mammoth meatball? Should you? And, who are shows on AppleTV+ and other networks that are really great, informative, thought...

Leslie is joined by Tom Conway, President of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union. They’re 1.2 million members and retirees strong in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. They proudly represent men and women who work in nearly every industry there is. The two have a broad conversation about how workers are leading the way in the United States as our society is facing big challenges, from rampant economic inequality to the continuing human and...

This time on Code WACK! Longtime nurse advocate, single mother, and now California Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo was the only Democrat to unseat a Republican incumbent in the California assembly last November. What inspired her to get into politics? What are her priorities when it comes to health care, homelessness, and housing? We're highlighting Schiavo’s impressive story today in honor of Women's History Month. Find out what she thinks would be a major game-changer in the fight against...

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Massive tornado system bulldozes path of destruction across rural Mississippi; Floods from historic California storms inundate farmland and impact food prices; Somalia drought may have killed 43,000 last year; U.N. warns of looming water conflicts; PLUS: Renewable energy hit a new global record in 2022... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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On the radio show this week we cover the attack on parents and teachers through ugly, divisive legislation designed to undermine public education by bringing censorship, bigotry and strife into our schools. This legislation may be masquerading as a bill of rights but it is actually a blueprint for censorship, bullying, division and book bans. It is all wrong for America’s moms, kids, families, and educators. Find out more about it, what’s happening in the states, and how you can help right...

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Karel Cast Podcast #186 Tennessee Bans Drag, Not Guns, Six Dead Another mass shooting, in a state more worried about banning drag queens for children’s safety than guns; when will we learn the GOP just doesn’t care about you, your kids or their lives? And aren’t you exhausted, I mean, just physically exhausted by all of it? Guns, climate change, no one doing a thing? So how do you find your voice? How do you keep going? We talk about it today. Plus, am I being catfished on Instagram?...

I thought the movie Everything, Everywhere, All the Time, was the life story of narcissist, Donald Trump, a psychologically damaged blow hard who must make absolutely everything about himself. His recklessness and mean spirit scare me, but his chief Republican rival, Ron DeSantis, scares me more. Here’s a short essay on why he’s as big a threat to democracy as Trump. I hope you’ll listen.

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Though most people now accept that genes influence our height, weight, heart health, etc., many get nervous when we apply that same perspective to things like our mental health, intelligence, or educational attainment. Here’s my conversation with KATHRYN PAIGE HARDEN, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, about the ideas in her first book, THE GENETIC LOTTERY: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, which attempts to reconcile the findings of behavior genetics with her commitment...

This week, Off-Kilter returns to our ongoing series of conversations with social justice leaders digging into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is political warfare—and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work. As a lawyer and policy advocate who’s also a lifelong student of the magical and mystical, Rebecca thinks a lot about social justice advocacy and activism as their own forms of magic—magic that starts with a vision of a new...

Next time on State of Belief Radio, a powerful new book taking a deep personal look at the growing divisions in this country, the rising threat of fascism, and the human and spiritual impulses behind its allure. Jeff Sharlet, pioneering author of books like The Family and C Street, has just published his latest, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. The glowing New York Times review describes the book as, quote, “An anguished quest to understand the rise of antidemocratic extremism.”...

Another day in the United States of Serfs and Lords. Marjorie Taylor Greene visits fellow traitors in jail while her führer Trump stokes violence against anyone trying to hold him accountable for his crimes. We discuss the madness!

Karel Cast Podcast #185 Airlines Infecting; IPCC Speaks; Karelaoke After a recent trip on Southwest Airlines it’s easy to see that neither they, nor any other airline has learned a thing from Covid, and it’s going to kill millions very soon; The intertergovernmental panel on climate change has spoken, but will you head what they are saying or just ignore it, again?; and Don’t Stop, from the fabulous Sylvester, helped solidify my love of recording, so, why not have a KarelAoke on Friday?...

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