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Robert Reich: The rich win every election, and they're profiting from dividing us

30 years ago, in 1994, then-US Labor Secretary @RBReich issued a prescient warning to all Americans: “We are on the way to becoming a two-tiered society.” Reich also predicted that, as wealth inequality continued to explode in the US, working people would be consumed by righteous populist rage that could be easily manipulated; the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement decades later proved Reich to be devastatingly right. In this special livestreamed edition of Inequality Watch, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis continue their deep dive into the history and political repercussions of our historic wealth imbalance by talking to Robert Reich himself. In this wide-ranging discussion, the former Labor Secretary and co-founder of @imcivicaction @inequalitymedia explains how wealthy oligarchs have bought off our democracy, profited from dividing us, and smothered serious efforts to mitigate the climate crisis as well as popular progressive policies like universal healthcare and affordable housing.
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Robert Reich: The rich win every election, and they're profiting from dividing us

30 years ago, in 1994, then-US Labor Secretary @RBReich issued a [...]

Robert Reich: One party is making up excuses, and the other party isn't talking about corruption

Former Labor Secretary and co-founder of @imcivicaction [...]

'Everything is destroyed': Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza

Hunger. Cold. Thirst. Disease. These are the daily realities of life [...]

Hunger. Cold. Thirst. Disease. These are the daily realities of life in Gaza, where for the past 423 days, Israel has unleashed a genocide that will come to define our contemporary era. As Palestinians struggle to meet their daily needs, they are also faced with a battle to preserve their memories and dignity. Over the past year, journalist and filmmaker Ruwaida Amer has produced numerous powerful, heart-wrenching documentary reports for TRNN from the rubble and ruins of Gaza, shining a light on the darkest realities of Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians, even as she herself suffers from—and struggles to survive—the onslaught. Calling in from Gaza, Amer joins The Marc Steiner Show to share an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.

Please watch and share Ruwaida Amer's on-the-ground reports from Gaza for TRNN, including:
- "Gaza's orphans speak: 'I found [my family] in pieces. in pieces'": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obx79v1io08
- "Palestinians pray in the ruins of Gaza's bombed mosques": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl0RLZUd7-U
- "'Look at our suffering!': Gaza's message to the world after a year of genocide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6O0NmABsI
- "Life for Gaza's children during Israel's genocide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljvOSfjQn_4
- "Gaza's survivors cling to life in Khan Yunis refugee camps": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnVhsJWHC28

Studio Production: David Hebden
Audio Post-Production: Alina Nehlich

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Trump's Project 2025 wants to RUIN American jobs. Here's why

For all his promises to deliver for US workers, Trump’s political [...]

Big Tech is about to get crushed by anti-trust laws

Cory Doctorow explains how the anti-trust cases against Google and [...]

'Nonprofit killer' bill: Congress' plan to KILL Palestine activism w/Chip Gibbons & Noah Hurowitz

The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, [...]

The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, has passed a vote in the House. If approved by the Senate, this bill would grant the Treasury Department broad powers to label nonprofit organizations, especially those that have been critical of Israel, as supporters of "terrorism" and strip them of their tax-exempt status without due process. What are the chances that HR 9495 will become law? If it does, will it be used as a weapon to target political enemies and quash political dissent under a second Trump administration, as critics fear? Journalists Chip Gibbons and Noah Hurowitz join the TRNN podcast to give a full breakdown of what this bill could empower the Trump administration to do, and how we can fight back.

Noah Hurowitz is a journalist based in New York City and the author of El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. His latest report at The Intercept is titled "The House just blessed Trump’s authoritarian playbook by passing nonprofit-killer bill." Chip Gibbons is a journalist, researcher, and policy director of the nonprofit advocacy organization Defending Rights and Dissent. He is currently working on a book titled The Imperial Bureau, forthcoming from Verso Books. Based heavily on archival research and documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, it tells the history of FBI political surveillance and explores the role of domestic surveillance in the making of the US national security state.

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