Millions of Americans are losing their healthcare while hundreds of hospitals are set to close as the Trump regime dramatically reduces access to healthcare while simultaneously targeting immigrants for immediate deportation that are also vital to the healthcare workforce.
Measles is making a comeback and getting a foothold in Pennsylvania and in rural New York State as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismantles the Centers for Disease Control from the inside.
In New York City, FDNY EMS response times continue to deteriorate as the odds that ailing New Yorkers and visitors will die prematurely increase due to the growing number of idle ambulances thanks to inadequate staffing for the poverty level jobs.
With only a month to go before the last day to vote in the 2026 midterms, we are being barraged by hundreds of millions of dollars in political campaign ads designed to misinform, demobilize and discourage us from engaging in the process of democratic self-determination that we have when we vote.
The high tech and fossil fuel oligarchs very much want the Trump conveyor belt to continue sending all the wealth to the top of the American pyramid for which the First Family gets a handling charge.
The Federal government is now handing our future over to job-killing AI and data centers that pollute the real world amidst a deepening climate crisis so the tech titans actualize their cyber utopia at the expense of the natural world that sustains life.
For the first time ever, we are seeing the current authoritarian regime that controls the White House, Congress and to a large degree the US Supreme Court, try to use millions of our tax dollars to create and broadcast partisan political ads that pay homage to the sitting President, who is brazzenly trying to buy votes by promising $5,000 to every US adult if the GOP prevails in the midterms.
The East Wing of the White House was demolished by fiat and the Kennedy Center disfigured and shuttered on a whim. Early on, the Trump Musk junta seized by force the U.S. The Institute of Peace, a non-partisan, independent non-profit entity established by Congress and renamed the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.
In our nation's Capital the signs of authoritarianism are everywhere from the National Guard on the street and outside public schools to the massive banners with Trump's face hanging from the Department of Justice Department's headquarters and on the facades of other federal buildings.
Inside the DOJ, the DOJ is without apology using all of its power to zealously prosecute anyone that President Trump singles out on social media as an opponent. Meanwhile, he is prosecuting a war of choice in Iran that's further destabilizing the Mideast and setting the US economy into a nosedive that's also fueled by his violent white supremacist mass deportation campaign.
These are the dots that need connecting and that's what we are going to do for the full two hours this morning. We will get started with our current event panel with Larry Hamm, New Jersey social justice activist and founder of the People's Organization for Progress who will be joined by Dr. Joe Wilson, labor historian and expert on the life and times of A. Philip Randolph, the iconic labor and civil rights leader.
I will share my reporter's notebook that includes my most recent conversation over the weekend with Bishop William Barber.
We will also hear from Kelly Smith with the Non-Violent Medicaid Army. She will be joined by former Assembly Member and Health Committee Chair and author of the New York Health Act Dick Gottfried.
We will also visit with Nancy Lipschutz 2nd VP of USW 4-200 the nurses local at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick who were on strike from August until December of 2023 all over safe staffing. She will be joined by USW Local 4-200 Chief Shop Steward Carol Tanzi.
In this episode our imploding healthcare is covered as if our lives depended on it.
