** "What better way to keep a troublesome woman quiet, than to silence her in the ass end of the LAPD..."

Ballard: Conversations With Maggie Q. The psychological crime thriller series in release this week, plummets the depths of the LAPD - where a thin line divides suspects in the world and suspected internal criminal activity from the bowels within. And starring Maggie Q as the Detective Ballard in question joined by the cast - actors John Carroll Lynch and Courtney Taylor. While involved in a disturbing look at the LAPD where, 'the way things were may not exist anymore...'

Along with the action star of Nikita, Mission Impossible III, Wonder Woman and Live Free Or Die Hard, addressing her experiences as a female both on and off screen. And in particular how racial discrimination factors in for the Asian American actress, the child of a Vietnamese mother and white US soldier meeting there in the midst of the Vietnam War. And how despite being born in the US, Maggie still gets asked 'why my English is so good' - a perception of ethnic Americans of color that they will always, inevitably be seen as foreigners...

** "You know you're being screwed when there's a slogan - whenever you get a slogan you're being had..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on No Kings, MAGA, Hope And Change. And what it all has to do with space aliens, elves and other magical creatures; oak trees, acorns, the Huxtables and family values; genocide, nazis and Seinfeld a show about nothing - and the collapse of America...

White Rabbit by URZE and CHAD in Puebla, Mexico: Street Art Utopia

** "I don't trust any movement that's based on bad grammar - really the only successful revolutions in history, have been caused basically by starvation..."

It's Time...The Five Minute Marxist - a report from Red Iowa, broadcasting out of the Red Star Cafe art and activist headquarters. And what may have to do with Trump turning up on July 4th in Iowa, where the topic was, well - leading the crowd in the booing of the left across America...

** "You could fall into a black hole - and come out in another part of the universe..."

Bro On The Global Film Beat - Shifty: The Land Of Make Believe. Thought in the age of AI, a five part BBC series probing how things have changed in Britain since the de-industrialization of the '80s - and the filmmaker, 'Adam Curtis and his cronies ultimately throwing up their hands, opting for crisis theory.' With connections to why factories left Britain, Marcus Garvey, reggae, Hansel and Gretel, Cheese & Onion Crisps - and 'comic book word balloons that do little to illuminate the capitalist forces at play, past and present...'