Joe Biden’s Revisionist History Tour kicked off in Philadelphia this weekend. Biden goes all in on a middle of the road climate policy? Really? How do you cut a deal with a climate crisis, Joe?
Welcome to the gates of Gilead. Extreme abortion bans set the stage for a Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade. 8 states now have passed anti-abortion bills this year, the worst, of course, being this week's bans in Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri. Elizabeth Warren announces one of the most aggressive plan to defend reproductive rights. If you have not read Rebecca Traister’s article in New York Magazine this past week, do yourself a favor and read it. Her piece “Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysteria,” resonates on so many levels. Your anger is an asset and when a political party tells you otherwise, there is a problem with the party.
What do you do after you say the president is the biggest threat to American democracy? You fight hard for robocall legislation, of course.
Really, Bill de Blasio? Good luck to you and your pals from Montana and Colorado. Beto O’Rourke will certainly be your friend. Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? 23 Democrats now in the race.
AOC gives her staff 3 months of paid parental leave. I would love to be a fly on the wall of Congress right now.
While we were away, noted Islamophobe Stephanie Borowicz was caught taking selfies with white-nationalists from the American Guard.
The Pennsylvania House passed another unconstitutional abortion ban. This time outlawing abortion of fetuses that may have down syndrome. Fifteen Democrats reached across the aisle to support this bill and even though this bill cleared the House, it passed with the lowest vote total an abortion ban has had in decades. And for the legislators who voted against the bill, well, they got an email from Pennsylvanians for Human Life that compared their votes to Hitler and the Holocaust.
APSCUF and PA State System approve an early retirement plan outside of the contract. They say this is what “working together” looks like. The public chumminess leaves out the fact that the plan allows for an expansion of the part-time faculty cap.
Martin Tower, the former international headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, is no more. The building was imploded on May 19th.
I’ll be working the polls in tomorrow’s PA primary election. I’m out there for One Pennridge for the Pennridge School Board election. The team of Kelley Peloquin, Peter Yarnell, Kyle Esposito, Lisa Wilson, and Alex Rajan are the folks to pull the lever for on Tuesday - that’s tomorrow.
A new study warns that unless we start setting rules now, future plans to mine the solar system could destroy our little corner of the Milky Way. The study calls for designating 85% of our solar system as protected wilderness.
Dogfish Head Brewery merging with Sam Adams.
What we were up to during our break.
Friday Politics Roundup | Reaction to the first presidential debate: panic? Also, SCOTUS overturns Chevron doctrine: ready for climate dystopia?
Friday Politics Roundup for June 14, 2024 - What's to be done with the Supreme Court?
Friday Politics Roundup | More student protest arrests; concerning polling for Biden; touch UAW loss in AL; greedflation study; PA cyber-charter King; liberal groups bite themselves
Friday Politics Roundup | Biden's troubles; scientists warn of "semi-dystopian" climate future; Trump begs Big Oil; UC academic union strike vote over Gaza protests; Beaconfest
Friday Politics Roundup for April 5, 2024 | It's a rambley kind of day
Out d’Coup LIVE | A newsy Monday. How many ways can we mess up education? Democracy? Our culture? Enough already?
Friday Politics Roundup | Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster; attacks on higher ed; Lieberman dead; NBC News ooopsie; Bucks County Sues Big Oil; PA Primary; and, more
Friday Politics Roundup | "Nail-biting" budget battle; lots of climate crisis news; U.S. falls from happy country list; WaPo profiles Christian nationalist Palisades SB member; Beacon Fest!
Friday Politics Roundup | At least 112 starving Palestinians killed in Gaza; Starbucks Workers United's big win; York U strike; "Uncommitted" wins 17% in MI; Exxon CEO blames us for climate crisis
Out d’Coup LIVE | Steve Oross & Lorrie McKinley on their legal win in ADA discrimination case v. Kutztown University
Out d’Coup LIVE | A newsy Monday. The road forward for our schools, our Commonwealth, our nation?
Out d'Coup LIVE | Kathryn Joyce, Investigative Editor at In These Times, on how the far right took over a PA school board and how parents took it back
Out d’Coup LIVE | A Monday, post-Big Game, politics round-up and questions from you
Out d’Coup LIVE | James Meyers - Candidate for New York's 53rd State Senate District
Friday Politics Roundup | Future for Moms for Liberty; Fall of Clarice Shillinger; right-wing targets Souderton and Kutztown schools; PAWInS; and more!
Out d'Coup LIVE | It's a new year. Can you feel it? We're breaking the glass on 2024. Here. We. Go.
Friday Politics Roundup | Our last show for 2023 - Happy Holidays and good wishes for all!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Ashli Giles-Perkins & Adrienne King on Civil Rights complaint against Pennridge School District
Friday Politics Roundup for December 8, 2023
Friday Politics Roundup | Elon Musk’s antisemitism; Big Tech getting sued; Johnson reject separation between church & state; Pennridge civil rights complaint; big payout in Central Bucks; book recs
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