Arizona teachers are the latest to walk off the job en masse to demand livable wages and full public school funding. More than 1,000 Arizona public schools were closed on Thursday as #RedforEd took to the streets and marched on the state Capitol. Arizona teachers were joined by their neighbors to the Northeast as Colorado teachers also walked off the job for better pay and full funding of public schools.
A new report, “Advancing White Supremacy Through Academic Strategy,” exposes massive campaign funded by the Koch Brothers and other right-wing billionaires to push alt-right agenda on college campuses.
The Intercept published secretly taped audio of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer trying to pressure a progressive candidate to get out of the race for Colorado’s 6th legislative district. DCCC had already picked a corporate lawyer and Army vet, Jason Crow, to back in the race. Republicans in Congress are now pursuing a technical strategy to dramatically roll back regulations. They want to use the 1996 Congressional Review Act to “defund the administrative state.”
Things still crazy in Trumplandia. Trump loses it on Fox and Friends; Michael Cohen has a burner phone collection; Dr. Ronny “The Candy Man” Jackson will not be the next VA Secretary; and, Scott Pruitt gets grilled on his improprieties. And, let’s not forget that the week started out with yet another white, male “sovereign citizen” killing four people in a Waffle House in Tennessee with an AR-15.
Meek Mill released from prison after spending five months in prison. Pennsylvania has the worst parole system in the country. Pennsylvania GOP sees staffers leave en masse and only have $16,000 in the bank for payroll. Right-wing PA Republicans got what they paid for Wednesday as their RAND Corporation commissioned study recommends dramatic changes for PASSHE universities. The one thing the study did not consider was properly funding PASSHE schools. Currently, PA ranks 47th out of 50 states in per-capita funding for public higher education. Kutztown University votes to implement new “Campus Support Fee” on students in the amount of $488 beginning next academic year.
The second part of Raging Chicken’s exclusive interviews concerning the Colleen Bradley whistleblower case is released. Kevin Mahoney interviews Bradley’s legal team, Daniel Kearney and Ed Mazurek, about the Constitutional implications of her case.
And in today’s last call, Sean has a weekend off for the first time in a long time. He contemplates buying a new camera lens. A racist golf club to hold a “Swingo de Mayo” celebration on the heels of owners calling police on a group of black women for Golfing While Black. In space news this week, NASA begins talking up the Orion missions to the Moon and plans for a Deep Space Gateway.
Out d' Coup | Kabul Airport Bombing; COVID Spikes; Don't Drink Poison; PA Prison Gerrymandering; More Mastriano; Pennridge; KU Mallet Center; Sean's Book
Out d'Coup Special | Kutztown University: A Caring Community?
Out d'Coup LIVE | Ben Tupper author of "Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo"
Out d'Coup | Afghanistan and the media; getting wild in BuxMont; Wolf gives Berks Detention Center new life; Sean makes photo book
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko for Monday, August 18, 2021
Out d‘Coup LIVE | Pennridge School Board Candidates Adrienne King and David O‘Donnell
Out d'Coup | Big Week in Climate, Pandemic, Insurrection, Infrastructure, and Census; RTK Cache; Dungeons; and, more
Out d'Coup LIVE | Open Phones/Listener Comments - UN Climate Report; Masking; School Boards Off the Rails; and, More
Out d'Coup | Infrastructure Bill; Jan 6 Commission; Delta Variant; Pelosi Fail; PA Fraudit-Palooza; Bucks Co School Boards; Sean's Birthday
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko for July 28, 2021
Out d'Coup LIVE | School boards and CRT; voter suppression; billionaires in space; and your calls
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko | July 21, 2021
Out d'Coup LIVE | Student activists Paul Berlet, Monica Zheng, and Nick Marcil on PASSHE mergers and organizing
Out d'Coup | Back from vacation; end the filibuster; climate crisis; dark money; critical race theory; PASSHE vote; Brave Noise; and, more
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko for July 14, 2021
Out d'Coup LIVE | Open Phones - Summer Reading Lists? Space Tourism? Organizing? What's on Your Mind
Out d'Coup | SPECIAL: Colleen Bradley and Her Lawyer Dan Kearney on PASSHE Whistleblower Case
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko | Interview with Rotimi Adeoye on defending voting rights in PA
Out d'Coup LIVE | SPECIAL: Raging Chicken's Interview with Noam Chomsky on Occupy, Social Movements, and Higher Ed | Nov. 22, 2011
Out d'Coup | SPECIAL: Colleen Bradley - PASSHE Whistleblower - A Raging Chicken Documentary from 2018
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free