Monthly Archives: November 2015

Good afternoon Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode: CNN reporter suspended for invoking Statue of Liberty in tweet about refugees Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show. Bad things are happening. Forcing Muslim Americans to register and carry special ID? Trump isn’t saying no. It’s True, Media Did Cover Beirut Bombings–About 1/40th as Much as They Covered Paris Attacks And we close it out with listener mail from our Jacksonian history correspondent… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here’s the note for today’s show, but we spent most of the hour in a discussion built off of some questions brought up by listener Lisa about US governors backlash to Syrian refugee arrivals. Here’s John’s great story in the Nation on it: Republican Governors Are Posturing on Refugees, but Their Xenophobia… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show. Again, we spend the hour on the attacks in Paris. Obama Takes On a Newly Hawkish Press Europe’s fear of Muslim refugees echoes rhetoric of 1930s anti-Semitism What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show– our first to discuss the devastating attacks in Paris. We talk with Ali Gharib (@Ali_Gharib) about his latest for the Guardian: Isis wants Christians and Muslims to fight a war. Will Republicans take the bait? And we spend the rest of the time talking about… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode: Outrage! Boston Mayor Plans to Close 36 Schools to Make Way for Charters Boston’s Mayor Goes Full Scott Walker on Charter Schools And from listener Liz, about (wo)menswear: Store Guide: Our List of Best Places to Shop

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode: Big Cats Need Boxes, Too Otto the skateboarding bulldog Race and the Free-Speech Diversion And we talk with environmental justice writer Ryan Schleeter, who is amazing and you should follow him at @Ryschlee.

Good afternoon, Scoochers! We spend almost the whole show on the most recent GOP debate, so no links today. But the outro music is “Sofia” by Breakfast.

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode: Classified Report on the C.I.A.’s Secret Prisons Is Caught in Limbo And we got an update from Amy, our Horrible Police Brutality in Texas correspondent, on the latest in accountability and police brutality in Austin: Charles Kleinert ruling to be appealed, district attorney says And… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode– we spend the hour on the protests at the University of Missouri: How University of Missouri students fed up with racism on campus forced the school’s president to resign How Jonathan Butler Brought Down the President of Mizzou If you have thoughts on our convo… Read more »