On today’s show:
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David Freedlander, New York journalist and author of The AOC Generation: How Millennials Are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics (Beacon Press, 2021), talks about his Politico Magazine article, “How a Staunchly Blue State Let MAGA Seep In” and other political news.
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Maria Cramer, NYPD bureau chief at the New York Times, reports on a public safety experiment in which civilians in a two-block stretch of Brownsville, Brooklyn responded to 911 calls, effectively policing themselves. Dana Rachlin, executive director of We Build the Block, a Brooklyn-based public safety organization that helps run the Brownsville Safety Alliance, and Dushoun Almond aka Bigga, who runs the anti-gun violence initiative Brownsville In Violence Out, discuss their push to redefine public safety in the community.
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Rowan Ellis, author of Here and Queer: A Queer Girl’s Guide to Life (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2022), speaker, and LGBTQI+ advocate who creates content around queer history, pop culture, and activism, discusses the history of queer representation in media and what it looks like today in 2023 as LGBTQ+ listeners call in with their favorite queer media as well as movie and TV characters they think should have been queer.
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Mariana Simões, Brazilian investigative journalist covering climate and the environment for City Limits, and Lawrence Levine, director of Urban Water Infrastructure and senior attorney at NRDC, talk about the cleanliness of the water off area beaches.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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