Mississippi’s First Black Legislator Since 1874, Scott Colom, is Elected to the U.S. Senate
We begin with the election of Scott Colom to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, the first Black legislator from the state since 1874, who formed a bi-racial coalition in a state that is 33.3% Black and 55.2% white. Joining us to discuss the journey of generations of activists from Jim Crow to the martyrdom of Medgar Evers to the Voting Rights Act to Colom’s victory is Marvin King, professor of political science and African American Studies at The University of Mississippi, where he teaches courses on Politics of the American South, Federalism, African American Politics and the Politics of Protest. He is the author of Mississippi’s Mess: Political Inequality, Stratification Economics, and Inadequate Economic Development and he has an article at The U.K. Observer, “Racist mobs once terrorised Mississippi – now the state has a Black senator.”
The Democrat’s Best Strategy to Deal With the Republican Thugs, Trump, Miller, Markwayne Mullin and Todd Blanche
Then we examine Democrat’s the best strategy to deal with the Republicans thugs Trump, Miller, Markwayne Mullin and Todd Blanche, who are following Roy Cohn’s example of doubling down with intimidation to avoid accountability and speak with Harry Litman, a former United States attorney and deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department. A professor of constitutional law and national security law at the University of California San Diego and University of California Los Angeles, he is a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California, the host of the Talking San Diego speaker series, and the Executive Producer & host of the Talking Feds podcast as well as author of the Talking Feds Substack. He is also a senior legal columnist at The New Republic, where his latest article we will discuss is “The Open and Shut Impeachment Case Against Todd Blanche.”
Trump, Witkoff and Kushner’s Shameful Sellout of Ukraine For a Reward From the Killer in the Kremlin
Then finally we will go to Ukraine to speak with Illia Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian journalist based in Bucha, outside Kyiv, who has covered the war in eastern Ukraine since the conflict’s earliest days, as well as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine since 2022. He won the Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellowship and was selected to work as USA Today‘s guest reporter at the U.S. Department of Defense. The author of I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv, his latest book, just out, is The Land of Tears and Hope: The Ukrainian Story and we discuss the shameful sellout underway by Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner to pressure Ukraine into surrendering to the murderer in the Kremlin who is able to kill more Ukrainians now that the sadistic Trump and Musk have cut back the Starlink service, so that Russian jet-powered drones can strike civilians at will.
