Republicans Are Revolting – The AM Quickie 1/27/26
Organized labor is fighting back in Minnesota and everywhere and we are going to win. Corey returns tomorrow. - Whitney
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1/27: Sam and Emma are in the studio today and their guests are (for real this time) Dorothy Brown, tax professor at Georgetown Law and author of Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning With Our Past; and Avi Lewis, journalist, educator and activist running for the leadership of Canada’s federal New Democratic Party.
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Today you’ll read about the GOP members turning on Trump (allegedly), details about the so-called Board of Peace, and US imperialism bearing down on Iran.
THE BIG NEWS
Republicans Are Revolting
In a sign of just how unpopular Trump’s death squads are, a Republican frontrunner for governor of Minnesota quit the race, left the party, and called Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign in his state an “unmitigated disaster,” according to The Guardian and the Washington Post. Chris Madel, a Minneapolis-based attorney, said that he “cannot support the… stated retribution of the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.” He criticized the racism of stopping people “due to the color of their skin,” and said that, “at the end of the day, I have to look my daughters in the eye and tell them: ‘I believe I did what was right.’ And I am doing that today.” Big change for a guy who provided legal counsel to ICE agent Jonathan Ross after Ross executed legal observer Renee Good.
Other Republicans are starting to feel queasy about Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign, too, now that they see how many people are f*cking infuriated. If you add up all the reports, you'll see that immigration agents have murdered at least five people since September. Most recently was the execution of ICU nurse Alex Pretti last weekend. Jonathan Ross executed legal observer Renee Good with four shots to the face on January 7. But the killing spree started in September, when an agent executed Silverio Villegas González. Next, in December, agents killed two more: Isaias Sanchez Barboza in Texas on the 11th and Keith Porter in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.