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An announcement - check it out!

Jaye Pool's NaNoWriMo Page: NaNoWriMo page: https://nanowrimo.org/participants/jaye-p

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Christian novelist Allison K. Garcia joins Jaye for an engaging conversation about the book The Dry Depths of My Soul, the first installment in The Mosaic series. This is Allison's initial foray into the genre of Queer Christian fiction. This exciting, energetic discussion includes discussion of LGBTQ+ identity and Christianity, mental health, church clarity, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and much, much more.

Order The Dry Depths of My Soul:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951882180/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_3X6W5K3GGRVQ0QMBMZXK_0
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Learn more about & do NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org

More from Allison K. Garcia:
Publications: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-K-Garcia/e/B017OEJC44/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/allisonkgarciaauthor
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14602745.Allison_K_Garcia
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Learn more about & do NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes brief discussion of abuse and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

Author Mitchell Kesller joins Jaye for a meaningful conversation about his debut book, Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea. Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea seeks to bridge the gap between Christian faith and LGBTQ+ identity, making the case that there is much more to faith in Christ than what is often preached on Sunday mornings. This fascinating, in-depth discussion touches on the harm done to the LGBTQ+ community by the American church, apologetics, the politicization of conservative Christianity, separation of church and state, the search for a deeper understanding of God and the Bible, and more.

Order Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Broke-Bread-Spilled-Mitchell-Kesller/dp/B09TRN7FRW?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mitchellkesll-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=70bac9271ca75ad6c501cf2f4740d9fd&camp=1789&creative=9325
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/broke-the-bread-spilled-the-tea-mitchell-kesller/1141116088?ean=9798985785401

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of trauma, mental illness and sexual assault, including the sexual abuse of children. Listener discretion is advised.

Novelist Emily English Medley joins Jaye for a conversation about her debut book, From the Moon I Watched Her. From the Moon I Watched Her is an engaging, raw coming-of-age tale about skeletons lurking under church pews, and the little girl who finds them. This heartfelt and open conversation touches on themes such as mental illness, trauma, abuse of power within the American church, searching for authenticity, and more.

Order From The Moon I Watched Her:
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Also:
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LIMITED TIME Book Giveaway:

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Emily English Medley:
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CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of trauma, mental illness and sexual assault, including the sexual abuse of children. Listener discretion is advised.

LIMITED TIME Book Giveaway:

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In a public release of this bonus episode originally released on Patreon in November 2019, Jaye talks more urban legends by discussing a couple of processed food-related legends. Is McDonalds adding animal byproducts and other gross fillers to their hamburgers? Are popular meat substitutes such as Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger "indistinguishable" from dog food? Jaye also provides a bit of historical context for Americans' distrust of corporations involved in food processing, which often drives food-related urban legends.

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Source Links:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-eyes-of-texas/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/worm-meat-used-mcdonalds-hamburgers/
http://ushistoryscene.com/article/second-industrial-revolution/
https://interestingengineering.com/how-the-first-and-second-industrial-revolutions-changed-our-world
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/upton-sinclair-meat-industry
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/04/beyond-meat-impossible-foods-and-the-diet-truth-of-the-summer-burger.html
https://thetakeout.com/impossible-burger-grocery-sales-bestseller-1838775225
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/impossible-burgers-dogfood/
https://www.realagriculture.com/2019/07/dog-food-or-fake-meat-most-cant-tell-the-difference/
https://www.milkbusiness.com/article/can-going-vegan-save-planet

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Power Drive composed by Dan Mason
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Author and former evangelical pastor George Azar joins Jaye to discuss his new book, My Gay Church Days, his memoir about his life while in evangelical Christianity, where he eventually joined church leadership, while keeping secret his truth as a gay man. This real and candid conversation touches on themes such as belonging and the cost of acceptance, identity and intersectionality, purity culture, spiritual abuse, and more.

Order My Gay Church Days:
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In this episode of Potstirrer Podcast, Jaye reacts to the leaked draft US Supreme Court Opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Written by Justice Samuel Alito, the draft majority opinion signals an overturning of the Roe v. Wade precedent regarding abortion, and would leave abortion rights up to the states. Jaye argues that Alito's reasoning in Dobbs for overturning Roe is particularly alarming, as the way Roe was decided is similar to that of several other civil rights cases handed down by the Court over the past seventy years. Using historical analysis, Jaye makes the case that overturning Roe v. Wade was always meant to be a starting point in a right-wing quest to roll back a host of civil rights and liberties, and ultimately solidify authoritarian minority rule in the United States.

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Source Links:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education
https://www.npr.org/2003/06/11/1294680/wallace-in-the-schoolhouse-door
https://www.history.com/news/brown-v-board-of-education-the-first-step-in-the-desegregation-of-americas-schools
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/can-liberty-university-be-saved
Balmer, Randall. 2021. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
https://socialchangenyu.com/review/green-v-connally-segregated-private-schools-denied-charitable-exemption-deduction/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/agent-intolerance/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/330/1150/2126265/
https://theoutline.com/post/8536/catholic-history-abortion-brigid
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 2000 [1964]. Why Can’t We Wait. New York: Signet Classic.

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains content discussing explicit sexuality, sexual assault and harassment, violence, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. In this public release of a Patreon bonus episode originally released in November 2018, Jaye goes back in time to tell the story of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, and the scandals that led up to it. Clinton - and many of his supporters - believe that he was unfairly targeted by congressional Republicans for a consensual affair with a White House intern. But was that the case? And was Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky simply a "private" matter, an example of immorality unbecoming of the commander-in-chief, or perhaps something else?

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Citations:

H. Rept. 105-830 – Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. 105th Congress (1997-1998). https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/house-report/830/1

Isikoff, Michael, and Evan Thomas. 1998. “Clinton and the Intern.” Newsweek. February 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/nwcover012698.htm

Leen, Jeff. 1998. “Lewinsky: Two Coasts, Two Lives, Many Images.” The Washington Post. January 24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lewprofile.htm

Lewinsky, Monica. 2018. “Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from ‘The House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo.” Vanity Fair. March. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo

“Key Events Leading to the Impeachment Trial.” Los Angeles Times. January 31, 1999. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/31/news/ss-3537
“The Clinton Impeachment, a Basic Chronology.” The City University of New York. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/clintontimeline.htm

“Was Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky Affair an ‘Abuse of Power?’” October 15, 2018. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45865402

Zelizer, Julian. 2016. “Bill Clinton’s Nearly Forgotten 1992 Sex Scandal.” CNN. April 6. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/zelizer-presidential-election-campaign-scandals-bill-clinton/index.html

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Activist, artist and podcaster Andrew Pledger joins Jaye on this episode of Potstirrer Podcast to share his compelling story about growing up in Christian fundamentalism and his road to recovery from spiritual abuse. The conversation includes discussion of mental health, religious trauma and abuse, and the role of ultra conservative Christianity in inflicting and enabling trauma. How did a senior art project and an interview with former evangelical author Joshua Harris lead to Andrew's expulsion from conservative Bob Jones University? Speaking Up with Andrew Pledger:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZldnfgcpu4O1JYtNv9iL
Religious Trauma is Trauma (Fine Art Photo Series): https://www.instagram.com/4ndrewpledger/guide/religious-trauma-photo-series/17999363926411608/
Every Story Matters with Josh Harris - Interview with Andrew Pledger: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ca--9vFAxqs

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In this episode, Jaye focuses on a particular argument politicians and pundits make when countries reckon with past and present incidents of national shame, which is that other countries also have shameful incidents in their histories. Jaye discusses why - although the thought experiment is intriguing - the argument itself is deflection which silences the marginalized. She contends that confronting historical and current realities, no matter how difficult or contentious, have individual and collective benefit that are worth the discomfort.

"What country has the LEAST BAD history?" J.J. McCullough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFC_LfO5hQ&t=5s

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Source Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PA4PgG9-eI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKpZZCs-Y0k
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/18/more-than-half-of-white-evangelicals-say-americas-declining-white-population-is-a-negative-thing/
https://www.prri.org/research/american-democracy-in-crisis-voters-midterms-trump-election-2018/
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

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Christian fiction author Allison K. Garcia returns to Potstirrer Podcast to discuss the final installment of the Buscando Home series, Finding Paz. Allison and Jaye's heartfelt discussion includes some of the themes in the novel, such as grief, separation from family, and familial connection on the journey the characters take to find peace. In addition, the conversation went in-depth regarding Allison's pending transition from writing Latino Christian fiction to authoring queer Christian fiction, mirroring her own personal and creative growth.

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In Episode 100, Jaye celebrates the milestone by taking on the topic of cancel culture. Cancel culture is praised by advocates and maligned by critics, but is often ill-defined. Jaye delves into the origin and types of cancel culture, including the deplatforming of celebrities, boycotting of companies, and shaming of private individuals, as responses to statements, policies or behaviors deemed offensive or problematic. In addition, Jaye calls attention to cancel culture through the censorship of ideas, facts, and knowledge. Censorship in the US is on the rise, including state bans on the teaching of accurate history and civics under the guise of "critical race theory," and book bans in school districts targeting works that champion diversity and tell the stories of people from marginalized communities. What is the ultimate goal of pro-censorship advocates and how do their efforts endanger democracy?

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Source Links:
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/theyre-burning-books-in-tennessee/article_1f8c631e-850f-11ec-bc9f-dbd44d7e14d7.html
https://baptistnews.com/article/pastor-greg-locke-is-all-over-the-internet-spreading-conspiracies-heres-why-you-shouldnt-believe-him/#.Yg1YxN_MK5c
https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/education/spotsylvania-school-board-orders-libraries-to-remove-sexually-explicit-books/article_6c54507a-6383-534d-89b9-c2deb1f6ba17.html
https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/education/spotsylvania-sheriffs-office-responds-to-book-burning-event-promoted-on-facebook/article_da711b45-f423-5f7a-a882-03e9d966b4fe.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/spotsylvania-comes-its-senses-rescinds-order-banning-books-school-libraries/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/cancel-culture-background-black-culture-white-grievance/2021/04/01/2e42e4fe-8b24-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html
https://www.vox.com/culture/22916147/whoopi-goldberg-the-view-suspension-holocaust-race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/black-rb-artist-hoped-singing-trump-would-build-bridge-it-derailed-her-career-instead/
https://www.vibe.com/music/music-news/chrisette-michele-cancelled-over-trump-not-kanye-west-1234627378/
https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/blackshear_janise_m_200705_ma.pdf
https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-joe-rogan-kurtz-media-buzz
https://www.totalprosports.com/2022/01/22/social-media-responds-to-aaron-rodgers-saying-hes-being-silenced-tweets/
https://www.packers.com/news/packers-qb-aaron-rodgers-wins-fourth-nfl-mvp-award
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/20/18274228/ari-fleischer-iraq-lies-george-w-bush-wmds
https://theboot.com/natalie-maines-dixie-chicks-controversy/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-chick-fil-a-has-not-resumed-donations-groups-oppose-lgbtq-rights/3244765001/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/business/starbucks-arrests-racial-bias.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-summer-of-coupon-carl-permit-patty-and-the-videos-that-turn-cop-callers-into-mockable-memes
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/case-mistaken-identity-after-viral-video-leads-death-threats/KL4YS3UGKZH45NGQQPIMQQN7X4/
https://www.splcenter.org/20111006/anti-gay-lobby-family-research-council-american-family-association-demonization-lgbt-people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/23/the-cia-says-russia-hacked-the-u-s-election-here-are-6-things-to-learn-from-cold-war-attempts-to-change-regimes/
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/communist-membership-affects-eligibility-naturalized-us-citizenship.html
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/states-that-have-banned-critical-race-theory
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/whos-really-driving-critical-race-theory-legislation-an-investigation/2021/07
https://www.noleftturn.us/exposing-books/
https://bannedbooksweek.org/about/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-books-race-sexuality-schools-rcna13886
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/tennessee-school-board-bans-holocaust-comic-maus-by-art-spiegelman.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/10/maus-holocaust-striped-pajamas/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/10/book-bans-maus-bluest-eye/
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/school-board-book-bans-lgbtq-issues-race-are-hurting-not-n1283691?icid=msd_topgrid&cid=eml_mda_20211111&user_email=4462a23762e33b480fc2ae4be51bb1da7f287b05f82afc646a010066f9e72603
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/2/11/conservative-book-bans-are-part-of-gops-fascist-turn

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Christian ethicist, associate professor and author Maureen O'Connell, PhD joins Jaye on this episode of Potstirrer Podcast to discuss her new book, Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness, a in-depth, historical and introspective examination of Philadelphia's Irish Catholic community. This rich and thought-provoking discussion touches on assimilation and whiteness, the rejection of black Americans in the quest to gain social acceptance, historical resistance to racial integration by white Catholics and the role of the Catholic Church in facilitating these trends, and more. Order Undoing the Knots:
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https://bookshop.org/shop/unclebobbies (Search "Undoing the Knots"
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Also available at most national booksellers Read more from Maureen O'Connell, PhD:
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In the annual Potstirrer Podcast holiday special War on Christmas 2021, Jaye's husband Chuckles joins to discuss walking away from political conservatism and the Republican Party. Chuckles and Jaye discuss issues such as the Second Amendment, broken governance, and more.

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This multi-episode series is about efforts to suppress or limit the vote in certain communities across the United States in order to achieve specific outcomes. In Part 3, Jaye talks about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the voting rights timeline following the VRA being signed into law. Several methods of voter suppression, from gerrymandering to restrictive voter ID laws, criminal penalties for ballot collection, and more are discussed, as well as potential solutions. Jaye warns of the endgame for voter suppression - minority rule in the face of increased diversity in America.

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Source Material:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg81983/pdf/CHRG-113hhrg81983.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-116hhrg39930/pdf/CHRG-116hhrg39930.pdf
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=24487&fraud_type=All
http://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Politics_of_Voter_Fraud_Final.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/25/white-women-husbands-voting
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/19/voter-intimidation-republicans-democrats-midterm-elections
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/fcc-dangerously-wrong-let-foreign-companies-spend-u-s-elections-n1283685? icid=msd_botrecric https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2017/04/rebekah_mason_suggested_closur.html
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=100&page=transcript
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896786
https://www.history.com/news/african-american-voting-right-15th-amendment
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2747
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/remarks-president-lbj-presidential-library-civil-rights-summit
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/josh-holmes/facts-about-georgias-ban-food-water-giveaways-vote/
https://www.justice.gov/crt/jurisdictions-previously-covered-section-5
https://archive.ph/20200503150736/https://www.pewtrusts.org/de/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2018/09/04/polling-places-remain-a-target-ahead-of-november-elections#selection-1171.154-1187.1
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supreme-court-rules-ohios-controversial-system-purging-voters-legal
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/racial-turnout-gap-grew-jurisdictions-previously-covered-voting-rights
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1257_g204.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2019/09/12/setting-the-record-straight-on-black-voter-turnout/
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/28/970877930/why-republicans-are-moving-to-fix-elections-that-werent-broken
https://www.wtoc.com/2021/04/21/born-without-birth-certificate-lifelong-struggle-some-south/

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, including that of children. Listener discretion is advised.

This public release of a bonus episode originally released on Patreon in April 2019 includes extra bonus segments from Jaye's conversation with her brother Ervin that were not included in Episode 49. This episode includes further reaction to the documentary "Surviving R. Kelly," why R. Kelly calls himself the "Pied Piper of R&B," allegations against Michael Jackson of child molestation that were made in the documentary "Leaving Neverland," and deeper discussion of manga and Ervin's manga-styled comic "Gods of Life."

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/us/r-kelly-verdict/index.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-r-kelly-chicago-federal-charges-trial-date-20211020-d3zbs2to7faxjlbx4i6hdtvecu-story.html
https://abc7chicago.com/r-kelly-sentence-news-today-chicago/11147016/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/after-new-york-conviction-r-kelly-still-faces-charges-in-chicago/2623687/

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In this episode, Jaye discusses "The Great Resignation," the abnormally high number of American workers voluntarily walking away from work, which has been a constant trend since April 2021. Why are so many workers leaving their jobs or even careers? Jaye dispels the myth of the "lazy unemployed who don't want to work," and points out what most "quitters" are actually doing once they resign. In addition, Jaye talks about vaccine mandates instituted by the public and private sector, and reveals what is truly to blame for the difficult choice many vaccine hesitant people face between taking "the jab" or losing their source of income.

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Source Links:
https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/great-resignation-accelerating/620382/
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/19/1047032996/why-are-so-many-americans-quitting-their-jobs
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
https://www.businessinsider.com/record-number-workers-quit-fourth-month-labor-shortage-delta-economy-2021-9
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/31/federal-unemployment-benefits-end-in-a-week-states-wont-extend-them.html
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/453/unemployment/definition-of-full-employment/
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/estimates-of-americans-with-long-covid-19-per-state.html
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/federal-vaccine-mandate.aspx
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/employers-confused-about-covid-19-vaccine-rules.aspx
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/09/09/executive-order-on-requiring-coronavirus-disease-2019-vaccination-for-federal-employees/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-business/chapter/the-history-of-unions/

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Jaye announces a move to a Thursday fortnightly schedule, and introduces Potstirrer Scoops! - a shorter, commentary-based format that will be used for some episodes going forward.

In the first episode of Potstirrer Scoops!, Jaye discusses the recent arrest of two Columbus, Ohio police officers on federal drug charges. Topics covered include the drug war, the opioid epidemic, medical racism, and police corruption.

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https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/why-fentanyl-is-deadlier-than-heroin/
https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/fentanyl.html
https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(14)00905-5/pdf
https://odh.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/odh/know-our-programs/violence-injury-prevention-program/drug-overdose/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/columbus-police-officers-charged-crimes-related-distributing-least-7-kilograms-fentan-0
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/09/30/what-we-know-columbus-ohio-police-john-kotchkoski-marco-merino/5921633001/
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/09/30/officers-merino-and-kotchkoski-among-least-12-columbus-cops-pd-officer-charged-drug-trafficking-scan/5927733001/
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2020/10/01/columbus-police-officer-facing-child-pornography-charges/5884214002/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2784104
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/01/03/bias-opioid-prescribing-black-americans
https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/21/black-patients-prescribed-fewer-opioids-white-patients/

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of pregnancy termination, sexual assault, gun violence and domestic terrorism. Listener discretion is advised.

Jaye gives her thoughts on the recently-implemented Texas law restricting abortion past six weeks gestation. The discussion includes maternal mortality, adoption, surveillance culture and more. How is the assault by Texas and other states on abortion rights related to the recent attacks on "critical race theory" and efforts to suppress the vote?

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Source Links:
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/09/02/supreme-court-upholds-texas-abortion-ban/?sh=52039723456d
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/health/texas-abortion-law-facts.html
https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2019/09/us-abortion-rate-continues-drop-once-again-state-abortion-restrictions-are-not-main
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/24/abortion-laws-jewish-faith-teaches-life-does-not-start-conception/1808776001/
https://www.ncjw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Judaism-and-Abortion-FINAL.pdf
https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6939-15-10
https://yaqeeninstitute.ca/read/paper/islam-and-the-abortion-debate
https://www.verywellfamily.com/gestational-age-2371620
https://www.verywellfamily.com/2-weeks-pregnant-4158819
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21113782/pregnancy-deaths-us-maternal-mortality-rate
https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-ranks-worst-in-maternal-care-mortality-compared-with-10-other-developed-nations
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries
https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/adoption-process/what-if-my-adoption-fails/#:~:text=Statistics%20indicate%20that%20about%2010,are%20not%20equipped%20to%20support
https://www.vice.com/en/article/935me3/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/berlin-wall-built
https://www.cvce.eu/en/education/unit-content/-/unit/55c09dcc-a9f2-45e9-b240-eaef64452cae/5d3b421b-9a4b-46fc-a041-fab64325d6a6
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-berlin-wall-and-how-did-it-fall
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/koehler-stasi.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/enemies-everywhere-photos-show-absurdity-life-under-stasi-east-germany
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/lingering-trauma-east-german-police-state/601669/
https://www.dw.com/en/german-reunification-what-still-divides-east-and-west/a-55078166
https://www.axios.com/when-american-minorities-become-the-majority-d8b3ee00-e4f3-4993-8481-93a290fdb057.html
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/17/texas-dan-patrick-immigrants-democrats-haitians/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/del-rio-bridge-great-replacement-haitian-migrants/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/17/dan-patrick-great-replacement-theory/
https://ultimatemarriage.com/episodes/how-many-children-should-christians-have-a-biblical-perspective/
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/april/pew-muslim-christian-birth-rates-2035-2060-demographics.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/13/arizona-quality-votes-kavanagh/
https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/08/18/dominionism-rising-a-theocratic-movement-hiding-in-plain-sight
https://religionandpolitics.org/2021/05/12/the-eugenics-roots-of-evangelical-family-values/

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Theology professor, author, and African Methodist Episcopal elder Obery M. Hendricks Jr., Ph.D. joins Jaye on this episode of Potstirrer Podcast to discuss his historically rich and theologically informative book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith. This enriching conversation includes discussion of the racially conservative roots of right-wing evangelicalism and its effects on Black Americans, the ways in which right-wing evangelical Christians have compromised their own stated aims for the sake of political power, social justice versus "biblical" justice, and more.

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This multi-episode series is about efforts to suppress or limit the vote in certain communities across the United States in order to achieve specific outcomes. In Part 2, Jaye discusses the history of voting rights in the United States based on sex from the founding until the immediate aftermath of the 19th Amendment, which prohibited the government from restricting women from the ballot box. The woman suffrage movement in the United States, as the defining issue in first wave feminism, was that of both diversity and internal conflict. Jaye discusses the intersection of sex, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic class in the direction of the woman suffrage movement, and how events at the time led to the movement intentionally sidelining Black women in its quest for the franchise.

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Source Material:
https://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings/pdf/0014160126A.pdf
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=63
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2019/08/15/rightfully-hers-woman-suffrage-before-the-19th-amendment/
https://time.com/5879346/19th-amendment-facts-myths/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/13/white-christians-continue-to-favor-trump-over-biden-but-support-has-slipped/
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/08/932263516/2020-faith-vote-reflects-2016-patterns
https://jessesumpter.com/2020/10/30/husband-make-sure-your-wife-votes-exactly-like-you/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/19/voter-intimidation-republicans-democrats-midterm-elections
https://fortune.com/2021/01/19/2020-election-white-women-voters-biden-harris-trump-progressive/
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/on-this-day-in-1924-all-indians-made-united-states-citizens
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=26
https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Immigration_Act_of_1952/#Overview_of_the_1952_Act
https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/collections/women_law/
https://amazingwomeninhistory.com/doctrine-of-separate-spheres/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/americanlit1/chapter/reading-womens-sphere-and-the-emergence-of-the-womens-rights-movement/
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/14-15-amendments
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/quakers-abolitionism-womens-rights/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/opinion/sunday/women-voting-19th-amendment-white-supremacy.html
https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/183/Quakers-and-the-American-Womens-Suffrage-Movement
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/nawsa-united
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/awsa-organize
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/nwsa-organize
https://www.britannica.com/topic/History-of-Woman-Suffrage
https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/ida-h-harper/
https://www.gram.edu/offices/sponsoredprog/humangeo/docs/beltonMary%20Church%20Terrell-Roshunda%20Belton-9-22-14.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Eliza-Church-Terrell
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/terrell-mary-church-1863-1954/
https://women.ca.gov/women-of-color-and-the-fight-for-womens-suffrage/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1866-frances-ellen-watkins-harper-we-are-all-bound-together/
https://www.nps.gov/articles/utah-women-s-history.htm
http://images.flatworldknowledge.com/trowbridge2_1.0/trowbridge2_1.0-fig05_031.jpg
https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/ahead-of-the-curve/introduction/
https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-women-could-vote-before-1920/
https://www.bunkhistory.org/exhibits/15/1/3781

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In this public release of a bonus episode originally released on Patreon in December 2019, Jaye discusses the life of Dr. Timothy Leary, the "Godfather of LSD." How did someone so apolitical (in the height of an extremely political era!) make political enemies, and what made President Richard Nixon call him "the most dangerous man in America?"

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Source Links:
https://www.history.com/topics/crime/history-of-lsd
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-know-about-cias-midcentury-mind-control-project-180962836/
https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/timothy-leary
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/26/acid-redux
https://www.biography.com/scientist/timothy-leary
https://web.archive.org/web/20120509165407/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/review/25sante.html?pagewanted=all
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/575392333/nixons-manhunt-for-the-high-priest-of-lsd-in-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/president-richard-nixon-and-lsd-guru-timothy-leary-crazy-in-their-own-ways/2018/01/12/76220fa4-ebf2-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/12/leary-gets-30-years-on-marijuana/
https://weburbanist.com/2010/10/24/legend-of-a-mind-a-psychedelic-celebration-of-timothy-leary/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180217141920/https://boingboing.net/2017/08/30/interview-with-timothy-leary-a.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20180216204642/ http://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/19/archives/leary-scored-as-cop-informant-by-his-son-and-2-close-friends.html

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Activist, former pastor, and professor emeritus Drick Boyd, Ed.D. joins Jaye on this episode of Potstirrer Podcast to discuss his thought-provoking book Disrupting Whiteness: Talking With White People About Racism. This riveting conversation includes themes that are a part of Dr. Boyd's book, teaching and activism, such as understanding one's "race story," how to overcome the reticence of some white Americans to engage with and discuss race, "white saviors," anti-racism, solutions that engage and transform the culture, and more.

Order Disrupting Whiteness: https://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Whiteness-Talking-People-Racism/dp/1938798384

Read more from Drick Boyd, Ed.D.:
Blog: https://drickboyd.org/blog/
Other Publications: https://drickboyd.org/publications

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NewCORE Philadelphia: https://newcorephilly.org/
Restorative Cities Initiative (more information): https://www.philadelphiareentrycoalition.org/single-post/mccp-philly-hosting-free-three-part-training-on-restorative-practices

Source cited:
Dupree, Cydney H, and Susan Fiske. 2018. “Self-presentation in Interracial Settings: The Competence Downshift by White Liberals”. psyarxiv.com/pv2ab.

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes brief discussion of physical violence and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

This multi-episode series is about efforts to suppress or limit the vote in certain communities across the United States in order to achieve specific outcomes. In Part 1, Jaye discusses the history of the vote in the United States as it pertains to race and ethnicity from the founding through the Jim Crow segregation period. She argues that there has always been tension between the democratic impulse to expand the electorate, and the anti-democratic desire to limit the electorate to more powerful, privileged groups. Nothing is new under the sun.

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Source Material:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/14-gop-controlled-states-have-passed-laws-to-impede-free-elections/
https://a.s.kqed.net/pdf/education/digitalmedia/us-voting-rights-timeline.pdf
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/18/juneteenth-slavery-freedom-delayed-celebration/7713722002/
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/black-leaders-during-reconstruction
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=963036
https://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm
https://connecticuthistory.org/literacy-tests-and-the-right-to-vote/
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xv
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_smith.html
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbaapc.33200/?st=gallery
https://www.britannica.com/topic/grandfather-clause

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of homophobia and mental illness. Listener discretion is advised.

In this public release of a bonus episode originally released on Patreon in August 2019, Jaye discusses the divorce announcement of Joshua Harris, the author of Christian self-help book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, and his wife, singer Shannon Bonne, and their apparent ongoing deconstruction from evangelical Christianity. Are people who hold harmful beliefs capable of change? Jaye acknowledges her own deconstruction from toxic theology, and reflects on two people who influenced her life journey and departure from evangelical Christianity. These two people, who both passed away in the summer of 2019, were instrumental in setting her on the road to becoming a better human in both heart and mind.

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The Atlanta spa shootings on March 16, 2021 were one of many large-scale shooting incidents that occurred after a lull in mass gun violence due to the pandemic. But this spree shooting stuck out due to the various issues the tragedy touched on, including gun control and the Second Amendment, stereotyping and discrimination against Asian people, racialized misogyny, policing biases, and toxic teachings within evangelical Christianity. Jaye discusses each of these issues in light of this incident, centering the victims and making the case for an intersectional approach to such horrifying events.

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Source Links:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/he-shot-everyone-he-saw-atlanta-spa-workers-recount-horrors-n1262928
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-deadly-atlanta-area-spa-shootings-says-he-was-motivated-n1261299
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/racism-sexism-must-be-considered-atlanta-case-involving-killing-six-n1261347?icid=related
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/soon-chung-park-worked-long-days-single-mom-bring-5-kids-korea-us-rcna514
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/16/us-police-officers-public-officials-crowdfunding-website-data-breach
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/18/atlanta-shootings-victim-delaina-ashley-yaun
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/yong-ae-yue-atlanta-spa-shootings
https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history
https://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/
https://time.com/5948259/atlanta-shooting-victims/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/03/17/atlanta-shooting-southern-baptist-pastors-wrestle/
https://religiondispatches.org/dont-discount-evangelicalism-as-a-factor-in-racist-murder-of-asian-spa-workers-in-georgia/
https://cstroop.com/2018/12/11/ex-evangelical-conversations-professor-of-psychology-joshua-grubbs-featuring-advice-for-exvies-seeking-therapists/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/17/georgia-shootings-eight-people-killed-attacks-spas-atlanta/
https://www.chosun.com/international/us/2021/03/17/XSDXYLMAQZCC5JWMQ4HGRZGOG4/
https://www.kxan.com/news/atlanta-shootings-put-spotlight-on-surging-anti-asian-sentiment-in-america/
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/anti-asian-hate-crimes-violence-us-history
https://newlife.com/emb/bounce-your-eyes/
https://newsone.com/4114669/atlanta-spa-shooting-survivor-speaks-out/
https://www.vox.com/22338807/asian-fetish-racism-atlanta-shooting
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/03/22/objectifying-asian-women-racism
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/03/29/experts-say-atlanta-shooting-reflects-the-fetishization-of-asian-women/
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/03/21/paul-michels-georgia-spa-shootings/4792531001/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/atlanta-shooting-victims-family-grieves-afar-strangers-organize/story?id=76883538
https://www.wsj.com/articles/last-spa-shooting-funeral-planned-by-chinese-american-community-11617537601
https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-officials-release-names-of-4-women-killed-in-atlanta-spa-shootings/UJR22SSUQZE2JHB7EFWRT6DUZI/
https://people.com/crime/son-of-atlanta-shooting-victim-hyun-jung-grant-recalls-their-last-moment-together/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/atlanta-massage-parlor-shooting-victim-sun-cha-kim-remembered-as-a-fighter
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/us/atlanta-shooting-victims.html
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/violentcrime/n255.xml
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1164&context=tma
https://animemotivation.com/anime-fetishization-weebs-japan/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpymm/the-alleged-atlanta-shooters-church-tried-to-disappear-from-the-internet
https://www.crabapplefbc.org/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/two-georgia-churches-grapple-with-the-shootings-in-atlanta

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of physical violence, physical suffering and death. Listener discretion is advised.

In this public release of a Patreon bonus episode originally released in July 2019, Jaye discusses graphic images of suffering and oppression. Should these be protected by content warnings? The episode dives into the history of violent images and how unaltered visuals moved many Americans to act politically. She also explores the downsides of consuming violent imagery, particularly on mental health, and why content warnings are used to alert audiences to graphic content.

Source Links:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/ken-cuccinelli-drowned-father-daughter-fault/index.html

http://fortune.com/longform/media-company-ownership-consolidation/

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/emmett-till

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/emmett-tills-casket-goes-to-the-smithsonian-144696940/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/baby-boomers-sociopaths-post-war-generation-bruce-gibney-betrayed-america-us-venture-capitalist-a7645476.html

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmi10/television.html

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320142.php

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201902/the-difference-between-sociopath-versus-psychopath

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/guide-to-triggering/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Vietnam-War-and-the-media-2051426

https://www.rewire.org/pbs/vietnam-war-media-shapes-public-opinion/

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/democracyondeadline/mediaownership.html

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It is the middle of President Joe Biden's first 100 days in office, and his administration has been hard at work attempting to end the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, as well as other policy priorities. But actions on immigration-related policy, as it relates to a shift in direction from Donald Trump, have been more modest. Jaye discusses Biden's ending of the Muslim Travel Ban and the lifting of restrictions for allowing unaccompanied minors into the US, among other immigration policies. Has Biden gone far enough to reverse Trump-era immigration policies, or is his centrism getting in the way of doing more?

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Source Links:
https://lawandcrime.com/immigration/bidens-new-ice-guidance-completely-backtracks-from-100-day-deportation-moratorium-promise-expands-enforcement-priorities/
https://lawandcrime.com/immigration/aclu-says-biden-cemented-trumps-legacy-of-harm-by-refusing-to-undo-damage-caused-by-muslim-ban/?utm_source=mostpopular
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article244244402.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an9mb/biden-homestead-migrant-children-detention-center-superfund
https://www.afsc.org/sites/default/files/documents/AFSC%27s%20Report%20on%20Health%20at%20Risk%20at%20Homestead%20Detention%20Center.pdf
https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/5-things-to-know-about-muslim-ban
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/
https://www.state.gov/the-departments-45-day-review-following-the-revocation-of-proclamations-9645-and-9983/
https://ijrcenter.org/refugee-law/
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/507/292/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/22/22295451/mpp-remain-in-mexico-asylum-biden
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22299135/biden-kids-cages-migrant-children-carrizo-homestead
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/968989967/democrats-unveil-sweeping-immigration-bill
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969083367/biden-tells-ice-to-chill-new-rules-limit-who-immigration-agents-target-for-arres
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ice-deportations-immigration-arrests/2021/03/09/af27b164-80fa-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-biden-lawsuit-ice-deportations/2021/01/22/4548eec2-5cea-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html
https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5138&context=mulr
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/543190-democrats-calling-for-biden-administration-to-bar-ice-from-contracting-with
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-prisons-coronavirus-pandemic-c8c246f00695f37ef2afb1dd3a5f115e
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-border-patrols-texas-9b959d739d59f03dd5873927171f2e29
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/16/el-paso-migrant-children-shelters-capacity-biden-immigration
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-bill-including-1-n1259795

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In this public release of a Patreon bonus episode originally released in January 2020, Jaye tells the story of the 1969 University of Wyoming Cowboys football team. Fourteen African-American players on the team were dismissed by their head coach in the middle of the 1969 season for asking permission to protest. How is the Black 14 incident, and the aftermath, instructive for understanding social protest by athletes today?

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Sources:

Henderson, Simon. 2013. Sidelined: How American Sports Challenged the Black Freedom Struggle. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2019/12/02/lions-list-of-10-quarterbacks-in-2019/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fifty-years-after-the-black-14-were-banished-wyoming-football-reckons-with-the-past/2019/11/30/fb7e9286-e93d-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html?utm_campaign=post_most&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1#comments-wrapper
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/22566174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yI5s_XolVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8tmNtGvnyI
https://theundefeated.com/videos/before-kaepernick-there-was-the-black-14/
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/13/who-were-wyoming-cowboys-black-14/
https://www.denverpost.com/2009/11/07/spirit-of-the-black-14/
http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/research/topics/black14.html
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/black-14-race-politics-religion-and-wyoming-football
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/12/02/after-50-years-wyoming-makes-amends-%E2%80%98black-14%E2%80%99
http://www.blacklds.org/history
https://www.sltrib.com/sports/byu-cougars/2019/10/10/jaren-hall-will-make/
http://cougarstats.com/players.php?year=0&id=1259

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How could seemingly normal Americans end up becoming right-wing extremists? Jaye discusses the role of extremist Christianity as a gateway to radical right-wing movements. Does the fact that Christianity is the dominant religion in the United States blind us to the possibility of family, friends and others we associate with becoming radicalized?

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Featured Articles:

Chrissy Stroop article (Religion Dispatches): https://religiondispatches.org/where-were-they-radicalized-no-answer-is-complete-without-addressing-evangelical-churches-and-schooling/
Rebecca Klein article (Huffington Post): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-textbooks-trump-capitol-riot_n_6000bce3c5b62c0057bb711f

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https://www.vox.com/2021/1/11/22225531/joe-biden-trump-capitol-inauguration
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll
https://morningconsult.com/form/tracking-voter-trust-in-elections/
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/philip-gorski-white-christian-nationalism/13055050
https://www.christianpost.com/voice/huffpost-blaming-christian-curriculum-for-riots-is-slanderous.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cW8bHtJJKU

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The year 2021 has begun in the United States with a tragic attack on democracy. On January 6, pro-Trump rioters who were taking part in a protest stormed the US Capitol Building in Washington DC, during a joint session of Congress held to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Capitol attack, incited by the rhetoric of Donald Trump and other Republican politicians, led to the deaths of five people, including a Capitol police officer who was murdered by rioters. It has led to many questions about possible Trumpist infiltration of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, racial and political bias in how we view the act of protest, the health of American democracy, and many more.

Ervin Johnson II, cofounder of Shining Otaku Comics, joins Jaye to discuss the Capitol Riots and the surrounding issues, as well as what happens next - both to Donald Trump and to America. This informal conversation also includes some levity - as sometimes we need to laugh to keep from crying.

*Correction: Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are the first Black and Jewish US senator respectively representing the State of Georgia.

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In the fourth annual Potstirrer Podcast War on Christmas Special, Jaye reflects on the strange, horrifying year that was 2020. Would a decently better response to the pandemic have netted Donald Trump a second term? And does incoming president Joe Biden have the fight in him to take on the groups who are seeking to end democracy in the United States?

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Source Links:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-naacp-kkk-act-lawsuit-black-voters-b1777750.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-virtually-nobody.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/16/trump-appointee-demanded-herd-immunity-strategy-446408
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-federal-govt-fema-accused-taking-states-masks-ventilator-orders-2020-4
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215578/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-cory-gardner-colorado-jared-polis-patronage
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-29/california-broken-ventilators-silicon-valley-newsom
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000176-6c7e-d0c3-ab77-7dff0c950001
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000176-6c8b-df56-a3f6-7dbb86720000
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-liberate-michigan-tweet-plot-kidnap-gretchen-whitmer-governor-1537719
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53715084
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/17/trump-tweets-liberate-michigan-other-states-democratic-governors/5152037002/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/how-shake-shack-potbelly-and-ruths-chris-got-small-business-loans.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/business/ruth-chris-jpmorgan-small-business-ppp/index.html

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In this flashback bonus episode - originally a two-parter first released in May and June of 2019, Jaye shares her Top Five Terrible Humans List. These are influential Americans, dead or alive, who made a negative contribution to their sphere of influence during their lifetime. In this episode, Jaye discusses her purely, 100 percent subjective criteria, dishonorable mentions, and the full list of Terrible Humans. Neither Donald Trump nor Mike Pence can be found on the list, because that's way too easy. But listen in to see who does make the list!

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Source Links:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/10/reading-my-grandfather-s-son-by-clarence-thomas.html
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/10/31/donors-adds-one-hundred-thousand-dollars-reward-tamara-strawberry-greene-death/1830285002/
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-03-28/the-controversial-race-research-devos-used-to-revoke-school-discipline-guidance
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/betsy-devos/story?id=43745520
https://publicintegrity.org/2005/05/26/5838/organizational-donors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/08/a-sobering-look-at-what-betsy-devos-did-to-education-in-michigan-and-what-she-might-do-as-secretary-of-education/?utm_term=.ebc5faadca14
https://www.mlive.com/news/2018/05/michigan_schools_on_a_race_to.html
https://www.christiancentury.org/blog-post/liberty-university-your-roots-are-showing
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5502785
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1953700
https://www.thenation.com/article/agent-intolerance/
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/education/2017/02/16/bju-regains-nonprofit-status-17-years-after-dropped-discriminatory-policy/98009170/
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2018/05/26/coleman-young-myths/638105002/
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2016/09/20/patterson-sue-syria-refugee/90753592/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/27/drop-dead-detroit
https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html
https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/12/01/a-disturbing-new-glimpse-at-the-reagan-administrations-indifference-to-aids/?utm_term=.bd885a87f9bb
https://hornet.com/stories/ronald-reagan-hiv/
http://www.factlv.org/timeline.htm
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/insite?page=kb-01-03

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The 2020 US general election has taken place, and after days of counting in several swing states, former Vice-President Joe Biden has won the election decisively over Donald Trump. However, the expected gains for Democrats in Congress - the "blue wave" - were not realized. Why did this result occur? Jaye details what she believes is the real reason why centrist Democrats are blaming progressives and black activists for the unmet expectations in Congress.

Meanwhile, Trump has yet to concede the presidential election to Biden, and has pushed the courts and state legislatures to set aside the election results in favor of gifting him a second term, citing "fraud" that has yet to be proven in a court of law. Are Trump's efforts a sign of a soft coup, or a grift? And should Americans be concerned about democracy, even as it appears Trump is failing in his efforts?

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Source Material:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/06/memo-centrist-democrats-stop-blaming-progressives-house-losses/
Cohen, Andrew. 2014. Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History. 2014. McClelland & Stewart.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/report-to-the-american-people-on-civil-rights-11-june-1963
https://ballotpedia.org/California%27s_45th_Congressional_District
https://www.justice.gov/crt/title-ii-civil-rights-act-public-accommodations
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/title-vii-because-of-sex-howard-smith-history.html
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture/civil-rights-filibuster-ended.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/remarks-president-lbj-presidential-library-civil-rights-summit
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/chair-of-wayne-county-board-of-canvassers-states-her-case-why-she-didnt-certify-election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/19/wayne-county-rescind-certifying-election/
https://photos.metrotimes.com/the-best-twitter-reactions-to-grosse-pointe-antifa/?slide=1&grosse-pointe-antifa-twitter1
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/18/no-detroit-did-not-report-more-votes-than-people/?sh=408ddcd61baa
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/11/21/suit-stop-trump-campaign-pressuring-michigan-elections-officials/6379517002/
https://detroitmi.gov/webapp/election-results
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fundraising-insigh/donations-under-8k-to-trump-election-defense-instead-go-to-president-rnc-idUSKBN27R309
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/frum-trumpocracy/550685/

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The 2020 US general election is coming up, and it's time to get ready! Jaye discusses political polling - including why the 2016 presidential poll predictions were not as much of a failure as it has been reported in the press. Will 2020 be a repeat of 2016? Also, Jaye discusses the current landscape and provides guidance in case of a Donald Trump victory or should Joe Biden win the election.

Election Protection Hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)
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Election Night Livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QqpYfH_sh0E

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Source Material:
https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/national/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/reliability-vs-validity/#:~:text=Reliability%20is%20about%20the%20consistency,results%2C%20especially%20in%20quantitative%20research.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/cnbc-all-america-economic-survey-biden-still-holds-a-big-lead-over-trump-but-race-could-tighten.html
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~deturck/m170/wk4/lecture/case1.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2749114
https://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/Reports/An-Evaluation-of-2016-Election-Polls-in-the-U-S.aspx
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/522016-trafalgar-chief-pollster-predicts-trump-victory-polls-predominantly-missing
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-invisible-undecided-voter/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/18/donald-trumps-toughest-hurdle-2020-election-win-few-undecideds/3654305001/
https://doi.org/10.1515/spp-2016-0005
https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2017/03/31/are-telephone-polls-understating-support-for-trump/
https://www.wpr.org/polls-missed-mark-2016-experts-say-things-are-different-2020

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In the runup to the 2020 US general election, many events have occurred on local, state and federal levels that point to an authoritarian slide for the United States. Jaye discusses some of these events, including the presidential and vice-presidential debates, the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Kentucky grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case, Donald Trump's ban of "critical race theory" in public schools, and the rushed efforts to confirm staunch conservative Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court in advance of the election. Focusing on the example set by the Christian Right, Jaye makes the case for progressives voting for Joe Biden in this election, and warns that on this year's ballot is the fate of this democratic republic.

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Source Material:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/feds-thwart-militia-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer/5922301002/
https://6abc.com/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-governor-wolverine-watchmen-gov/6867073/
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/wolverine-watchmen-militia-linked-whitmer-kidnap-plot-has-boogaloo-ties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/04/18/trump-calls-californias-sanctuary-laws-a-ridiculous-crime-infested-breeding-concept/
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/518031-trumps-good-genes-speech-echoes-racial-eugenics
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/07/kentucky-ag-seeks-to-ban-breonna-taylor-jurors-from-speaking-publicly/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/520209-kentucky-attorney-general-asks-court-to-block-grand-juror-from
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/22/915843471/trump-expands-ban-on-racial-sensitivity-training-to-federal-contractors
https://www.history.com/news/mendez-school-segregation-mexican-american
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/25/us/high-court-bans-tax-exemptions-for-schools-with-racial-barriers-excerpts.html
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2708&context=wmlr
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburg-rbg-dying-wish.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54312699
https://peopleofpraise.org/about/faq/
https://marriageinchrist.com/faq/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/people-of-praise-amy-coney-barrett-website
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/us/politics/biden-covid-test-trump.html

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Christian fiction author Allison K. Garcia returns to Potstirrer Podcast to share with us about her upcoming novel, Finding Seguridad, the second in the Buscando Home series. The conversation includes discussion of themes in the book, as well as a range of topics, including the experiences of Latino immigrants and other marginalized groups in the current political and social environment, domestic violence, deconstruction and reconstruction of Christian faith, coming out as LGBTQ+ as a Christian, Black Lives Matter, and more.

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of violent themes, specifically war and genocide. Listener discretion is advised.

This multi-episode series is about the history of relations between the United States and the Middle East, including both US foreign policy and the Middle Eastern immigrant experience. In this episode, Jaye discusses the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, including World War I and the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which set into motion the partition of the Middle East after the war. How is the decline of the Ottoman Empire a cautionary tale of the dangers of nationalism? Also, how did Sykes-Picot affect relations between the Middle East and the West for decades to come?

Middle East under Ottoman control:

Sykes-Picot Agreement:

Middle East Partition (Conference of San Remo):

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSphs_YpAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFEPASueKdQ
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/575e498fbfea463a9aa5247182f5345f
https://www.history.com/news/ottoman-empire-fall
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-conclude-sykes-picot-agreement
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.7591/j.ctt1w0d9w9.9.pdf?ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ae8a8233a79ddc4ffe76c26dc90a03fcd
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enver-Pasa
https://www.britannica.com/event/Sykes-Picot-Agreement
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire/Dissolution-of-the-empire
https://www.britannica.com/event/Conference-of-San-Remo
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html
https://www.thenational.ae/world/lebanon-s-dark-days-of-hunger-the-great-famine-of-1915-18-1.70379
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16352745
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-turkey-destroyed-its-christians-11558109896
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP5.HTM
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231537076_Cultural_Homogenization_Ethnic_Cleansing_and_Genocide
https://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-curse-of-sykes-picot-still-haunts-the-middle-east
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/how-the-first-world-war-shaped-the-borders-of-the-middle-east-1.785667#1

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode involves discussion of crime, police brutality and bigotry, including physical violence, murder, and racism. Listener discretion is advised.

In this commentary episode, Jaye shares her reaction to the events during the week of the 2020 Republican National Convention, including the shooting of Jacob Blake Jr. by police, and the shooting at the resulting Kenosha, WI protests, allegedly perpetrated by Kyle Rittenhouse. How did the police approach each of these incidents, and what do the differences say about the nature of police brutality and the police state in America? Jaye makes the case that the way the police, the Republican Party, and many right-wing voices discuss the terrorist attack committed at the Kenosha protests should give every American, regardless of race or ideology, pause.

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Source Material:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-kenosha-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse-20200826-xdww3peuj5ddbimcj4vikx63y4-story.html
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/26/kenosha-shooting-video-shows-suspected-gunman-kyle-rittenhouse-being-allowed-to-leave-scene/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53927756
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/kenosha-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse-trump-rally?fbclid=IwAR0bIVKrceKrnNpelastU-z7fg_1MkTJQanYWUyfLn8Pn8Z91X9u820jcP8
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/pence-dhs-officer-death-rnc-speech?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-kenosha-victims-identified-as-anthony-huber-joseph-rosenbaum-20200827-zvrsv7fpqfftlmjyrtjrmg5wwa-story.html
https://www.insider.com/kenosha-chief-protesters-wouldnt-be-shot-obeyed-curfew-2020-8?fbclid=IwAR0R4LVoiG_k97xIRYyCjh99ocEH6PUzP283vKl_Xw4nvpM8f0te-q58FPs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/27/led-by-chris-webber-kenny-smith-inside-nba-went-pregame-show-protest-real-time/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2020/08/26/naomi-osaka-not-playing-western-southern-open-semifinals/5640537002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/26/kenosha-protests-jacob-blake-what-we-know/3441684001/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/teenager-kyle-rittenhouse-arrested-charged-kenosha-shootings-200826180242065.html
https://apnews.com/0cbc14762c89304f9f052fd33a1f4445
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jacob-blake-paralyzed-shooting-kenosha-wisconsin-police/
https://sports.yahoo.com/just-listen-trey-flowers-message-unites-lions-as-players-fight-to-keep-control-of-their-social-justice-voice-225654972.html
https://sports.yahoo.com/naomi-osaka-walkout-boycott-western-southern-open-jacob-blake-shooting-semifinal-014908552.html

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of physical and sexual abuse, including the abuse of children. Listener discretion is advised.

In this flashback bonus episode first released as a Patreon bonus episode in August 2018 originally entitled "Abuse: Endorsed by Scripture?," Jaye discusses the use of Romans 13:1-5, a passage in the Bible invoked by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the White House Press Secretary at the time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to justify the separation and detainment of families seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. What does this Bible passage really mean - in a historical and contemporary context - if Sessions and Sanders are correct? Jaye outlines the danger of using religious passages to justify oppressive government actions. This episode also includes fresh new commentary that frames this episode in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.

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Citations:

"Christian Persecution." Open Doors USA. https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/

Honarvar, Ari. 2018. "A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center." The Nation. July 27. https://www.thenation.com/article/six-year-old-girl-sexually-abused-immigrant-detention-center/

McCammon, Sarah. 2018. "Who is Andrew Brunson, the Pastor Prompting Sanctions Threats Against Turkey?" National Public Radio. July 26. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/26/632700877/who-is-andrew-brunson-the-pastor-prompting-sanctions-threats-against-turkey

Stiller, Brian. 2018. "Faith in Russia: What Does it Mean?" Christianity Today. March 17. https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2018/march/faith-in-russia-what-does-it-mean.html

"US Pastor Brunson Goes on Trial in Turkey After Arrest in Coup Crackdown." 2018. The British Broadcasting Corporation. April 16. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43781891

Additional Reading:

Bonner, Raymond. 2018. "America's Role in El Salvador's Deterioration." The Atlantic. Jan 20. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/trump-and-el-salvador/550955/

"How US Policy in Honduras Set the Stage for Today's Mass Migration." 2016. The Conversation. October 31. http://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-mass-migration-65935

Perrigo, Billy. 2016. "The Devastating Effects of American Intervention in Guatemala." The Panoptic. November 19. https://thepanoptic.co.uk/2016/11/19/american-intervention-guatemala/

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode involves discussion of crime, police brutality and bigotry, including physical violence, sexual assault, murder, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. Listener discretion is advised.

In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, and the resulting Black Lives Matter uprisings and protests, there has been an ongoing national conversation regarding police brutality and race. In the final part of a two-episode series, Jaye discusses developments in policing that have increased the danger police pose to society, including the infiltration of police departments by white supremacists and police militarization. She also outlines some possible solutions that are intended to make all communities safer, from police reforms such as increased accountability and demilitarization, to police restructuring such as defunding the police and abolishing police. Why is even incremental change so difficult, and what does it truly mean to "defund" and "abolish" police?

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode involves discussion of crime and police brutality, including violence, injury & death. Listener discretion is advised.

In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, and the resulting Black Lives Matter uprisings and protests, there has been an ongoing national conversation regarding police brutality and race. In Part 1 of a two-episode series, Jaye contends that to discuss police brutality in an honest way, we must discuss policing in America. What are some common hurdles to discussing the issue, and what are some important facts in regards to policing and race? Jaye also delves into the history of US policing, including why modern police departments were developed. Is the system truly broken, or working as intended?

Previous episodes discussed:

Detroit/America Series
Urban Renewal Series
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http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social-cognition/just-world-hypothesis/
https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/online/vol52/52-online-Hodges-Pugh.pdf
https://www.kmblegal.com/whistleblower-blog/police-whistleblowers-could-help-curb-unethical-practices-within-force
https://www.patrickburnslaw.com/Articles/Business-Law-Articles/Two-Minneapolis-Police-Officers-Face-Retaliation-for-Doing-Their-Jobs.shtml
https://thecrimereport.org/2020/06/18/the-plight-of-the-police-whistleblower/
https://www.innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NAS-Report-ID.pdf
https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/
https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/
https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816
https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-and-origins-american-policing
https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511250500335627
https://www.ncsc.org/trends/monthly-trends-articles/2017/the-trouble-with-eyewitness-identification-testimony-in-criminal-cases
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf
https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/for-the-record-unjust-burden-racial-disparities.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/opinions/systemic-racism-police-evidence-criminal-justice-system/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0858-1
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3146057
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/23/white-supremacists-favorite-myths-about-black-crime-rates-take-another-hit-bjs-study
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/04/they-were-treated-like-animals-murder-hoax-that-made-bostons-black-community-target/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/25/she-captivated-nation-by-saying-black-man-kidnapped-her-sons-police-knew-she-killed-them/
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/copaganda-look-dangerous-ways-police-224113270.html
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/05/copaganda-most-major-media-is-still-much-too-eager-to-embrace-police-friendly-framing/

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In the public release of February 2019's Patreon bonus episode, Jaye discusses the news story from January 2019 about the confrontation in Washington DC, between Catholic high school students from Northern Kentucky and a Native American elder. How does a seemingly straightforward news story, complete with video, morph into a controversy dividing society along the familiar lines of partisanship and race?

Jaye happens to live in the same metropolitan area the school is located, and she gives her unique insight on the events and underlying issues, as well as the symbolism of the Make America Great Again hats worn by the students. For the public release, Jaye also provides an update of the incident, and reframes it in light of Black Lives Matter and America's current reckoning with its treatment of black and indigenous people of color (BIPOC).

Citations

Artino, Lauren. 2020. "CNN Settles with Sandmann $800 Million Suit." Fox 19 Now. January 7. https://www.fox19.com/2020/01/07/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-nick-sandmann/

Artist, Timyka. 2018. “Jake Walter Registered as Juvenile Sex Offender Before New Rape Accusation.” WCPO. December 13. https://www.wcpo.com/news/crime/jake-walter-registered-as-juvenile-sex-offender-before-new-rape-accusation

“Dad Feels Frustration, Guilt Over Son’s Fate.” The Orlando Sentinel. April 15, 1994; p. A-1.

“Ex-Basketball Star Accused of Raping Woman Multiple Times Faces Judge.” WLWT. December 17, 2018. https://www.wlwt.com/article/ex-basketball-star-accused-of-raping-woman-multiple-times-faces-judge/25602055

“Fay Asks for Prayers; Clinton Calls the Caning ‘A Mistake.’” The Orlando Sentinel. April 15, 1994; p. A-12.

Ford, Dana. 2013. “Texas Teen Ethan Couch Gets 10 Years’ Probation for Driving Drunk, Killing 4.” CNN. December 12. https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/texas-teen-dwi-wreck/index.html

Freiburger, Calvin. 2019. “Breaking: Covington Bishop Apologizes to Pro-Life Students: ‘We Allowed Ourselves to be Bullied.’” Life Site News. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-covington-bishop-apologizes-to-pro-life-students-we...allowed-ours

Lowry, Rich. 2019. “In Defense of the MAGA Hat.” Politico. January 24. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/24/lowry-covington-maga-hats-224215

Millward, Evan. 2018. “Basketball Jerseys get Kings Team Booted from Recreational League.” WCPO. January 8. https://www.wcpo.com/sports/basketball-jerseys-get-kings-team-booted-from-recreational-league

Morgan-Smith, Kia. 2019. “Covington Catholic Students Defend Racist School Culture and Blackface Taunting of Players.” The Grio. January 24. https://thegrio.com/2019/01/24/covington-catholic-students-defend-racist-school-culture-and-blackface-taunting-of-players/

“Outrage Follows Elder High’s Racial Badgering at Prep Game.” The Cincinnati Herald. February 2018. http://thecincinnatiherald.com/2018/02/outrage-follows-elder-highs-racial-badgering-prep-game/

Park, Madison. 2018. “Ethan Couch of ‘Affluenza’ Case Released from Jail.” CNN. April 2. https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/us/ethan-couch-affluenza-jail-release/index.html

Salam, Maya, and Matthew Haag. 2018. “Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison Gulags, Executions.” The New York Times. June 11. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/world/asia/north-korea-human-rights.html

Schneider, Grace. 2019. “Louisville PR Firm Played a Key Role in Covington Catholic Controversy.” Louisville Courier-Journal. January 21. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/01/21/covington-catholic-runswitch-pr-helped-student-in-controversial-video/2638400002/

Stewart, Emily. 2019. “How the Story of a Clash Between a Boy in a MAGA Hat and a Native American Elder Unfolded.” Vox. January 29. https://www.vox.com/2019/1/22/18192908/covington-catholic-video-nick-sandmann-maga

Strachan, Jessica. 2018. “Here’s the Richest Town in Michigan.” Patch. June 1. https://patch.com/michigan/grossepointe/here-s-richest-town-michigan

Stutzman, Rene. 2013. “Zimmerman Attorneys Say Jurors Should Hear About Trayvon’s Pot Use.” The Orlando Sentinel. May 22; p. B-3.

Wolf, Cam. 2019. “The MAGA Hat is Still an Object of Hate.” GQ. January 26. https://www.gq.com/story/maga-hat-march-for-life

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode involves discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic, police brutality, and historical events related to racial, ethnic, disability and class discrimination, including discussion of violence, illness, injury & death. Listener discretion is advised.

Against the backdrop of a deadly pandemic, the fabric of the United States is coming undone. Jaye discusses the impact of the novel coronavirus on communities of color, including Black, Latino, and Native Americans. Also, were the anti-quarantine protests truly "peaceful," and who was truly behind those protests? In addition, Jaye reflects on the George Floyd murder by Minneapolis police officers, the resulting anti-police brutality protests, and the aggressive police response. What do the events of 2020 say about our country's leadership and the future of America?

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Source Material:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/06/opinion/coronavirus-deaths-statistics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#states
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-americans-latinos-times-died-covid-19-poll/story?id=70794789
https://tcf.org/content/report/racism-inequality-health-care-african-americans/?session=1
https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book-excerpts/health-article/forced-sterilization/
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/469478098/the-supreme-court-ruling-that-led-to-70-000-forced-sterilizations
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/racism-discrimination-health-care-providers-patients-2017011611015
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181672/
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/america-is-failing-its-black-mothers/
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/27/kentucky-governor-hanged-effigy-protester-fired-huffman-auto/5265063002/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-death-toll.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservative-networks-backing-anti-quarantine-protests/2020/04/22/da75c81e-83fe-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercer_Family_Foundation
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/anti-lockdown-protests-200420180415064.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/23/coronavirus-iowa-family-behind-reopen-covid-19-protests/3010862001/
https://www.wired.com/story/anti-lockdown-protests-online/
https://time.com/5825840/anti-quarantine-protests-organizers-trump/
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2012/12/michigan_freedom_fund_runs_rad.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/anti-lockdown-protests-200420180415064.html
https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/20/michigan-lockdown-protesters
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/26/george-floyd-man-dies-after-being-arrested-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzggb/a-cop-kneeled-on-a-black-mans-neck-until-he-said-he-couldnt-breathe-he-died-at-the-hospital
https://www.justsecurity.org/70497/far-right-infiltrators-and-agitators-in-george-floyd-protests-indicators-of-white-supremacists/

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This multi-episode series is about the history of relations between the United States and the Middle East, including both US foreign policy and the Middle Eastern immigrant experience. In this episode, Jaye recounts the early history of relations between the United States and the Middle East, focusing on the Barbary Wars, and delves into early immigration to the US from the Middle East.

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https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/first-barbary-war
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars
https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Barbary-War
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/barbary-wars
https://www.uswars.net/barbary-war/
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/banners/battle-streamers/barbary-wars.html
https://www.britannica.com/event/Monroe-Doctrine
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=23
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/07/02/1958-when-america-first-went-to-war-in-the-middle-east/
https://annualsurveryofamericanlaw.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/69-1_beydoun.pdf
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161954434/george-s_-shishim/flower
https://ojcs.siue.edu/ojs/index.php/ssa/article/view/773/383
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/ncc375/rp/index.html
https://www.leagle.com/decision/194499554fsupp9411763
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2332649217742869
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/07/arabs-white-150716110921150.html
https://www.arabamericanhistory.org/archives/dept-of-justice-affirms-arab-race-in-1909/
https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/race/MREAD_1790_2010.html
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-28/arab-americans-lobbied-their-own-us-census-box-will-it-backfire
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/12/17/2020-census-mena-category/
https://www.ben.edu/college-of-education-and-health-services/higher-education/upload/Shoman-Dajani-DISSERTATION-FINAL-Sept212016.pdf
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-north-africa-race/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/10/813922175/census-bureau-no-middle-eastern-or-north-african-check-box

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of war, with references to physical and sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.

This multi-episode series is about the history of relations between the United States and the Middle East, including both US foreign policy and the Middle Eastern immigrant experience. This episode is a brief history of the Middle East and Mediterranean regions, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the rise of the Ottoman Empire. In the first episode of Potstirrer Podcast not to center on US politics or culture, Jaye discusses the Great Schism, the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Crusades, and more.

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https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/19/17469176/roman-empire-maps-history-explained
https://www.historyhit.com/divorce-and-decline-the-division-of-east-and-west-roman-empires/
https://istanbulclues.com/byzantine-empire-map-information-facts/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/The-Schism-of-1054
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Cerularius
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Leo-IX
https://www.britannica.com/event/Crusades
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/crusades
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/medieval/9-factors-caused-first-crusade.html
https://www.historynet.com/fourth-crusade-the-second-siege-of-constantinople.htm
https://newrepublic.com/article/154170/owns-crusades
https://www.ancient.eu/article/1249/the-crusades-causes--goals/
http://www.umich.edu/~marcons/Crusades/timeline/summaries/fourth_crusade.htm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zjbj6sg/revision/1
https://www.history.com/news/why-muslims-see-the-crusades-so-differently-from-christians
http://www.allaboutturkey.com/ottoman.htm
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire/Osman-and-Orhan
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/ottoman-empire
http://www.allaboutturkey.com/janissary.htm

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In the public release of the September 2019 Patreon Exclusive, Jaye discusses Donald Trump's "disloyalty" comments regarding Jewish Democrats. Why would Trump rely on an anti-Semitic trope while stating he is an ardent supporter of Israel? Jaye also outlines reasons why white evangelicals, who are overwhelmingly loyal to Donald Trump, are also ardent supporters of the state of Israel. How do their politics in regards to Israel mesh with their support of a president who tacitly gives cover to anti-Semitic white supremacists?

Source Material:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49417157
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TgSs_IerI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r3qekmwL3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAFveGaY_4
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-questions-sincerity-of-tlaibs-tears-as-she-talked-about-her-grandmother/2019/08/20/03d7b532-c339-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html
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Morris, Benny. 2001. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001. New York: Vintage Books. T
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https://www.adl.org/blog/straight-talk-on-the-charge-of-jewish-disloyalty
https://jewishcurrents.org/dual-disloyalty/
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article130428894.html
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/01/very-young-person-in-the-white-house-on-a-power-trip
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/03/more-white-evangelicals-than-american-jews-say-god-gave-israel-to-the-jewish-people/
http://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm
Elwell, Walter A. (1984). Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
https://thegroundtruthproject.org/the-faces-of-the-end-of-days/
https://www.tms.edu/m/tmsj20b.pdf
https://carm.org/dispensationalism

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CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes discussion of terrorism, hate crimes, disasters, & public health crises that have involved illness, injury & death. Listener discretion is advised. None of the content of this episode is a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions regarding a medical condition.

Several regions around the globe have been battling the scourge of a novel coronavirus, a highly contagious virus that leads to an illness the World Health Organization has named COVID-19. The virus leads to mild symptoms, or even no symptoms, in most people, but can lead to serious complications in a small but significant percentage of people, in some cases leading to death. COVID-19 has arrived in an real way in the United States, with tens of thousands officially confirmed positive for coronavirus, and hundreds of deaths.

Jaye reviews a brief timeline of the pandemic and the response of Donald Trump to the coronavirus threat in the US. Also, Jaye argues that the COVID-19 pandemic will significantly change America, and discusses a few possible futures, including reason for hope among the current wave of fear, uncertainty, darkness and despair.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

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Source Material:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/
https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html?auth=login-facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/health/china-pneumonia-outbreak-virus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/asia/chinese-doctor-Li-Wenliang-coronavirus.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/timeline-china-coronavirus-spread-200126061554884.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/cdc-who-coronavirus-tests/
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/surgeon-general-has-coronavirus-warning-week-it-s-going-get-n1166421
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/coronavirus-updates-over-80-million-americans-under-virtual-lockdown-china-n1165876
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/coronavirus-tsa-liquid-purell-paid-leave-rules.html
https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-crisis-evictions-utility-shutoffs-cash-bail-america-sham-20200317.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/iran-reports-113-virus-deaths-containment-concerns-mount-200315180552632.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-says-senior-citizens-willing-to-die-to-save-economy-for-grandkids
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/02/18/how-covid-19-coronavirus-is-uncovering-anti-asian-racism/#494629ef29a6
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/website-launches-to-document-anti-asian-hate-crimes-in-wake-of-covid-19/2258297/
https://time.com/5806312/coronavirus-treatment-cost/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbwCjL7HC1c

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After a strong showing by US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the early contests of the Democratic nomination season, former Vice-President Joe Biden has gained a great deal of momentum, starting in South Carolina and thru Super Tuesday. Is this a positive turn of events for the Democrats in terms of moving away from a democratic socialist as their standard-bearer, or is having a centrist candidate as the frontrunner a bad sign for the party's chances of beating Donald Trump in the general election? Jaye discusses the 2020 model of election forecaster Rachel Bitecofer, reasons behind Joe Biden's support among African-Americans, and why it is imperative that - regardless of ideology - the Democratic nominee must give voters, including those ideologically predisposed to vote for Democrats, a reason to vote for them, not simply that they are a superior alternative to Trump.

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Source Material:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944?fbclid=IwAR3XnN_cmwNAWrRLY-X0jjXVtD2QBBDzL9h5-BWZoUkHIyaMULCgyonwvSs
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/negative-partisanship-explains-everything-215534
http://cnu.edu/wasoncenter/2019/07/01-2020-election-forecast/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/other-swing-voter/604474/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-black-vote.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/05/super-tuesday-black-voters-analysis-recap
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-03-08/biden-in-mississippi-sanders-in-michigan-before-primaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DiZpmEAfVg
http://www.stevenwwebster.com/negative-partisanship.pdf
http://stevenwwebster.com/research/all_politics_is_national.pdf
https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-co-founder-endorses-sanders-warren-1488912
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/06/joe-biden-defends-1994-crime-bill-zeleny-pkg-lead-vpx.cnn
https://newrepublic.com/article/156402/hate-ballot
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/a-nuanced-picture-of-what-black-americans-want-in-2020
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,151404,00.html
https://twitter.com/VanJones68/status/1237535950298910720?s=20
https://twitter.com/lloki08/status/1236493650189680641?s=20

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In the public release of the October 2018 Patreon exclusive, Jaye discusses socialism - what is socialism, why is it so misunderstood, and why would it - in some form - benefit American society? The Cold War, entitlements and more are on the menu, so check it out!

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Source Material:

Bump, Phillip. 2015. "Do You Know the Difference Between a Communist and a Socialist?" Independent. October 25. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/do-you-know-the-difference-between-a-communist-and-a-socialist-a6708086.html

"Capitalism" Merriam-Webster Dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism

de Sousa, Ana Naomi. 2016. "Between East and West: The Cold War's Legacy in Africa." Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/02/east-west-cold-war-legacy-africa-160214113015863.html

Gregory, Paul R., and Robert C. Stuart. 2003. Comparing Economic Systems in the Twenty-First Century (7th ed.)

"Socialism." Encyclopaedia Brittannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/socialism

Dagger, Richard, and Terrence Ball. "Communism: Ideology." Encyclopaedia Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/communism

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Beautiful World composed by Drew Banga

Dragon War composed by Makai Symphony
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The 2020 presidential nomination season is underway, and the Democratic race is heating up. As US Senator Bernie Sanders has received some early momentum, many Democrats, especially moderates, are concerned about Sanders, who is not a Democrat, and his democratic socialist ideology. Should Democrats be worried about the "socialist" label? Also, do Democrats have the right to feel entitled to votes from groups within their base, such as progressives and black Americans?

This is the last podcast episode under the Flying Machine banner, as Flying Machine is shutting down. The experience has been wonderful, and it was an honor to be in community with other amazing content creators. Over time, we became not only fellow creatives, but also friends.

Special thank you to our dear leaders, Malcolm & Justin, for the amazing network and community they built and cultivated, and allowing me to be a part of it. Here's to new beginnings for all of us who have been part of this adventure. Cheers!

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Source Material:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/11/02/dean-is-criticized-over-remark-on-confederate-flag/0678aaa0-a5e7-4648-add9-358bf3e9e577/
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bush-claims-mandate-sets-2nd-term-goals-I-2637116.php
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/our-founders-didnt-intend-pardons-work-like/606838/
https://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/declareorchangeparty.aspx
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed09.asp
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp
https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2020-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_North_Dakota,_2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/what-states-caucus.html?auth=login-facebook
https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2020-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/canceled-2020-primaries/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-gop-canceling-gop-primaries-caucuses/story?id=65436462
https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2020-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/
https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/24/16194086/bernie-trump-voters-study

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Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still
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Unusual Habitat composed by Silent Partner

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Dreams composed by Firefl!es
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Potstirrer Podcast is back! In the first regular episode of 2020, Jaye discusses the acquittal of Donald Trump in the US Senate removal trial, after being impeached by the House of Representatives. What does Trump's acquittal mean for democracy, the rule of law, and America's future?

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Source Material:

https://www.ancient.eu/Roman_Empire/
http://www.softschools.com/timelines/roman_empire/timeline_9/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/opinion/trump-senate-acquittal-impeachment.html
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/di_asr/2011/sect04.html
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-disability-benefit-changes-harmful-letter-signed-more-100-lawmakers-1484427
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/trump-holdings-conflict-of-interest/503333/
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/747013608/trumps-impact-on-federal-courts-judicial-nominees-by-the-numbers
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/night-of-the-long-knives
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-the-nazi-party-nsdap
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-night-of-the-long-knives
https://wqad.com/2020/02/08/firing-of-house-impeachment-witnesses-raises-questions-over-us-ukraine-policy/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/07/alexander-vindman-fired-trump-impeachment-white-house
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51408704
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/05/mitt-romney-trump-impeachment-vote-republicans-reaction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/10/mitt-romney-matt-schlapp-cpac-physical-safety
https://www.foxnews.com/media/kellyanne-conway-vindman-sondland-trump-ousters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/06/gop-claimed-it-was-incensed-schiffs-head-pike-comment-now-trump-is-out-revenge/
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-lone-german-man-who-refused-to-give-hitler-the-nazi-salute-2015-6
http://www.fasena.de/courage/english/index.htm

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Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still
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Eyes of Glory composed by Aakash Gandhi

End of the Era composed by Kevin MacLeod
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Unknown Longing composed by Asher Fulero

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In the final episode of 2019, Chuckles joins Jaye for a countdown and discussion of the most downloaded episodes of 2019. They also talk about the 2020 presidential election, including the Trump impeachment, predictions for the Democratic nomination, and if Trump will be re-elected.

NOTE: Potstirrer Podcast will be on break in the month of January, to prepare for the 2020 election cycle, but will be back in early February!

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In the third annual Potstirrer Podcast War on Christmas Special, Jaye discusses the pre-Christian origins of several Christmas traditions, including the twelve days of Christmas, Yule logs, Santa Claus and more. How did the Christmas holiday develop over time? And, if Christmas isn't purely "Christian," what are evangelicals waging the "War on Christmas" truly fighting for?

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Source Texts and Links:

Jackson, Sophie. 2013. The Medieval Christmas. Cheltenham, UK: The History Press.
https://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/biblical-evidence-shows-jesus-christ-wasnt-born-on-dec-25
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89707/origins-12-christmas-traditions
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/whenchristmasiscelebrated.shtml
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/common/orthodox-christmas-day
https://www.professorshouse.com/yule/
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-rome/saturnalia
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/25th.shtml
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/how-december-25-became-christmas/
https://www.infoplease.com/calendar-holidays/major-holidays/origins-christmas-holiday
https://www.historyhit.com/the-growth-of-christianity-in-the-roman-empire/
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Holy_Roman_Empire
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christmas
https://www.livius.org/articles/place/myra-demre/myra-church-of-the-tomb-of-st-nicholas/
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/patron-saint
https://www.history.com/news/dont-forget-santas-cookies-and-milk-the-history-of-a-popular-christmas-tradition
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/12/131219-santa-claus-origin-history-christmas-facts-st-nicholas/
https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/how-the-puritans-banned-christmas/
https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/08/18/dominionism-rising-a-theocratic-movement-hiding-in-plain-sight
https://www.politicalresearch.org/1992/12/01/theocracy-and-white-supremacy-behind-the-culture-war-to-restore-traditional-values
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/

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Christmas Homecoming composed by Aaron Kenny

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Deck the Halls B composed Kevin MacLeod
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Viking composed by Aakash Gandhi

Yonder Hill and Dale composed by Aaron Kenny

Parzival composed by William Rosati

Shesh Pesh composed by JR Tundra

Achaidh Cheide composed by Kevin MacLeod
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CONTENT WARNING - This episode includes discussion of mature themes, including illicit drug use, prescription drug abuse, and both legal and illicit drug addiction. Listener discretion is advised.

In the final installment of America's Drug War, Jaye discusses recent trends in the American drug landscape, including cannabis decriminalization and legalization in several US states, and the opioid epidemic sweeping suburbs and rural areas. How did the War on Drugs, particularly its focus on the "usual suspects," lead to the opioid crisis? Will cannabis be legalized on a federal level, and should harder drugs also be legalized?

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Source Texts and Links:

Hari, Johann. 2016. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. New York: Bloomsbury.
Temple, John. 2015. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic. Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/four-decades-counting-continued-failure-war-drugs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/29/this-is-unprecedented-174-heroin-overdoses-in-6-days-in-cincinnati/
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/07/27/cincinnati-area-had-24-overdoses-24-hours/1846992001/
https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/historical-timeline/#2016-present
https://www.newsweek.com/state-local-governments-trying-make-cannabis-industry-less-racist-1466077
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2014/03/conflicting_statean/
https://www.dualdiagnosis.org/infographics/history-of-the-opioid-epidemic/
https://avalere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Avalere-20181030-Opioid-Trends-Brief-FINAL.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993682/
https://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/painmanagement/80054
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6025116-Opioidsuit.html#document/p2/a502790
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02686-2
https://www.poison.org/articles/opioid-epidemic-history-and-prescribing-patterns-182
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/nyregion/brooklyn-opioid-investigation.html
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/why-opioid-epidemic-hitting-rural-america-especially-hard#stream/0
https://www.cnbc.com/id/18591525
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ending-addiction-good/201408/marijuana-the-gateway-drug-myth
https://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/war-drugs-succeeding/
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics

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CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses mature themes, including detailed discussion of illicit drug use. Listener discretion is advised.

In the penultimate installment of America's Drug War, President Ronald Reagan and his successors take the mantle of drug warrior in the 1980s and 1990s. Jaye discusses campaigns and programs designed to reduce drug use in children, such as Just Say No and DARE, as well as the crack epidemic of the 80s, and the shift to punitive measures that the federal government took to win the War on Drugs. Were these efforts successful - and what did "success" truly mean?

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Detroit Blue Pigs - Fight The Crime (1986): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkAy_hvhLCY
http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/23337/dpd_officer_blue_pigs_co-founder_retires
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/these-shameless-cocaine-ads-prove-70s-were-hell-time-be-alive-166927/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/11/reagans-race-record/46875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672328/
https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/just-say-no
http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war
CNN: 1986: Nancy Reagan's 'Just say no' campaign: https://youtu.be/lQXgVM30mIY
https://timeline.com/ronald-nancy-reagan-war-on-drugs-crack-baby-just-say-no-cia-communism-racial-injustice-fcfeadb3548d
https://theweek.com/articles/495031/daryl-gates-19262010
https://dare.org/about/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672328/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/01/20/the-dare-program-and-a-parents-concerns/f7aceab4-7596-4cfe-8e00-5d736676204d/
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/dare4.htm
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1996/killer2.htm
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-opioid-epidemic-dahleen-glanton-met-20170815-column.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/crack-epidemic
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/089533004773563485
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/10/04/conspiracy-theories-can-often-ring-true/3960d4c5-593e-4b4d-b3c9-a2f9f4148c9d/
https://uproxx.com/hiphop/snowfall-1980s-crack-epidemic/
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p16_sum.pdf
https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-federal-crack-cocaine-law
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs6/6445/6445p.pdf
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/863
https://thecannabisindustry.org/member-blog-little-known-critical-exception-federal-paraphernalia-laws/
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s13524-017-0611-1?author_access_token=jXD6ohexE1c1ur2WRWhpkfe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY4uMYrYNkMZx9I1WjnbPAWM-g13AQlmw4x8-VaL1oT3wS1z7bR6McpJuw6uJspKuwHQtTd1alIFBkHajdo4QVT1CPUCL7C_5xQhC8-ZXzjA6g%3D%3D

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Miami composed by Dan Mason
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Pop Killer composed by The Mini Vandals

It Was a Fine Day composed by South London HiFi

Aurora Currents composed by Ashley Fulero

Sweet Tides composed by LATASHA

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CONTENT WARNING - The following episode discusses mature themes, including illicit drug use and political assassinations. Listener discretion is advised.

In the third installment of America's War on Drugs, Richard Nixon makes good on his second chance at becoming president of the United States in 1968, instituting his "law and order" policies during his president, chief among them sweeping anti-drug policy. These policies concentrated mostly on cannabis and opiates such as heroin, but also overhauled the way the federal government addressed drugs. Jaye provides context to the America of the 1960s, and discusses Nixon's War on Drugs as key to his crusade to end the social and political change the 1960s represented.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9OJnRnZjU&t=55s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdtwQ8OguY
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/05/law-order-campaign-that-won-richard-nixon-white-house-years-ago/
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/kennedy-nixon-debates
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/15/does-television-affect-how-we-elect-presidents/
https://www.hrc.org/blog/flashbackfriday-today-in-1973-the-apa-removed-homosexuality-from-list-of-me
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2018/05/no-final-victories-lessons-president-nixons-drug-abuse-initiatives/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-war-on-drugs-how-president-nixon-tied-addiction-to-crime/254319/
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https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/03/23/nixons-drug-war-an-excuse-to-lock-up-blacks-and-protesters-continues/#131783fc42c8

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In the spirit of the Octobermonth season, Jaye discusses urban legends, particularly three stories voted on by listeners, and provides historical and social context for their spread. What are some common themes in these urban myths? Why do these stories persist, even in the information age? And - are these often frightful tales real?

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Source Texts and Links:

Best, Joel, and Gerald T. Horiuchi. 1985. “The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends.” Social Problems. 32:5, pp. 488-499. https://www.jstor.org/stable/800777

Brunvand, Jan Harold. 1999. Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Brunvand, Jan Harold. 2001. The Truth Never Stands in Way of a Good Story. University of Illinois Press.

Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Soltero, Gonzalo. 2016. “The Mexican Transmission of ‘Lights Out!’” Journal of Folklore Research. 53:3, pp. 115-135.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pins-and-needles/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/halloween-non-poisonings/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-killer-in-the-backseat/
https://www.snopes.com/what-are-urban-legends/
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/verify-no-the-flashing-headlights-gang-initiation-warning-is-not-legit/65-622982337
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2014/11/30/detroit-police-fight-carjacking-crime/19671313/
https://www.thoughtco.com/flash-your-headlights-and-die-3299113
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/celebrity/Do_Strangers_Really_Tamper_with_Halloween_Candy.html

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CONTENT WARNING - The following episode discusses mature themes, including murder, suicide, illicit drug use, child sex abuse and domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised.

In the second installment of America's War on Drugs, drug czar Harry Anslinger continues his reign from the 1930s through the early 1960s. During his 32 years as commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, he campaigned against not only about cannabis, but also against narcotics and opiates. Jaye discusses Anslinger's reach and impact - including on the medical profession and global drug policies, and how he used mainstream society's fears of racial equality and communism to advance his vision of an anti-drug world.

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Hari, Johann. 2016. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. New York: Bloomsbury.

Williams, Henry Smith. 1938. Drug Addicts are Human Beings: The Story of Our Billion-Dollar Drug Racket. Washington, DC: Shaw Publishing Co.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5l1S94tO1M
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/drug-war-the-hunting-of-billie-holiday-114298
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4723844/I-couldnt-stop-Judy-falling-apart.html
https://time.com/5638316/war-on-drugs-opium-history/
https://deserthopetreatment.com/addiction-guide/substance-abuse/treatment-history/
https://progressive.org/dispatches/strange-fruit-caused-the-murder-of-billie-holiday-180220/

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CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses mature themes, including illicit drug use and graphic details of murder. Listener discretion is advised.

The War on Drugs in the United States has cost $1 trillion since 1971, and 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses. Yet there is little evidence it is responsible for declining drug use. How did the War on Drugs truly begin? Jaye explores US history and explains how Prohibition led to our nation's drug war.

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https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/24153/reefer-madness-the-twisted-history-of-americas-weed-laws
https://www.history.com/news/marijuana-criminalization-reefer-madness-history-flashback
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/membership/archive/2019/01/25-years-reefer-madness/580351/
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fdas-evolving-regulatory-powers/milestones-us-food-and-drug-law-history
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1273&context=wmjowl
http://smtp.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/2002AlcoholProblemsinNativeAmerica.pdf
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/bitter-aftertaste-prohibition-american-history-180969266/
Okrent, Daniel. 2010. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner.
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/137077599/prohibition-speakeasies-loopholes-and-politics
https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/north-america/us/ku-klux-klan/the-second-ku-klux-klan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
https://www.history.com/news/kkk-terror-during-prohibition
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/prohibition-history-how-the-ban-on-booze-produced-the-modern-american-right.html
http://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/enforcing-the-prohibition-laws/the-supreme-court-and-prohibition/
https://timeline.com/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/column-war-on-drugs-merely-fights-the-symptoms-of-a-faulty-system/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd7d8d/how-marijuana-came-the-united-states-456
https://history.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/2006_Ari%20Cushner.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-anslinger-the-man-behind-the-marijuana-ban/
https://www.cbp.gov/about/history/did-you-know/marijuana
https://www.cannabis-marijuana.com/assassin-of-youth.html
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/reports/2018/06/27/452819/ending-war-drugs-numbers/

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CONTENT WARNING - This episode includes discussion of gun violence. Listener discretion is advised.

With the rash of mass shootings in the United States, including ones such as the El Paso, TX shooting linked to domestic terror, what is leading to these mass shooting incidents, and domestic terrorism generally? Jaye discusses a possible culprit, stochastic terrorism. What is stochastic terrorism, and can the violent rhetoric of politicians lead to radicalization and extremist violence? Jaye also examines the demagoguery of Donald Trump, and the appeal of Trump and gun culture to white evangelicals, and how evangelical support for both are connected.

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Source Links:

https://cindywangbrandt.com/why-im-not-a-bridge-builder-within-evangelicalism/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meghan-mccain-clashes-with-view-co-hosts-im-not-living-without-guns?ref=scroll
https://www.dictionary.com/e/what-is-stochastic-terrorism/
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/el-paso-dayton-mass-shootings-donald-trump/
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/08/weekends-killings-bring-out-the-term-stochastic-terrorism/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/04/there-are-no-lone-wolves/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-emotional-footprint/201609/who-is-demagogue
Roberts-Miller, Patricia. 2017. Demagoguery and Democracy. New York: The Experiment.
https://www.prri.org/spotlight/religion-vote-presidential-election-2004-2016/
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/rkN8tZz8m
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists
https://www.businessinsider.com/report-under-trump-far-right-violence-on-the-rise-in-the-us-2018-11
https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018#the-incidents
https://deadline.com/2019/08/mail-bomber-who-targeted-donald-trump-critics-sentenced-to-prison-1202661835/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2378023118790189
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/06/15/the-bogus-claim-that-a-map-of-crosshairs-by-sarah-palins-pac-incited-rep-gabby-giffordss-shooting/
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/418180-franklin-graham-on-supporting-trump-he-defends-the-christian
https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-is-king-cyrus-and-why-is-netanyahu-comparing-him-to-trump/
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-mark-start-of-trump-term-god-is-going-to-sweep-the-nation-173238/
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/08/02/how-conservatives-have-changed-the-meaning-of-religious-liberty/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/10/934890/-
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-oreillys-dangerous-war-against-dr-tiller-107722/
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/565f/9d4dcdd3a8520f41da3359f403f5b38372fb.pdf
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/joshuamanson/gun-control-history-race-black-panther-party-conservatives
https://www.foxnews.com/media/third-term-trump-touts-new-2024-campaign-sign-on-twitter
https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/feb/20/kevin-nicholson/which-higher-number-people-or-number-guns-america/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/god-guns-and-country-the-evangelical-fight-over-firearms
https://www.salon.com/2016/06/14/authoritarian_gun_lovers_the_gun_lobby_was_never_about_freedom_and_the_orlando_massacre_fallout_proves_it/
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/6/189/htm
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/trump-shut-countering-violent-extremism-program/574237/
https://www.prri.org/research/partisan-polarization-dominates-trump-era-findings-from-the-2018-american-values-survey/

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In the final installment of a two-part series about urban renewal, Jaye discusses contemporary urban renewal, particularly the impact of privatization on urban renewal efforts in America's impoverished inner city neighborhoods. Why have these neighborhoods persisted? Also, what efforts have federal, state and local governments, as well as corporations, made in revitalizing - or gentrifying - these neighborhoods, and have these efforts succeeded? Jaye discusses these approaches, and both the benefits and drawbacks of urban renewal efforts.

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https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7586&context=jclc
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/11/white-people-rioting-for-no-reason.html
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/race-riots-1960s
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-war-on-poverty-what-went-wrong/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-rector-how-the-war-on-poverty-was-lost-1389137703?tesla=y
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/have-we-won-war-poverty-not-yet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/12/10/heres-how-the-safety-net-has-and-hasnt-reduced-poverty-in-the-u-s/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/
https://courseworks.columbia.edu/access/content/group/c5a1ef92-c03c-4d88-0018-ea43dd3cc5db/Working%20Papers%20for%20website/Anchored%20SPM.December7.pdf
https://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/empowerment-zones.html
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/did-states-maximize-their-opportunity-zone-selections
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/can-opportunity-zones-save-the-country/558266/
https://www.citybeat.com/news/blog/20999328/ohio-names-opportunity-zones
https://www.citybeat.com/news/article/13026910/news-remembering-buddy-gray
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/the-ghost-of-buddy-gray3/
http://www.otrfoundation.org/OTR_Architecture.htm
http://www.otrfoundation.org/OTR_History.htm
https://inside.6q.io/benefits-of-cultural-diversity-in-the-workplace/
https://www.3cdc.org
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/3cdc-in-over-the-rhine-between-two-worlds/
https://www.citybeat.com/news/article/13013941/renovation-or-gentrification

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In the wake of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, TX, Dayton, OH, and Gilroy, CA, Jaye discusses gun violence, including many of the root issues that contribute to the gun violence epidemic in the United States, and the importance of properly addressing these issues. She takes on white supremacy, misogyny, other right-wing extremist ideologies, and Donald Trump's failure to unqualifiably condemn white supremacy. Is gun control the answer to the scourge of mass shootings?

Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence, gun violence, suicide, and murder, including mass murder. Listener discretion is advised.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-his-environment-changed-suspect-in-el-paso-shooting-learned-to-hate/2019/08/09/8ebabf2c-817b-40a3-a79e-e56fbac94cd5_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/el-paso-suspect-said-he-was-targeting-mexicans-told-officers-he-was-the-shooter-police-say/2019/08/09/ab235e18-bac9-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/el-paso-mass-shooting-arrest-warrant/1ffd2f8f-a950-402e-93b3-5c2dd922b514/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/10/el-paso-shooting-227612

https://www.prri.org/research/partisan-polarization-dominates-trump-era-findings-from-the-2018-american-values-survey/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antifa-teror-group-white-supremacy-violent-white-supremacists-a9035106.html

https://time.com/5643405/what-to-know-shooting-dayton-ohio/

https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts-twitter-politics-social-media/

https://theweek.com/articles/857197/misogyny-murder-often-handinhand

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dayton-shooting-hit-list-rape-list-bellbrook-high-school-classmates-say-ohio-shooter-connor-betts/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2582989

https://theundefeated.com/features/fivethirtyeight-breaks-down-the-more-than-33000-annual-u-s-gun-deaths/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-accidents/

https://pediatricsnationwide.org/2019/05/17/a-narrowing-gender-gap-in-youth-suicides/

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/748665339/the-pistol-that-looks-like-a-rifle-the-dayton-shooters-gun

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/dayton-shooter-pornogrind-band

https://life.shared.com/my-ex-boyfriend-was-the-dayton-shooter-former-girlfriend-connor-betts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/09/gilroy-garlic-festival-gunman-warrant/1964304001/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-being-investigated-domestic-terrorism-fbi-n1039681

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/dayton-shooting-oregon-district-gunman-left-decade-red-flags/E5UoTI8To1CJDaWUndXBlO/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/us/mass-shootings.html

https://theweek.com/articles/857197/misogyny-murder-often-handinhand

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In part 1 of a two-part series about urban renewal, Jaye talks about the history of America's urban slums. How did these poor, run-down neighborhoods develop in US cities, and how did these areas become associated with people of color, particularly black Americans? The history of Cincinnati's West End is discussed as an illustration of how segregated, impoverished neighborhoods developed over time, and how residents became vulnerable to the negative effects of urban renewal policies.

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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/12/22/being-timothy-thomas-son/95286890/
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/07/republic-street/24507335/
http://www.kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/reports/2004/07_2004_Gentrification%20and%20Revitalization.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/assets/File/Cincinnati%20MetropolitanMaster%20Plan%201948.pdf
https://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/news/imported/pdf/July08/CinciEnqTaylorSegregation.pdf
https://thevoiceofblackcincinnati.com/african-americans-in-cincinnati/
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/lost-city-kenyon-barr-queensgate/
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/homeownership-still-financially-better-renting
https://blackexcellence.com/10-richest-black-communities-in-america/
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285178/facebook-hud-lawsuit-fair-housing-discrimination
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/25/discrimination-lawsuit-over-donald-trump-cincinnati-apartments/89269132/
https://www.clearinghouse.net/chDocs/public/FH-NY-0024-0034.pdf
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america/
https://books.google.com/books?id=VKB9g0oXvA4C&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=kenyon+barr&source=bl&ots=T-PY0NBqkL&sig=ACfU3U151iKuwRLFNBClP0wvtYiVdLEkfA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVnoS_p-DjAhUNTN8KHaPrCrs4ChDoATADegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=kenyon%20barr&f=falsehttps://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america/

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This Patreon bonus episode, originally released March 2019, is being released free this month as part of Flying Machine's Flyer Drive! To learn more and become a Patron, go to http://flyingmachine.network/support. Enjoy the episode!

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is famous for several iconic statements, including the admonishment of "white moderates." But did you know that the "white moderates" Dr. King was referring to were specific local clergymen in Birmingham who had written an open letter opposing the protests he helped to organize? These clergy are dubbed "The Birmingham Eight." Who were these men? What did it mean for them to be "moderate," and how did they respond to Dr. King's letter? And what can this incident in American history teach us about allyship?

Citations:
“A Call for Unity: Text and Background.” Dallas Baptist University. https://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/documents/ACallforUnityTextandBackground.pdf

Gilbreath, Edward. 2013. Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church. Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

“Harmon, Nolan B. (Nolan Bailey), 1982-1993: Manuscript Number 134.” 2009. Pitts Theology Library, Emory University. January 27. http://pitts.emory.edu/archives/text/mss134.html

King, Martin Luther. 1963. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” University of Pennsylvania. April 16. https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Mathews, Donald [Paul Hardin, Jr.]. 1989. “Interview with Paul Hardin Jr.“ University of North Carolina. December 8. https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/html_use/C-0071.html

Montgomery, Brandt L. 2017. “Bishop Carpenter and Civil Rights in Alabama.” Covenant. August 10. https://livingchurch.org/covenant/2017/08/10/bishop-carpenter-and-civil-rights-in-alabama/#_ftn4

Saxon, Wolfgang. 2006. “Rev. Earl Stallings, 89, Pastor Praised by Jailed Dr. King, Dies.” The New York Times. March 4. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/us/rev-earl-stallings-89-pastor-praised-by-jailed-dr-king-dies.html

Stallings, Earl, et. al. 1963. “An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense.” January 16. https://genius.com/Alabama-clergymen-an-appeal-for-law-and-order-and-common-sense-annotated

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As the myriad of Democratic presidential candidates with tons of ideas are hitting the debate circuit, Elle Riccardi from the podcast Short, Colorful + Loud joins Jaye to discuss political spectrums. What are the building blocks of political spectrums? Where did "left" and "right" come from? Are communism and fascism all that close to each other? Elle and Jaye discuss various kinds of political spectrums, including left-right, horseshoe theory, the political compass (including how they tested on it!) and more. They also discuss centrism, anarchy, and how the Overton Window can affect how we view what is "normal" in political discourse.

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https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/03/27/the-end-of-the-new-deal-era-and-the-coming-realignment/
https://www.politicalcompass.org/
http://factmyth.com/the-left-right-political-spectrum-explained/
https://psmag.com/social-justice/an-end-to-horseshoe-theory
https://www.npr.org/2017/01/09/509001314/jeff-sessions-previously-denied-federal-judgeship-amid-racism-controversy
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930160218/http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/1751/2/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-left-right-political-spectrum-is-bogus/373139/
https://www.mackinac.org/7504
https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/overton-window-democrats.html
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/25/overton-window-explained-definition-meaning-217010

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In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court ruling effectively declaring political gerrymandering legal, Jaye discusses the challenges Democrats face in mitigating the damage of an increasingly right-leaning SCOTUS. In this episode, Jaye focuses on the novel Supreme Court plan touted by Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, which is intended to neutralize the ideological and partisan slant of the court. What are the pros and cons of the plan? Jaye makes the case that the challenges this Supreme Court plan would face reflect the issues the Democrats face in general as they attempt to gain ground lost to the Republican Party by taking the Court for granted.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/buttigiegs-supreme-court-plan-and-democratic-party/590905/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/inside-pete-buttigieg-s-plan-overhaul-supreme-court-n1012491?cid=public-rss_20190603
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/24/the-lost-history-of-fdrs-court-packing-scandal-225201
https://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/baldycenter/Spring17/Retirement%20Act%20Glock%202017%20%283%29.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/court-packing-ideas-get-attention-from-democrats/2019/03/10/d05e549e-41c0-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8bc4c78d4023
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/supreme-court-democratic-candidates.html
https://www.livescience.com/9857-9-supreme-court-justices.html
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/setups/notes/new-deal.jsp
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/03/27/the-end-of-the-new-deal-era-and-the-coming-realignment/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/split-ticket-voting-hit-a-new-low-in-2018-senate-and-governor-races/
https://www.forbes.com/2010/05/13/third-parties-fusion-voting-elections-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html#41991ce45f7a
https://www.history.com/news/has-a-u-s-supreme-court-justice-ever-been-impeached
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-are-four-not-two-ways-to-amend-the-constitution/2016/08/18/058afcf2-6420-11e6-b4d8-33e931b5a26d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d1834d67b2f6

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Jaye is joined by her husband Chuckles as they discuss free speech versus calls to violence and terrorism, as well as if Donald Trump's rhetoric and actions in support of gun control will upset his supporters enough to turn against him in 2020. Chuckles stans Candace Owens and sees her temporary ban on Twitter as an example of a conspiracy by the social media giant against conservative voices. Jaye points out that white supremacists run rampant on Twitter despite the ability to filter them out just like they filter out Islamic terror groups - because Twitter doesn't want to ban Republican politicians.

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Source Links:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4801423/aoc-questioning-fbis-michael-mcgarrity-white-supremacist-violence-treated-domestic-terrorism
https://trofire.com/2019/06/10/aoc-makes-fbi-official-squirm-with-softball-question/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-appears-conflate-types-fbi/story?id=63542165
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27733112/domestic-terrorism-law-congress-white-supremacists/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/25/coast-guard-terror-christopher-hasson-free-trial/3580298002/

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CONTENT WARNING: Miscarriage, stillbirth, medical procedures, death, child molestation, sexual and physical violence

With the proliferation of abortion bans passed into law in several states designed to trigger a US Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade (1973), what are the real dangers of these laws? Jaye reconsiders her earlier position on fetal personhood and outlines her view regarding the tension between the rights of the woman versus the rights of the fetus. She delves into infant and maternal mortality in the US, mass shootings, and discrimination by faith-based charities, making the argument that the anti-abortion movement has no real interest in protecting the sanctity of life.

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Source Links:
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/evangelicals-really-silent-roe-v-wade/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133
https://arcdigital.media/how-did-evangelicals-and-republicans-come-to-oppose-abortion-dcd4ac56c333
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/liver-transplant/about/pac-20384842
https://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/about-transplant/facts-and-myths/
https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/18514-what-does-the-bible-say-about-abortion
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/autonomy-moral/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/nature-and-significance-of-the-right-to-bodily-integrity/79703F3BE9C5C21BB76338C050E951BC/core-reader
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Homicide+a+leading+cause+of+death+in+pregnant+women.+%28Continuing...-a080055987
https://www.nkhiddengulag.org/blog/the-north-korean-government-initiates-ban-on-abortions-yet-commits-forced-abortions-against-its-prisoners#_ftn1
https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/health/reports/black-womens-maternal-health.html
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pregnancy-relatedmortality.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001799/
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm
https://www.chds.us/ssdb/category/graphs/
https://khn.org/news/sham-sharing-ministries-test-faith-of-patients-and-insurance-regulators/
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/hud-rule-allows-homeless-shelters-deny-admission-transgender-people
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/infant-mortality-u-s-compare-countries/#item-neonatal-mortality-u-s-higher-comparable-countries
https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=23
https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/safety/k-12-school-shooting-statistics-everyone-should-know/
https://www.axios.com/abortion-restriction-states-passed-laws-8326c9aa-6631-4bd1-b02b-c6ba6cd0a335.html

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As several states are passing extremely restrictive anti-abortion laws, and civil rights are increasingly being denied to a number of groups in the United States, Jaye discusses the conservative evangelical Christianity that got us here. Is conservative evangelicalism "real Christianity" and why does the answer to that question matter? How does evangelicalism lead its adherents to support authoritarian, regressive, and cruel politicians and public policies? Jaye shares her personal experience in evangelical Christianity for first-person insight into the methods and teachings that lead evangelical Christians to extreme stances on issues that may have little to no basis in the Bible they claim is inerrant.

Source Links:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/05/04/rachel-held-evans-progressive-christian-author-who-challenged-evangelicals-dies/?utm_term=.ffd3a34e2058

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/treasury-irs-expected-to-ignore-trump-tax-return-subpoena-deadline.html

https://apnews.com/254643092cb74f17a78e1a1c7974816c

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/19/E4330

http://islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/legal-rulings/5-jihad-a-misunderstood-concept-from-islam.html?start=9

https://fgulen.com/en/fethullah-gulens-works/toward-a-global-civilization-of-love-and-tolerance/jihad-terrorism-human-rights/25257-lesser-and-greater-jihad

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Several Democratic candidates are running to be the party's nominee for President of the United States. Jaye believes it matters less which candidate becomes the Democratic nominee, but more what direction the Democratic Party will go in the 2020 election. Will they focus on recruiting Trump supporters, or convincing non-voters to go to the polls? Jaye argues that focusing on Trump supporters will guarantee a loss for the Democrats, and the best way forward in 2020 and beyond is to excite non-voters and turn out their base with a slate of common-sense progressive reforms.

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of transphobia, anti-LGBTQ bigotry and violence, depression and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

The relationship between the American church and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people has all too often been rocky, and conflict is inflamed by opposition by churches and Christian political institutions to equal rights for LGBTQ Americans. Opposition to equal rights for LGBTQ Americans is based on the belief among many Christian traditions, denominations, and sects that homosexuality and transgender identity are morally wrong, based on how they interpret a handful of Bible verses.

In Part II of a two-part series, Jaye focuses on the non-affirming position of many Christian institutions as it relates to gender identity. She makes the argument that while the non-affirming position on homosexuality is not conclusively supported by the Bible, non-affirming stances in regards to gender identity have even less biblical support. These positions also tend to conflate sex and gender, as well as sexual orientation and gender identity. Jaye discusses the immense harm done to transgender and non-binary people by non-affirming positions, many of which are grossly misinformed.

Links and Citations:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/12/30/transgender-teen-death-needs-mean-something/21044407/

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/#sm.00000n2x6ylkgtfsru51q7ieff8ll

https://web.archive.org/web/20150101215955/http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/warren-county/leelah-alcorns-dad-we-love-our-son

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr2450/text

https://sojo.net/magazine/june-2017/just-i-am

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/health/transgender-trump-biology.html

Furtado P. S.; et al. (2012). "Gender dysphoria associated with disorders of sex development". Nat. Rev. Urol. 9 (11): 620–627. doi:10.1038/nrurol.2012.182. PMID 23045263.

Harrison, Jack; Grant, Jaime; Herman, Jody L. "A Gender Not Listed Here: Genderqueers, Gender Rebels, and OtherWise in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey"

Mark A. Yarhouse & Trista L. Carr (2012) MTF Transgender Christians’ Experiences: A Qualitative Study, Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 6:1, 18-33, DOI: 10.1080/15538605.2012.649405

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/trump-administration-define-transgender-out-of-existence-new-york-times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/02/12/education-department-will-no-longer-investigate-transgender-bathroom-complaints/?utm_term=.f39014cfca51

https://www.hrc.org/resources/a-national-epidemic-fatal-anti-transgender-violence-in-america-in-2018

https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2018

https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/23/black-americans-are-more-likely-than-overall-public-to-be-christian-protestant/

https://www.pewforum.org/2014/05/07/the-shifting-religious-identity-of-latinos-in-the-united-states/

https://medium.com/@janelane_62637/the-splendor-of-gender-non-conformity-in-africa-f894ff5706e1

https://unibam.org/2013/05/24/beyond-binary-definitions-of-gender-3rd/

http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

https://ag.org/Beliefs/Position-Papers/Transgenderism-Transsexuality-and-Gender-Identity

http://www.transchristians.org/book/book-objections/deuteronomy-225

http://www.beki.org/dvartorah/crossdressing/

http://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/2009/07/history-and-deuteronomy-225-part-one.html

http://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/2009/07/history-and-deuteronomy-225-part-two.html

https://claudemariottini.com/2009/08/24/women-pants-and-deuteronomy-225-part-1/

https://claudemariottini.com/2009/06/23/jesus-wore-pants/

https://claudemariottini.com/2009/01/26/transvestism-in-ancient-israel/

https://youtu.be/ta9LSx8-9Vc

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/02/religious-groups-policies-on-transgender-members-vary-widely/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-does-the-bible-teach-about-transgender-people

http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/2250/on-transgender-identity

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In the 50th episode of Potstirrer Podcast, Jaye reacts to the Mueller report - or really, the Barr Letter summarizing the report filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Are the conclusions Attorney General William Barr came to regarding the report accurate? What do we know about Barr, and should he be trusted?

Jaye makes the argument that any finding from the Mueller report likely won't matter in terms of repercussions for Donald Trump, but nevertheless, it is vital that the report be released to the public in full. Iran-Contra, the decline of the US as the leader of the free world, and the importance of truth in the latest from Potstirrer Podcast!

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, child molestation, and domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised.

R. Kelly has been an R&B superstar for two decades, with hit songs such as "I Believe I Can Fly" and "I Wish," and winning several music awards, including three Grammys. But while Kelly has enjoyed mainstream success, throughout his career, he has been plagued by allegations of sexual involvement with underage girls and inappropriate, abusive relationships with women and girls.

Recently, the documentary miniseries "Surviving R. Kelly" was released on Lifetime, discussing allegations of Kelly's sexual misconduct, including more recent allegations that he keeps women and girls captive in an abusive "sex cult." The documentary featured interviews with several accusers, family members of alleged victims, former business and personal associates, and family members.

R. Kelly has not been convicted of any crime related to the sexual misconduct and abuse allegations, and he has denied all accusations.

In this episode, Jaye discusses the R. Kelly documentary with her brother, the author of Gods of Life and co-owner of Shining Otaku Comics, Ervin Johnson II. Jaye and Ervin talk about Kelly's history, the #MeToo movement, and women's empowerment. The episode also includes a "palate cleanser" segment where they discuss manga (Japanese comics), Shining Otaku, and Gods of Life.

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Website: http://shiningotaku.com

Citations/Resources:

"The Criminal Justice System: Statistics." RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

Gibbs, Rosemary. 2019. "R. Kelly Charged in Chicago With Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse." Forbes, February 22. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adriennegibbs/2019/02/22/r-kelly-charged-in-chicago-with-aggravated-criminal-sexual-abuse/#4a59fd2d4756

Sobol, Rosemary, and Megan Crepeau. 2019. "R. Kelly Walks Out of Cook County Jail After Paying More Than $160,000 in Overdue Child Support." Chicago Tribune, March 9. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-r-kelly-released-20190309-story.html

"Surviving R. Kelly" - Lifetime Network
https://www.mylifetime.com/shows/surviving-r-kelly

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of homophobia, anti-LGBTQ bigotry, sexual assault and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

In Part I of a two-part series, Jaye focuses on the non-affirming position of many Christian institution as it relates to sexual orientation. She examines the "clobber" verses, making the argument that the non-affirming position is not conclusively supported by the Bible. What damage is being done to LGBTQ people, both inside and outside the church because of the non-affirming doctrine of many American churches? And - can you be Christian and affirming?

Citations:

"Addressing Anti-Transgender Violence." Human Rights Campaign/Trans People of Color Coalition. https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/HRC-AntiTransgenderViolence-0519.pdf?_ga=2.212877463.266057429.1552114026-1186084336.1552114026

"Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation." University of California - Davis. https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_changing.html

Blair, Ralph. 2013. "Clobber Passages." Evangelicals Concerned, Inc. http://ecinc.org/clobber-passages/

Helminiak, Daniel A. 2000 [1994]. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. Novato, CA: Alamo Square Press.

Mallory, Christy, Brown, Taylor N.T., and Kerith J. Conron. 2018. "Conversion Therapy and LGBT Youth." The Williams Institute: UCLA School of Law. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Conversion-Therapy-LGBT-Youth-Jan-2018.pdf

Ryan, Caitlin, Toomey, Russell B. Diaz, Rafael M. and Stephen T. Russell. 2018. "Parent-Initiated Sexual Orientation Change Efforts with LGBT Adolescents: Implications for Young Adult Mental Health and Adjustment." Journal of Homosexuality. November 7, pp.1-15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30403564

Shidlo, Ariel, and Michael Schroeder. 2002. "Changing Sexual Orientation: A Consumers' Report." Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. 2002. 33:3, pp. 249-259. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a8fa/f008ed1c74f105da2ddaf5d20172033e2d4a.pdf

Vines, Matthew. 2014. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships. New York: Convergent Books.

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In the final installment of this two-part series, Jaye provides an overview of Dr. King's transformation - from "outside agitator" to "colorblind civil rights icon." She examines the making of a hero in the American consciousness, and how willful distortion of Dr. King's legacy served a political and social purpose. Is our society that different today than the society of the 1960s? And how has the "rehabilitated" King given the United States an easy out from its original sin of racism?

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When most Americans think of late civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we often picture a unifying Christian minister who used non-violence to advance his dream of racial equality in the United States. King would have been 90 years old this year, had he not been assassinated. We observe his birthday every January, and often hear his name invoked, as well as that of other civil rights leaders, in February during Black History Month.

But in death, has Dr. King been whitewashed?

In the first installment of a two-part series, Jaye discusses some widely-held beliefs regarding Dr. King and the world in which he lived. She provides context for Dr. King's life, and sets the record straight on a respected, but misunderstood historical figure.

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In response to Vice-President Mike Pence stating Christian education should be off-limits to criticism, defending his wife Karen's decision to teach at a Christian school that excludes the LGBTQ community, hashtag #ExposeChristianSchools, started by scholar and exvangelical Chris Stroop @c_stroop, went viral, particularly on Twitter.

Jaye discusses the need for extremist ideology and abusive behavior in evangelical Christian schools to be exposed, and the importance of providing space for those who have lived through attending Christian schools to share their experiences. Jaye also shares a couple of personal stories from briefly attending a Christian elementary school.

Why are right-wing politicians, conservative media, and evangelical Christian leaders hostile to people coming forward with the truth about evangelical Christian education?

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It's a new year, and Jaye ushers in 2019 with thoughts on the government shutdown, advice for the Democratic Party regarding the 2020 presidential election, and a read on Vice President Mike Pence. What makes Pence worse than Trump, and why would a Pence presidency be worse for the United States than Trump remaining in office?

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Citations:

Bruni, Frank. 2018. “Mike Pence, Holy Terror.” The New York Times. July 28. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/mike-pence-holy-terror.html

Cain, Aine. 2018. “Inside the Trump-Endorse Marriage of Mike Pence, Who Calls His Wife ‘Mother’ and Refuses to Dine With Other Women.” Business Insider. February 22. https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-marriage-wife-karen-2017-10

Cross, Lauren. 2017. “Pence Rejects East Chicago’s Request for Emergency Declaration.” The Times of Northwest Indiana. January 18. https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/pence-rejects-east-chicago-s-request-for-emergency-declaration/article_f11de049-2f52-5551-8d44-03f094f3742e.html

Cross, Lauren. 2018. “HUD: East Chicago Disregarded HUD Policies, Failed to Evaluate, Remove Contamination for Housing Projects in Superfund Site.” The Times of Northwest Indiana. January 22. http://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/east-chicago/

D’Antonio, Michael, and Peter Eisner. 2018. The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Ewing, Walter, Martinez, Daniel E., and Ruben G. Rumbaut. 2015. “The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States.” American Immigration Council. July 13. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states

Green, Lloyd. 2018. “Mike Pence: Power, Religion and America’s ‘Shadow President.’” The Guardian. August 28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g90YK0tSW38

Kaltwasser, Jared. 2018. “Early Intervention Could Have Prevented Indiana’s HIV Outbreak.” MD Magazine. September 27. https://www.mdmag.com/medical-news/intervention-could-have-prevented-indianas-hiv-outbreak

“Lead Poisoning.” Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/lead-poisoning

“Lead Poisoning and Health.” World Health Organization. August 23, 2018. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health

Mahler, Jonathan, and Dirk Johnson. 2016. “Mike Pence’s Journey: Catholic Democrat to Evangelical Republican.” The New York Times. July 20. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/mike-pence-holy-terror.html

Mayer, Jane. 2017. “The Danger of President Pence.” The New Yorker. October 23. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-danger-of-president-pence

Morlin, Bill. 2018. “Study Shows Two-Thirds of US Terrorism Tied to Right-Wing Extremists.” Southern Poverty Law Center. September 12. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists

Nowrasteh, Alex. 2015. “Immigration and Crime – What the Research Says.” Cato Institute. July 14. https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-says

Salas-Wright, Christopher P., Vaughn, Michael G., Schwartz, Seth J., and David Cordova. 2016. “An ‘Immigrant Paradox’ for Adolescent Externalizing Behavior? Evidence from a National Sample.” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. January, 51:1, pp. 27-37.

Stack, Liam. 2016. “Mike Pence and ‘Conversion Therapy’: A History.” The New York Times. November 30. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/mike-pence-holy-terror.html

Stark, Kevin. 2018. “How Pollution Seeped Into the Lives of East Chicago Residents.” WBEZ 91.5 Chicago. June 17. http://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/east-chicago/

Thrasher, Steven W. 2018. “Mike Pence is Still to Blame for an HIV Outbreak in Indiana – but for New Reasons.” The Nation. October 4. https://www.thenation.com/article/mike-pence-is-still-to-blame-for-an-hiv-outbreak-in-indiana-but-for-new-reasons/

Twohey, Megan. 2016. “Mike Pence’s Response to HIV Outbreak: Prayer, Then a Change of Heart.” The New York Times. August 7. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/mike-pence-holy-terror.html

Walsh, Joan. 2017. “Why Mike Pence is Worse than Donald Trump.” The Nation. August 22. https://www.thenation.com/article/why-mike-pence-is-worse-than-donald-trump/

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For this year’s “War on Christmas” holiday special – Jaye is joined by her husband Chuckles as they react to strange stories and answer listener questions. Jaye waxes poetic about KFC on an open fire while Chuckles reveals something that even Jaye didn’t know about him.

Citations:

“Col. Harland Sanders 11 Herbs and Spices Firelog.” KFC. https://www.kfc.com/fire-log

“German Chocolate Factory Spill Makes for Sweet Street.” Reuters. December 12, 2018. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/german-chocolate-factory-spill-makes-sweet-street-n947301

Hay, Andrew. 2018. “No Free Money in New Jersey: Police Want Spilled Banknotes Back.” Reuters. December 13. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-jersey-truck-money/no-free-money-in-new-jersey-police-want-spilled-banknotes-back-idUSKBN1OD059

Hooper, Ben. 2018. “Deputies Find Suspected Burglar Was Deer Trapped in Bathroom.” UPI. December 13. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/12/13/Deputies-find-suspected-burglar-was-deer-trapped-in-bathroom/4181544730120/

Hooper, Ben. 2018. “KFC Creates Fried Chicken Scented Fire Log.” UPI. December 13. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/12/13/KFC-creates-fried-chicken-scented-fire-log/7401544720429/

Wamsley, Laurel. 2018. “Satanic Sculpture Installed at Illinois Statehouse, Just in Time for the Holidays.” National Public Radio. December 4. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673422143/satanic-sculpture-installed-at-illinois-statehouse-just-in-time-for-the-holidays

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In November of 2018, 26 year old American explorer and missionary John Allen Chau was killed by the Sentinelese people, an isolated tribal group living on North Sentinel Island off the coast of India. Chau went the island illegally in order to share with them about Christianity. The incident is controversial, sparking outrage, consternation, and even admiration. Were Chau's actions worth the cost of his life? And could his actions cost the Sentinelese people their lives as well? Jaye discusses the parties involved in the incident, Christian missionary work, and why history matters when unpacking the discomfort some have with the idea of missions.

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In light of the growing normalization of white supremacy and related forms of bigotry in the United States, Jaye focuses on the debate between unfettered free speech and the regulation of hate speech. What does "free speech" truly mean in the US context, and why does it matter? Should "dangerous" speech be made illegal? Jaye also discusses libertarian ideology - specifically how, despite its emphasis on individual rights, it may fall short in the realm of free speech. In a corporatocracy, should we consider ensuring free speech rights in relation not only to government, but also to businesses, especially in the Internet age?

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The 2018 midterm elections are here! In this episode, Jaye talks midterm predictions, the Voting Rights Act, millennials and Gen Z, and voter suppression. Jaye also discusses a major think tank responsible for the current Republican agenda, and which supplies the manpower behind GOP presidents from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. Why does this organization have a vested interest in subverting democracy? Can the American people overcome the anti-democratic measures of right-wing politicians and save this country? Listen for more!

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Citations:

"African American Population Distribution Post-Emancipation." 2016. Dartmouth College. February 22. https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/censushistory/2016/02/22/african-american-population-distribution-post-emancipation/ (November 4, 2018)

Arthur, Rob, and Allison McCann. 2018. "How the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Led to Hundreds of Closed Polls." Vice. October 16. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kz58qx/how-the-gutting-of-the-voting-rights-act-led-to-closed-polls (November 4, 2018)

Brophy, Alfred L. "Guinn v. United States (1915)." The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GU001 (November 04, 2018)

Berman, Ari. 2011. "The GOP War on Voting." Rolling Stone. August 30. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-gop-war-on-voting-242182/ (November 4, 2018)

Foner, Eric. 2018. "South Carolina’s Forgotten Black Political Revolution." Slate. January 31. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/01/the-many-black-americans-who-held-public-office-during-reconstruction-in-southern-states-like-south-carolina.html (November 4, 2018)

"Forecasting the Race for the House." FiveThirtyEight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/#lite (November 1, 2018)

"Forecasting the Race for the Senate." FiveThirtyEight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/#lite November 1, 2018)

Kao, Emilie. 2018. "How Religious Freedom Erodes, One Step at a Time." The Heritage Foundation. August 7. https://www.heritage.org/religious-liberty/commentary/how-religious-freedom-erodes-one-step-time (November 4, 2018)

Mahler, Jonathan. 2018. "How One Conservative Think Tank is Stocking Trump's Government." The New York Times. June 20. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html (November 4, 2018)

Onion, Rebecca. 2013. "Take the Impossible 'Literacy' Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s." Slate. June 28. https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/06/voting-rights-and-the-supreme-court-the-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-give-black-voters.html (November 4, 2018)

"Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Was Included on the List The Heritage Foundation Helped Compile." 2018. The Heritage Foundation. August 31. https://www.heritage.org/impact/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-was-included-the-list-the-heritage-foundation-helped(November 4, 2018)

Weyrich, Paul."'I Don't Want Everybody to Vote.'" August 1980. https://youtu.be/pN7IB-d7Hfw (November 4, 2018)

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What if the religious extremism Americans should be most concerned about comes from Christianity? In this episode, Jaye explores the authoritarian, extremist elements of American evangelicalism and the overwhelming support of Donald Trump by white evangelical Christians. Jaye also discusses the Quiverfull movement, the increasing emphasis on authoritarianism and control within evangelical Christian colleges, dominionism, racial reconciliation, evangelical support for Donald Trump's inhumane policies, and parallels between right-wing evangelicalism and ultra-conservative Islam.

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Citations:

Boorstein, Michelle, and Julie Zauzmer. 2018. "White Evangelical Christians Fail to Condemn Family Separations at US Border." The Independent. June 20. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-evangelical-christians-trump-us-mexico-border-families-separation-a8407776.html (October 21, 2018)

Bort, Ryan. 2018. "Why Trump Will Never Lose Evangelical Support." Rolling Stone. August 29. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-evangelicals-716947/ (October 21, 2018)

Cox, Daniel, and Robert P. Jones. 2015. "Deep Divide Between Black and White Americans in Views of Criminal Justice System." Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). May 7. https://www.prri.org/research/divide-white-black-americans-criminal-justice-system/ (October 21, 2018)

Frey, William H. 2018. "The US Will Become 'Minority White' in 2045, Census Projects." The Brookings Institution. March 14. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/ (October 21, 2018)

Garrison, Greg. 2018. "Why Evangelical Christians Support Trump." AL.com. August 29. https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2018/08/why_evangelical_christians_sup.html (October 21, 2018)

Gjelten, Tom. 2018. "Christian Colleges Are Tangled In Their Own LGBT Policies." National Public Radio. March 27. https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/591140811/christian-colleges-are-tangled-in-their-own-lgbt-policies (October 21, 2018)

Green, Emma. 2017. "A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention." The Atlantic. June 14. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-southern-baptist-convention-alt-right-white-supremacy/530244/ (October 21, 2018)

Johnson, Andre E. 2018. "The Fallacy of Racial Reconciliation." Patheos. March 16. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rhetoricraceandreligion/2018/03/fallacy-racial-reconciliation.html (October 21, 2018)

Joyce, Kathryn. 2006. "Arrows for the War." The Nation. November 9. https://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war/ (October 21, 2018)

Lenoe, Matthew. 2018. "Right-Wing Warnings Pose Far More Danger to America than Left-Wing Violence." The Washington Post. September 28. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/28/right-wing-warnings-pose-far-more-danger-america-than-left-wing-violence/?utm_term=.fe6b1724095b (October 21, 2018)

Masci, David. 2015. "Compared With Other Christian Groups, Evangelicals' Dropoff is Less Steep." Pew Research Center. May 15. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/15/compared-with-other-christian-groups-evangelicals-dropoff-is-less-steep/ (October 21, 2018)

Mutz, Diana C. 2018. "Status Threat, Not Economic Hardship, Explains the 2016 Presidential Vote." PNAS. May 8. 115 (19) E4330-E4339. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/1718155115 (October 21, 2018)

Peters, Stephen. 2017. "Trump Administration Explains Vote Against United Nations Resolution." Human Rights Campaign. October 3. https://www.hrc.org/blog/trump-admin-votes-against-resolution-condemning-death-penalty-for-same-sex (October 21, 2018)

Stroop, Christopher. 2018. "Authoritarian Christianity, Or, What Franklin Graham Really Means When He Equates Progressivism with Godlessness." Not Your Mission Field (blog). May 30. https://chrisstroop.com/2018/05/30/authoritarian-christianity-or-what-franklin-graham-really-means-when-he-equates-progressivism-with-godlessness/ (October 21, 2018)

Stroop, Christopher. 2018. "Want to Know the Future of 'Trumpvangelicals' in America? Look at Their Colleges." Playboy. September 25. https://www.playboy.com/read/want-to-know-the-future-of-trumpvangelicals-in-america-look-at-their-colleges (October 21, 2018)

Thomson-DeVeaux, Amelia. 2018. "Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation." FiveThirtyEight. June 21. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-rank-and-file-evangelicals-arent-likely-to-turn-on-trump-over-family-separation/ (October 21, 2018)

Wong, Janelle. 2018. "This is Why White Evangelicals Still Support Donald Trump. (It’s not economic anxiety.)" The Washington Post. June 19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/06/19/white-evangelicals-still-support-donald-trump-because-theyre-more-conservative-than-other-evangelicals-this-is-why/?utm_term=.6aa6ec7efe64 (October 21, 2018)

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Episode 38 - Voting Still Matters...For Now

With the voter registration deadline upon us in many states, Jaye discusses the long-term impact of the vote, and why getting registered to vote and exercising the franchise is important in saving our democracy. She explains how voting in conservatives to federal and state offices over time has led to increased money in politics and reduced political impact from individual voters, especially poor Americans and ethnic minorities. Despite this, Jaye argues that voting still makes a difference, and that focusing on non-voters can help bridge the gap caused by voter suppression.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, particularly in the second main segment of the episode. Please be advised.

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Citations:

Park, Alex. 2014. "10 Supreme Court Rulings—Before Hobby Lobby—That Turned Corporations Into People." Mother Jones. July 10. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/how-supreme-court-turned-corporations-people-200-year-saga/ (October 5, 2018)

"‘Partisan Warfare’: How Republicans Took Control of Congress." 2016. University of Pennsylvania. August 4. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-republicans-took-control-of-congress/ (October 5, 2018)

"Voter Turnout." FairVote. https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#voter_turnout_101 (October 5, 2018)

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Political science researchers Benjamin Knoll and Cammie Jo Bolin join Jaye in this episode to share with listeners their knowledge and research on women clergy, and talk about their new book, She Preached the Word. The researchers discuss some of the book's themes, including the barriers to ordination of women, the acceptance of women clergy in congregations, and the effects they have on their congregations. They also discuss their research methodology, including the new, original data collected and analyzed to arrive at their findings. How do women clergy affect the self-esteem and outlook of women and girls in their congregations, and how might women in religious leadership affect the prospects of women leadership in other areas of public life?

Order the book She Preached the Word: https://www.amazon.com/She-Preached-Word-Ordination-America/dp/0190882360/

Additional Resources by Knoll and Bolin:

"Ten Things to Know About Women's Ordination in the United States": https://blog.oup.com/2018/06/womens-ordination-united-states/
"Who Supports Women's Ordination in America? It's Not Who You Might Think.": https://religioninpublic.blog/2018/06/11/who-supports-womens-ordination-in-america-its-not-who-you-might-think/
"New Research Shows that Women's Ordination Boosts Trust and Commitment Among Some American Worshippers": https://religionnews.com/2018/06/29/new-research-shows-that-womens-ordination-boosts-trust-and-commitment-among-some-american-worshipers/
"It's Good for Girls to Have Clergywomen, Study Shows" https://religionnews.com/2018/07/17/its-good-for-girls-to-have-clergywomen-study-shows/

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Episode 36 - Power and Purity

Several scandals involving sexual harassment and sexual abuse have been uncovered recently in a number of churches across the Christian landscape. Why is abuse within the church such a huge story, why does it occur, and what can churches do better to reduce abuse occurrences and respond to these incidents? Jaye discusses a few of these recent scandals - delving into authoritarianism, sexual repression, and purity culture, and how these mechanisms can enable perpetrators and silence victims.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of sexual activity, sexual assault and child abuse. Please be advised.

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Citations:

"As Pope Ignores Claims He Shielded Sex Abuser, Some Catholics Struggle." 2018. CBS News. August 29. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-no-comment-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-cover-up-vigano-letter/ (September 9, 2018)

Burton, Tara Isabella. 2018. "Megachurch Leadership Resigns to Protest Their Church's Handling of Sexual Misconduct Allegations." Vox. August 9. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/7/17657730/bill-hybels-willow-creek-steve-carter-resigned-allegations-sex-harassment (September 9, 2018)

Galli, Mark. 2018. "We Need an Independent Investigation of Sovereign Grace Ministries." Christianity Today. March 22. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/march-web-only/sovereign-grace-need-investigation-sgm-mahaney-denhollander.html (September 9, 2018)

Goodstein, Laurie. 2018. "How the Willow Creek Church Scandal Has Stunned the Evangelical World." The New York Times. August 9. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/us/evangelicals-willow-creek-scandal.html (September 9, 2018)

Gryboski, Michael. 2018. "Rachael Denhollander's Former Church Apologizes for Mishandling Ex-Gymnast's Concerns." The Christian Post. June 1. https://www.christianpost.com/news/rachael-denhollanders-former-church-apologizes-mishandling-ex-gymnasts-concerns-sovereign-grace-224568/ (September 9, 2018)

Moon, Sarah, and Jo Reger. 2014. “’You Are Not Your Own:’ Rape, Sexual Assault, and Consent in Evangelical Christian Dating Books.” Journal of Integrated Social Sciences. 4(1): 55-74. http://www.jiss.org/documents/volume_4/issue_1/JISS%202014%204(1)%2055-74%20Christian%20Dating%20Books.pdf (September 9, 2018)

"New York, New Jersey, Launch Investigations Into Catholic Church's Handling of Sex Abuse Allegations." 2018. CBS News. September 6. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-new-jersey-launch-investigations-into-catholic-churchs-handling-of-sex-abuse-allegations/ (September 9, 2018)

"Part Three: Life in Christ." Catechism of the Catholic Church. S2:C2:A6 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm (September 9, 2018)

Showalter, Brandon. 2018. "Bishop Apologizes for Groping Ariana Grande at Aretha Franklin's Funeral." The Christian Post. September 3. https://www.christianpost.com/news/bishop-apologizes-groping-ariana-grande-aretha-franklin-funeral-227155/ (September 9, 2018)

Sheehan, Andy. 2018. "301 ‘Predator Priests’ Named In Pa. Grand Jury Sex Abuse Report: ‘They Were Raping Little Boys & Girls’" KDKA-TV. August 14. https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/08/14/pennsylvania-diocese-sex-abuse-grand-jury-report-released/ (September 9, 2018)

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Many of us think of demagogues as charismatic leaders who hold an extreme degree of power over their supporters. But why do people fall for demagogues? In this episode, Jaye takes a deep dive into the subject of demagoguery - exploring how we understand and debate political and social issues. What does a country run by demagoguery mean for democracy?

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Citations:

Balmer, Randall. 2014. "The Real Origins of the Religious Right." Politico. May 27. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133 (August 26, 2018)

Ladd, Chris. 2017. "Pastors, Not Politicians, Turned Dixie Republican." Forbes. March 27. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisladd/2017/03/27/pastors-not-politicians-turned-dixie-republican/#3857ed00695f (August 26, 2018)

Meet the Press. 2018. "Rudy Giuliani: 'Truth Isn't Truth'" NBC News. August 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CljsZ7lgbtw (August 26, 2018)

Merritt, Carol Howard. 2017. "Liberty University, Your Roots are Showing." The Christian Century. May 15. https://www.christiancentury.org/blog-post/liberty-university-your-roots-are-showing (August 26, 2018)

Perlstein, Rick. 2012. "Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy." The Nation. November 13. https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ (August 26, 2018)

Roberts-Miller, Patricia. 2017. Demagoguery and Democracy. New York: The Experiment.

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Highly-rated Latino Christian fiction author Allison K. Garcia is back on Potstirrer Podcast to share with listeners information about her upcoming novel, Finding Amor. Allison chats with Jaye about the inspiration for the new book, writing about characters in a different culture than her own, the family separation crisis on the US/Mexico border, and more! Allison even gives us a sneak peek of what we can expect from Finding Amor!

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Allison's Book Recommendations:
-Waking Up White (2014) - Debby Irving
-Plantation Jesus (2018) - Skot Welch and Rick Wilson
-The Distance Between Us (2012) - Reyna Grande

Collaboration Blog: Diversity Between the Pages

Allison's Recommended Action Groups:

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): https://www.aclu.org/
Virginia Organizing: https://virginia-organizing.org/
Families Belong Together: https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org/
Coming to the Table: https://comingtothetable.org/
Faith in Action: https://www.faithinaction.org/

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With Donald Trump verbally capitulating to Vladimir Putin during the Helsinki summit July 16, the Russia investigation heating up, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigating the NRA for potential money laundering for the benefit of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Trump is clearly embroiled in a great deal of controversy. But in the face of it, Trump tells the American people to believe him over the facts that are publicly available. Evangelical leaders are also steering their flock toward belief in Trump - elevating their defenses of Trump over the Bible they state is inerrant. Will there come a time where Trump Christians will have a moment of clarity and decide that their deal with the devil is untenable?

Citations:

Blitzer, Ronn. 2018. “Update: White House Fixes Omission in Trump/Putin Transcript.” July 25. https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/white-house-may-have-broken-federal-law-by-doctoring-trump-putin-video/

Ingraham, Christopher. 2018. “Two Charts Demolish the Notion That Immigrants Here Illegally Commit More Crime.” The Washington Post. June 19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/two-charts-demolish-the-notion-that-immigrants-here-illegally-commit-more-crime/?utm_term=.ede8e5f1e92c

“Maria Butina is the ‘Spy’ the Trump Administration Asked For: Talker.” 2018. USA Today. July 19. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/19/maria-butina-alleged-spy-trump-administration-asked-talker/800507002/

Martin, Michael. 2018. “Send Your Paycheck or Face the Wrath of God, says Trump Pastor.” Metro. January 9. https://www.metro.us/president-trump/send-paycheck-says-trump-pastor-paula-white

Mazzetti, Mark, and Katie Benner. 2018. “12 Russian Agents Indicted in Mueller Investigation.” The New York Times. July 13. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/mueller-indictment-russian-intelligence-hacking.html

Naham, Matt. 2018. “Mueller has Likely had ‘Secret’ Access to NRA Docs Revealing Origins or $30 Milion Spent on 2016 Election.” Law & Crime. July 2. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/mueller-has-likely-had-secret-access-to-nra-docs-revealing-origins-of-30-million-spent-on-2016-election/?utm_source=engageim

“National Rifle Association.” 2016. Open Secrets. https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cycle=2016&cmte=National%20Rifle%20Assn

Nowrasteh, Alex. 2018. “Criminal Immigrants in Texas: Illegal Immigrant Conviction and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sexual Assault, Larceny, and Other Crimes.” CATO Institute. February 26. https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-illegal-immigrant

Schwartz, Ian. 2018. “Trump: Don’t Believe the Crap You See from These People on Fake News.” Real Clear Politics. July 24. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/24/trump_dont_believe_the_crap_you_see_from_these_people_on_fake_news.html

Smith, Chris. 2018. “’Coincidence Number 395’: The NRA Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was it Russian Money?” Vanity Fair. June 21. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money

Swaine, Jon. 2018. “Maria Butina: Ties Emerge Between NRA, Alleged Spy and Russian Billionaire.” The Guardian. July 26. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/26/maria-butina-nra-svetlana-nikolaeva-konstantin-nikolaev

Tharoor, Ishaan. 2018. “Trump’s Helsinki ‘Disgrace’ Caps a Destructive European Trip.” The Washington Post. July 17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/17/trumps-helsinki-disgrace-caps-a-destructive-european-trip/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.03ef347bbd70

“'These Children Are Being Trafficked, We Must Have Stricter Border Laws': Pastor Paula White Tours Migrant Detention Facility.” CBN News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSSBPrtAAqI

Van Dyk, Ted. 2018. “To Beat Trump, Get a Grip.” The Wall Street Journal. July 23. https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-beat-trump-get-a-grip-1532386992

“What Lies Ahead for Donald Trump and the Church.” 2016. Center for Moral Clarity. November 17. http://cmc.rodparsley.com/News.aspx?nid=4982

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With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court by Donald Trump, many pro-life Americans are rejoicing at the pick. Their hope is that Kavanaugh's elevation to the Court will signal the end of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Jaye explores the question - what will happen if Roe is set aside by the US Supreme Court? Will this achieve the goal of ending abortion, or is that truly the goal? And - to Americans who are staunchly pro-life regarding abortion, is symbolism more important than the outcome of protecting life?

Also - Jaye shares her experiences attending the Families Belong Together Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. This was one of many around the country protesting the Trump Administration's immigration policies June 30, including the policy of family separation at the US-Mexico Border.

Citations:

“CFPB Sues Nation's Largest Student Loan Company Navient for Failing Borrowers at Every Stage of Repayment.” 2017. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. January 18. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-nations-largest-student-loan-company-navient-failing-borrowers-every-stage-repayment/ (July 15, 2018)

Gantz, Sarah. 2018. “Ever Been Depressed? Had Cancer? Pre-Existing Conditions Can Define Your Future.” Chicago Tribune. July 3. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-depressed-cancer-preexisting-conditions-20180703-story.html (July 15, 2018)

Leasca, Stacey. 2018. “These States Will Likely Ban Abortion if the Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade.” Glamour. July 10. https://www.glamour.com/story/trigger-law-states-will-ban-abortion-roe-v-wade-reversed (July 15, 2018)

Moreau, Julie. 2018. “House Republicans Advance Adoption Amendment Critics Say is ‘Anti-LGBTQ.’” NBC News. July 12. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/house-republicans-advance-adoption-amendment-critics-say-anti-lgbtq-n891041 (July 15, 2018)

Mulhere, Kaitlyn. 2018. “Betsy DeVos is Telling States to Stop Cracking Down on Student Loan Companies.” Time. March 9. http://time.com/money/5193456/devos-student-loan-servicers-state-regulations/ (July 15, 2018)

Stratford, Michael. 2018. “CFPB Says Education is Obstructing Access to Navient Records.” Politico. July 12. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-education/2018/07/12/cfpb-says-education-is-obstructing-access-to-navient-records-277104 (July 15, 2018)

Piepenburg, Claudia. 2018. “Private Prisons Play a Large Role in Current Immigration Policy.” The Coast News. July 11. http://www.thecoastnews.com/private-prisons-play-a-large-role-in-current-immigration-policy/ (July 15, 2018)

“Private Prisons.” American Civil Liberties Union. https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/private-prisons?redirect=issues/mass-incarceration/privatization-criminal-justice/private-prisons (July 15, 2018)

“Private Prisons in the United States.” 2017. The Sentencing Project. August 28. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/ (July 15, 2018)

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Several US Supreme Court rulings in June that have emboldened Donald Trump and the GOP, and have left Democrats reeling. In addition, US Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, which means the Trump administration has another opening they can fill on the court. Jaye discusses these and related developments, seeks to place them into perspective. In the wake of these events, Jaye aims to provide messages of admonishment, motivation, and hope.

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Citations:

Crisp, Elizabeth. 2018. “Gov. John Bel Edwards Signs Law Restoring Felon Voting Rights After Five Years.” The Advocate. May 31. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_8f432008-6515-11e8-a42c-4f773f2862c5.html (July 1, 2018)

Gidda, Mirren. 2017. “Most Terrorists in the US are Right Wing, Not Muslim: Report.” Newsweek. June 22. http://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-extremism-islamist-terrorism-donald-trump-steve-bannon-628381 (July 1, 2018)

Kendall, Brent, and Jess Bravin. 2018. “Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban.” The Wall Street Journal. June 26. https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-1530022794 (July 1, 2018)

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1963. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” April 16. https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html (July 1, 2018)

Liptak, Adam. 2018. “Supreme Court Ruling Delivers a Sharp Blow to Labor Unions.” The New York Times. June 27. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-unions-organized-labor.html (July 1, 2018)

Liptak, Adam. 2018 “Supreme Court Upholds Ohio’s Purge of Voting Rolls.” The New York Times. June 11. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/us/politics/supreme-court-upholds-ohios-purge-of-voting-rolls.html (July 1, 2018)

Mashable Daily. “All the Times Trump Has Called for Violence at His Rallies.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs2L2nUL-0

More Information:

Trump v. Hawaii: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-hawaii-3/

Janus v. AFSCME: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/janus-v-american-federation-state-county-municipal-employees-council-31/

Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/husted-v-philip-randolph-institute/

State-by-State Felon Voting Rights: https://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000286

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In our multi-parter second installment of Riverside Chats, Jaye is joined by her husband Chuckles as they share just a little bit of their lively political conversations - as a couple with divergent political views. In Part 2, Jaye and Chuckles discuss poverty, police brutality, and the landscape for 2018 and 2020. Should the Republican Party, who is in control of all branches of federal government, consider courting voters outside of their core base?

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In today's episode, Jaye discusses recent news stories related to undocumented immigration and refugees from Latin America. Where are the 1500 missing migrant children that were being tracked by the federal government? How are children in the custody of US Customs being treated? And is there any moral or ethical issue with calling MS-13 gang members "animals?" Jaye delves into past events as she makes the case that when we dehumanize other people, it becomes all too easy to treat them inhumanely - or watch and do nothing.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of physical and sexual violence, and descriptions of oppressive behavior.

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Citations:

“ACLU Obtains Documents Showing Widespread Abuse of Child Immigrants in US Custody.” 2018. American Civil Liberties Union. May 22. https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-obtains-documents-showing-widespread-abuse-child-immigrants-us-custody (June 3, 2018)

“Bystanders.” “Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008207 (June 3, 2018)

Burke, Garnace. 2018. “Almost 1,500 Migrant Children Placed in Homes by the U.S. Government Went Missing Last Year.” Time. April 26. http://time.com/5256734/government-missing-migrant-children/ (June 3, 2018)

Darby, Luke. 2018. “Trump on Abused Immigrant Children: ‘They’re Not Innocent.’” GQ. May 24. https://www.gq.com/story/trump-on-immigrant-children (June 3, 2018)

Diamant, Jeff and Gregory A. Smith. 2018. “Religiously, Nonwhite Democrats are More Similar to Republicans Than to White Democrats.” Pew Research Center. May 23. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/23/religiously-nonwhite-democrats-are-more-similar-to-republicans-than-to-white-democrats/ (June 3, 2018)

“Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008193 (June 3, 2018)

Goebbels, Joseph. 1932. “We Are Voting for Hitler!” Trans. Randall Bytwerk. Calvin College. http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/angrif12.htm (June 3, 2018)

Gonzales, Richard. 2018. “ACLU Report: Detained Immigrant Children Subjected to Widespread Abuse by Officials.” National Public Radio. May 23. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613907893/aclu-report-detained-immigrant-children-subjected-to-widespread-abuse-by-officia (June 3, 2018)

Hartig, Hannah. 2018. “Republicans Turn More Negative Toward Refugees as Number Admitted to US Plummets.” Pew Research Center. May 24. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/24/republicans-turn-more-negative-toward-refugees-as-number-admitted-to-u-s-plummets/ (June 3, 2018)

Hitler, Adolf. 1937. “On National Socialism and World Relations.” Trans. Randall Bytwerk. Calvin College. http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htm (June 3, 2018)

Jenkins, Aric. 2018. “Jeff Sessions: Parents and Children Illegally Crossing the Border Will Be Separated.“ Time. May 7. http://time.com/5268572/jeff-sessions-illegal-border-separated/ (June 3, 2018)

Martin, James. 2012. “Civil War Conscription Laws.” Library of Congress. November 15. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/11/civil-war-conscription-laws/ (June 3, 2018)

Montini, EJ. 2018. “The Feds Lost – Yes, Lost – 1,475 Migrant Children.” USA Today. May 22. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/05/22/immigration-children-separate-families-lost-kirstjen-nielson/631627002/ (June 3, 2018)

Rizzo, Salvador. 2018. “Fact-Checking Immigration Spin on Separating Families and 1500 ‘Lost’ Children.” Chicago Daily Herald. May 30. http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180530/fact-checking-immigration-spin-on-separating-families-and-1500-lost-children (June 3, 2018)

Vasquez, Tina. 2018. “By Painting Asylum Seekers as ‘Violent Animals,’ Trump Unlocked a School-to-Deportation Pipeline.” Rewire.News. May 24. https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/24/painting-asylum-seekers-violent-animals-trump-unlocked-school-deportation-pipeline/ (June 3, 2018)

Wagner, Steven. “Statement by Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate.” 2018. US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. April 26. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wagner%20Testimony.pdf (June 3, 2018)

“What You Need to Know About the Violent Animals of MS-13.” Whitehouse.gov. May 21. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/need-know-violent-animals-ms-13/ (June 3, 2018)

Williams, Heather Andrea. 2015. “Compartmentalizing Slavery.” Slate. June 17. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/how_white_people_justified_and_struggled_with_separating_slave_families.html

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In our multi-parter second installment of Riverside Chats, Jaye is joined by her husband Chuckles as they share just a little bit of their lively political conversations - as a couple with divergent political views. In Part 1, Jaye and Chuckles debate the Stormy Daniels controversy, revisit health care, and begin discussing the 2018 midterm elections. Should the Democratic Party attempt to court Trump voters, and if so, how can they do that without losing their base?

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Do we have a "free press" in the United States? Jaye makes the case that even though the news media are not owned by the government, elite monopolistic ownership of media outlets and lack of federal regulations lead to outcomes not much different than state-run news media. What does the lack of free press mean for our democracy?

Also - we debut a new segment called "Editorial by Jaye." In the first "editorial," Jaye gives her reaction to the Alfie Evans case. While the case is extremely tragic - is it also an example of nationalized health care gone horribly wrong?

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Aziza, Sarah. 2018. “As Supreme Court Weighs Travel Ban, Trump’s Wider Anti-Muslim Agenda Proceeds Unchallenged.” The Intercept. April 27. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/27/muslim-ban-supreme-court-trump-vetting-muslims/ (May 6, 2018)

Bailey, Isaac J. 2018. “Alfie Evans Shows We Don’t Do Death Well.” The Charlotte Observer. May 4. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article210389519.html (May 6, 2018)

Burke, Timothy. 2018. “How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media” Deadspin. March 31. https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490 (May 6, 2018)

Chang, Alvin. 2018. “Sinclair’s Takeover of Local News, In One Striking Map.” Vox. April 6. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/6/17202824/sinclair-tribune-map (May 6, 2018)

Colker, David. 2015. “The Rev. Everett Parker, Who Fought a TV Station’s Racism, Dies at 102.” Los Angeles Times. September 23. http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-everett-parker-20150923-story.html (May 6, 2018)

“FCC Suspends Last Elements of Broadcast ‘Fairness’ Rules.” 2000. The New York Times. October 4. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/politics/fcc-suspends-last-elements-of-broadcast-acutefairnessacute-rules.html (May 6, 2018)

“The FCC & Censorship: Legendary Media Activist Everett Parker on the Revocation of WLBT’s TV License in the 1960s for Shutting Out Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” [Transcript] 2008. Democracy Now. March 6. https://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/6/the_fcc_censorship_legendary_media_activist (May 6, 2018)

“History of WLBT.” WLBT-TV. http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/212466/history-of-wlbt (May 6, 2018)

Kane, Paul. 2018. “Ryan Dismissing House Chaplain, Leaving Lawmakers Demanding Answers.” The Washington Post. April 27. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-ryan-forces-out-house-chaplain-n869421 (May 6, 2018)

“Local TV News Fact Sheet." 2017. Pew Research Center Journalism & Media. July 13. http://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/local-tv-news/ (May 6, 2018)

Martin, Gregory J., and Josh Martin. 2018. “Local News and National Politics.” Working Paper. Emory University. April 4. http://joshuamccrain.com/localnews.pdf (May 6, 2018)

Matthews, Dylan. 2011. “Everything You Need to Know About the Fairness Doctrine in One Post.” The Washington Post. August 23. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-fairness-doctrine-in-one-post/2011/08/23/gIQAN8CXZJ_blog.html?utm_term=.d070a81e7d83 (May 6, 2018)

Mirabella, Lorraine. 2018. “Friendly Buyers Step Up to Help Sinclair Shed Enough TV Stations to Appease Regulators.” Baltimore Sun. March 9. http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-sinclair-tribune-station-sales-20180307-story.html (May 6, 2018)

Pagano, Penny. 1987. “Reagan’s Veto Kills Fairness Doctrine Bill.” Los Angeles Times. June 21. http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-21/news/mn-8908_1_fairness-doctrine (May 6, 2018)

Stefon, Matt. 2017. “Fairness Doctrine.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. August 16. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fairness-Doctrine (May 6, 2018)
Thierer, Adam. 1993. “Why the Fairness Doctrine is Anything But Fair.” The Heritage Foundation. October 29. https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/report/why-the-fairness-doctrine-anything-fair (May 6, 2018)

Thomsen, Jacqueline. 2017. “Kushner, Ivanka rub elbows with Dem Billionaire Soros at Hamptons Party: Report.” The Hill. July 3. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/340495-ivanka-jared-kushner-rub-elbows-with-dem-billionaire-at-hamptons (May 6, 2018)

Tillman, Zoe. 2018. “The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual.” Buzzfeed. April 29. https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/the-justice-department-deleted-language-about-press-freedom?utm_term=.omRdAev7y#.knzLaerkB (May 6, 2018)

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In the concluding episode of a two-part series, Jaye continues her discussion on the decline of the United States within the framework of her hometown, Detroit, Michigan. She discusses the conditions in Detroit prior to the 1967 Detroit riots that led to the riots and the decline of the city, including workplace discrimination, housing segregation, the destruction of tight-knit black communities by urban renewal, racial strife between white and black Detroiters, and tensions between police and the community. As Detroit is making its comeback, what lessons can Americans learn from Detroit that will help the US survive its "fifth quarter?"

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Anderson, Elisha. 2017. "25 Years Ago, Malice Green Became the Face of Police Brutality in Detroit." Detroit Free Press. November 3. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/eight-mile-road (April 22, 2018)

"Coleman A. Young, 79, Mayor of Detroit and Political Symbol for Blacks, is Dead." 1997. The New York Times. November 30. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/us/coleman-a-young-79-mayor-of-detroit-and-political-symbol-for-blacks-is-dead.html (April 22, 2018)

"CuriosID: How a 1900s Black Detroit Community was Razed for a Freeway." 2015. WDET. October 19. https://wdet.org/posts/2015/10/19/81771-curiosid-how-a-1900s-black-detroit-community-was-razed-for-a-freeway/ (April 22, 2018)

"Deadly Force." WXYZ-TV Detroit. Aired November 6, 2018. https://youtu.be/7HMYEgrv-ho (April 22, 2018)

Dumke, Mick. 2018."Chicago's Gang Database is Full of Errors - And Records We Have Prove It." ProPublica. April 19. https://www.propublica.org/article/politic-il-insider-chicago-gang-database (April 22, 2018)

Dumke, Mick. 2018. "Chicago's Gang Database Isn't Just About Gangs." ProPublica. April 20. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-gang-database-is-not-just-about-gangs (April 22, 2018)

"Encyclopedia of Detroit: Eight Mile Road." Detroit Historical Society. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/eight-mile-road (April 22, 2018)

"Encyclopedia of Detroit: Paradise Valley." Detroit Historical Society. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/paradise-valley (April 22, 2018)

Gallagher, John. 2018. "Amazon to Detroit: You Didn't Have Enough Talent to Get HQ2." January 18. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2018/01/18/detroit-amazon-headquarters-finalists/1043624001/ (April 22, 2018)

"History of Housing Discrimination Against African Americans in Detroit." National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). http://www.naacpldf.org/files/our-work/Detroit%20Housing%20Discrimination.pdf (April 22, 2018)

Konerman, Alyssa. 2017. "25,737 People Lived in Kenyon-Barr When the City Razed it To the Ground." Cincinnati Magazine. February. http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/lost-city-kenyon-barr-queensgate/#disqus_thread (April 22, 2018)

Patterson, Kai. 2016. "Remembering Black Bottom and Paradise Valley." The Mirror News (Henry Ford College). February 22. https://mirrornews.hfcc.edu/news/2016/02-22/remembering-black-bottom-and-paradise-valley#12T08 (April 22, 2018)

Swartsell, Nick. 2017. "Echoes of a Lost West End." CityBeat. November 6. https://www.citybeat.com/news/article/20981774/echoes-of-a-lost-west-end (April 22, 2018)

Sugrue, Thomas J. 2005 [1996]. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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In the first of a two-part series, Jaye discusses the decline of the United States within the framework of her hometown, Detroit, Michigan. She also outlines the conditions needed for a thriving country. Is "inefficient" government truly the problem? Is America a failed state?

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"Covering Watergate: Success and Backlash." 1974. Time. July 8. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943934-1,00.html (April 1, 2018)

"G.I. Bill." The History Channel. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/gi-bill (April 1, 2018)

"L. Brooks Patterson Slams Detroit: 'The Truth Hurts...Tough S***." 2014. WWJ-TV. January 21. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/01/21/l-brooks-patterson-slams-detroit/ (April 1, 2018)

"U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1862-2013." 2013. Tax Foundation. October 17. https://taxfoundation.org/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets/ (April 1, 2018)

Weingroff, Richard F. 1996. "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, Creating the Interstate System." Public Roads. Federal Highway Administration. 60(1).

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In this episode, Jaye contemplates her academic background and personal experiences in American evangelicalism when examining the recent focus by the mainstream media on white evangelicals. Over 80 percent of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in 2016, and many American evangelical leaders continue to defend Trump's rhetoric and actions, which sharply run against the very Bible evangelical doctrine states is the inerrant word of God. Are white evangelical believers being persecuted or led astray? And - is American evangelicalism redeemable?

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Johnson, Elizabeth Wynne. 2018. "Kentucky Votes to Ban Child Marriage." National Public Radio. March 16. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/16/594253182/kentucky-votes-to-ban-child-marriage (March 18, 2018)

Higgins, Michelle, Edmonson, Christina, and Ekemini Uwan. 2017. "Facts About Lecrae." Truth's Table. September 30. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/truths-table/id1212429230?mt=2 (March 18, 2018)

Robertson, Campbell. 2018. "A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers are Leaving White Evangelical Churches." The New York Times. March 9. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/us/blacks-evangelical-churches.html (March 18, 2018)

"United States Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls." United States Department of State. March 2016. https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/254904.pdf (March 18, 2018)

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In this episode, Jaye discusses the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. What are the problems contributing to these school shootings, and what can be done to decrease the instances of these tragedies in the future? Jaye takes on the arguments made on both the extreme pro-gun and anti-gun sides - as Americans on all sides of the Second Amendment / gun control debate are needed to cooperatively craft lasting, working solutions that will save the lives of children and preserve our democracy.

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Cato, Jason. 2018. "Here's a List of Every School Shooting Over the Past 50 Years." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. February 16. http://triblive.com/news/education/safety/13313060-74/heres-a-list-of-every-school-shooting-over-the-past-50-years (March 4, 2018)

Fleshler, David, and Yiran Zhu. 2018. "Timeline: How the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting Unfolded." Sun-Sentinel. February 23. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/sfl-florida-school-shooting-timeline-20180223-htmlstory.html (March 4, 2018) "Mass Shootings." Gun Violence Archive. http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting (March 2, 2018)

McMahon, Paula. 2018. "Nikolas Cruz Left 180 Rounds of Ammunition - With Swastikas - at Parkland School, Sources Say." Sun-Sentinel. March 2. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-nikolas-cruz-left-180-rounds-20180302-story.html (March 4, 2018)

"Past Summary Ledgers." Gun Violence Archive. http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls (March 2, 2018)

Trump, Donald. 2018. 'Keynote.' Presented at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Committee Conference (CPAC), National Harbor, MD.

Wellford, Charles F., Pepper, John V., and Carol V. Petrie. 2005. Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Jaye concludes her two-part discussion of the abortion issue in Part II. She discusses the origins of the Religious Right after the Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court decision in 1973, and the role abortion as a political issue played in the formation of the Religious Right. Jaye also reacts to the tendency of the pro-life movement to co-opt equality movements for their own purposes. In addition, alternatives and solutions that would lower abortion rates are presented. Does the pro-life movement truly want to save the lives of the unborn?

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"Adoption Statistics." Adoption Network Law Center. https://adoptionnetwork.com/adoption-statistics (February 18, 2018)

Balmer, Randall. 2014. "The Real Origins of the Religious Right." Politico. May 27. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133?o=0 (February 18, 2018)

Brown, Stacia L. 2013. "The Problem With Saying 'Black Babies Cost Less to Adopt.'" The Atlantic. July 1. https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/07/the-problem-with-saying-black-babies-cost-less-to-adopt/277452/ (February 18, 2018)

del Guidice, Rachel. 2018. "Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece: 'My Uncle Would Have Been Very Pro-Life." The Daily Signal. January 12. http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/12/martin-luther-king-jr-s-niece-shares-his-legacy-of-unity-reconciliation-non-violence-and-respect-for-life/ (February 18, 2018)

Finer, Lawrence B., Frohwirth, Lori F., Dauphinee, Lindsay A., Singh, Susheela, and Ann M. Moore. 2005. "Reasons US Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 37(3): 110-118. https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2005/reasons-us-women-have-abortions-quantitative-and-qualitative-perspectives (February 18, 2018)

"Full Text of Eric Rudolph's Confession." National Public Radio. April 14, 2005. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4600480 (February 18, 2018)

King, Martin L. Jr. 1966. "Family Planning - A Special and Urgent Concern." Presented at the Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet of Planned Parenthood-World Population. http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/family-planning-special-and-urgent-concern (February 18, 2018)

Papa, Juliet. 2011. "Controversial Anti-Abortion Billboard Causes Stir in SoHo." WCBS-TV. February 23. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/02/23/controversial-anti-abortion-billboard-goes-up-in-soho/ (February 18, 2018)

Pilgrim, David. 2012 [2002]. "The Jezebel Stereotype." Ferris State University. https://ferris.edu/jimcrow/jezebel/ (February 18, 2018)

Robbins, Liz. 2011. "Billboard Opposing Abortion Stirs Debate." The New York Times. February 23. https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/billboard-opposing-abortion-stirs-debate/ (February 18, 2018)

"Six Words: Black Babies Cost Less to Adopt." National Public Radio. June 27, 2013. https://www.npr.org/2013/06/27/195967886/six-words-black-babies-cost-less-to-adopt (February 18, 2018)

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In Part I of a two-part series, Jaye begins to tackle what has arguably been the most controversial political issue in the United States for the past 50 years - abortion. She discusses her own views on the topic and how she arrived at her stance. Jaye also delves into the history of abortion rights in the United States up until the 1973 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court decision.

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"Abortion History in the US." FindLaw. http://family.findlaw.com/reproductive-rights/abortion-and-the-law-background.html (February 4, 2017)

Acevedo, Zoila. 1979. 'Abortion in Early America.' Women & Health 4(2): 159-167. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J013v04n02_05?journalCode=wwah20 (February 4, 2018)

Earll, Carrie Gordon. "What the Bible Says About the Beginning of Life." Focus on the Family. https://www.focusonthefamily.com/lifechallenges/love-and-sex/abortion/what-the-bible-says-about-the-beginning-of-life (February 4, 2018)

"Fetal Development Timeline." BabyCenter. June 2016. https://www.babycenter.com/0_fetal-development-timeline_10357636.bc (February 4, 2018)

Fox, Pat. 2017. "Abortion in the Ancient and Premodern World." ThoughtCo. March 18. https://www.thoughtco.com/abortion-in-the-premodern-world-3528230 (February 4, 2018)

"History of Abortion." National Abortion Federation. https://prochoice.org/education-and-advocacy/about-abortion/history-of-abortion/ (February 4, 2018)

Pollitt, Katha. 1997. "Abortion in American History." The Atlantic. May. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/05/abortion-in-american-history/376851/ (February 4, 2018)

Storer, Horatio Robinson. 1866. Why Not? A Book for Every Woman. Boston: Lee and Shepard.

Thomson, Judith Jarvis. 1971. 'A Defense of Abortion.' Philosophy & Public Affairs 1(1): 47-66. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-3915%28197123%291%3A1%3C47%3AADOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G (February 4, 2018)

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This special Christmas/New Years episode takes a look at the “War on Christmas” – the belief that societal forces are attempting to attack or downplay the Christmas holiday. The “War on Christmas” tends to be a common idea in conservative Christian circles, and exploited by conservative politicians and media. Is there a “War on Christmas,” and what it the concern about Christmas truly about? Jaye also gives a year in review and gives her predictions regarding what we will see in US national politics in 2018 and beyond. One of these predictions is a bit shocking – don’t miss it!

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Citations:

Carbone, Christopher. 2017. “Which Confederate Statues Were Removed? A Running List.” Fox News. September 22. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/21/which-confederate-statues-were-removed-running-list.html (December 23. 2017)

Diamond, Dan. 2013. “Just 8% of People Achieve Their New Year’s Resolutions. Here’s How They Do It.” Forbes. January 1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2013/01/01/just-8-of-people-achieve-their-new-years-resolutions-heres-how-they-did-it/#6ae30191596b (December 23, 2017)

Karenga, Maulana. 2017. “Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture.” The Official Kwanzaa Website. http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml (December 23, 2017)

Mindel, Nissan. 1965. Complete Story of Chanukah. Kehot Publication Society.

Noble, Greg, and Lucy May. 2013. “Cincinnati’s Rise and Fall as a Brewery Town Part 1: From Porkopolis to Beeropolis, How it All Began.” WCPO Cincinnati. September 3. https://www.wcpo.com/entertainment/local-a-e/cincinnatis-rise-and-fall-as-a-brewery-town-part-1-from-porkopolis-to-beeropolis-how-it-all-began?page=2 (December 23, 2017)

Nyang, Sulayman. “Mawlid an-Nabi: Celebrating Prophet Muhammad’s (s) Birthday.” The Islamic Supreme Council of America. http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/spirituality/1--mawlid-an-nabi-celebration-of-prophet-muhammads-s-birthday.html (December 23, 2017)

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Today’s episode is a reminder that truth still matters, even in a “post-truth” era. Jaye discusses the abandonment of truth among many conservative evangelicals in the United States in pursuit of political power. What does the Bible say about truth, and what does it mean for those in American society who claim to hold the Bible as the inspired or literal word of God, yet also profess allegiance to Trump, nationalism, and the Republican Party?

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Citations:

Fisher, Max. 2017. The Jerusalem Issue, Explained.” The New York Times. December 9. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/world/middleeast/jerusalem-trump-capital.html (December 9, 2017)

Haltiwanger, John. 2017. “Roy Moore: Last Time America was ‘Great’ was During ‘Slavery.’” Newsweek. December 7. http://www.newsweek.com/roy-moore-last-time-america-great-during-slavery-741845 (December 9, 2017)

Johnson Pool, Jessica. 2012. "Cultural Worldview, Religious Influence and Interpretation, and American Political Behavior." Department of Political Science. University of Cincinnati. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337716583 (December 9, 2017)

Smith, Laura, and Derek Kravitz. 2017. “Governors and Federal Agencies are Blocking Nearly 1,300 Accounts on Facebook and Twitter.” ProPublica. December 8. https://www.propublica.org/article/governors-and-federal-agencies-are-blocking-accounts-on-facebook-and-twitter (December 9, 2017)

Sullivan, Sean, Scherer, Michael, and David Weigel. 2017. “RNC to Support Roy Moore in Senate Race in Alabama, Weeks After Cutting Ties with His Campaign.” The Washington Post. December 4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/with-trumps-support-moore-could-gain-influence-in-washington/2017/12/04/02da209c-d917-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.6368144b680d (December 9, 2017)

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Today’s episode explores the Second Amendment to the US Constitution in light of the recent mass shootings and rhetoric from American politicians surrounding crime, terrorism, gun control and mental illness. Jaye presents what some listeners may consider a surprising take on the issue of gun control and the Second Amendment. Also, Jaye makes the argument that how politicians, interest groups and the media discuss these issues does the American people a disservice. Does the way we understand and respond to crime and terrorism truly make us safe? Citations: Alexander, Harriet. 2015. “Republican Candidates Accepted Donations from Man Whose Organisation Inspired Dylann Roof.” The Telegraph. June 22. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/11690736/Republican-presidential-candidates-received-donations-from-man-who-inspired-Charleston-shooter.html (November 19, 2017) Mental Health by the Numbers.” National Alliance on Mental Illness. https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers (November 19, 2017) Rosenberg, Eli, Berman, Mark, and Wesley Lowery. 2017. “Texas Church Gunman Escaped Mental Health Facility in 2017 After Threatening Military Superiors.” The Washington Post. November 7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/07/as-texas-town-mourns-details-emerge-on-gunmans-methodical-tactics-in-church-massacre/?utm_term=.6f8e62a5d6da (November 19, 2017) Sanger-Katz, Margot. 2015. “Gun Deaths are Mostly Suicides.” The New York Times. October 8. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html (November 19, 2017) Music: Raga Rage composed by Noisy Oyster provided by freesoundtrackmusic.com Opus Number 1 composed by Derrick Deel and Tim Carleton

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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised. Today’s episode continues with the subject matter of alleged sexual misconduct on the part of famous and powerful figures, and how we react to these accounts. This time, Jaye focuses on the case of Roy Moore, the former state court judge running for the US Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions in the state of Alabama. Moore, a controversial politician strongly aligned with the Religious Right, has been accused of making sexual advances towards teenagers, including a 14 year old girl, in the late 1970s. Why are many of us inclined to take the word of the accused if we can relate to them, or if they are powerful figures we like? Is “winning” more important than standing by our word? Citations: Dale, Daniel. 2017. “It was 40 years ago” Twitter. November 9 [4:07 PM – 7:05 PM]. https://twitter.com/ddale8 (November 12, 2017) Hannity, Sean. 2017. “Interview with Roy Moore.” Hannity [Radio]. November 10. (November 12, 2017) Huseman, Jessica. 2017. "Trump Voter Fraud Commission Is Sued — By One of Its Own Commissioners." ProPublica. November 9. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-voter-fraud-commission-dunlap-lawsuit (November 12, 2017) Jenkins, Nash. 2017. “Senate Candidate Roy Moore Says NFL Protesters are Breaking the Law.” Time. October 18. http://time.com/4987441/roy-moore-nfl-protests-law/ (November 12, 2017) Keneally, Meghan, Verhovek, John, and Kevin Pliszak. 2017. “Alabama Republican Candidate Roy Moore’s History of Controversial Statements.” ABC News. November 10. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alabama-republican-candidate-roy-moores-history-controversial-statements/story?id=51061832 (November 12, 2017) Manchester, Julia. 2017. “Falwell Jr. Stands by Moore: ‘I Believe the Judge is Telling the Truth.’” The Hill. November 10. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359779-falwell-jr-stands-by-moore-i-believe-the-judge-is-telling-the (November 12, 2017) McCrummen, Stephanie, Reinhard, Beth, and Alice Crites. 2017. “Woman Says Roy Moore Initiated Sexual Encounter When She Was 14, He Was 32.” The Washington Post. November 9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/woman-says-roy-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14-he-was-32/2017/11/09/1f495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?utm_term=.a3e781f7c5d7 (November 12, 2017) Stetzer, Ed. 2017. “No, Christians Don’t Use Joseph and Mary to Explain Child Molesting Accusations.” Christianity Today. November 9. https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2017/november/roy-moore.html (November 12, 2017) Terkel, Amanda. 2017. “Mitt Romney Tells Roy Moore to Step Aside: I Believe Leigh Corfman.” Huffington Post. November 10. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-roy-moore_us_5a05be95e4b0e37d2f371e99 (November 12, 2017) Wegmann, Philip. 2017. “Alabama State Auditor Defends Roy Moore Against Sexual Allegations, Invokes Mary and Joseph.” Washington Examiner. November 9. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/alabama-state-auditor-defends-roy-moore-against-sexual-allegations-invokes-mary-and-joseph/article/2640217 (November 12, 2017) Music: Raga Rage composed by Noisy Oyster provided by freesoundtrackmusic.com Opus Number 1 composed by Derrick Deel and Tim Carleton

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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised. In today's episode, Jaye frames the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal and other sexual misconduct incidents currently in the news as part of a larger discussion on how we respond to oppression and violence. Why are many of us inclined to take the word of the accused if we can relate to them, or if they are powerful figures we like? At the same time, why do we hide behind “they weren’t convicted” or “I wasn’t there” to justify not believing the survivors? Jaye discusses the dynamic of privilege from a place of self-awareness and gives her thoughts on how we can better respond to people who share their experiences. Citations: Farrow, Ronan. 2017. “From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories.” The New Yorker. October 23. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories (October 29, 2017) Feldblum, Chai R. and Victoria A. Lipnic. 2016. “Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace.” US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. June. https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/task_force/harassment/upload/report.pdf (October 29, 2017) Graves, Lucia. 2017. “Donald Trump’s Sexual Harassment Accusers Hope President Goes Way of Weinstein.” The Guardian. October 23. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/23/donald-trump-sexual-harassment-accusers-harvey-weinstein (October 29, 2017) Kantor, Jodi, and Megan Twohey. 2017. “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.” The New York Times. October 5. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html (October 29, 2017) Levin, Sam. 2017. “Women Accusing Trump of Sexual Harassment are Lying, Says White House.” The Guardian. October 28. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/27/donald-trump-sexual-harassment-claims-women-lying-white-house (October 29, 2017) Manchester, Julia. 2017. “Former GOP State Senate Candidate Accuses George H.W. Bush of Groping Her.” The Hill. October 28. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357618-former-gop-state-senate-candidate-accuses-george-hw-bush-of (October 29, 2017) Moniuszko, Sara M. 2017. “Harvey Weinstein Scandal: A Complete List of the 60 Accusers.” USA Today. October 27. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/10/27/weinstein-scandal-complete-list-accusers/804663001/ (October 29, 2017) Pierson, David, and Tracy Lien. 2017. “She’s Harassed at Work, She Tells Human Resources, and They Do Nothing. Here’s How to Fix That.” Los Angeles Times. October 28. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-hr-sexual-harassment-20171028-story.html (October 29, 2017) Rosenberg, Eli. 2017. “Mark Halperin Apologizes for ‘Crude and Aggressive’ Behavior as Harassment Accusations Mount.” The Washington Post. October 27. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/27/mark-halperin-apologizes-for-crude-and-aggressive-behavior-as-harassment-accusations-mount/?utm_term=.a63dd291353b (October 29, 2017) Zimmerman, Amy. 2017. “Why Didn’t Anyone Listen to Corey Feldman’s Warnings About Pedophilia in Hollywood?” The Daily Beast. October 26. https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-didnt-anyone-listen-to-corey-feldmans-warnings-about-pedophilia-in-hollywood (October 29, 2017) Music: Raga Rage composed by Noisy Oyster provided by freesoundtrackmusic.com Opus Number 1 composed by Derrick Deel and Tim Carleton

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