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Wow, EXCELLENT, THOROUGH coverage of the gist of the many issues going on currently here in WI. I’m very involved with the Dems and essentially PRO DEMOCRACY efforts and organizations and my goodness-it’s hard to stay as current as possibly because things are so in flux right now….so, as an activist of sorts, I really appreciate this succinct reporting. Our state motto has been “Forward WI”, partly due to Gov. Bob “Fighting Bob” Lafollette and we have been woefully regressive over these last 10-15 yrs due to our previously VERY corrupt WI State Supreme Court. The GOP legislators are awful, highly corrupt and this current power grab they are attempting is one of the WORST actions done by any state legislature (& that’s saying a lot, given the state of things around the country) and certainly is THE WORST ever in the history of WI state politics. That is why we need an all hands on deck call for help to defend justice by going to DefendJustice.com and/or WisDems.org to sign up for a phone bank shift, canvas or all of the above! We are a swing battleground state and the situation that happens here can very well happen elsewhere around the country if we don’t fight back!!

i listen to a lot of news podcasts and mary harris is hands down the best interviewer in the podcast business. i really appreciate her pushing back with facts in the latest abortion episode

I dont always love the topics that are chosen, but no matter what the topic is, you can be sure to gain a solid, basic, understanding of whatever is being discussed. Also, Mary Harris is perfect and I love listening to her voice. I’d pay her to tell me any bad news. One of my favorite podcasts and I listen to every show, sometimes multiple times.

Covers current topics like The Daily, but digs much deeper for sources with a smart and empathic host/interviewer. If only I could get my NPR station to air this instead!!

The episode for the week of May 27th, which came out two days after Israel launched a missile attack that burned more than 30 displaced people living in tents alive in Rafah, features an interview with a young, sympathetic IDF reservist who casually drops lines like “They [Palestinians] started this, so why should I care?” She gets no *meaningful* pushback from Mary Harris, the host (someone who knows perfectly well what the Nakba is and when it happened).

You could do this interview if you were critical, called out the Hasbara, and also chose to platform Palestinian victims of genocide. But Mary Harris did none of that, which suggests to me she feels a connection to one side and not the other. I don’t want to keep listening to a podcast that supports settler colonialism and genocide.

I always looked forward to listening to this show, but was completely turned off by the Fani Willis episode. The dismissive way the host and guest discussed her experiences with racism left a bad taste in my mouth. As a Black woman, it’s always disappointing to hear those that are not act like it’s not a serious issue, and didn’t remotely come into play in this particular case. Usually Mary doesn’t seem to take a side, but this time was different. Won’t be listening as much as I used to.