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41:37

A Post-Mortem on the Seattle Teacher Strike – Dahlia...

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2022/10/03

In September, teachers in Seattle Schools went on a five-day strike. While the usual suspects in conservative media collectively pulled a hamstring faking umbrage, the community was widely supportive of the strike. Yet many people...

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52:25

WTF Did I Just Watch??? A (Spoiler-Filled) Hour on...

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2022/09/20

After a series of episodes about mass incarceration and duplicitous, corrupt sheriffs, today’s episode is something different. We talked about Running with the Devil: the Wild World of John McAffee, a new Netflix documentary film...

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44:18

The Case Against Ed Troyer, Part 2 – Justin Camarata...

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2022/09/07

In this episode, the second of a two-part series, we continue exploring the controversial term of Pierce County Sheriff, Ed Troyer. In this episode, we look and the public record including two official investigations into...

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48:19

The Case Against Ed Troyer, Part 1: Troyer and the...

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2022/08/22

In this episode, the first of a two-part series, we dig into the turbulent term of the elected Pierce County Sheriff, Ed Troyer. In this episode, we look at Troyer’s influence on the investigation into...

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44:33

Mass Incarceration & Restorative Justice at San...

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2022/08/16

The United States imprisons twice as many people per capita as Vladimir Putin’s Russia and four times the number of communist China. The Prison Within is a documentary about mass incarceration and the harm it...

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41:58

How to Resist Amazon and Why — Danny Caine, Author &...

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2022/08/01

Danny Caine is the co-owner and proprietor of the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas. He is also the author of How to Resist Amazon and Why a zine/audiobook about the business practices of Amazon and...

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59:36

Understanding the Worst Inflation in 40 Years — Bill...

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2022/07/25

On July 13, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a year over year price rise of 9.1%. Driven by rising food and energy costs, the United States is experiencing the worst inflationary period since 1980....

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58:23

Police Unions and Enabling Politicians – Aaron...

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2022/07/19

This week, we are discussing police unions and how they protect bad actors. But it is also a conversation about the elected officials who don’t hold law enforcement accountable. This conversation is in part a...

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55:35

On the Rightward Lurch of the US Supreme Court and...

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2022/07/04

Over the month of June, the US Supreme Court released a series of rulings that upended established precedent (accepted legal patterns) in American society. They weakened the first amendment’s establishment clause, the fifth amendment’s Miranda...

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53:45

The January 6 Hearings, Christian Nationalism, and...

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2022/06/25

The founding thesis of this podcast back in 2017 was that national politics in the US is largely broken, possibly irreparably, and that it’s essential to put our collective energy into state/local activism, issues, and...

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49:12

A Mid-Season Sounders and Defiance Check-in — Dave...

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2022/06/06

Dave Clark is the founder of Seattle Sounders blog, Sounder at Heart and a former color commentator for Tacoma Defiance. He came on the show to offer a mid-season check-in on the state of the...

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53:50

Reflecting on the Crypto Crash and Looking for Use...

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2022/05/31

The host of this show is not a crypto true-believer but I do dabble in the digital asset market. I remain unconvinced about the long-term value of current cryptocurrencies, but I think there is potential...

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51:16

How to Run Your Own Social — Darius Kazemi, Creator...

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2022/05/23

You know how we say “Black Twitter,” “Legal Twitter,” “Academic Twitter,” or “Soccer Twitter”? What if those were real and distinct communities? What if there was a smaller “[Whatever You’re Into] Twitter” free of ads,...

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52:58

Reclaiming the Education Policy Narrative from the...

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2022/05/02

Vilson is a veteran of the classroom, a math teacher from the Bronx, and the author of This is Not a Test, Jose is currently away from the classroom pursuing a Ph.D. from Columbia. He...

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56:21

Black Conservatism and the Peril for the Democratic...

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2022/04/18

Tori Douglass is an ex-evangelical, ex-conservative anti-racist educator. She was born and raised in the Portland Area and since 2015 has been an outspoken critic of American evangelicalism and the racism present in many evangelical...

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59:16

Protecting Your Online Privacy — Bill Fitzgerald,...

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2022/04/04

Big tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google are swimming in an absolute ocean of our private data. In any ways, we have been worn down and lulled into a sense of helplessness about it....

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39:06

What Everyone (Especially Teachers) Should Know About...

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2022/03/29

Ramadan begins April 3. Millions of Americans and millions of students in the US will be fasting during daylight hours for a month. We invited on Amy Daraiseh, a teacher and life coach from Chicago,...

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49:17

Wrapping the 2022 State Legislative Session – Melissa...

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2022/03/21

Melissa Santos is a political reporter for Crosscut and a regular guest on the show. She joined us this week to talk about what passed and what didn’t in the 2022 Washington State Legislative Session....

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57:29

The State of Teaching, Burnout, and His Latest Book,...

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2022/03/07

Tom Rademacher is the 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year and the author of two books: It Won’t Be Easy, An Exceedingly Honest (and slightly unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching and Raising Ollie. The last...

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42:43

An Expert’s Read on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine –...

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2022/02/27

Jeff Hawn is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics with an area of expertise in US/Russia relations. He previously joined us in October on episode 143 to talk about democratic erosion in...

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