India Walton, the socialist candidate for mayor of Buffalo, NY won the Democratic Party primary on Tuesday, all but securing her election in the fall, given that Buffalo is a deeply blue city. Walton will become Buffalo’s first female mayor and will with the first socialist to lead a major American city since sewer socialists ran Milwaukee, Wisconsin in early 20th century. She beat Mayor Byron Brown, a four-term incumbent and close ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and ran a campaign focused on returning power to working people in New York State's second largest city.
Biden signals he’ll back the new bi-partisan infrastructure bill as long as Congress sends him a second bill at the same time that includes investments in our social infrastructure cut from the bipartisan agreement. That second bill will most likely need to run through the reconciliation process. Already, Sen. Lindsay Graham is bolting.
The Pacific Northwest is expected to be hit by an extreme heatwave this weekend. The National Weather Service is forecasting temperatures as high as 109 degrees. The heatwave comes as the region is already experiencing a significant drought and high fire risk. One more argument for why climate changes needs to be front and center of the infrastructure bill - those very measures that were cut from the bipartisan agreement.
Joseph McCarthy...check that...I mean, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has signed a bill into law that will cut university funds if it finds that critical race theory or any other intellectual pursuit that does not hum to the tune of a whitewashed version of American history. The bill encouraged students to record classes to rat on professors who deviate from GOP sanctioned speech.
Huge supreme court decision protecting free-speech in the cast of PA high school cheerleader Brandi Levy.
PA GOP continues its assault on voting rights.
One week left in public comment about PASSHE consolidation plans.
The International Space Station got some new solar panels this week.
Hope some of you caught last night’s Strawberry Super Moon.
DuckDuckGo, a Chester County-based search engine the claims not to share or collect any of your private information is making moves to launch a full-scale desktop browser.
Twitter was all a-buzz this week as Sam Seder - host of the Majority Report - surprised the horrible right-wing YouTuber, Steven Crowder on the H3 podcast with Ethan Klein. Crowder had been avoiding a debate with Seder for years. His public meltdown, I admit, was a joy to watch.
Out d'Coup | Louisville Pays Breonna Taylor's Family; Wrecking the CDC; Climate Crisis; Fed Judge Says Wolf's Orders Unconstitutional; PA Voting Wins; PASSHE Fails; Space Grift; Free Will and Levante
Out d'Coup | A Friday Filled with Tech Issues
Out d'Coup | Herd Immunity Experiment; Vaccinate the Vote; Kenosha; Vote Early Vote Often; Biden Goes Law and Order; Wolf Fail; HB 2626; Skip Ebert and Scott Perry; Hot Spot U; Food and Beer
Out d'Coup | Jacob Blake; Kenosha Police; White Supremacist killer; Commonwealth Leadership Fund; Bloomsburg U; COVID-19 at KU; Free Will
Out d'Coup LIVE | Student Organizers from Kutztown University, East Stroudsburg University, and Temple Uninversity
Out d’Coup | Democratic Party Convention; QAnon Candidates; Jim Cox Sucks; University Reopening Disasters; Licking Boots of Management Won’t Get the Goods; KU Plague Doc Protest; Free Will Recs
Out d'Coup LIVE | Organizers Tamara Anderson and Dana Carter from Philly-based Racial Justice Organizing Committee
Out d'Coup LIVE | Public School Teacher and Activist Steven Singer and the K-12 COVID-19 Gamble
Out d'Coup | Senate Fails on Unemployment and Eviction; Cori Bush Historic Win; TikTok; Reopening Schools; PA Corruption; Kutztown U Pres Doubles-Down on Reopening; Send Hawkinson Grits; Beer Recs
Out d'Coup LIVE | Higher Ed Organizing During the Pandemic
Out d’Coup | No Pandemic Relief Deal; DNC Platform Fail; Kodak Play; Climate Crisis; PA COVID-19; Russ Diamond’s COVID Caucus; Kutztown COVID U; Space News; Free Will, Levante, and New Trail
Out d'Coup LIVE | July 27, 2020 | 717 Restaurant Workers United and Harrisburg DSA
Out d'Coup | Rest in Power Michael Brooks; Portland Uprising; Wall of Moms; 717 Restaurant Workers United; Mars Rover; Levante Brewing; Free Will Brewing; Mystic Ways Brewing comes to Perkasie
Out d'Coup LIVE | July20, 2020 | Back-to-School in the Pandemic
Out d'Coup | Back from Vacation; Gas on COVID Pyre; Georgia Off Rails; LV Stands Up; APSCUF Survey; PASSHE Returning; Trump Sues PA; Free Will, New Trail, Pizza Boy
Out d'Coup ARCHIVE Edition | We're on vacation, so we've dipped into the archives. We've got Episode 52 from July 2017
Out d’Coup | COVID-19 Surge; Jamaal Bowman; Primary Wins; Nunes’s Cow Wins; NYT Exposes Philly Cops; PASSHE Reopen Plans; PA Stands Up; NASA Mary Jackson Headquarters; Free Will and Beer
Out d’Coup | Rayshard Brooks; Pressure to Kick Out Police Union; NY Primaries; U of Cincinnati Austerity; Florida Metcalfe; Bye Turzai; Wooder ISIS; PASSHE Reopening; Free Will and New Trail
Out d’Coup | Defund Police; Return of Trump Rallies; Statues Come Down; Return of Janus; Summer Lee’s Stand; PASSHE Plans for Fall; Bye-Bye Turzai; Space Force; Just Reads; Free Will Stands Up
Out d’Coup | George Floyd Protests; Trump Autocracy; Protest Crackdown; Defund Police; Progressive PA Primary Wins; Frank Rizzo Statue; Opening PA; SpaceX and NASA; Menzingers; Free Will Releases
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