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Margaret reports from her time at the trial of 12 environmentalists in Virginia who fought against a fracked gas pipeline through Appalachia.
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President Donald Trump has promised to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. Education advocates worry about what that means for the $119 billion the federal government sends to public K-12 schools and what becomes of the programs supporting Native American students. We’ll get a sense of what the future for Native primary and secondary education along with concerns from Native educators and policy advocates. James talks to Kevin McDonald about the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the history and future of peacekeeping there.
Buy Kevin's book: https://www.mayobooks.ie/A-Life-Less-Ordinary-Kevin-McDonald
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Katherine's books have been vital to understanding the Right. This book tackles different factions - the billionaires, Christian Nationlists, and the New Right, among others - and their strange alliances that have successfully taken over our country.
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Exactly the inspiration you need. Exactly the perfect time. Pass it on to anyone who loves art and/or speaking up. I went to Comic-Con’s little sister, WonderCon, to moderate a panel on protest art with expert Carol Wells, the founder of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and C. Andrew Hall, from the Spesh Ep: Functional Magic's Environmental Art episode we did in 2021 about the non-profit he founded. So come along to WonderCon – free admission – as we chat about protest art, different approaches graphically, camouflage among ads, defining propaganda, the tiniest mightiest posters, collectible gig posters for the climate, and how the anti-war movement affected history. Also, short warning, we do discuss a few images of war photojournalism in this episode.
Donations were made to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Functional Magic
Yay! Functional Magic t-shirt Kickstarter!
Zoom: March 3, 8pm EST: A Beginners Guide to Street Art with Dr. Sarah McAnulty
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Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes
Other episodes you may enjoy: Spesh Ep: Functional Magic's Environmental Art, Modern Toichographology (MURALS & STREET ART), FIELD TRIP: I Take You to the Making of a Mural, Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY), Agnotology (WILLFUL IGNORANCE), Critical Ecology (SOCIAL SYSTEMS + ENVIRONMENT), Theoretical & Creative Ecology (SCIENCE & ECOPOETRY)
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The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal
How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare
Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5
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Sources/Links:
The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/
Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.
Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)
James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)
Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)
Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)
Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5
https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf
https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/
https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief
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