Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

And this is Robbie Martin.

Sorry for the last podcast. I felt like I was like yelling into the microphone. It was like a little bit hard for me to hear. I had to turn on the volume because my voice was very acute. So I apologize for people. I'll try to hold the mic a little bit farther away from my mouth.

You're fucking time to be angry though. It's understandable.

Yeah. And so, you know, we did this giant podcast for people who haven't checked it out.

You definitely should because we did it right after the Muslim ban and just kind of a raw emotional

response to that.

But a lot has happened since then.

As we know, Trump is signing these executive orders every day, multiple.

He just signed today that gave police sweeping authority.

He, like, did an appeal to quote unquote criminals right after the appointment and confirmation

of Jeff Sessions, a notorious racist who was deemed two racist to be a federal judge 30 years ago

is somehow just okay in this climate now.

But he like, you know, he's standing next to sessions and he's just like, your time is over,

criminals. There's a new day. And we're coming after you. It's like, what in the hell is this?

We already know that police act with total impunity. We know that there was like an unprecedented amount

of support that police gave to Trump. There's already been stories of like police wearing maga hats

on the job. It's a very scary climate when that was a cornerstone of his campaign to quote,

reinstate law and order. Like to me, that just means mass criminalization of minorities. Honest. Yeah. Or just

like easy, like, um, things that the police have, like, there's a lot of laws in this country

where the police have their own way of dealing with it. It's not, not necessarily that they're

decriminalized, but the police

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