These types of chance, you know, affect people, cause this internal scream. Well, am I an American? Am I an American?

The president pours kerosene and then strikes a match and then puts a blowtorch to the Tinderbox that is America.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

A chat group involving the governor of Puerto Rico

reveals entrenched corruption, partisanship, and disdain for the governed.

That's what we've been learning for the past 25, 30 years,

but everything has come crashing down in this moment.

Also, YouTube is a haven for the alt-right, but popular left-wing hosts are trying to change that.

My persona seemed unexpectedly cool and self-deprecating and edgy. In other words, just

drastically the opposite of what you expect from a so-called social justice warrior.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is out.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

We know where it started.

Those tweets last Sunday from America's president aimed at four Democratic Congresswomen,

all American citizens, all women of color, all in politic in their impatience for change.

So here's the tweet.

Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.

These places need your help badly. You can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi

would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements.

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