“News for People Who Give a Damn.”
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Judd Legum was a regular on the Bill Press Show for years. Today, he makes his debut on the Bill Press Pod. Legum writes a four-times per week newsletter, Popular Information, that practices Independent Accountability Journalism. He compares what people and institutions SAY to what these same people and institutions actually DO. Today we talked about the Great Replacement Theory behind the Buffalo shooting, that has been mainstreamed by Right Wing media and politicians; which corporations are contributing to Right Wing politicians while espousing Human Rights; Ron DeSantis and book banning in Florida and what the heck is going on with Elon Musk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, it happens too damn often. |
| 0:13.0 | There are far too many mass shootings in this country. |
| 0:16.0 | In fact, that happens so often we tend to take them for granted. |
| 0:20.0 | And yet there was something |
| 0:21.2 | especially painful about last Saturdays mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, not only 13 |
| 0:26.6 | people shot, 10 of them fatally, but 11 out of 13 were black and targeted by the gunmen |
| 0:34.3 | only because they were black. It was an outright racist attack motivated, |
| 0:40.5 | the young killer admitted by a crackpot idea called the Great Replacement Theory. The idea |
| 0:47.2 | that Democrats or Jews or both are deliberately working to take political power away from |
| 0:53.7 | white people and give it to African Americans and other people of color. |
| 0:59.9 | I found one of the best analyses of the Great Replacement Theory in a political newsletter called Popular Information, |
| 1:08.1 | founded by Jud Legum, a brilliant young journalist I work closely with when he |
| 1:13.1 | was editor-in-chief at Think Progress, at the Center for American Progress. In popular |
| 1:19.1 | information, his newsletter, Judd Legum provides great reporting and important background on the |
| 1:25.3 | major news stories of the day. |
| 1:34.6 | And today, we're lucky to have him bring that wealth of information to us here on the Bill Press Pot. |
| 1:39.7 | Judd-Nigam has been a long time since Think Progress, but it's really good to connect again. |
| 1:41.1 | Good to be back with you. |
| 1:41.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:43.3 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:51.4 | So I want to start with Monday's edition of the newsletter, your newsletter, popular information. |
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