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How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats' Failures Explained
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- How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats' Failures Explained
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- David Sirota joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to expose the enormous financial incentives shaping Democratic politics and why political consultants can accumulate “generational wealth” even when their candidates lose.
Sirota explains how consultants profit from massive television-ad purchases, how billionaire-funded super PACs influence the candidates and policies voters are offered, and how the language of “moderation” and “electability” is used to undermine progressive and populist challengers.
We examine the consequences of legalized political corruption: Washington’s silence on America’s healthcare crisis, the widening gulf between voters and their representatives, and the 50-year campaign to transform elections into auctions while concentrating power in the presidency.
David Sirota is the founder of the investigative news organization The Lever, a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, an Oscar-nominated co-creator of the ...
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- Trump Threats Overshadow Brazil's Presidential Election
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- 9:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his campaign for a fourth and final term before thousands of supporters in São Bernardo do Campo, promising to keep fighting poverty and investing in Brazil's future. His challenger: Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, running in place of his father, former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest after being convicted of attempting a coup. US President Donald Trump has backed the Bolsonaros with tariffs, visa revocations, and open pressure — what experts call a new era of US dominance over Latin America.
Michael Fox reports from São Paulo, with voices from Lula's campaign launch, evangelical Bolsonaro supporters on the streets of São Paulo, and foreign relations professor Igor Fuser.
#brazil #lula #bolsonaro #trump
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- David Sirota: How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats' Failures Explained
- Runtime
- 39:15
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- David Sirota joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to expose the enormous financial incentives shaping Democratic politics and why political consultants can accumulate “generational wealth” even when their candidates lose.
Sirota explains how consultants profit from massive television-ad purchases, how billionaire-funded super PACs influence the candidates and policies voters are offered, and how the language of “moderation” and “electability” is used to undermine progressive and populist challengers.
We examine the consequences of legalized political corruption: Washington’s silence on America’s healthcare crisis, the widening gulf between voters and their representatives, and the 50-year campaign to transform elections into auctions while concentrating power in the presidency.
David Sirota is the founder of the investigative news organization The Lever, a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, an Oscar-nominated co-creator of the ...
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- Beyond the Wire | Boots on the Ground: Community-Led Safety Panel
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- 1:29:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- On August 8th at the Real News Studio, a screening of the new documentary Beyond the Wire—directed by filmmaker Dr. S. Rasheem—was followed by a panel discussion featuring seasoned conflict mediation organizers from the film. The participants explored their grassroots efforts to challenge the corporate media establishment’s heavy emphasis on crime—which drives city policy and the local economy—and redefine Baltimore’s historical present as a city of abolition.
#thewire #baltimore #police
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- Indiana Residents are Fighting to Survive. Why isn't this Getting More Coverage?
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP GARY INDIANA:
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After a deadly “derecho” storm and flash floods slammed the midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana have been surviving without power for 12 days and counting. According to the Associated Press, “Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border.
The utility said it has restored power to 306,500 others since Aug. 11. But power is not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday [Aug. 25] in some places, including Gary.” In this urgent episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with a panel of residents and...
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- Indiana Residents Are Fighting to Survive. Why isn't This Getting More Coverage?
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- 8:15
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- After a deadly “derecho” storm and flash floods slammed the Midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana, have been surviving without power for 12 days and counting. According to the Associated Press, “Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border.
The utility said it has restored power to 306,500 others since Aug. 11. But power is not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday [Aug. 25] in some places, including Gary.” In this urgent video, we speak with two residents and community leaders about the ongoing blackout in Gary and the conditions that led to this avoidable national tragedy.
Guests include: Freida Graves, Project Director at the faith-based nonprofit Families Anchored in Total Harmony (FAITH) CDC; and Reverend John Jackson, Pastor of Trinity United...
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- British Petroleum Wages War on Its US Workers as Oil Profits Explode
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- 13:01
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- For the last five months, oil giant British Petroleum (BP) has locked 800 workers out of their jobs at a crude oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The facility, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, is BP’s last unionized oil refinery in the United States. BP says it is pursuing “modernized job structures, training, and upskilling,” but workers and their union—United Steelworkers Local 7-1—say that the company has not bargained in good faith, that its contract proposals pose blatant existential threats to workers’ jobs, pay, and collective bargaining rights, and that the company is illegally trying to crush the union out of existence with the lockout.
We speak with three locked-out workers at the BP oil refinery in Whiting: Eric Schultz, president of USW Local 7-1; Leno Miller, assistant griever for USW Local 7-1; Tim Powell, a 19-year member of USW Local 7-1, and a volunteer for the lockout assistance committee.
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- The Moment Corporate Media Gave Israel The Greenlight to Commit Genocide in Gaza
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- On October 17th, 2023, an Israeli shelling of the Al-Ahli Hospital killed over 250 Palestinians camped outside the facility seeking medical treatment. What Israel would do next to shift the narrative on the bombing changed how corporate media would cover the Gaza genocide for good. In this video, Adam Johnson, journalist and author of “How to Sell a Genocide,” out now by Pluto Press, breaks down the moment Israel shifted corporate media’s narrative on the Gaza genocide.
What should have been a rallying point to end the mass killing turned into the biggest PR victory for Israel of the entire genocide. Israel blamed an errant Palestinian rocket and accused corporate media of blood libel after they pointed to the country dropping 99.99% of the bombs on Gaza for the blame.
After the bombing, corporate media outlets like The New York Times and CNN shifted their policies and would wait until Israel took responsibility for the bombings. This resulted in passive...
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- From Black Power to Hip Hop: Mopreme Shakur’s "This Thug's Life"
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- 21:03
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- How are Hip Hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa sits down with artist, producer, and "Panther Cub" Mopreme Shakur on the rooftop of a hotel in the nation's capital. Together, they explore Shakur’s memoir, This Thug's Life, tracing the trajectory from the rise and fall of Black Power to the birth of Hip Hop through the eyes of the son of a Panther and the stepbrother of a legend.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#hiphop #politics #black
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- Mainstream Media LIED About the Genocide in Gaza. Here is the Data to Prove it.
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- This is the only video you’ll need to see the proof of the mainstream media’s Pro-Israel bias and complicity during the Gaza genocide. Writer and journalist Adam Johnson dug through over 12,000 articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Politico, Axios, USA Today, and 5,000 TV segments to find a disturbing pattern of the mainstream media’s use of emotive words that favored Israelis and demonized Palestinians.
Johnson discovered that the mainstream media often used emotive words like “massacre”, “slaughter”, “barbaric”, or “savage”, to describe the killing of Israeli’s on October 7th, but those words were rarely ever used to describe Israeli violence, even though Palestinians were “killed at a rate of 70:1.”
“Somehow, Israel managed to kill at least 12,000 children during the first year of genocide and never once, according to The New York Times and Washington Post, committed a ‘slaughter’ or a ‘massacre’...
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- Real Public Safety Means More Community, Not Cages
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- 23:43
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Effective public safety policy is founded on preventing crime and repairing harm, but these are not the foundations of America’s reactionary criminal justice establishment. This week on Rattling the Bars, we host a roundtable discussion about the DC Justice Lab’s 2026 Public Safety Policy Agenda, which has been endorsed by 30 progressive organizations working directly with system-impacted individuals, and about criminal justice reforms that would ensure safer communities through restorative justice, not draconian punishment.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #dc #crimenews
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- GOP push “tough-on-crime” policies in DC, re-entry advocates say they will only increase recidivism
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In part two of our series on conservative attempts to use D.C. as a testing ground for harsh criminal justice policies, Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa sits down with Chelsea Canterbury and Eric Franklin of Voices for a Second Chance. They discuss the danger of proposed measures—including charging 14-year-olds as adults, increasing mandatory minimums, repealing the Second Look Act, and reinstating cash bail—and explain why doubling down on mass incarceration won’t make the city safer.
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- Media education, regulation, and organizing against Big Tech in Europe | Ep. 7
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- 1:18:12
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Disinformation is impacting our lives. Much of it is being pushed by unregulated Silicon Valley tech companies and their billionaire owners. But people in Europe are pushing back.
In this episode, Michael Fox goes to Spain, to look at how members of the Spanish far right have been inspired by Charlie Kirk. Then we look at grassroots organizing against Big Tech in Ireland, media education initiatives in Finland, and European measures regulating Big Tech.
“This has now been a topic of discussion very much in Europe,” says Finnish educator Saara Salomaa. “Should we actually trust any US tech companies, or should we try to get rid of US tech companies as soon as possible?”
Michael is joined in the episode by Laura Flanders. She is the host of Laura Flanders and Friends on public television — formerly known as the Laura Flanders show.
The Battle for Free Speech is a production of The Real News Network
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- Baltimore Stands up Against Planned AI Data Centers Around the City
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Maryland residents and grassroots organizers fighting data centers from Baltimore City to Charles County rallied in front of Baltimore City Hall, demanding the City @baltimore and Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore put people first instead of the development of data centers.
Hillary Gonzalez, an organizer for grassroots organization Sacred Parks and Waterways, fought back against the narrative that data centers are inevitable and said that the fight against data centers will determine what kind of city Baltimore will become.
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- Latest Mysterious Death of Epstein Associate Leaves Victims Devastated
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Yet another former associate of Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead under strange circumstances, and the conspiracy theorists are running wild. But the death of French modeling scout Daniel Siad leaves behind a trail of victims of his sexual abuse who will never see their day in court. Amidst the speculation about the circumstances of Siad’s death, France’s special task force on crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein continues to reveal ever-more victims of the dead child sex offender’s hideous sex trafficking empire.
#JeffreyEpstein #epsteinfiles #standwithsurvivors #iwasfifteen #trump #congress #jeffreyepstein #davidsiad
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- Economist Dean Baker Explains AI Bubble Is About to Burst
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- 32:47
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- AI companies promised a revolution, but is it delivering? Or is it the next big bubble about to burst? Economist Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research, author of Rigged and creator of the AI Bubble Monitor) joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to break down why the productivity data doesn't match the hype, why Palantir's CEO seemed to be panicking on live TV, why Bernie Sanders' AI sovereign wealth fund idea might backfire, and what signs to watch for if this bubble bursts.
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- Baltimore Stands up Against Planned AI Data Centers Around the City
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Maryland residents and grassroots organizers fighting data centers from Baltimore City to Charles County rallied in front of Baltimore City Hall, demanding the City @baltimore and Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore put people first instead of the development of data centers.
In this clip, Ted Eccleston, a member of grassroots organization Sacred Parks and Waterways, speaks out against the environmental harms of data centers, calling what the AI industry’s actions “a desecration”.
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- Beyond the Wire: A Counter-narrative documentary
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Baltimore City! This Saturday, August 8, at 3:00 PM, join filmmaker Dr. S. Rasheem and Baltimore community organizers at The Real News Network studio for a special screening of the compelling new documentary, Beyond the Wire—a powerful counter-narrative placing grassroots organizing, not street crime, at the heart of its story. There will be a Q&A session after the screening you won't want to miss!
Tickets available on Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-wire-screening-and-qa-tickets-1992771979635
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- Long Island Audit: "Illegal Immigrants Have Rights Whether you Like it Or Not"
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Sean Reyes, better known as @LongIslandAudit , joined Police Accountability Report hosts Taya Graham and Stephen Janis live Thursday at 8 PM ET for a candid, viewer-driven debate about one of the most popular and controversial forms of police accountability.
After their recent report on Reyes’ arrest following a confrontation with a powerful police union, viewers raised passionate questions about his tactics and the broader copwatching movement.
During the livestream, Reyes spoke up about how protecting the rights of illegal immigrants and standing up for their rights allows the rest of America's rights to be protected. Watch the full livestream now.
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- BREAKING: Community Marches into 7-11 Where 74-Year-Old Was Brutally Beaten
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Voices for a Second Chance: Returning Citizens Demand Investment in Re-entry, Not Incarceration
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- 17:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In part two of our series on conservative attempts to use D.C. as a testing ground for harsh criminal justice policies, Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa sits down with Chelsea Canterbury and Eric Franklin of Voices for a Second Chance. They discuss the danger of proposed measures—including charging 14-year-olds as adults, increasing mandatory minimums, repealing the Second Look Act, and reinstating cash bail—and explain why doubling down on mass incarceration won't make the city safer.
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- Gen-Z Activist Micaiah Lloyd Speaks out Against Data Centers Around Baltimore #politics #AI
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Micaiah Lloyd, a grassroots organizer and resident of Charles County, Maryland, who lives near the site of a proposed data center in the county, spoke out against the encroachment of data centers around Baltimore, urging Wes Moore to put a permanent moratorium on data centers in Maryland.
Maryland residents and grassroots organizers fighting data centers from Baltimore City to Charles County rallied in front of Baltimore City Hall, demanding the City and Governor Wes Moore put people first instead of the development of data centers.
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- Long Island Audit Debates: Is he a Copwatcher? Journalist? Or Gadfly?
- Runtime
- 1:36:30
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Is copwatching a form of citizen journalism, or is it just provocation masquerading as accountability?
Sean Reyes, better known as @LongIslandAudit joins Police Accountability Report hosts Taya Graham and Stephen Janis live Thursday at 8 PM ET for a candid, viewer-driven debate about one of the most popular and controversial forms of police accountability.
After our recent report on Reyes’ arrest following a confrontation with a powerful police union, viewers raised passionate questions about his tactics and the broader copwatching movement.
Now Reyes will join us live to respond directly to your questions!
Please join us live and make your voice part of the show!!!
#copwatch #police #news
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- LIVESTREAM FEAT. ISLAND AUDIT THURSDAY JULY 30TH AT 8 P.M. EST!
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- This Thursday night at 8 p.m. EST WE ARE GOING LIVE with Sean Reyes, aka @LongIslandAudit, for a conversation that I truly believe we need to have together:
Is a copwatcher a journalist, an activist, a gadfly, a provocateur… or something entirely new?
And WHO gets to decide what a journalist is?
As many of you know, Sean’s work has attracted millions of viewers, but it has also sparked passionate criticism and debate, including right here in our own YouTube comments! Some of you believe copwatchers are doing essential journalism by filming police, questioning powerful institutions, and defending our First Amendment rights. Others believe that confrontation can cross a line or make genuine accountability more difficult. Or that cop watchers like him are in it for the clicks and views.
Stephen and I have been reading your comments, your criticism, your questions, and your thoughtful analysis and we want to bring YOUR voices directly into ...
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- BREAKING: Community Marches into 7-11 Where 74-Year-Old Was Brutally Beaten
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- 24:08
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- BALTIMORE, MD: A 7-11 on Liberty Heights Avenue in Northwest Baltimore has become a flashpoint of community rage and resistance after Ade Oba Tokunbo (Stephen King), a 74-year-old resident, was attacked and brutally beaten there by six teenagers on July 7, 2026. The same location is also the site of multiple robberies and the murder of Victorious Swift in March of 2017. In response, “A Clarion Call,” a new coalition of local community organizations and residents, organized a rally at the 7-11 on Sunday, July 26, and led a community march into the store to demand the company implement policies that will keep customers safe and aid in the apprehension of the youth responsible for the July 7 attack. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you inside the community rally held at the 7-11, near Mondawmin Mall, on July 26.
Organizers of A Clarion Call have set up a GoFundMe for Ade Oba Tokunbo (https://gofund.me/177e16bb8) and are asking community members to contact Clarion...
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- Can Abdul El-Sayed Reshape the Democratic Party? UNEDITED INTERVIEW
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- 27:28
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In this raw, unedited interview, we sit down with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to talk about his campaign to represent the state of Michigan in the US Senate, the civil war within the Democratic party, and about fighting corporate oligarchy and MAGA fascism at the same time.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#michigan #election #politics
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- MAGA Is Turning DC Into a Police State. Your State May Be Next.
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- 16:04
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Republicans in Congress are attempting to push policies in the District of Columbia that would charge 14-year-olds as adults, increase mandatory minimum sentences, repeal the Second Look Act, and re-institute cash bail, which was banned in 1992. In this week's episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa reports from U Street and sits down with Bethany Young and Darby Hickey from the DC Justice Lab to discuss how the GOP is using Washington, DC, as a laboratory to wage a national crusade against decades of criminal justice reforms.
This is part one of a two-part series. Subscribe to TRNN and stay tuned for Part 2 next week.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#dc #politics #trump #law
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- Epstein survivor blasts Trump nominee for ignoring survivors
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Dance teacher, mother and survivor of dead child sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse Dani Bensky spoke in front of the House Oversight Committee in protest against President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Todd Blanche. She detailed Blanche’s reckless, potentially even malicious treatment of survivors in his release of the Epstein files without proper redactions, and said he has refused to meet with any of them. Overall, she painted a bleak picture of what to expect when it comes to accountability for Epstein’s co-conspirators under Blanche’s potential leadership
#JeffreyEpstein #epsteinfiles #standwithsurvivors #iwasfifteen #trump #congress #jeffreyepstein #ghislainemaxwell #humantrafficking
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- Ro Khanna reveals new names From Epstein Files: But who is still being protected?
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Rep. Ro Khanna says he and Rep. Thomas Massie went to the Department of Justice to review the so-called unredacted Epstein files and found that roughly 70 to 80% of the files were still redacted.
Khanna says they also found six wealthy and powerful men whose names had been hidden for no apparent reason until he and Massie raised the issue. (Their names are revealed in this video!)
But the larger question is not just about redactions. It is about whether America has two systems of justice: one for ordinary people, and another for the rich, powerful, and politically connected.
Survivors have waited long enough. Justice cannot mean one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
#EpsteinFiles #RoKhanna #ThomasMassie #EpsteinSurvivors #accountability #Congress #DOJInvestigation #JusticeForVictims #twotiersofjustice #inequalitywatch #LesWexner #StandWithSurvivors #HumanTraffickers
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- The Real News (TRNN)
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The outcome of Michigan’s Senate race will have major implications for the balance of power in Washington, DC, and for the future of the Democratic Party itself. With primaries taking place on August 4, all eyes are on the battle between progressive candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and establishment candidate Haley Stephens to see who will represent Democrats in the general election.
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with El-Sayed to talk about his campaign, the civil war within the Democratic party, and about fighting corporate oligarchy and MAGA fascism at the same time.
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- Title
- Is a New Democratic Party Possible? w/ Abdul El-Sayed
- Runtime
- 14:32
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The outcome of Michigan’s Senate race will have major implications for the balance of power in Washington, DC, and for the future of the Democratic Party itself. With primaries taking place on August 4, all eyes are on the battle between progressive candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and establishment candidate Haley Stephens to see who will represent Democrats in the general election. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with El-Sayed to talk about his campaign, the civil war within the Democratic party, and about fighting corporate oligarchy and MAGA fascism at the same time.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#michigan #democrats #election
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- Title
- Want Less Prison Violence? Make Prison Phone Calls Free
- Runtime
- 23:50
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- A groundbreaking new report reveals a direct link between prison phone call rates and prison safety: higher rates fuel more violence within prisons; lower rates and free phone calls dramatically reduce it. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Peter Mayer, Director of Research & Data Innovation for Worth Rises.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #prison #communication
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- Title
- 'All Arabs Are Threatened': Israel’s Expansion Won’t Stop in Lebanon
- Runtime
- 7:48
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank are part of a long history of military aggression and occupation. But the Zionist project of creating a “Greater Israel” in the region has reached new heights, with senior government officials openly advocating territorial expansion into sovereign nations like Lebanon.
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Palestinian refugee camps of Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh have been a home to generations of Palestinians displaced during the 1948 Nakba. Residents of these camps have endured decades of violence, while holding onto the dream of one day returning to their stolen homeland.
TRNN was granted exclusive access to the Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camps. In this on-the-ground report, we take you inside the camps in the midst of the latest conflict, and we speak to residents about their lives, resistance, and dreams of returning home.
- Title
- Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
- Runtime
- 36:50
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- SeanPaul Reyes (@LongIslandAudit) went to the headquarters of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association to ask a simple question: how is the county spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on police salaries, overtime, pensions, and misconduct settlements? Instead of an answer, he got handcuffed — while backing away from the building and repeatedly saying “I’m leaving.”
On this episode of the Police Accountability Report, Taya Graham breaks down the arrest video with Sean Paul Reyes himself, and reporter Stephen Janis lays out exactly what Suffolk County taxpayers are funding.
We also look at how the New York Post covered the story, and why “asking questions about tax dollars” turned into a retaliatory arrest, a pinched nerve, a towed truck, and a criminal trespass charge that may not even hold up under New York law.
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- Title
- Israel is Killing Gaza's Most Famous Doctor
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israel’s military and has been held for over 18 months in Israeli detention without charge. Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyers report that he has suffered extreme torture and medical neglect and that his life is in mortal danger, but Israel has repeatedly ignored international calls to free him. We speak with Dr. Nidal Jboor and Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, cofounders of Doctors Against Genocide.
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- Title
- Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Most Famous Doctor
- Runtime
- 16:16
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israel’s military and has been held for over 18 months in Israeli detention without charge. Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyers report that he has suffered extreme torture and medical neglect and that his life is in mortal danger, but Israel has repeatedly ignored international calls to free him. We speak with Dr. Nidal Jboor and Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, cofounders of Doctors Against Genocide.
Studio Production: David Hebden
#israel #doctor #gaza
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- Title
- Epstein survivors say Groff's story doesn’t add up: 'she's lying'
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Multiple Epstein survivors told CNN that Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant, Lesley Groff, lied to Congress about key details including whether she met girls and young women, knew their ages, handled travel information, or paid them.
Groff has not been charged with a crime and denies knowing about Epstein’s abuse-- despite being his assistant for over 18 years. The House Oversight Committee told CNN it is reviewing her transcript against available evidence.
But survivors are asking the question that should haunt Congress:
How many people get to say “I don’t remember” before accountability disappears?
#Epstein #EpsteinSurvivors #Accountability #Congress #LesleyGroff #Survivors #Justice #HumanTrafficking #Oversight #InequalityWatch #standwithsurvivors #tayagraham
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- Title
- Long Island Audit asked about police money. Then he was arrested.
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Long Island Audit, also known as Sean Paul Reyes, went to the headquarters of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association to ask a simple accountability question: how is Suffolk County spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on police salaries, overtime, pensions, and misconduct settlements?
Instead of answers, he was handcuffed while backing away and repeatedly saying, “I’m leaving.”
In our full episode of the Police Accountability Report, premiering Thursday 9pmEST, Taya Graham breaks down the arrest video with Sean himself, and Stephen Janis follows the money behind Suffolk County police spending, including salaries, overtime, pensions, settlements, and the political power of police unions!
Please join us for the live chat conversation and the full episode Thursday night July 16 at 9 PM EST with live chat!!! And as always, please be safe out there!
#LongIslandAudit #SeanPaulReyes #PoliceAccountability #PoliceUnion #SuffolkCounty #F...
- Title
- ICE: From "War on Terror" to War at Home w/ Harsha Walia
- Runtime
- 30:21
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- While calls to "abolish ICE" have exploded during the second Trump presidency, critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigrants, US citizens, and democracy itself since it was created just over 20 years ago. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia about the origins of ICE and what it will take to abolish it and the new American police state.
#politics #ice #immigration #usa
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
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- Brazil’s Battle Against Fake News & the US War to Undermine it | Ep. 6
- Runtime
- 1:18:31
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- This is really a tale of two countries: The United States and Brazil. In both countries, far-right presidents come to power — Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. In both those countries, the presidents spent several years unraveling democratic institutions and public policy. Both presidents then ran for reelection. Both presidents lied about their country's voting systems in order to undermine the elections and whip up their base.
Both those president lost their reelections — Trump in 2020. Bolsonaro in 2022. They both claimed fraud and tried to carry out a coup to stay in power.
But that is where these two paths diverged. In the United States, president Donald Trump continued to peddle his lies about the elections. He created his own social media platform and he used it to push his agenda. He was reelected in 2024 and returned to power. In Brazil, however, the country’s Supreme Electoral Court blocked former president Jair Bolsonaro from running f...
- Title
- Establishment Democrats PANIC as Socialists Keep Winning
- Runtime
- 30:51
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins? Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the meltdown of Democratic "centrist" operatives and pundits after recent socialist victories in New York and Colorado, from James Carville calling for a party "schism" to Rep. Josh Gottheimer's panicking about the future of the party on CNN. Plus: we revisit our interviews with actual Mamdani voters — the people the mainstream media refuses to talk to.
Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino, Stephen Janis
#election #politics #media
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- Title
- Were the Black Panthers Socialists?
- Runtime
- 23:20
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- On this episode of Rattling the Bars, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Dr. Joy James and Dr. K. Kim Holder about the history of the Panthers and their unique approach to, and practice of, communal socialism.
This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/IWwcga8W3ps
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #blackpanther #blackhistory #socialism
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- Title
- What Is Free Speech? America at 250 | Ep. 5
- Runtime
- 1:09:43
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- On the eve of the United States' 250th birthday, Michael Fox sits down with Mansa Musa — longtime activist, former Black Panther, host of TRNN’s Rattling the Bars, and a man who spent nearly 49 years in prison — to ask a deceptively simple question: what does free speech actually mean?
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Quito, Ecuador, to Frederick Douglass's 1852 address "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," this episode unravels the gap between the promise of the First Amendment and the reality of who gets to speak in America — and who pays a price for it.
"There's a kind of narcotic effect of those words — free speech," says legal scholar Mary Anne Franks (Fearless Speech). "It's because we think we know it so well that we don't know anything about it."
Historian Fara Dabhoiwala traces how the US broke from the rest of the world's balanced approach to free expression during the Cold War, and a forgotten 1986 Ursula K. Le G...
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- Attacks on Press Freedom: Lawsuits, Intimidation, and the War on Journalists | Ep. 4
- Runtime
- 1:12:21
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Photojournalist Nick Stern still has nightmares from the night an officer fired a flashbang into his leg as he covered the LA immigration protests. He's one of dozens of journalists assaulted, arrested, or deported in Trump's second term — a year that pushed the US to 64th on the World Press Freedom Index, its lowest ranking ever.
In this episode of The Battle for Free Speech, Michael Fox is joined by Real News investigative journalist and Capitol Hill correspondent Taya Graham to map the assault on the American press: the rubber bullets and broken bones, the billion-dollar lawsuits, the FBI raids on reporters' homes, the jailing of journalists like Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, and the deportation of immigrant reporters Mario Guevara and Estephanie Rodriguez. Featuring voices from the Committee to Protect Journalists and the National Press Photographers Association, they trace how violence, intimidation, media consolidation, and the gutting of access all serve a single go...
- Title
- Meet America’s Real-Life ‘Toxic Avengers’
- Runtime
- 1:02:18
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- From the explosion of AI data centers to the increasing number of toxic spills, explosions, and industrial disasters happening across the country, corporations and the government are turning the USA into one giant “sacrifice zone.”
Things are going to get worse before they get any better, and nothing is going to change unless residents of different sacrifice zones and poisoned communities, workers and unions on the frontlines of the industries poisoning us, environmental justice groups, community and faith organizations, scientists, journalists, and all others who have a stake in this fight start coming together, working together, and fighting back together. In this special panel discussion, recorded at the 2026 Railroad Workers United convention in Chicago, Illinois, we speak with a panel of guests who are part of a new coalition that is doing just that.
Panelists include:
- Jeff Kurtz, a retired locomotive engineer, union officer, and Railroad Work...
- Title
- What would the Black Panthers say about DSA?
- Runtime
- 22:38
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Dr. Joy James and Dr. K. Kim Holder about the legacy of the Panthers today, and about the important differences and intersections between democratic socialism and the Black Panther model of communalism.
This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Subscribe to @therealnews and stay tuned for Part 2 next week…
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#blackpanther #california #dsa #socialism
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- Title
- MAGA Eliminated His Congressional District. He’s Still Running. w/ Rep. Justin Pearson
- Runtime
- 5:26
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- After an April decision by the US Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Tennessee became the first state to redraw its Congressional district maps, resulting in the 9th District—a solidly Democratic seat representing the only majority-Black district in the state—being erased. We speak with Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson, who has been running to represent Tennessee’s 9th District in the US House of Representatives, about why he is still running despite Republicans’ attempts to rig the electoral process, and what is at stake for Tennessee and the country this midterm election season.
Videography: Stephen Janis, Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: David Hebden
#election #politics #tennessee #supremecourt
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- The Black and Brown Enforcers of White Supremacy w/ Steven Thrasher
- Runtime
- 6:32
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Why are there so many Black cops and Latino ICE agents? Dr. Steven Thrasher, author of the new book The Overseer Class, breaks down how the American capitalism forces and encourages Black and Brown people to be the enforcers of white supremacy.
Watch our full interview with Dr. Thrasher here: https://youtu.be/AYnVXyG9I-A
#politics #history #police #ice #race
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- Title
- From Zionist Crackdowns to Trump, Academic Freedom Is Dead in the US w/ Dr. Steven Thrasher
- Runtime
- 9:51
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Dr. Steven Thrasher explains how he has been effectively blacklisted from academia after defending his students at Northwestern University during the Palestine encampment movement in 2024.
Watch our full interview with Dr. Thrasher here: https://youtu.be/AYnVXyG9I-A
#politics #university #students #freespeech
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- Title
- Trump blocks bipartisan housing bill-here's why...
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Republicans say they want to address affordability, but a bipartisan housing bill that passed the Senate is now on hold after President Trump said he won't sign it unless Congress passes the Save America Act.
The legislation included provisions aimed at increasing affordable housing construction, reforming zoning, and limiting Wall Street purchases of housing stock.
What happens next could affect renters, first-time homebuyers, and anyone struggling with housing costs.
Reporting from Capitol Hill by Taya Graham & Stephen Janis
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