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In the first segment of this week's episode, we spoke with Linda Mart\xedn Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled \u201cWhite Fright and a Changing World: Here\u2019s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.\u201d In her article, Alcoff writes \u201cWe need to understand today\u2019s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused most fundamentally by the slow demise of the modern colonial world system.\u201d Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of numerous books including \u201cThe Future of Whiteness\u201d and \u201cRace and Racism: A Decolonial Approach,\u201d which will be released later this year by Oxford University Press.\n\nIn the second segment, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs are negotiating behind closed doors while other legislators weigh in on the talks. We talk about efforts to weave affordable housing policies into the budget and the competing claims of landlords and tenants about how to address New York\u2019s housing crisis and more.