'BradCast' 10/5/2023 (Alabama racial gerrymander struck down; President Biden on Trump/MAGA threat to democracy)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Some good news for voters in Alabama -- after a two-year fight, the U.S. Supreme Court is now forcing the state's Republican-controlled legislature to comply with the Voting Rights Act and draw fair U.S. House maps with a second Black-majority district, reflective of the state's actual population, so that Black voters may be able to elect a representative of their own choosing for the first time in state history. September's global average temperature spike was literally off the charts, described by scientists as 'gobsmackingly bananas.' The corporate media wildly misreported news that the Biden Administration will be building 17 miles of new border wall in Texas, as required under a 2019 law passed during the Trump Administration. The corporate media picked up and spread lies peddled by Fox 'News' falsely claiming that President Biden 'reversed' his opposition to the border wall and downplaying the facts. Pro Publica's John Harwood offered something close to the 'old normal' in a wide-ranging interview with Biden, in which no one was attacked or threatened, with a perfectly reasonable conversation focused on the ongoing threats to democracy in America and around the world, and what can be done about the menace of looming political violence by rightwing MAGA extremists and their authoritarian cult leader. . Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"