'BradCast' 12/9/2021 (Good economy/labor news, Gobsmacking wingnuttery, Trump Accountability, the Fight for Democracy)
On today's 'BradCast': More good economic news, as new weekly jobless claims hit another record low not seen since 1969. Starbucks employees in Buffalo, NY defied their corporate bosses, becoming the first store in the company to unionize. Italy fined Amazon more than a billion dollars for monopolistic practices. A far rightwing media outlet invented a new conspiracy theory to explain why anti-vaccine and anti-mask warriors are contracting and dying from COVID. Missouri's embarrassing wingnut Republican Attorney General and U.S. Senate hopeful Eric Schmitt mandates all local public health officials and school boards must halt all COVID public health measures, exposing Republicans' decades-long lie that they are 'the party of local control.' The walls of accountability may be closing in on Donald Trump with new legal developments:\xa0 NY Attorney General will reportedly depose Trump in a civil investigation into years of apparent tax and bank fraud by the Trump Organization. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump's attempt to prevent the National Archives from turning over a treasure trove of White House documents to the House Select Committee investigating his January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. President Biden convened the first Summit for Democracy, acknowledging to leaders from more than 100 of the world's democracies that democracy is on a 'backward slide', and pledged to work together to defend democracy and halt the rise of authoritarianism. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'