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On today's 'BradCast': Over the weekend, President Biden officially declared the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1916 a 'genocide,' the first US president to do so. The Republicans' stolen and packed US Supreme Court will hear an NRA-backed case seeking to overturn restrictions on carrying concealed weapons outside of the home, a foreboding sign for gun safety advocates. The US Justice Department will open a sweeping new 'pattern and practice' probe of the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky in the wake of the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor in her own home.\xa0 The Biden Administration will launch of a $12 billion summer food program to feed more than 30 million low-income children, who face food insecurity during summer months when free school lunches are not available (an upside:\xa0 money spent on SNAP goes directly into local economies). Preliminary numbers from the 2020 US Census indicate that several red states will pick up new Congressional seats in the once-a-decade redistricting process.\xa0 California officials announced Republicans trying to unseat Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom have obtained enough signatures to mount a recall election this fall. In Arizona, the newest attempt by the state's Republican-controlled state Senate to find fraud in the 2020 election in Maricopa County (Phoenix) is disturbing on several levels, including the fact that their inexperienced contractor is barring the media and the public from overseeing the examination.\xa0 As Biden approaches his first 100 days in office, major media outlets are rounding up their assessments of his performance. Callers weigh in on their own grades for Biden's first report card, including some surprisingly positive reviews from our somewhat cynical and progressive listener base.