'BradCast' 4/5/2018 (Rising Up Against Rightwing Takeovers of Public Airwaves, Education, Lands and more)
Among the stories covered on today's 'BradCast': A record-breaking number of women are now running for Congress, and the filing deadlines haven't even passed in half of the states. Sinclair Broadcasting Group's shameless misuse of our public airwaves for rightwing pro-Trump propaganda purposes finally catches the attention of Democrats in Congress, while a company executives mouth off with excuses, former employees speak out, some staffers resign, and others find reasonable excuses for not quitting (such as outrageously onerous contract terms) from once-respected TV news outlets now controlled by the nation's largest owner of television stations. Teachers in so-called "red" states like Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona and West Virginia continue to push back against state education budgets that have been slashed in recent years to pay for huge tax cuts to wealthy corporations in failed experiments with so-called "pro-growth" Reaganomics. While Republican officials in those states have made clear they were only pretending to give a damn about kids, their pretend love for coal miners has also been exposed as a lie in Kentucky, where lawmakers just made it more difficult for miners to receive compensation amid a surge of deadly black lung disease cases. The jaw-dropping corruption scandals of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt continue to be revealed on a daily basis; will Donald Trump finally find the courage to fire him? Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', in which Mobil Oil joins Exxon in being revealed as having been fully aware for decades that the burning of fossil fuels causes civilization-threatening climate change, and Americans tell Ryan Zinke and his Interior Department to take a hike over huge proposed entry fee increases to our national parks...