'BradCast' 6/26/2023 (U.S. Courts Are Holding and Russia is -- Teetering)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The extreme heat broiling Texas is spreading across the nation, generating major storms, deadly tornadoes, widespread power outages and cancelled flights from Arizona to New England and Florida. But most corporate media outlets are still failing to inform the public about the role of climate change in our worsening weather nightmares. Politico reports on a story 'The BradCast' brought you six weeks ago, about Georgia's Republican Sec. of State refusing to install urgent, recommended security upgrades to his state's voting system until 2025. Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay legal fees for two Georgia 2020 election workers that he defamed. The US Supreme Court paved the way for Louisiana's racially gerrymandered maps to be redrawn, and allowed lawsuits against Ohio State University alleging sexual abuse to proceed, which could rope in former OSU former wrestling coach Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). A federal judge in Arkansas halted the state's cruel ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids. A judge in Florida used GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis' own words to block the state's new ban on drag shows. Russia experts are puzzled by whatever the hell happened over the weekend, when Wagner Group commander Yvegny Prigozhin condemned the rationale for Russia's invasion of Ukraine as 'lies', marched toward Moscow, and then backed off. Callers weigh in on the strange developments and what the future may hold for Russia, President Putin and Prigozhin."