'BradCast' 6/29/2023 (Smoke, Ukraine and Affirmative Action: Where there's smoke, there's fire. And racism)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Canada is grappling with its worst wildfire season on record, and the dangerous smoke is affecting more than 100 million Americans. Texas is in its third week of a relentless, deadly, unprecedented extreme heat wave. But those who go to Fox 'News' and the deceptive Fox Weather website will never be informed that fossil fueled-climate change is a primary driver of these disasters, and we all pay the price. In the wake of the 24-hour 'mutiny' in Russia when Yevgeny Prigozhin revealed that the imperialist invasion of Ukraine was built on lies, new polls show a 20-point increase in Americans' support for President Biden's policy of helping Ukraine defend itself. The rightwing supermajority on the stolen-and-packed U.S. Supreme Court overturned more than 40 years of precedent in demolishing affirmative action policies in college admissions for all private and public colleges and universities (while exempting military academies for some odd reason). The Court's dizzying 237-page ruling includes multiple concurrences and dissents, and the far-right activists on the bench -- and those that put them there -- get to cross another long-term goal off their list.\xa0 Also today: A brand-new version of the 1989 Billy