Hey Friend,
The Unnatural State of Affairs continues—now on Radio Free Nashville!
Overview
The Trump Regime’s Deportation Crusades
The Democratic Party🥱: The Death of American Pseudo-Democracy, and the Need for a General Strike
Same show, different station
It’s still the show that you know and love: Roughly one hour of the left-leaning political commentary you’ve come to expect from me, and one hour of mostly punk and rap music.
The show broadcasts every Thursday, 4-6 PM on Radio Free Nashville—WRFN-LP 103.7 and 107.1 FM.
Radio Free Nashville is a 100-watt low-powered community radio station, meaning that you’re not gonna pick up the signal on your FM radio if you’re outside of the Nashville area.
The good news is that you can still tune in online here!
Can’t tune in at that time? Stop by The Kennel to check out the uncensored video recordings of the commentary segments!
Unfortunately, copyright law prohibits me from sharing a recording of the DJ sessions 😒
A Note about a “First Episode” that I mentioned at the Start
Yeah, due to a variety of rage-inducing tech issues, the initial June 5 broadcast on RFN did not meet the Big Dog Quality Standard™ that you’ve come to appreciate. Thus, I don’t think posting that would’ve been a great way to return to my Kennel.
TLDR: 1. Your Big Dog is back. 2. I am pleased with my first impressions of the Switch 2. And 3. The Trump Regime is back in full force, doubling the collective stupidity and corruption of his first administration.
Why Stick with the ‘ol Radio? And Why Radio Free Nashville?
From a purely apolitical perspective, producing such a show in a context where others are expecting me to get an episode out at a certain time makes me directly accountable to others for getting an episode produced each week. A radio station, profit or non-profit, is well-structured for facilitating that accountability.
But why Radio Free Nashville?
For one, it’s a non-profit low-powered community radio station. It is legally barred from trying to sell listeners a bunch of products, and alleviates itself of having to boost profit margins. Rather, the goal is to provide quality, entertaining, and/or informative radio programming for the local community. For those familiar with my views on the systemic issues plaguing our news media outlets right now, this is the sort of motive that I want to be producing a political commentary show with.
Moreover, while some of these community stations don’t explicitly intend to counteract corporate control of the airwaves, RFN does. As it details on its “About Us” page, the radio industry (like virtually all industries in our hyper-capitalist hellscape), is consolidated to a comical extent, left in the hands of a few media conglomerates like iHeartMedia.
RFN sticks its middle fingers up to those companies that are suffocating our airwaves, and instead, opts to provide a healthy mix of locally-produced community shows like this, and larger syndicated programs like Democracy Now!, Code Pink, The Thom Hartmann Program, and more.
Sure, with the current FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatening baseless investigations into PBS and NPR over suspicions of illegal advertising, and with Congress continuing to ignore the disastrous effects of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, there is little hope to feel for any improvements to this shitshow.
Nonetheless, RFN is waging a noble battle, and I couldn’t be more proud to join that fight with them.
Music Credits
Title - “Under Your Spell” (Cover, Sped up for the intro)
Guitar - Ethan Schmidt (“National Sleep Debt”)
Literally Everything Else - “Big Dog” Jay Duda (JD Alphonze on Spotify)
Sources
The Trump Regime’s Deportation Crusades
NBC News - “What we know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador”
NPR - “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges”
BBC - “Everything we know about the protests in LA and other US cities”
Los Angeles Times - “What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot? The reality on the ground vs. the rhetoric”
The Washington Post - “‘La migra!’: Day laborers recount ICE raid outside Los Angeles Home Depot”
CalMatters - “‘Everybody stood up’: Why a union leader’s arrest galvanized California Democrats on immigration”
KCAL News via YouTube - “SEIU-SWW president arrested during immigration operation in Los Angeles”
Nashville Banner - “Less than Half of Nearly 200 Arrested in Nashville ICE Operation had Criminal History”
AP News - “Republicans target Nashville’s mayor for his response to immigration arrests”
The Democratic Party🥱: The Death of American Pseudo-Democracy, and the Need for a General Strike
Matt Stoller via Twitter - “Leading Democratic Party Chair candidate Ken Martin says…”
CNN via YouTube - “Democratic lawmaker explains why he's calling for Biden to step down from race”
Ryan Grim - The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution
The Washington Post - “DNC panel finds Hogg and another official weren’t properly elected to leadership”
David Hogg via Twitter - “I'm not running for the new DNC Vice Chair election:🧵”
In These Times - “How a “Plan 2028” Could Bring Labor and Social Movements Together”
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