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Alabama governor Kay Ivey fired a top education official over a teacher training manual that mentioned 'white privilege', and 'systemic/structural racism.' This wasn't part of a curriculum taught to children, but a training manual for teachers. This illegitimate firing is merely the latest salvo in an organized attack on democracy itself coming from the GOP. Missouri Attorney G...

This 4th of July, I decided focus on the GOP's steady march to the type of fascism that would make Hitler stand up and applaud. Led by Donald Trump, the GOP POTUS hopefuls are competing to see which one of them is more vile than 'The Donald,' while the 'base' sits back and enjoys the circus sideshow of neo Nazis and pathetic wanna be's. To call out the GOP as fascist seems...

This week is the third installment of our series on Cop City and the rise of militarized policing. The discussion this week centers on police 'foundations' , their corporate masters, and the increasing police crackdown of consitutionally protected dissent. I WILL name names.  The second story deals with Pentagon brass in bed with military 'contractors', aka corporations and the sam...

Donald Trump has done it again. He has upstaged all other news stories with his shennanigans, proving that being rich, spoiled and frankly--stupid can elevate almost any moron to the presidency. Now facing federal criminal charges, he has by a suspicious 'stroke of luck' pulled Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon as presiding judge over his criminal case. Judge Cannon is not only a Trump appointe...

Cop City is a proposed training facility established to further militarize our police departments. Cop City in Atlanta has been met with protests as the corporations behind this compound seek to increase their influence and subsequently use public police departments as their public/private CAPOS or mafia-like enforcers against those pesky people who actually believe in democracy. A young activist...

Last week on EJR, I discussed the imminent passage of a law in Florida which will permit the state to use radioactive materials in road pavement. This week, I will discuss the corporation that pushed for this law, MOSAIC Corp. This is yet another example of predatory capitalism and corporate rule. This is part of a series.  Our second story deals with the revokation of Medicaid coverage, including...

This week on EJR (Environmental Justice Report), I will discuss the plan passed by the Florida legislature to use radioactive materials to pave roads throughout the state. The material in question is phosphogypsum, a by-product of fertilizers. Unfortunately, phophogypsum contains significant amounts of uranium and its decay products such as radium-226. Radium is particularly dangerous since its de...

This week, Florida Governor Ron DEATHSantis signed off on a new law which grants doctors, nurses, EMT's, pharmacists, and insurers the right to deny treatment based on religious or 'ethical' beliefs. This applies in life threatening situations as well. Essentially, if a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, EMT or insurance company disapproves of anyone's lifestyle, they are now legally permi...

This week on PNN, I will discuss more lies our politicians tell us on a regular basis--from BOTH parties. The first story speaks to lies about the national debt and possible solutions from constitutional scholars. The second story deals with lies sponsored by the gun lobby discussed in context of the latest shooting this past week. The final story deals with the lies told by politicians about our...

Today's show deals with GOP LIES, MORE LIES, AND STILL MORE LIES. The first story deals with a new bill sponsored by GOP Mo. State Senator Mike Moon, which grants legal personhood to a fetus and demands murder charges for abortion. In case you forgot, Moon is the guy who defended forced marriage of young girls if they became pregnant, and then backpedalled after being confronted by colleague D...

Yesterday's broadcast (4/16/23) did not record, so today I will re-record the show. The GOP in Missouri has not only defunded the state libraries, but has done so in political retaliation against librarians daring to use their 1st amendment rights. The librarians have sued the state with the ACLU handling the case pro bono.  The MO. Attorney General has essentially banned gender affirming care...

This week on PNN w/Jeanine Molloff, I will discuss how the Missouri GOP controlled legislature voted to fully defund state libraries. The hypocrisy and cruelty of these policies is obvious. This is truly about unconstitutional state censorship and political retaliation against any dissent. The GOP is determined to foster and maintain a state of collective ignorance by denying any of us the right t...

This week, the Tennessee State Legislature expelled three democrats. The three democratic reps had the audacity to use their 1 AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH RIGHTS in the chambers, joining a peacable protest against the scourge of gun violence. This protest was a week after the latest school shooting which killed three children and three adults. Apparently, the state legistlature has a clause in the state...

PNN is experimenting with some parody. This broadcast is a commercial for our upcoming new series, which will begin on Sunday at our regular time. It is named after the Notorious MTG and her penchant for non-stop moronic lies. The opening music to each episode is the music tract from the old television series titled: My Little Margie.  Enjoy! Jeanine

Last week, a Christian elemntary school was attacked by a deranged shooter. Children and adults died, and practically on cue, Tucker Carlson launched a tirade against the trans community. Why? The shooter was a trans woman. Carlson took his gun rights crusade and marched straigth to the convenient conclusion for the GOP of Trump, namely the demand to deny gun rights to minority communities. After...

Mainstream aka corporate media constantly refers to the 'Trump base' as if it were a legitimate entity. It is NOT. The time has long since passed to call the 'Trump base' what it actually is--a bigoted LYNCH MOB. Today's show will deal with the tools Trump and his allies use to push their propaganda and lies, especially the tool of 'stochastic terrorism.'  Stochastic te...

The Willow Project sounds tranquil, but then a cemetery is also tranquil. This project will permit fossil fuel expansion on PUBLIC lands. When we consider this fossil fuel expansion in conjunction with the sorry state of our railroads, we have a formula for disaster. Next we have our East Palestine Watch Report. The East Palestine Bomb Train is merely one of far too many--"Bomb Trains."...

This week, I will discuss the disgraceful state of affairs in East Palestine and the causes. To borrow a phrase, the 'inconvenent truth' lies in the fact that all this was inevitable--and preventable. Though this statement seems contradictory, it isn't if you consider the full political context. The environmental disaster in East Palestine was preventable, had the railroads been FORCED...

Today, I am going to discuss this ongoing attack on human rights which has been wrongfully termed a 'culture war.' This assault is not only being pushed by white supremacists, Christian nationalists and neo Nazis, but is being maintained by the infamous white moderate refusing to denounce these bigoted attacks.  Our Jackass (or Jenny) of the Week is awarded to a very special jerk.  Come jo...

Our first story was sent in by our founder, Rick Spisak. This is a talk given by two experts and one toxicologist on the Love Canal disaster and how we can formulate strategy to fight other environmental bombs.    The East Palestine BOMB Train was caused by planned negligence. This negligence was signed off on by both democrats and republicans. Last week I discussed how our naton's freight tra...

This week on the Environmental Justice Report, I will discuss the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and how this dangerous event could have been prevented. I will also discuss the illegal arrest of NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert, at the behest of the Ohio National Guard Adjutant, Maj. Gen. John Harris. Maj. Gen. John Harris, it should also be noted, serves on Governor DeWine's officia...

Staci-lee Sherwood is my guest today. She is a fierce animal rights activist. Her blog and podcast titled Reality Checks. She advocates for the planet and the animal kingdom that are being ravaged by constantly escalating corporate abuse. She is widely published in Emagazine, Discover Science 2020, Palm Oil Detectives and many more. Today she will discuss her very important work, and what we can d...

This week on PNN, I will discuss the wave of GOP sponsored censorship that is clearly a premeditated systemic attack on the 1st Amendment. Whether its laws that criminalize literature or laws that gag teachers, doctors, etc; the GOP is working feverishly to destroy the 1st Amendment provisions on free speech and free press, unless that speech is consistent with a specific religious and bigoted dog...

The GOP is determined to end Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid using the debt ceiling device as a way to hold the entire US government hostage. Make no mistake, Kevin McCarthy and his cohorts are determined to extract savage cuts to these programs and they are fine with tanking the good faith credit of the US government. Their plan is to cause chaos so, like Grover Norquist, they can drown the...

PNN began in Florida, and it is befitting that it highlight the mockery DeSantis and his GOP trolls have made of the Bill of RIghts. K-12 teachers working with minor children are censored in terms of multiple subjects to the point of lunacy. Now, DeSantis pushes to censor university professors from teaching the TRUTH about systemic racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. in this nation. These laws are...