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On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore takes a trip down the nightmarish Brexit memory lane, exactly eight years after the UK public voted to leave the European Union. Recorded on June 23, 2024. Episode stories: Polly Toynbee article 2021: https://tinyurl.com/yunnfhc7 and FT mini doc 2023: https://tinyurl.com/2n9ueytz Recent stories of note: Project 2025 really hurts everyo...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore comments on the news items of the week including the shooting in Fordyce, Arkansas, key Supreme Court decisions, the Senate Democrats’ press conference on the attack on reproductive rights and the Boeing hearings in the Senate. Recorded on June 22, 2024. Recent stories of note: Project 2025 really hurts everyone, especially Black peopl...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore remembers civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Micky Schwerner, killed in Mississippi exactly 60 years ago today. Omar reads from the book “We Are Not Afraid” by Seth Cagin & Philip Dray. ADVISORY: Episode contains graphic descriptions, racist epithets and gunshots. Recorded on June 21, 2024. Recent stories of note: Proje...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore plays audio from John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight”(the Sunday, June 16, 2024 episode) about Project 2025–which every American voter must know about. Recorded on June 20, 2024. Recent stories of note: Project 2025 really hurts everyone, especially Black people. (Story: https://tinyurl.com/3re9n3sw) Fans pay tribute to Hall Of Fame baseb...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore pays tribute to the late, extraordinary legend, Hall Of Fame baseball player and mentor Willie Mays, the greatest sports athlete ever. Mays passed away yesterday at 93. Recorded on June 19, 2024. Recent stories of note: Project 2025 really hurts everyone, especially Black people. (Story: https://tinyurl.com/3re9n3sw) Vice story: Republ...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the need for Biden-Harris campaign to step things up. Also: The Other Kaitlyn. Everyone, it seems, has heard of Caitlin Clark but lots of women have been in the predicament that Kaitlyn Kash has. Her unforgettable and harrowing story. And: Remembering The Mother Emanuel AME 9, nine years later. Plus: The bizarre and unforgettable da...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the troubling and disturbing case of Sandra Hemme, a Missourian who is still behind bars after more than 43 years for a murder she didn’t commit. Her conviction was overturned last week but she remains in jail. (Story: https://tinyurl.com/um2n89a6) And: Project 2025 really hurts everyone, especially Black people. (Story: https://tin...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the passing of the legendary civil rights leader, activist and strategist Rev. James Lawson Jr. Also: UK Conservatives unveil their manifesto. Plus: Advice for the Biden-Harris campaign. And: European Union elections and France is swamped by the right. Late: Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict. Recorded June 11, 2024. Vice story: Republic...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on President Biden’s speech on democracy in Normandy. Also: UK PM Rishi Sunak does a runner in Normandy. Plus: Joy Reid’s art of the interview (a must-listen). Recorded June 7, 2024. Vice story: Republicans don’t really want to secure the border: https://bit.ly/4c3uuJV | Debunking the myth of the migrant crime wave: https://tinyurl.com...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on Black people who the racist system uses against Black people at large. Recorded June 6, 2024. Vice story: Republicans don’t really want to secure the border: https://bit.ly/4c3uuJV | Debunking the myth of the migrant crime wave: https://tinyurl.com/msx2fc3r Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the myth of Republicans being strong on border security and immigration (they are not.) Recorded June 5, 2024. Vice story: Republicans don’t really want to secure the border: https://bit.ly/4c3uuJV | Debunking the myth of the migrant crime wave: https://tinyurl.com/msx2fc3r Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ o...

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the guilty verdict of Orange Thug, who is now President Felon 34–the first US President to become a felon. And: What we must do this November. Recorded June 1, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal.me/PopcornReel New podcast: TÁR Talk (ht...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s calling a July 4 general election. Plus: Orange Thug’s Nazi cheerleading continues; Nikki Haley, hypocrisy and bootlicking for fascists. Recorded May 23, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal.me/Popcor...

On this Monday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the people who are failing and/or subverting the institutions that they are part of, be it in the news media, the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress etc. Recorded May 20, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal.me/PopcornReel New podcast: TÁR...

On this Saturday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on Diddy’s reprehensible violence; what the Democratic National Committee must do better and the speeches of President Joe Biden at the Natl Museum of African-American Heritage And Culture and discussion between Vice President Kamala Harris and comedian-activist DL Hughley. May 18, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org...

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore believes that Stormy Daniels was raped. She says her encounter with Orange Thug was consensual—but everything she describes in her testimony appears to point to quite the opposite. And: Solutions for a better more humane relationships between men and women. May 8, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ of...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on newscaster Katy Tur’s interview with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. And: The US Supreme Court loses its mind last week on so-called immunity for US presidents. And: The media bias against pro-Palestinian protesters. April 30, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3W...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the U.S. corporate news media’s failing coverage of the Orange Thug’s falsifying business records to conceal election fraud trial in New York. What the media should be doing instead. And: Remembering the late great Reverend Cecil Williams of Glide Church in San Francisco. https://glide.org. April 23, 2024. Reminder: Get busy vot...

On this Sunday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore pays tribute to Prince and Nina Simone, who passed away on this day (April 21) in 2016 and 2003 respectively. Also: A tale of two networks: MSNBC and CNN coverage of a horrific on-air event. And: Critical aid packages are passed in the U.S. House. Plus: Remembering the Central Park Five/Exonerated Five, 35 years later. April 21, 202...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on wasteful Republicans and their failed impeachment trial of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Plus: President Biden’s must-listen speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania. April 18, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal.me/PopcornReel New pod...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore pays tribute to the late and legendary artist, activist and author Faith Ringgold, who passed away last Saturday at 93. Website: https://faithringgold.com Plus: Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, 61 years ago today. Letter: https://letterfromjail.com April 16, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ o...

On this Friday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore talks about strategies for conversations with those disaffected with politics and voting. Plus: Voting, governing and the (myth? of the) “undecided voter”. April 12, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal.me/PopcornReel New podcast: TÁR Ta...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on OJ Simpson, who passed away yesterday at age 76. April 11, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal.me/PopcornReel New podcast: TÁR Talk (https://bit.ly/3QXRkcF) The new POLITICRAT newsletter is here! Subscribe for free: https://politic...

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the Arizona Supreme Court’s heinous and draconian decision allowing for the state to enforce an 1864 anti-abortion law as the law of Arizona. Full decision: http://tinyurl.com/476xev36 April 10, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page: https://bit.ly/3WQOAk6 Donate: https://PayPal...

On this Friday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the attacks on Angel Reese and the LSU female basketball team by Emmanuel Acho (specifically on Reese) and LA Times sports writer Ben Boltch (generally on LSU). Also: Commemorating the assassination of MLK Jr, 56 years ago yesterday. April 5, 2024. Reminder: Get busy voting. https://vote.org. Ajike Owens’ official GoFundMe page:...