The Politicrat

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore asks, do you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, have you made any resolutions for 2023? Or do you eschew making any or have stopped altogether? Plus: Book recommendations for Kwanzaa. And: Important, life-affirming advice and news of the day. December 28, 2022. Mastodon - https://mas.to/@popcornreel https://Post.news - @popcorn...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on Kwanzaa and the seven principles of the Nguzo Saba as devised by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966. Plus: Lies and the perils of looking down on people instead of looking up at systems. An explanation of this in this episode. And: Winter storms and more. December 27, 2022. Mastodon - https://mas.to/@popcornreel https://Post.news - @p...

On this Saturday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on grocery store encounters, social media experiments, Whitney Houston and the new film “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” directed by Kasi Lemmons. Also: Jeremy Clarkson’s racist, misogynistic and misogynoirist attacks on Meghan Markle in a well-known trash heap of a white-wing newspaper. December 24, 2022. Mastodon - https://mas.to/...

On this Friday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore remembers the late Thom Bell, who passed away at 79. Also: News, notes and the importance of education. And: The January 6th Committee releases its final report. December 23, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTON...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on President Wolodomyr Zelenskyy speaking before the U.S. Congress at a joint meeting. Also: The U.S. Senate races to avert a U.S. government shutdown with passage of a key $1 trillion spending bill to fund government. And: Tribute to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in her final weekly press conference as Speaker. December 22, 2...

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the importance of civics education in the US. Aaron Dean gets nearly 12 years for killing Atatiana Jefferson. Remembering Marissa Alexander. (https://marissaalexander.com). House Cmte releases six years of DT’s taxes. Also: Black billionaires and supporting Black-owned businesses. December 21, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@ma...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the final January 6th Committee hearing and criminal referral of DT. Also: How to save your own life when you think it isn’t worth living. December 20, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTONOMY t-shirt series—...

On this Monday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the final January 6th Committee hearing and the importance of putting pressure on US Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department. Plus: news stories and the “Titanic” film has its 25th anniversary. December 19, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersm...

On this Friday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore gives commentary on numerous news stories of the last few days, then talks about a racist taxi driver her encountered in San Francisco yesterday evening. Features audio of the interaction. December 16, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: htt...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: People do indeed make the world go round, and Omar Moore spends this episode talking about it and about why. December 15, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTONOMY t-shirt series—buy yours here: https://bit.ly/3yD89AL Plan...

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the sudden passing of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the artist, dancer, choreographer and collaborator on the Ellen Show. Boss ended his life at age 40. December 14, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTONOMY t-shir...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the racist, hostile and unwelcoming experiences white people inflict upon Black people on a daily basis. Includes audio of one example that involves comedian, actor and writer Mark Curry. December 13, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411:...

On this Monday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore salutes the late Black empowerment, anti-poverty activist and women’s rights pioneer Dorothy Pitman Hughes, who passed at 84 on December 1. Hughes also co-founded Ms. magazine. Plus: Karen Bass becomes Mayor Bass in Los Angeles. Also: The racist tradition of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association continues with its latest almost a...

On this Saturday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on Black women, the US Supreme Court, the institutionally racist Royal Family in the UK and more. December 10, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to Post.news - @popcornreel Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTONOMY t-shirt series—buy yours here: https://bit.ly/3yD89AL Plan...

On this Friday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: U.S. senator Kyrsten Sinema switches from Democratic Party registration to Independent. Omar Moore on why and what he thinks is really behind the switch. Also: Cherelle Griner speaks at the White House about the release of her wife Brittney Griner, who landed safely early this morning in San Antonio, Texas. December 9, 2022. Mastodon - @popco...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Brittney Griner is freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner swap. Griner was released early this morning. Omar Moore talks about it. December 8, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411....

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Senator Raphael Warnock wins re-election to the US Senate in the state of Georgia as voters come through yet again. Omar Moore on voting always mattering. December 7, 2022. Article by Marc Elias: https://bit.ly/3HjL9wR Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter:...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the massive US Senate runoff election today between Reverend Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker in Georgia. December 6, 2022. Article by Marc Elias: https://bit.ly/3HjL9wR Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org...

On this Monday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on the essential need to understand that your vote counts and you have power in it—and the power to use it to powerful effect. The last day of voting in the Georgia senate runoff is tomorrow. December 5, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter:...

On this Sunday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on changing times and the robots that can now be used by police as deadly force on the streets of San Francisco, thanks to an 8-3 vote in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week. What could possibly go wrong?? December 4, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team War...

On this Saturday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on Lady Susan Hussey’s racist interrogation of Ngozi Fulani at Buckingham Palace this week, and how an institution and a tidal wave of white English denial of anti-Black racism is shackling Britain and its potential for any meaningful growth. December 3, 2022. Mastodon - @popcornreel@mas.to GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text...

On this Friday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore in conversation with author, journalist, researcher and historian Jacqueline Keeler on Sacheen Littlefeather, Native Americans and Pretendians. December 2, 2022. Follow Jacqueline Keeler: Mastodon - @jfkeeler@masthead.social | Twitter: https://twitter.com/jfkeeler | Substack: https://bit.ly/3uhMpsq | Book: https://bit.ly/3EUEBln GE...

On this Thursday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on LeBron James, the overwhelmingly white male sports news media, Jerry Jones and Stephen A. Smith. December 1, 2022. GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTONOMY t-shirt series—buy yours here: https://bit...

On this Wednesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on a brief recent history of state terrorism against Black people and Brown people, in three events. November 30, 2022. GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org. Vote 411: https://vote411.org. The AUTONOMY t-shirt series—buy yours here: https://...

On this Tuesday episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast: Omar Moore on why we must never forget Brittney Griner, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence in a brutal prison colony. (https://bit.ly/3VFSnz7) And: Why you must vote in every election and why your vote counts. November 29, 2022. GEORGIA: Vote Warnock now! A must! Text REV to 52005 for Team Warnock! Black Voters Matter: https://blackv...