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Dedicated to providing Alternative News and Unbiased Reporting for those tired of the mainstream media. Our Real Stories, Live Coverage, and Pressing News cover topics from social unrest to true crime. We feature Documentary Pieces and In-Depth Interviews that the media avoids, embracing Citizen Journalism and highlighting under-reported events. Tune in to our channel for daily updates on the most pressing news, and become a part of our growing community that values truth and transparency. D ...
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Radio Against Repression

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The radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will ...
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What Next

Slate Podcasts

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The problem with the news right now? It’s everywhere. And each day, it can feel like we’re all just mindlessly scrolling. It’s why we created What Next. This short daily show is here to help you make sense of things. When the news feels overwhelming, we’re here to help you answer: What next? Look for new episodes every weekday morning. Get more of What Next with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of What Next and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe fro ...
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Our first episode drops August 31! This podcast mini-series will inform you about the initiative to defund the Pflugerville Fire Department. Listen on all major podcasting platforms. Subscribe to get the latest episodes. We have some great guests lined up!
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Join David Zipper & Wes Marshall for a podcast offering pragmatic conversations about all things transportation. If it involves moving on a street, a sidewalk, or on tracks, it’s fair game – from autonomous vehicles to bikes to subways. Research will be discussed, policies dissected, and favorite drinks shared...
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The Conversation with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns is a fresh take on the traditional Sunday show format, going beyond conventional wisdom and short sound bites to broaden the political conversation. Each week, Dasha will sit down with one of the most compelling – and sometimes unexpected – power players in Washington and beyond for a real discussion about how they are shaping the current moment.
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The Voucher Scam

Mothers For Democracy Institute (M4DI)

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The Voucher Scam is an exposé on one of the most critical issues facing public education today - education vouchers. As Texas leadership pushes an aggressive voucher agenda that would privatize and defund public schools, Claire and Nichole give listeners a behind-the-scenes look at what's really at stake. The Voucher Scam podcast is a four-episode series hosted by Claire Campos-O’Neal and Nichole Abshire and brought to you by the Mothers for Democracy Institute (M4DI).
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Move It Forward

Amistad Law Project

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We are the Amistad Law Project, a small grassroots public interest law center and organizing project in the city of Philadelphia. We advocate for the human rights of people adversely impacted by the system, including people behind prison walls. Welcome to our monthly podcast where we’ll be lifting up the voices of our community members in the struggle for healthier and safer communities. By sharing perspectives you won’t normally hear on mainstream media platforms, we’re building our own pla ...
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Slate Health

Slate Podcasts

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A feed featuring episodes from across the Slate podcast network about health, wellness, and the science and business behind it all. You’ll see episodes from shows like What Next: TBD, The Waves, and How To!, containing coverage and conversations that go deeper than the headlines.
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Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

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Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Coal Face

Josie Hess and Stephanie Sabrinskas

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Best friends and Gippslanders Josie and Steph try to unpack what life after coal could look like in Australia, a nation still reliant on fossil fuels, one story at a time.
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Civic Cipher

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Civic Cipher is a weekly radio show created to foster allyship for social justice. Hosted by Ramses Ja and Q. Ward, this show is dedicated to empowering Black and Brown voices, allowing them to engage directly with diverse populations across the country. Self-determination is critical to securing a future free of oppressive systems, and Civic Cipher exists to facilitate discussions toward this end. Furthermore, Civic Cipher seeks to inform non-POC allies who may not be privy to these types o ...
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Badass Breeder

Jeanette Forrey

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Jeanette Forrey is the Badass Breeder. She has quickly been recognized as one of the industry-leading dog breeders, trainers, and educators. Through her highly successful breeding program, 4E Kennels, Jeanette has raised and placed over two hundred service, facility and therapy dogs, as well as numerous loving, reliable family companions. Recently, she launched a renowned non-profit organization, Healing Hearts, which is placing fully trained working dogs in deserving homes. Additionally, Je ...
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What does it mean to share a bed with power, whether it’s a corporation or an empire, when every move it makes shakes your world? If that question keeps you up at night, In Bed with the Elephant is for you. This is where honest, challenging conversations happen — the kind that make you think, and maybe rethink what you thought you knew. Each week, veteran journalist and educator Adrian Harewood sits down with bold and brilliant guests at the top of their fields to unpack the forces shaping C ...
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Our country's political landscape is polarized to the point that we rarely hear each other. The Sharpe Way is a show that offers common ground to forge a way forward. The Sharpe Way is the way to mutual respect, where no one has to convert to be heard, because you can be as liberal or as conservative as you want, as long as you aren't forcing your beliefs on others. The Sharpe Way is brought to you by CiVL.com
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This Authoritarian Life

Kristóf Szombati & Erdem Evren

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This Authoritarian Life explores how people experience, adapt to, and resist authoritarian politics in their everyday lives. Each month, anthropologists Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren speak with guests from around the world to understand what authoritarianism looks like up close — and how it can be contested. Group winner of the 2025 New Directions Award of the American Anthropological Association, TAL combines ethnographic insight with accessible storytelling to reveal the textures of lif ...
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He's unpredictable. He's controversial. He's Dale Jackson. Start your day in the know. It's The Dale Jackson Show, the first and best source for news and politics in Alabama. From local news to national headlines, Dale Jackson tells it straight and insists on straight-talk from our leaders. He cuts through the political platitudes and demands answers. Hailing from the swampland, Dale first left Florida for the Army where he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and would join the Reserves ...
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Tism Time

Austin Rhea

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Hello and welcome, to the Tism Time podcast! I'm your host Austin Rhea, and on this podcast we like to talk about the stuff that we want to talk about. You can find me on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/2SEqB5qIlw9xFgA3P1HqsM
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Tara presides over the Upstate's #1 all news/talk morning show every weekday on News/Talk 989 WORD.Tara's faithful listeners are affectionately known as "Tara-ists" because of their passion and participation in the show. Tara was named 2021 Best News Talk Show and Best overall Personality, AGAIN, by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association! Tara took home the same honors in 2018 and was also named 2016 "Personality of the Year!" In addition, Tara has also won over two dozen state and nati ...
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The Naked Plate

Marcus Coleman

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We discuss health & wellness, politics, and current events. Our goal is to provide a freethinking introspect into the issues affecting our society and world. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nakedplate/support
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Then & Now

UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

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Then & Now connects past to present, using historical analysis and context to help guide us through modern issues and policy decisions. Then & Now is brought to you by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. This podcast is produced by David Myers and Roselyn Campbell, and features original music by Daniel Raijman.
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Seeking Office

CiTR & Discorder Magazine

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Seeking Office is innovative storytelling and municipal news coverage from Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Subscribe to Seeking Office on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Play.
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We're Having a Moment

iHeartPodcasts

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It's true. We all feel it in the United States. We are having some kind of moment. Where it goes, we can't say, but right here, right now, something significant is happening involving race and in particular, policing. In this limited run series, Baratunde Thurston explains and explores what feels like a defining moment in American history.When Mitt Romney joins a Black Lives Matter march, when NASCAR bans the Confederate flag, when major cities actually contemplate defunding the police, and ...
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Ella's Voice

The Ella Baker Center

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The official podcast of the Ella Baker Center, a nonprofit based in Oakland where everyday people organize every day to win change and build opportunities to make our communities safe, healthy and strong.
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Omnific

Omnific Collective

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Solutions based approach to everyday problems from the perspective that we can create anything if we work together rather than in competition. By way of sharing our expertise how ever small or grandiose the idea, by embracing real world application and results that lead to humane world impacts. We can create anything.
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Knowledge is power. And everyone deserves the knowledge to keep themselves safe and secure. Join us as we discuss real-world evidence based techniques regarding Safety and Security. Treating everyday and extreme trauma, personal security and professional security, and studies and news that we can learn more from.
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President Trump says he’s ready to defund Sanctuary Cities—but what does that actually mean? 🤔In this episode, Tara breaks down the real fight happening behind the headlines: welfare payments to illegal immigrants, hidden SNAP and Medicaid data, and the looming showdown over appropriations bills vs. continuing resolutions.From Somali fraud networks…
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Rep. Adam Smith is the ranking member of the House committee that’s supposed to have oversight on the Department of Defense—yes, that’s what he still calls it. But from strikes on Venezuela to ICE surges in Minneapolis, “oversight” isn’t a key function of Congress these days. Guest: Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Commit…
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Hello, hello, one and all! And welcome to this! The second special meeting of the one hundred and seventy-seventh session of the Queen's University of Belfast Literary and Scientific Society! On this occasion the House convened to hold an emergency debate to discuss the motion, "This House Would Defund The BBC" and was joined by the student newspap…
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From Trump’s policies on sanctuary cities 🏙️💸 and welfare cuts 💳 to federal fraud scandals 💰, protests 🚨, and national security threats 🌐, today’s episode covers it all.Tara breaks down how political power, money, and corruption are shaping America, including:🏛️ Trump promises to defund sanctuary cities & cut welfare for illegal immigrants💳 Million…
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The United States Supreme Court reached a new level of absurdity—and the country watched it happen in real time. ⚖️In this episode, we break down a stunning exchange that exposed a fundamental contradiction: refusing to define “woman” while simultaneously enforcing women’s sports categories by law.From Justice Alito’s sharp questioning to the ACLU’…
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What did Biden-era money buy in Iran? According to human rights groups and the exiled Crown Prince, the answer is chilling: 12,000 dead. ☠️In this episode, Tara exposes the near-total silence from the UN and mainstream media as graphic footage spreads uncensored on X. From collapsing Iranian banks and enforced sanctions to assassination plots, ghos…
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In this explosive episode, Tara walks listeners straight into the courtroom—and straight into the ideology driving today’s most controversial cultural battles. ⚖️An ACLU lawyer argues that a biological boy should compete on a women’s sports team… while simultaneously claiming the court cannot define what a woman is. The result? A legal meltdown tha…
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Donald Trump is back in the headlines, promising to defund sanctuary cities 🏙️💸 and cut welfare for illegal immigrants—but the path forward is complicated.Tara dives into the real story behind the headlines: federal lawsuits, fraud in SNAP and Obamacare, congressional gridlock, and the consequences of passing Nancy Pelosi’s budget again.We also unc…
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Can you imagine the outrage if January 6 protesters had rammed a Capitol Police officer with a car? 🚔💥In this episode, Tara breaks down the double standard in justice today:From Renee Good’s ICE incident in Minneapolis, to federal prosecutors walking off the job rather than investigating liberal groups teaching violent tactics, the system’s bias ha…
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We are officially living in unprecedented times. 🇺🇸In today’s episode, Tara breaks down a political moment no one thought they’d ever see: President Trump flipping off a heckler inside a Ford plant in Detroit 🏭🖕—and why the media reaction tells you everything you need to know.From the Epstein file smokescreen and Bill Clinton’s subpoena defiance, t…
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We are officially living in unprecedented times. 🇺🇸In today’s episode, Tara breaks down a political moment no one thought they’d ever see: President Trump flipping off a heckler inside a Ford plant in Detroit 🏭🖕—and why the media reaction tells you everything you need to know.From the Epstein file smokescreen and Bill Clinton’s subpoena defiance, t…
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How do Medicaid, food stamps, and voter rolls connect? According to new court battles and whistleblower revelations, the answer could change how Americans understand elections forever. ⚖️🇺🇸In this episode, Tara breaks down how blue states allegedly used federal welfare systems as automatic voter registration pipelines—registering people to vote whe…
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The truth is out—and it’s horrific.In this episode, we examine what U.S. taxpayer money funneled to Iran actually delivered: 12,000 dead civilians, mass executions, and a regime openly mowing people down in the streets. ☠️While the mainstream media barely whispers and the UN remains silent, uncensored footage tells a different story. We break down …
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Portland is finally threatening to evict homeless shelter residents who refuse to engage with services after 120 days. Is anyone surprised this "tough love" comes after years of enabling open-air drug use and building a massive homeless industrial complex? We're diving into Mayor Keith Wilson's new policy that will affect 80-90 people—complete with…
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What happens when the highest court in the land is asked to rule on something that “can’t be defined”—yet is enforced by law anyway? 🤔In this episode, we break down a surreal Supreme Court exchange that exposes a deeper ideological conflict: definitions, women’s sports, and the growing influence of oppressor vs. oppressed class theory in American i…
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Portland's police chief literally cried on camera while confirming that federal agents were right—the people they detained are Tren de Aragua gang members. One's a convicted criminal, the other runs a prostitution ring online, and together they tried to ram a truck into CBP officers. Yet instead of backing law enforcement, we get tears and politici…
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News is a tough business. So how did Semafor, the news startup founded by Ben Smith and Justin Smith, figure out how to turn a profit in their third year of business? Excellent journalism certainly helps. But it’s really because the company made two key decisions: Focusing on events — and focusing on events in Washington, D.C., where companies will…
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Today’s episode is a deep dive into everything shaping America and the world right now. From exploding economic growth and inflation debates 💹💰, to closing South Carolina primaries with Bill 33-10 🗳️✉️, and the urgent crisis unfolding in Iran 🇮🇷🔥.We cover:The latest core CPI & GDP data 📊 – Trump-era growth numbers and wage trendsHow citizens can co…
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In this jam-packed and unsettling episode, Tara takes listeners from the streets of Minneapolis to the bathrooms of America’s schools—exposing what happens when lies, lawlessness, and institutional failure collide.First, Tara dismantles the false narrative that ICE is conducting “illegal kidnappings,” explaining what federal law actually says and h…
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In this wide-ranging and intense episode, Tara connects two seemingly separate stories that reveal a deeper pattern of institutional breakdown—inside American schools and across the global stage.The show begins with firsthand reports from teachers and parents about alarming behavior in high school bathrooms, including vaping, explicit photo sharing…
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In this episode, Tara examines claims of escalating confrontations surrounding immigration enforcement—and how misinformation, political rhetoric, and viral social media narratives are fueling fear, confusion, and dangerous behavior on the streets.The discussion focuses on allegations that false claims about ICE authority are being repeated by poli…
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In this high-impact episode, Tara dives deep into the biggest stories shaping America today: from record-breaking economic growth and inflation debates 📊💰, to closing South Carolina primaries with Bill 33-10 🗳️✉️, and the urgent situation in Iran 🇮🇷💥.Hear insights on core CPI data, wage growth, and how interest rates are impacting jobs. Plus, first…
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In this episode, Tara sits down with newly elected legislator Diane Mitchell from District 21 to discuss why closing South Carolina’s primaries matters, how citizens can make their voices heard, and the crucial 33-10 bill that could finally prevent unaffiliated voters from participating in Republican primaries.Diane shares her first-day experiences…
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In this episode, Tara dives deep into the latest economic data—covering inflation, GDP growth, interest rates, and market moves—and explores how they impact everyday Americans. From core CPI trends to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions, Tara breaks down what the numbers really mean, how the media frames the story, and why it matters for …
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In this deeply unsettling episode, Tara examines claims of foreign influence, online radicalization, and escalating rhetoric surrounding immigration enforcement—focusing on how misinformation and fear narratives are pushing vulnerable people toward dangerous conclusions.The episode explores reporting that alleges foreign-linked funding of protests,…
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In this explosive episode, Tara examines rising tensions surrounding ICE operations, local political leadership, and activist movements—focusing on how rhetoric, training materials, and misinformation can escalate real-world confrontations.The discussion centers on recent incidents where ICE agents were reportedly surrounded by crowds, the legal cl…
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The situation in Iran is rapidly escalating. In this episode, Tara breaks down the U.S. State Department’s urgent warning for Americans to leave Iran immediately, following reports of mass anti-government protests and hundreds of civilian deaths.As the Iranian regime sends mixed public and private messages to the United States, questions are growin…
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In this eye-opening episode, Tara shares disturbing firsthand accounts from teachers and parents across Upstate South Carolina about what’s happening inside high school bathrooms—even in top-performing schools.From vaping to students photographing each other nude and posting it on Snapchat, Tara explains why schools are installing gates, posting st…
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