Why, America? with Leeja Miller

How Trump's AI Chip Deal Threatens National Security

Trump flip flopped on allowing Nvidia and AMD to export their AI GPU chips to China. Now he's going to charge them 15% on the exports, which is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. Experts are warning this could have dire impacts on our national security.
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Further Reading: Empire of AI by Karen Hao: https://bookshop.org/a/83711/9780593657508 
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Trump's Attack On Truth At The BLS

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) compiles jobs reports, the Consumer Price Index, and so much more data. Trump fired the commissioner because he didn't like the data. Now he's replacing her with a partisan hack who will do his bidding. Today we're discussing why it matters and looking at how Trump is attacking the truth at the BLS and across the government.
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Trump's DC Takeover EXPLAINED

Today, Trump announced in a press conference that he would be taking federal control over the Washington DC police force and likely deploying National Guard troops to patrol the streets of DC, citing his authority under the DC Home Rule Act and saying an emergency exists because of rampant crime in our country's capitol. What does this all mean? Can he even do this? We'll break it all down today.
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VIDEO: Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working, Heather Cox Richardson, Aug. 7, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=263FaqrL6C4
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How Today's Tensions Mirror Pre-Civil War America

The tensions erupting in Texas over the redistricting fight and the push for the FBI to get involved with rounding up out of state Texas law makers is laying bare the tensions between north and south as well as between states rights and the federal government in a way we truly haven't seen since before the Civil War.
 
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Is It Safe To Fly In America?

A fiery crash over the Potomac at Reagan airport in January, numerous near misses, complete communications blackouts. Judging by the news, the US airspace is a treacherous place to be right now. A recent investigation revealed numerous shortcomings. But is it really unsafe?
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The Republican Plan To End Elections

Redistricting in Texas is just the beginning. Today we're connecting the dots across gerrymandering, census questions, Pam Bondi seeking voter rolls, and more, to understand the full picture of the Republican plan to completely undermine election integrity in this country until there are no elections left.
Center For American Progress Report: Robert Benson, How Democracies Defend Themselves Against Authoritarianism, Center for American Progress, April 9, 2025, https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-democracies-defend-themselves-against-authoritarianism/
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Billionaires Want Your 401k Funds

Today we're breaking down why private equity is a scam and how Trump and Congress might open the floodgates to allow private equity firms to pawn off their crappy businesses onto you and into your retirement funds.
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The Eugenics Of It All

What do Sydney Sweeney's genes, the famine in Gaza, and Donald Trump's new executive order criminalizing homelessness and mental illness all have in common? The very American tradition of eugenics, of course. Today we're connecting the dots between these headlines and America's sordid history.
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Only Billionaires Benefit From New AI Plan & Criminalizing Homelessness

Trump's New AI Action Plan was constructed by and for tech billionaires at the expense of all of us. But the real story is that this new plan is connected to the Paramount-Skydance merger and Trump's new Executive Order criminalizing homelessness. It's all a symptom of the fascist capitalist greed that has overtaken this country.
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The Media Is Eroding Under Trump

Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal for publishing a story about him. Stephen Colbert has been cancelled after years of criticizing Trump. Funding for the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, PBS, and NPR has been completely gutted. All of this in JUST THE LAST WEEK. When sources of truth come under attack from the government, it's our job to hold them up.
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