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1) Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Professor Pickard discusses the important issues examined in his recent Nation magazine article, "The Media’s Profits Trump Democracy, Once Again: Paramount’s settlement with Trump is a symptom of deep structural rot in our corporate media system." In his analysis Professor Pickard goes beyond the predictable commentary on "bad media companies" surrendering to Trump, but discusses the urgent need to envision a community-based media system that prioritizes journalism, democracy and equality over profit.

2) Kali Holloway is a columnist for The Nation and the former director of the Make It Right Project, a national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history. She'll discuss her recent article, "The Real Reason Those White South Africans Are Here," with a focus on the multiple ways the Trump regime is carrying out an explicitly racist, white supremacist agenda. She'll also address corporate media's failure to call out Trump's racism, while normalizing his actions driven by hate and bigotry.

3) Interviews with participants in the pro-democracy, anti-Trump ‘No Kings Day’ June 14, 2025 protests in Trumbull and Newtown CT. The ‘No Kings Day’ protests involved 2,100 protest sites across the U.S. and attracted the participation of an estimated 5 million protesters.

4) Debra, an organizer with the group Indivisible Amity, CT -- and Tom of the Indivisible chapter in Orange CT, discuss plans for the Thursday, July 17th "Good Trouble Lives On Rally" — with speakers and music on the New Haven Green in downtown New Haven, CT from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. This event, part of day of some 1,000 +protests nationwide, is being organized in response to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration -- and in defense of voting rights, democracy, and civil liberties, is inspired by the legacy of the late Congressman John Lewis who died 5 years ago and his lifelong call to get into “good trouble.”