Stormy Daniels not mentioned by Trump after bombshell interview
AM Joy 3/31/18
Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, has created a strong media presence for his client, while Donald Trump’s legal team appears to be floundering. Joy Reid and her panel discuss Daniels’ headline-making interview, and what could come next.
Alton Sterling shot by officer within 90 seconds videos show
AM Joy 3/31/18
Alton Sterling was shot by officer Blane Salamoni within 90 seconds of their meeting newly-released body cam videos show. Joy Reid and her panel discuss the need for a national conversation surrounding local law enforcement.
Trump tells aides not to discuss anti-Russia measures
AM Joy 3/31/18
Donald Trump has reportedly told his aides not to discuss anti-Russia measures, while apparently being reluctant to say anything negative about Vladimir Putin, despite evidence that Putin has interfered in our democratic process. Joy Reid and her panel[, including Malcolm Nance,] discuss what our guest calls, ‘a national security crisis.’
Ingraham takes vacation after David Hogg tweets, advertisers flee
AM Joy 3/31/18
Laura Ingraham is taking a vacation after Parkland shooting survivor and activist David Hogg tweeted in response to her statements attacking him, leading many of the Fox News host’s advertisers to flee. Joy Reid and her panel of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student activists discuss.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar supports common sense gun reform
AM Joy 3/31/18
Sen. Amy Klobuchar joins Joy Reid to discuss her support of common sense gun reform, adding that politicos who are getting money from the NRA, ‘are standing in the way of where most Americans are.’
Census question on citizenship sparks widespread backlash
AM Joy 3/31/18
The new census question on citizenship has sparked a widespread backlash, with our guest telling Joy Reid, ‘if the census is corrupted, all of American democracy is corrupted as a result.’
Is eastern religion atheistic? If it is, should we even oppose it? Is eastern religion as harmful as western religion? In Singapore’s Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, I thought through these questions, and thought you’d be at least mildly interested in my answers to them.
Buddhism vs. Christianity, Hinduism, the caste system, and faith, all briefly addressed here. Any other eastern concepts I should touch on later? Reincarnation or karma, perhaps? Let me know!
Just after deciding to create this series, I met a man in Hanga Roa who I knew I wanted to interview. A man who cooks for a living but hates eating, serves for a living but hates customers, greets for a living but hates people. He doesn't consider his food art, although it is. Nor would he his restaurants (deceased and half-built), although they are as well. To him they are work, and work is his passion.
In ninety countries around the globe, his food remains the best I've ever had. His restaurant was a temple to the concept of attention to detail. He calls the one he's building a castle. I'm certain it will live up to the name.
Alex Jones breaks down anti-gun activist David Hogg’s refusal to debate his son Rex Jones about the Second Amendment, and Hogg’s alliance with corporate America to repeal it.
The Department of Energy is trying to turn a lake in the California desert called the Salton Sea into a farm for renewable fuels — and clean its infamously polluted water in the process.
The Salton Sea Biomass Remediation Project harnesses algae’s ability to grow in hostile conditions. In this case, the water is polluted with agricultural fertilizers and pesticides that algae can filter out and use to fuel its own growth.
Every week, researchers harvest algae from a 900-foot metal chute in a wetland by the Salton Sea, process it, and take it to Sandia National Laboratories, where they’re testing methods to turn it into a high-quality fuel. The end goal is for algae fuel to replace oil in everything from cars to plastics.
It sounds futuristic, and the project is trying to succeed where others have failed. In the mid-2000s, venture capitalists poured funding into algae startups and their slime farms. But the promise — a cheap and abundant fuel that wouldn’t compete with land needed for food production, like corn or soy-based biofuels do — never materialized. It turns out that commercial-scale algae-farming is hard and resource-intensive, and most of the initial startups have folded or are marketing algae for cosmetics and dietary supplements, not aircraft fuels.
With the SABRE project, the DOE thinks it can avoid the mistakes made in the past. VICE News went to the California desert to see how they’re giving algae a second chance.
NBA Hall of Famer and "Becoming Kareem" author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar compares Colin Kaepernick's protest to his own travails as a socially engaged athlete.
Published on Mar 31, 2018 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Desi Lydic discovers that life is a lot easier if you apply the tactics of Trump's formidable and fact-challenged press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Grant, Ally, and Raph are tired of these half-assed “pranks” every online site does. Except if they’re about genie movies. Those are still good.
Hardly Working - What really goes on in CollegeHumor offices may surprise you, unless you're already familiar with unprofessional, inappropriate slackoffs getting nothing done.
John Thompson vs. American Justice After prosecutors railroaded John Thompson on a murder conviction, he came within weeks of execution before an investigator found the evidence that exonerated him. Still, the Supreme Court declined to punish the district attorney’s office that sent him to death row. Thompson’s case exposes a fundamental question: When prosecutors hold all the cards, can any defendant get a fair trial? https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/john-thompson-vs-american-justice
The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom “The Weekly List.” In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compiling a list of actions taken by the Trump regime that pose a threat to our democratic norms. Under the headline: “Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember” Siskind's “Weekly List” began as a project she shared with friends, but it soon went viral and now has more than half a million viewers every week. Compiled in one volume for the first time, The List is a first draft history and a comprehensive accounting of Donald Trump's first year. Beginning with Trump's acceptance of white supremacists the week after the election and concluding a year to the day later, we watch as Trump and his regime chips away at the rights and protections of marginalized communities, of women, of us all, via Twitter storms, unchecked executive action, and shifting rules and standards. The List chronicles not only the scandals that made headlines but just as important, the myriad smaller but still consequential unprecedented acts that otherwise fall through cracks. It is this granular detail that makes The List such a powerful and important book. For everyone hoping to #resistTrump, The List is a must-have guide to what we as a country have lost in the wake of Trump's election. #Thisisnotnormal https://www.amazon.com/List-Week-Week-Reckoning-Trumps/dp/1635572711
Why Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, drawing Trump’s ire In a Saturday morning tweet from West Palm Beach, Fla., President Trump took aim at California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who on Friday pardoned five immigrants who were facing deportation. “Governor Jerry ‘Moonbeam’ Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want? @FoxNews,” Trump tweeted. “Moonbeam” was a nickname given to Brown because of his interest in space exploration during his earlier terms as California’s governor in the 1970s. Trump’s tweet, sent while the president was traveling from his Mar-a-Lago estate to the nearby Trump International Golf Club, may have been prompted by a report during the 6 a.m. hour of “Fox and Friends,” which Trump watches regularly. The show aired a segment titled “Lawless in California.” As an infographic described the crimes that the five pardoned men were convicted of, the show’s weekend hosts tore into Brown, suggesting that he was putting Californians at risk. “He wants to show mercy,” Fox chief national correspondent Ed Henry said. “But show mercy toward people who maybe have committed a misdemeanor and are now rehabbed. If they’re dealing drugs to our children, these are not the folks you want to pardon.” According to Brown’s office, the governor granted pardons Friday to 56 people who had completed their sentences years ago after being convicted of drug-related and other nonviolent crimes. Five of those are immigrants facing deportations, the Sacramento Bee reported. All of the five have since led law-abiding lives, according to Brown’s office. Trump’s tweet is part of an escalating tension between his administration and the state of California. On Monday, the state sued the Trump administration over its decision to add a question about citizenship in the 2020 U.S. Census. And three weeks earlier, the Justice Department sued California over state laws considered to be friendly to undocumented immigrants. Two of the immigrants who were granted pardons Friday came to the United States as child refugees. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/31/why-gov-jerry-brown-pardoned-five-ex-convicts-facing-deportation-drawing-trumps-ire/
Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want? @FoxNews https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/980065427375128576
Gaza-Israel violence: Israel warns of action inside Gaza The Israeli military has warned it could take action against "terrorist targets" inside the Gaza Strip. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43603199
CNN Former NBA player Charles Barkley says he has "never been more disgusted" with the recent turmoil during the Trump presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMurBQuBU2w
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