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Masks Keep Slipping | The Humanist Report (7/10-7/14) by Mike Figueredo

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Attack of the Anti-Vax Idiots (&amp; More) | The Humanist Report (6/19-6/23) by Mike Figueredo

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Trump's Legal Trouble, Cornel West (&amp; More) | The Humanist Report (6/12-6/16) by Mike Figueredo

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Florida is F***ed | The Humanist Report (5/15-5/19) by Mike Figueredo

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Trump &amp; Santos' Legal Ls | The Humanist Report (5/8-5/12) by Mike Figueredo

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The Humanist Report is a progressive political podcast that analyzes political news stories through the lens of humanism. This podcast is hosted by Mike Figueredo, a Ph.D student of public policy and political activist.

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The Humanist Report

In this episode of The Humanist Report podcast, we’ll discuss one of the main culprits to blame for our current political predicament: American news media. Last week they cheerleaded Trump on as he illegally and unconstitutionally bombed Syria. Also, we learned the extent of the mainstream media’s corruption when a former MSNBC host, Ed Schultz exposed how much influence higher ups have on pundits’ content. We’ll also discuss UN  Ambassador Nikki Haley’s hypocrisy when it comes to human rights, Democrats’ attempts to water down net neutrality legislation in California, Trump’s flip-flop on the TPP, the Republican Party’s war on the poor, Hillary Clinton’s ongoing control over the DNC, and why Bernie Sanders should endorse New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon. We’ll close the show with interviews from two progressive congressional candidates; Tamborine Borrelli of Washington’s 10th congressional district, and Tim Canova of Florida’s 23rd. It’s a gigantic episode that covers a broad range of topics… enjoy!

Episode 139: The Liberal Media Myth

In this episode we’ll discuss President Trump’s recent announcement to expand and extend the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan. The saddest part is that he’s facing little to no resistance from the Democratic Party and media. Additionally, Trump threatened Venezuela with military action; a country that joins the ranks of North Korea and Iran, both of which were also threatened by Donald Trump. Also, we’ll talk about the backlash neo-nazis received after Charlottesville, Elizabeth Warren’s fiery Netroots Nation speech, Bernie Sanders’ push for single-payer, Joy Reid and Joan Walsh’s shenanigans, MSNBC’s coverage of net neutrality, and more! Enjoy the show!

Episode 108: Trump’s Continuation of U.S. Imperialism Isn’t Shocking

In this episode of The Humanist Report, we’ll talk about the aftermath of last week’s stunning victory by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Democrats responded by brushing off her win and Republicans responded by crying “Communist!” (as they do to anyone ideologically left of center). As a result of their smears, we’ll break down which political contingent is really radical in the U.S. and we’ll talk about the Overton window. We’ll also discuss net neutrality in California, the push for ranked-choice voting in Massachusetts, abolishing ICE, Trump’s SCOTUS pick, and more! Enjoy the show!

Episode 150: The Modern Right: America's REAL Radicals

In this episode we dive into WikiLeaks’ release of John Podesta’s emails, who is the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. We discover media collusion, potential quid-pro-quo deals, outright corruption, and much more. Enjoy!

Episode 64: WikiLeaks - The Podesta Emails

Donald Trump is going to be our next president. The question is how how the f*ck did this happen? In this post-election episode Mike shares his reaction to Trump’s victory and attempts to make sense of it all. Enjoy!

Episode 68: How Democrats Gave Us President Trump

In this episode of The Humanist Report we’ll talk about the suppression of progressives; this includes a new Politico/Morning Consult public opinion poll that excludes Bernie Sanders as well as Cynthia Nixon’s criticism of the Democratic Party establishment for tipping the scales against progressive candidates across the country. Additionally, we’ll talk about Kaniela Ing’s corrupt corporatist opponents that were bought off by the health insurance industry, Joe Arpaio’s idiocy on ‘Who is America?’, a terrifying new study on climate change, Ajit Pai’s lies, right-wing snowflakes and more! Enjoy the program!

Episode 155: Progressive Suppression

In this episode Team Hillary has returned to mainstream news after backing the candidate that would ultimately give us Donald Trump. We discuss what Clinton’s former surrogates like Barney Frank, Howard Dean, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz are saying, and why they’re STILL wrong. We also talk about how Donald Trump is turning into Hillary Clinton by copying the same types of corruption he criticized her for. Other topics include the Dakota Access Pipeline, Elizabeth Warren’s message to Democrats, Newt Gingrich’s attack on Jill Stein, and more! Enjoy!

Episode 71: Hillary’s Surrogates Won’t Shut Up, Trump’s Corruption, Secular Talk Chat + More

In this episode we’ll discuss how MSNBC continues to fail loyal left-leaning and liberal viewers who rely on them for fair and objective coverage. They’ve not only continued to display hatred towards Bernie Sanders, causing actor John Cusack to call fo ra boycott, but they’ve also ignored campaigns from other anti-establishment candidates like Andrew Yang. On top of that, the commentary provided by MSNBC hosts (like Chris Matthews) is laughably stupid and out of touch. We’ll focus on MSNBC’s bias but also talk about The New York Times and Politico’s contempt for Bernie Sanders. Additionally we’ll discuss Joe Biden’s failing campaign, student loan debt cancellation, Amy Klobuchar’s supporters, the U.K. election, and more. We’ll close the show by talking to 2020 congressional candidate Zina Spezakis.

Episode 220: Boycott MSNBC

In this episode we discuss the aftermath of the DNC Chair election, and how the victory of corporatist, establishment-backed Democrat Tom Perez was the last nail in the Democratic Party’s coffin. Additionally, we’ll discuss how billionaires are plotting a takeover of the Party, the war on weed, the FCC’s assault on net neutrality, and President Trump’s insidious plan to gut medicaid funding and increase defense spending. All of these topics—plus more—will be covered in this episode. Enjoy!

Episode 84: The Democratic Party Is Dead

In this episode we’ll talk about the ongoing rivalry between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, the neocons in Trump’s administration that are pushing for regime change in Iran and Venezuela; and additionally, we’ll rank every 2020 presidential candidate running in the Democratic Party primary. We’ll close the show out with a Mike Gravel interview about his 2020 presidential campaign.

Episode 192: Our Best Bet Is Bernie

Multiple Democratic Party presidential candidates have announced their candidacy for the presidency, but along with these announcements comes revelations about their records and how “progressive” they’ve been throughout their careers, as they now pretend to be Bernie Sanders lite. So with that being said we’ll look at the past record of Kamala Harris as well as Joe Biden’s borderline extremist “tough on crime” stance he held in the late-‘80s. Additionally, we’ll talk about how Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign reached out to the show in order to lend some clarification to questions we raised in last week’s episode about her record. We’ll also talk about Bernie Sanders’ upcoming presidential campaign, the Supreme Court’s cowardly position on Transgender rights, and more. Enjoy!

Episode 177: Dem Skeletons

In this episode we’ll talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s experience at migrant detention facilities, and what she describes there as well as how the right’s reaction. We’ll also talk about Medicare For All and how Bernie Sanders was forced to set the record straight about the need to abolish private health insurance companies after Kamala Harris went out of her way to misrepresent the fundamentals of Bernie’s bill in order to save face ahead of criticism from potential health industry donors.

Episode 200: AOC’s Language: Now More Offensive Than Actual Fascism

Calm

2020 is coming… or more specifically, Democratic Party primary season is upon us; and as a result we’ll be talking about some of the most prominent news stories leading up to the launch of the 2019 campaign season. We’ll talk about CNN’s nonsensical 2020 power rankings—which they call “definitive” (lol)—and we’ll talk about the revival of the Bernie Bro myth ahead of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign. We’ll also talk about public broadband, the Green New Deal, Trump’s corruption, and a lot more. Finally, we’ll close the show with our 4th annual THR Award show, where viewers get to crown our Scumbag and MVP of 2018. We’ll also close this jam-packed episode with a video compilation of some of the biggest news stories of the year along with some words of motivation as we head into 2019. Enjoy the show, everyone. Happy Holidays, we’ll see you in 2019!

Episode 173: Calm Before The Storm

In this episode we’ll discuss the mainstream media’s bias against progressive presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard as well as what establishment Democrats are trying to do to take them down. We’ll also talk about Facebook’s censorship of Elizabeth Warren, Beto’s 2020 campaign launch, the college admissions scandal, Joe Biden’s response to left-wing critics, our idiot president, and Pete Buttigieg’s flip-flop on Medicare for All. Enjoy!

Episode 184: Dogpile On Bernie & Tulsi

In this episode we’ll discuss Trump’s attack on Ilhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi’s primary challenger, Bernie Sanders’ Fox News town hall, CNN’s biased coverage of Bernie Sanders’ tax returns, the ‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats that are conspiring against Bernie, the details of the full Mueller report, and we’ll close the show with an in-depth conversation about universal basic income with 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Episode 189: Boss Bernie

In this edition of The Humanist Report podcast we’ll talk about the astonishing success Bernie Sanders had within the first week of his launch as well as his town hall at CNN along with the shenanigans that ensued. We’ll also talk about Trump stupidity, including Ivanka Trump’s richsplaining and Michael Cohen’s confirmation that Trump is a criminal and a fraud. Also in this episode, Elizabeth Warren admits she’ll pivot during the general election, we’ll talk Venezuela, and how Amy Klobuchar decided to eat salad with a comb one time. Yes, you read that correctly. Enjoy the program, folks!

Episode 182: Bernin’ It Up

In this episode we’ll talk about the strategy Bernie Sanders needs to implement going forward, Hillary’s latest round of attacks, Elizabeth Warren’s betrayal of the left, the Super Tuesday 2 election results, #VoteBLueNoMatterWho, COVID-19 and more!

Episode 232: Joe Biden Is Not Electable

The media’s darling, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, is surging to first place in early primary states. His rise is mostly due to nonstop adoration from the media as well as erasure of massive scandals that have plagued his campaign. We’ll talk about why the rise of Pete is bad because he’s a liability in the general election, and on top of that we’ll discuss the scandals media refuses to talk about. We’ll also discuss #Fartgate, Cenk 2020, Warren’s backtrack on Medicare For All, conservative outrage over Chick-Fil-A, impeachment, Trump’s horrible new Israel stance, Biden’s boomer take on pot legalization, and the 5th Democratic Party primary debate. We’ll close the show by talking to 2020 congressional candidate Melanie D’Arrigo.

Episode 219: Buck Futtigieg

In this episode we’ll discuss Bernie Sanders’ brilliant student loan debt cancellation plan, and we’ll also get into foreign policy and Trump’s incoherent position on Iran. We’ll spend the second half of the episode with pre and post debate analyses of the first 2020 Democratic debates.

Episode 199: Student Debt And Debates

Ilhan Omar broke a cardinal rule in Washington D.C. this week: she criticized AIPAC’s influence on politicians. The aftermath was a total meltdown by members of both parties in Congress over her comment supposedly being “anti-semitic,” with calls for apologies and resignations dominating political discourse this week. The reality, however, is that she’s absolutely right about their influence on politicians. We can say that and also acknowledge the need to protect the Jewish people—not to be confused with the pro-Israel lobbying firm, AIPAC—from actual instances of hate and bigotry (which is often perpetuated by the very individuals that were quick to call her out, ironically).  Additionally, we’ll talk about Trump’s hot take on climate change, Howard Schultz’s CNN town hall, Ro Khanna’s defense of net neutrality, Tulsi Gabbard’s progressive foreign policy vision, a new warning from scientists about diminishing insect populations, and more.

Episode 180: Ilhan Oh My God!

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