KPFK - BradCast w/ Brad Friedman
Investigative journalist, blogger, and broadcaster Brad Friedman's investigative interviews, analysis and commentary, as ripped from the pages of The BRAD BLOG (BradBlog.com), today's current events (if they matter) and the rest of the stuff we have to live with.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 54
- Years Active
- 2025
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - Press Freedom and Media Capitulation; Public health; Elections
Guest: Timothy Karr, Senior Director, Free Press.net
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! The nation's founders protected a free press in the Constitution as a bulwark against monarchs and tyrants. But Donald Trum…
00:58:08 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - Economy and jobs; Authoritarianism; Environment
Guest: Dr. Valerie Wilson, Director, Economic Policy Institute's Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! Donald Trump pulled a classic strongman maneuver by firing the chi…
00:58:08 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Monday, August 4, 2025 - Elections: Texas GOP extreme gerrymandering scheme
PLEASE DONATE to keep KPFK on the air! Texas Democrats fled the state to deny Texas Republicans a quorum to ram through a mid-decade re-gerrymandering of U.S. House maps to steal five seats from Demo…
01:00:42 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Friday, August 1, 2025 - Epstein Files; TX gerrymandering; Environment
Guest: David Daley, FairVote
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! Original airdate 7-22-2025. Texas GOP Gov. Abbott launched an 'emergency' session of the state legislature to redraw the state's heavily gerrymand…
00:58:08 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025 - Trump's tariff tax; Voter suppression; Environment
Please donate to KPFK! Donald Trump is escalating his trade war against the rest of the world, adding new tariff taxes that YOU pay on goods imported into the U.S. Trump's announced trade 'deals' are…
00:58:08 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - Trump EPA tries to rollback U.S. climate regulations
Guest: David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council
Please donate to KPFK! Trump EPA on Tuesday announced it will move to rescind the agency's own scientific 'endangerment finding' that underpins…
00:58:08 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - Corruption; Tom Lehrer; Environment
Please donate to KPFK! Before the latest mass shooting in NYC, Trump's Justice Department gutted funding for gun violence prevention and mental health programs. Trump's 'free' tricked-out Qatari jet/…
00:58:08 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Monday, July 28, 2025 - US healthcare cuts; Voting rights
Guest: David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect
Please donate to KPFK! Donald Trump's and Republicans' budget-busting OBBB law slashed $1 trillion from Medicaid, and on Oct. 1 triggers a…
01:00:08 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025 - Money in Politics; Elections; Environment
Guest: Prof. Ellen Aprill, UCLA Law
Please donate to KPFK! Original airdate 7-15-2025. Trump IRS tax policy chief spent decades helping the ultra-rich and major corporations dodge taxes. In a stunn…
00:58:08 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025 - World Court climate ruling; Epstein Files; Environment
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! U.N. Int'l Court of Justice issued a landmark climate ruling finding that high-polluting countries are obligated under international law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that…
00:58:08 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - Trump and the Epstein Files; Free speech and free press; Authoritarianism
Guest: Heather Digby Parton, Salon; 'Driftglass', The Pro Left Podcast
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! With an avalanche of incoming news and madness underway, OG bloggers HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and 'D…
00:58:14 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - Epstein Files; Extreme gerrymandering; Environment
Guest: David Daley, FairVote
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson annoucned he will recess the US House until September to block a non-binding resolution calling for the release of t…
00:58:08 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Monday, July 21, 2025 - Trump attacks free speech, press freedoms
PLEASE DONATE to KPFK! Wannabe dictator Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are undermining free speech and press freedom, and systematically dismantling independent and public radio and telev…
00:59:20 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Friday, July 18, 2025 - Climate change costs; Absurdities in Trump/GOP tax bill; Fact check
Guest: Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect
PELASE DONATE to KPFK! Original airdate 7-9-2025. The U.S. has been hit with a wave of deadly flash floods in Texas, North Carolina and New Mexico over the …
00:58:08 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - Elections; Environment; Fascism and Corruption
Senate Republican majority voted to rescind $9 billion in federal spending previously approved in the bipartisan appropriations process to gut funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting stations…
00:58:08 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 'Why MAGA hates Superman'; Trump dismantles Dept. of Education
Guest: Nicholas Grossman, Univ. of Illinois
MAGA and Fox 'News' are attacking the new Superman movie as 'woke', criticizing the film's pro-justice, pro-kindness and pro-immigrant story. NICHOLAS GROS…
00:58:08 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - Money in Politics; Elections; Environment
Guest: Prof. Ellen Aprill, UCLA Law
Trump IRS tax policy chief spent decades helping the ultra-rich and major corporations dodge taxes. In a stunning court filing, the Trump IRS advocated for churche…
00:58:08 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025 - Immigration; Courts; Callers
New polls show a surge of support for immmigration and growing disapproval for Donald Trump's immigration policies, particularly among Republican and Independent voters shocked by ICE's violent and i…
00:57:38 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025 - Trump/GOP budget bill; Texas flooding tragedy
Original airdate 7-11-2025. Over the July 4th weekend, Donald Trump and Republicans celebrated the narrow passage of their big ugly budget bill, which guts healthcare and food assistance for millions…
00:58:08 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - Authoritarian Buffoonery; Voting Rights; Environment
The wannabe authoritarians of the Trump Administration also happen to be clowns and incompetent buffoons. Donald Trump marveled at the Liberian President's excellent English, unaware that English is …
00:58:08 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
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