Briahna Joy Gray

Dr. Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute returns to Bad Faith to explain how the Israel's assassination of of Hamas top ceasefire negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran reflects Israel's lack of good faith and threatens broader regional war. Why does Israel want war with Iran, what are the current risks of escalation in the region? Also, what should we make of Trump's recent meeting with Netanyahu?

Executive Editor of The American Prospect returns to Bad Faith to help decipher Kamala Harris’s economic policy. Having dodged interviews and eschewed posting policy proposals, we’re left reading the tea leaves— analyzing who she’s surrounded herself with, and what her surrogates have been saying on CNBC and beyond. What does it mean that her brother in law, Uber’s chief legal officer & Obama DOJ alum is a senior advisor? How does someone who fought for drivers to be classified as contract employees advise Kamala’s labor policy? Will she be an ally for the banks over the people— echoing the DOJ’s choices after the financial crash? When people close to the candidate refuse to give straight answers on whether Lina Khan will remain head of the FTC, is it because Kamala is trying to avoid ticking off donors who want her gone? Or because she’s trying to avoid ticking off the voters who think she’s the best thing Biden been did? Few are better equipped than Dayen to break it all down.

Historian, author, journalist and Marxist intellectuals Vijay Prashad returns to Bad Faith to talk progressives for Kamala, the Tim Walz pick, CorI Bush’s ouster, & what lessons global movements, including recent student protests in Bangladesh, hold for the American left.

@briebriejoy

Dana Bash asks Bernie about Kamala backtracking on progressive policies like Medicare for All, and Bernie basically says, well, she’s gotta win.

He crushed her running on those same policies. Medicare for all has 88% approval among Dems. Even half of Republicans approve.

@CaseStudyQB

CNN - 8/11/2024 - @BernieSanders asked about a @VP Harris admin. economic policy agenda and standing up for working families

"She has reversed herself on #MedicareForAll..."

B.S - "She has to run her campaign..."

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Title edit: added [NSFWish, topic, rape] to title

@briebriejoy

Is Harris/Walz gonna do anything about this?

@SMohyeddin

Footage is released of Israeli soldiers covering themselves with shields, as they rape a Palestinian hostage at the Sde Teiman torture camp.

The unnamed hostage was hospitalized with a torn rectum, broken ribs, ruptured bowels & damaged lungs.

[https://x.com/SMohyeddin/status/1820966395829518767]

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@briebriejoy

Completely agree that American Jews should buck the Democratic Party in favor of the only Jewish candidate in the race: Dr. Jill Stein.

@bungarsargon

My fellow American Jews: It's time to have a little self respect and walk away from a party that's telling your children they can't be vice president because the antisemites in the party must not be upset.

Source: https://x.com/briebriejoy/status/1820875636702896240

@briebriejoy

“The whole narrative in 2014 was that body cameras are genuinely in good faith being proposed as a tool of accountability and transparency. That was not the origin story of body cameras at all. They were not proposed to make police less violent and bring accountability. That was not why the companies saw them as a multibillion dollar opportunity.” - @equalityAlec

https://youtu.be/dh90PBIonbU

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The Abandon Biden movement was created to leverage votes to secure a ceasefire, or in the alternative, punish Biden for failing to move on that issue. What does the Abandon Biden movement do now that Biden is no longer on the ticket? Head of communications Ahmad Hudhayfah joins Bad Faith to discuss the movement’s attitude to Kamala Harris, its current demands, and what the makes of so many “coconut pilled” leftists who had formally articulated a commitment to Palestinian rights.

Former Seattle City Council member, Socialist, & co-founder of Socialist Alternative & Workers Strike Back returns to Bad Faith for an important conversation with Briahna Joy Gray about where the lefts' focus should be during one of the most tumultuous electoral seasons in American history. AOC, Biden, and almost all progressive elected through their support behind Biden even as the general public overwhelmingly lost confidence in him, and for what? Kshama breaks down AOC's late night IG monologue justifying support for Biden, the evidence for why the squad's "insider" strategy has proven ineffective, and offers a clear vision for how the left can advance our goals in this moment.

Civil rights attorney, former public defender, and founder of Civil Rights Corps joins Bad Faith to discuss his new article which exposes the massive disinformation campaign around police body cameras which has led liberals to embrace surveillance technology as a progressive reform. He explains the evidence which exposes the true purpose of body cameras, and addresses whether the recent on-camera murder of Sonya Massey complicates the argument. He then takes on a new trend rehabilitating Kamala Harris's criminal justice record now that she's the presumptive nominee. Were claims about her record overblown in 2020? Or is she, in fact, a cop?

@briebriejoy

Somehow worse than I imagined.

@AssalRad

Netanyahu’s standing ovation in Congress.

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@briebriejoy

Beyoncé went from having black panther dancers at the superbowl to licensing her music to a cop.

@BrentNYT

Beyoncé gives Kamala Harris permission to use her song ‘Freedom’ for the presidential campaign | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/entertainment/beyonce-freedom-harris-campaign/index.html

Source: https://x.com/briebriejoy/status/1815929048184275163

@briebriejoy

""[Harris] will be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu this week at the White House. She will reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the security of the State of Israel. This meeting is separate from President Biden's planned meeting with PM Netanyahu," said White House Jewish liaison Shelley Greenspan."

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[Headline] Netanyahu Visit Provides Kamala Harris With First post-Biden Diplomatic test

[Sub-headline] The vice president and presumptive Democratic 2024 presidential nominee is well aware of the prime minister's unpopularity - at home and among U.S. Jews - but is wary of snubbing a sitting Israeli leader

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Harris, who was scheduled to hold a one-on-one meeting with Netanyahu prior to the events of the last several days, will indeed meet with him at the White House.

"[Harris] will be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu this week at the White House. She will reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the security of the State of Israel. This meeting is separate from President Biden's planned meeting with PM Netanyahu," said White House Jewish liaison Shelley Greenspan.

[Highlighted Section] "Her travel to Indianapolis on July 24 should not be interpreted as a change in her position with regard to Israel. This is a simply statement confirming her travel plans," said an aide to the vice president.

Source: https://x.com/briebriejoy/status/1815565249837457745

@briebriejoy

VIDEO PREMIERE‼️: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1lIhkyMUNY0

"The reason I brought up the 2016 campaign is that --yes [Bernie] ran a very strong campaign on very powerful demands, but he never had this view that...the need is to organize working people, you know, the rank and file of the working class, in order to have a political organization that can stand the test of time beyond elections & outside election years & outside of the electoral process." - @cmkshama

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@briebriejoy

"One American doctor told us he even reviewed CT scans to confirm what he saw because he quote, 'didn't believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.'"

@SMohyeddin

Surgeon, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, on what he witnessed in his first month in Gaza. On @CBSSunday

“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper.”

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@briebriejoy

This is evidence that activist pressure should continue and increase, not that they've "won" and should celebrate Kamala.

Victory is a ceasefire.

@prem_thakker

Kamala Harris has reportedly declined to preside over the Senate for Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress this week:

@theintercept

Kamala Harris is less burdened by Biden's disastrous support for Israel's war, sparking some hope in pro-Palestine advocates.

https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/

Source: https://x.com/briebriejoy/status/1815459603897086434

@briebriejoy

Biden should’ve been forced out bc he underwrote a genocide. Instead, donors forced him out after a bad debate. That tells you everything about the party’s priorities & who they’ll pick to replace him. This is an incredible opportunity to invest in third party alternatives.

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Author of A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy joins Bad Faith to detail her research into what she believes is the true story behind the assassination of RFK, and to use her expertise on historical assassinations to weigh in on the recent attempt on Trump's life.

@briebriejoy

For weeks before I was fired from Rising, I'd been requesting a follow up on the libertarian victory lap segment the show did after Milei was elected.

I asked repeatedly for weeks. I was eventually told by our producer, Joanne: "maybe when Robby is on vacation."

@briebriejoy

If what this witness is saying is true, that’s an incredible security lapse.

@wideofthepost

This BBC interview with a rally goer is absolutely extraordinary. 1/2

@wideofthepost

2/2

@briebriejoy

He should do whatever he can immediately because there’s no way he’s winning now.

@BidensWins

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, President Biden has announced that if he’s reelected, he will cancel medical debt for millions of Americans. Let’s go.

@briebriejoy

They don’t care about “saving democracy” so you should feel confident voting your conscience and not succumbing to bad faith “vote blue no matter” who pressure. This is the moment to crack the duopoly. The only genuinely anti-war, anti duopoly candidate who will be on 270 electoral college-worth of ballots is @DrJillStein

@ryanobles

NEW: Rep. @AOC tells us she spoke to President Biden over the weekend and it’s time to end the speculation over his future:

“Joe Biden is our nominee. He is not leaving this race. He is in this race and I support him.”

@briebriejoy These admissions are surreal.

@CaseStudyQB

Fox News - 7/8/2024 - Harold Ford takes great offense to being called an Elite by Joe Biden

"I was the elite that supported you in 2020. That said we should do everything we possibly could to advantage you against Bernie Sanders..."

Eponymous host of the Kim Iverson Show joins Briahna Joy Gray to break down Thursday's disastrous-for-Democrats debate, RFK Jr.'s response, and what third party opportunities this unique political moment presents for the left. Is this a moment to commit to the Green Party? Or is the only "green" up for debate Biden's golf handicap, or whether Trump is sub "par". Is it worth it to vote for RFK Jr. to break up the duopoly? Or are his views on Gaza too insidious to consider any other upsides? You wont want to miss this spirited debate.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17273133

A crisis has engulfed the Democratic Party following the train wreck of the Biden-Trump presidential debate, and Biden's catastrophic performance.

On Strike is joined by Briahna Joy Gray, host of the Bad Faith podcast and, until recently, co-host of The Hill Rising, from which she was fired in retaliation for speaking out consistently and courageously against the genocidal war on Gaza. We speak with Gray about the crisis for the Biden administration, the failures of AOC and the Squad–including the recent defeat of Jamaal Bowman in New York–and the path forward for working people, including the important effort to build Jill Stein’s independent, antiwar Presidential campaign.

Register now for the Inaugural Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back and join Jill Stein, former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network’s Nick Cruse to discuss and vote on a strategy to build an alternative to the rotten Democratic and Republican Parties, which have blood on their hands both at home and abroad. Register now: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg

Powerful sections of the Democratic Party leadership remain determined to ram Biden down the throats of working people despite the absolute disaster of not only last week’s debate, but Biden’s candidacy as a whole. In the face of the threat of a second Trump Presidency, they are prepared to risk everything rather than replace their doomed candidate. The pro-Biden Democratic establishment is trying to pretend nothing much has happened. It’s a weapon’s grade level of political gaslighting.

The calls for Biden to step aside have grown, now including two Democratic members of Congress–Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona. But even as pressure on Biden approaches a boiling point, the so-called progressives in the Democratic Party, including AOC, have remained silent, choosing to preserve their rotten relationship with the political establishment over the interests of working people, who desperately need an alternative to the status quo of crisis and war. Meanwhile, the “alternatives” on offer from the Democratic establishment, like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris, have equally abysmal records to Biden and would also be beholden to the pro-war anti-working-class agenda of the Democratic Party.

If you think the working class needs new and analysis like in this episode, become a member of Workers Strike Back today. By joining Workers Strike Back, you can support the production of On Strike and help us build a fighting workers’ movement to fight for what workers need: a $25/hr minimum wage, good union jobs, free universal healthcare, quality affordable housing, and an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Join Workers Strike Back today at workersstrikeback.org/join.

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