Ironweeds

192 - Just Practicing for a Just Contract

This week David went out to the practice picket with the Teamsters in Latham. He spoke to some folks about the problems with the UPS contract and general trends in labor. Enjoy!

191 - Bad Samaritan Featuring Ashley

The city of Poughkeepsie has settled with a family for $400k after a cop suplexed a 12 year old girl. Here in Troy, evidence shows a cop who fatally struck a delivery driver was traveling in excess of 80 mph. Ashley joins us to discuss the possible closure of the Burdett Birthing Center, which will leave all of Rensselaer County without natal delivery services. And plastic capital of the world China is innovating edible packaging. 

 

Poughkeepsie settles civil lawsuit over girls in viral police incident: https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/poughkeepsie-jamelia-julissa-police-brutality-case-18189629.php 

 

Troy cop speeding in fatal crash: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/troy-officer-alleged-speeding-time-fatal-crash-18177399.php

 

Help save the Burdett Birthing Center: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1byoJf_eVet6fylR7BrUPcUm6RX_dnk5fXklE2LjaX1E/mobilebasic 

190 - 4 Years Baby

We’re celebrating four years of podding with some voicemails from you! Thanks for listening all this time, we love you so much.

189 - $250,000 Foot Long

We’re back baby! Some millionaires went on a weak sauce sub. There’s a PMC rebellion in Russia. Marjorie Taylor Green has strong words for Lauren Boebert. The Hill has a dumb article with dumb opinions. The Cop City Prosecutor quits over an unlawful arrest and charge. City Council President candidate Emily Menn hasn’t been paying her taxes. And Blue Whales are getting frisky off the coast of California. 

 

Tiny Tims Grim Prediction from 1968: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqhKKvlZmM

 

MTG goes after Boebert: https://www.salon.com/2023/06/21/youve-been-nothing-but-a-little-bh-to-me-mtg-says-to-boebert-during-a-floor-squabble/

 

The Hill is dumb: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

 

Wagner Insurrection Explained: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/25/europe/russia-prigozhin-wagner-insurrection-belarus-explainer-intl-hnk

 

Cop City Prosecutor Quits: https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-domestic-terrorism-charges-atlanta-bae860067e0a90472bc05b55c5cfc123 

 

Blue Whales Making a Comeback: https://ktla.com/news/california/blue-whales-are-thriving-in-california-waters-the-story-of-their-amazing-comeback/

188 - The Purge

As migrants move to upstate New York, counties lose their damn minds. The Medicaid purge is set to begin as the Covid state of emergency ends. Cop City activists have been arrested for operating a bail fund. And Biden has ordered a 20 year ban on federal oil and gas drilling around a tribal site in New Mexico. 

 

‘Give us an opportunity’: At Newburgh hotel, migrants hope for a better life: https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/migrants-seeking-better-life-in-upstate-new-york-18127689.php 

 

New York’s post-COVID Medicaid purge begins in June. Could state’s Essential Plan buffer losses? https://www.timesunion.com/health/article/new-york-s-medicaid-purge-begins-month-18127765.php 

 

Cop City: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/us/cop-city-atlanta-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 

 

20 year ban on oil and gas drilling in New Mexico: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/biden-orders-20-year-ban-on-oil-gas-drilling-around-tribal-site-in-new-mexico 

 

Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/#why

187 - Where Is My Mind

Thank the gods, we’ve averted the crisis of our own making once again. Diane Feinstein wants you to tell her one thing: where the hell is she? Police deprive a heart transplant recipient of a life saving medication, killing him. Orcas are leading up the class war and butterflies are thriving in English gardens. 

 

Debt ceiling: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/us/politics/debt-ceiling-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare also https://twitter.com/quigleyaidan/status/1662644377317982209?s=46&t=H0xYNG-blXU-d-zkx5SJeA 

 

Feinstein: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/politics/feinstein-senate-staff.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 

 

Police kill heart transplant recipient through negligence: https://jaxtrib.org/2023/05/23/i-cant-miss-those-doses-jacksonville-man-died-after-jail-denied-him-heart-transplant-medicine/

 

Butterfly populations explode in gardens: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/butterfly-populations-grew-by-200-higher-in-peoples-gardens-than-in-other-habitats/

 

Orca class war: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/orcas-attacking-boats-gladis-killer-whale-b2346615.html

186 - Florida is a Real Drag

This week we’re talking about Florida having lost its mind, passing several anti-LGBTQ bills in a single day. The US is on the hunt for electric vehicle battery minerals and is suddenly very concerned about labor practices abroad. Capital Roots has withdrawn recognition of their employees’ union. And Rhode Island is feeding its youngins for free! 

 

Minerals for EVs: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/business/economy/the-us-needs-minerals-for-electric-cars-everyone-else-wants-them-too.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 

 

Florida bathroom bill: https://www.reckon.news/lgbtq/2023/05/florida-is-set-to-arrest-people-in-restrooms-regardless-of-legal-gender-status-in-sweeping-bill.html

 

Florida kidnapping bill: https://newrepublic.com/post/172748/ron-desantis-signs-law-allowing-trans-kids-taken-families

 

Florida anti-drag bill: https://newrepublic.com/post/172750/ron-desantis-signs-drag-ban-extreme-cancel-pride-parades

 

Capital Roots withdraws union recognition: https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/troy-s-capital-roots-workers-leave-seiu-union-18106387.php

 

Free lunch in Rhode Island: https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ri-senate-passes-bill-making-lunch-free-at-all-public-schools/ 

185 - Excelsior! Ever Higher (Costs)

The Excelsior Pass has risen to $64 million, but good luck finding it in your phone. Asylum seekers have been sent to the Hudson Valley as county legislators guard their purses. George Santos has turned himself in on fraud charges. And Cohoes isn’t letting renewable energy drift past!

 

Trump sexual abuse lawsuit: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit-battery-defamation-verdict/index.html

 

Patriot Front in DC: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12080939/White-supremacy-group-Patriot-march-Washington-D-C.html

 

Excelsior Pass costs ballooned to $64 million and keep rising: https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/excelsior-pass-ballooned-64-million-keeps-rising-18091575.php 

 

Migrants have arrived in the Hudson Valley. What happens next?: https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/migrants-seeking-asylum-hudson-valley-faq-18096032.php 

 

Floating Solar coming to Cohoes: https://apnews.com/article/floating-solar-ramping-up-climate-change-renewable-energy-7316dbfe9db23363aacadcd133cbd408

 

George Santos Arrest: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-santos-arrested-charges-new-york-b2336334.html

184 - All The World’s A Flood Zone

Proud Boys are charged with Civil War era crimes. Rent control is under attack. Tucker Carlson is… being normal. Housing insurance is about to become a lot more important under climate change. Public funds yield private profits at Monument Square. And Hurray! A victory for Public Power!

 

PB convicted of seditious conspiracy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/jan-6-proud-boys-sedition.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Hudson Valley landlord group appeals Kingston rent control decision https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/kingston-landlords-appeal-rent-control-18081670.php 

 

Tucker Carlson on how white men fight:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html

 

Insurers hike prices or drop coverage of climate-doomed homes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/climate-change-homeowners-insurance-housing-market.html 

 

Reddit thread on public funds to private profits at 1MS:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Troy/comments/138ianx/monument_sq_gets_19m_in_state_budget_closing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_content=1&utm_term=15 

 

WF: Public Power!

https://publicpowerny.org/press-releases/new-yorkers-win-historic-victory-for-public-power/

183 - Mind Your Noam Business

Rensselaer County officials have been charged with federal crimes. Boston police filed fraudulent overtime claims, but don’t worry: it was policy! Tortuguita’s autopsy shows that they didn’t fire a gun and were shot 57 times. Noam Chomsky met with Jeffrey Epstein and it’s none of your business. And a possible treatment for PFAS in the water supply is being developed. 

 

Tortuguita’s autopsy: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/autopsy-cop-city-protester-manuel-teran-death

 

Richard Crist in FBI custody: https://wnyt.com/top-stories/rensselaer-county-gop-operative-in-fbi-custody/

 

Rensco officials charged: https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/three-rensselaer-county-officials-charged-federal-17921006.php#photo-9442939

 

Chomsky met with Epstein: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff?reflink=integratedwebview_share

 

Boston Police get off from fraudulent overtime claims: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/27/metro/boston-police-officers-acquitted-ot-overtime-fraud/

 

Treatment for PFAS in water: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/04/16/pfas-water-treatment-filter/