This week on Informed Rant, we look at the long list of terrible Trump picks for cabinet positions and their confirmation hearings in a conversation with journalist Kevin Gosztola, from Shadowproof.  We then explore Chelsea Manning's commutation and the fate of other incarcerated people under Trump, with lawyer and author of The Passion of Chelsea Manning, Chase Madar.  We end the show with a personal discussion of poverty and how people are at risk of sliding into this trap in an interview with screenwriter, author and journalist Ruth Fowler

Chelsea Manning, cabinet picks and poverty

In our first episode of the new year on Informed Rant, we discuss the end of progressive neoliberalism with Nancy Fraser of the New School; whether Hillary Clinton and other politicians  should attend the inauguration of the president-elect they deemed unfit to serve as commander-in-chief; NBC’s big get—Megyn Kelly; the history of race baiting; and time to panic—and fight with—the Advocate’s editorial director Lucas Grindley.

Before Trump came to power time to panic and now time to fight

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