We start our show by reading Mahmoud Kahlil's letter to his newborn son written from an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Columbia University, where Mahmoud had been organizing, is seeing a resurgence in anti-genocide student resistance.
We talk about the arrest of Newark mayor Ras Baraka outside an ICE detention center and how popular online left commentator Hasan Piker was questioned recently by Customs and Border Patrol.
We look at the dynamics of the new pope, and spend the rest of our show discussing police brutality and violence- from the Patrick Lyoya mistrial in Grand Rapids, the situation with Rodney Hinton, to the 40th anniversary of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia.
2:00- 12:00 A Letter from ICE Detention By Mahmoud Kahlil
13:00- 19:30 Anti-Genocide Protests at Columbia Continue
20:20- 31:51 New Jersey Mayor Arrested Outside ICE Detention Center & Hasan Piker Gets Questioned
33:00- 44:30 Ope, a New Pope: The Progressive and Regressive Politics of Leo and the Status Quo
45:30- 57:00 Patrick Lyoya Mistrial
57:00- 1:03:15 Rodney Hinton and Their Response to the Police Killing of His Son
1:03:30- 1:10:30 40th Anniversary of MOVE Bombing
SOURCES/ FURTHER READING
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/mahmoud-kahlil-letter-to-newborn-son
NYPD and Campus Security Attack Pro-Palestine Protesters Inside Columbia University’s Library As Students Rally Outside https://www.leftvoice.org/nypd-and-campus-security-attack-pro-palestine-protesters-inside-columbia-universitys-library/
Why the Left Needs to Denounce Ras Baraka’s Arrest https://www.leftvoice.org/why-the-left-needs-to-denounce-ras-barakas-arrest/
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested for Visiting ICE Jail, Slams Trump Admin’s “Insane” Abuse of Power https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/12/ras_baraka
Hasan Piker: I was detained by customs and border patrol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI5FH2vZanQ
The politics behind the selection of the American-Peruvian Pope https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/13/emju-m13.html
Responses to the mistrial of ex-cop Schurr who killed Patrick Lyoya – Part I & II https://griid.org/2025/05/11/responses-to-the-mistrial-of-ex-cop-schurr-who-killed-patrick-lyoya-part-i/
I’m Not Sad a Cop Died https://loloverruled.substack.com/p/im-not-sad-a-cop-died
‘Timestamp on our minds’: Philadelphia marks 1985 Move bombing that killed 11 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/philadelphia-1985-move-bombing
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