Friday, March 31, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Back in 2015,
Republicans in the Texas attempted to push over 20 anti-LGBTQ bills through the
state legislature, however they were met by the amazing activists in Texas who
impressively beat back the vast majority of the bills, which was by no means an
easy feat. Now, this legislative session
religious zealots are once again seizing upon the issue of “religious liberty”
to promote a license to discriminate against queer people in a broad array of
areas in the Lone Star state. Joining me
today to talk all about this latest ‘Avalanche’ of Anti-LGBTQ Bills in Texas,
what is being done to fight them, and how you can help is Kathy Miller the President & Executive Director of The Texas Freedom Network and Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, one of the great groups on
the ground in Texas fighting for equality and civil rights!
The release of the film The Boys in the
Band in 1970 was revolutionary for the American film
industry as it was among the first major motion pictures to revolve around gay
characters and offered a fictional but frank presentation of gay men in
Manhattan. The film was based on Mart
Crowley’s hit Off-Broadway play from 1968, and is often cited as a milestone in
the history of queer cinema. Joining me
today to talk all about the film, its importance, and the collection of
scholarly examinations of the film that he edited titled The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics is Matt Bell, who is an associate
professor of English at Bridgewater State University, where he teaches courses
in American literature, film, and queer studies.
This sure has been
another crazy week in politics what with President Trump going nuclear on the
Freedom Caucus and his former National Security Advisor seeking an immunity
deal for his testimony about possible collusion between Russia and the Trump
campaign. Joining me today to help us
wrap up the week in politics is Eleanor Clift the Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, where she covers the White House and writes about politics and
culture.
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director and Executive Editor
of Queer
Voices at The
Huffington Post as well as the co-host of the Love
+ Sex Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday
to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines over
at Queer
Voices. Be sure to follow Noah of Twitter!
Back in January, we all witnessed Donald Trump being sworn in as the 45th President of The United States, and while the experience was truly surreal for most of us, you can only imagine what it was like Sec. Hillary Clinton who calmly sat on the dais and watched a man who as a candidate said he would send her to prison take office. Also in attendance that day was former President George W. Bush, who like Clinton was savaged by Trump during the campaign, and just like the Clinton’s he said he was there to honor the peaceful transfer of power. But, according to three people who were present, Bush gave a brief and interesting assessment of the event after leaving the dais. Joining me today to talk all about what President Bush allegedly said and a whole host of other juicy stories is Yashar Ali, who is a Contributing Writer to New York Magazine, Mother Jones, and The Daily Beast.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Joe Sudbay, a DC-based political consultant with over twenty-five years of experience at both the state and federal level, is sitting in for Michelangelo today. Joe has served as a Deputy Editor at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay and in February 2009, he became the first blogger credentialed to attend a presidential news conference and was one of five bloggers to conduct the first-ever sit-down interview with President Obama. In his non-blogging time, Joe works with nonprofit organizations, companies, and campaigns, primarily designing and implementing strategies for dealing with the social networking and online world. He's got some great things planned for the day so be sure to tune in and give him a call.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Joe Sudbay, a
DC-based political consultant with over twenty-five years of experience at both
the state and federal level, is sitting in for Michelangelo today. Joe has
served as a Deputy Editor at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay and in February
2009, he became the first blogger credentialed to attend a presidential news
conference and was one of five bloggers to conduct the first-ever sit-down
interview with President Obama. In his non-blogging time, Joe works with
nonprofit organizations, companies, and campaigns, primarily designing and
implementing strategies for dealing with the social networking and online world.
He's got some great things planned for the day so be sure to tune in and
give him a call.
Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 3-6 pm ET on SiriusXM Progress 127 and on the SiriusXM iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free thirty-day pass or, if you have an if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.
Monday, March 27, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Since we last spoke with John Nichols The Nation’s
national-affairs correspondent a lot has happened, Speaker Ryan pulled the
GOP’s Healthcare bill right before the House was to vote on it and we keep
learning more about the ongoing investigation into collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia. John returns to the
show today to talk all about these stories and so much more!
It seems that every day
we are treated to some new revelation about the connections and possible
collusion between President Donald Trump’s administration/campaign and the
Russian government. Joining me today to talk all about the latest developments
in in this story and his thoughts on where this is all headed is Malcolm Nance, the Executive Director
of The Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics & Radical Ideology
(TAPSTRI). Malcolm was a career
counterterrorism and intelligence officer for the U.S. government’s Special
Operations, Homeland Security, and Intelligence agencies and spent more than
two decades on clandestine antiterrorism and counterterrorism intelligence
operations in the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, South Asia, and
sub-Saharan Africa in direct support of the Special Operations and Intelligence
Community.
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
The House of
Representatives is set to vote on the Republican Healthcare bill known as
Trumpcare, and it’s not looking good for the President and Speaker Paul
Ryan. Joining me today to talk all about
what a disaster this bill is and so much more is Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) who represents the 43rd Congressional
District of California who serves as the Ranking Member of the House Committee on
Financial Services.
On June 6th,
Democrats in New Jersey will head to the polls to select their candidate to
take on the Republicans in the state’s gubernatorial election on November 7,
2017. New Jersey’s current Republican
Governor Chris Christie, who was re-elected to a second term in 2013 is
term-limited and cannot thankfully run for a third consecutive term in
office. Joining me today to talk all
about why he is running for Governor and the importance of Democrats winning
back Governor’s mansions across the country is Democratic Candidate Jim Johnson. Jim is a former federal prosecutor, senior U.S.
Department of the Treasury official, and chair of the Brennan Center for Justice at
New York University Law School.
This sure has been another crazy week in
politics what with the ongoing investigation into collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia and the news that Speaker Paul Ryan postponed the vote on
his Healthcare Bill as a result of the fact that he appears to lack the votes
to get it passed. Joining me today to
help us wrap up the week in politics is Eleanor Clift the Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, where she covers the White House and writes about politics and
culture.
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Later tonight, the House of Representatives is set to vote
on the Republican’s healthcare plane known as Trumpcare, which the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office said would cause 24 million Americans to lose their
health insurance within 10 years. The
bill has cause outrage across the country and has even split the ranks of the
GOP. Joining me today to talk all about
what a disaster the GOP’s Trumpcare bill is and the damage it would have on our
country is Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) who
represents California’s 13th Congressional District and serves on both the
Budget Committee and the Appropriations Committee, which oversees all federal
government spending.
There sure is a lot happening up on Capitol Hill, from the
expected vote on the Republican’s Trumpcare bill to the continuing fallout from
the Presidents claim that former President “Obama had my "wires
tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory”. Joining me today to talk all about these
issues and so much more is Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) who represents Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District and
serves on the House Appropriations Committee.
All week, Judge Neil Gorsuch has been going through with his
confirmation hearing for the seat he was nominated to fill by President Trump,
and according to Dahlia Lithwick,
Legal Correspondent for Slate Gorsuch is in a tough spot because he is squeezed
between the ugliness of Republican obstruction of Merrick Garland and the
fragile tyranny of the man who named him.
Dahlia joins me on the show today to talk all about Judge Gorsuch and
his confirmation hearings.
In recent years the term gentrification gets thrown around
to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't
realize just how threatening the process is to very future of American cities
as vibrant, equitable spaces. In his new
book How To Kill A City: Gentrification, Inequality, and The Fight for The Neighborhood Peter Moskowitz explores the causes and
effects of Gentrification from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can
no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political
backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Peter joins me on the
show today to talk all about the book and why the deceptively simple question
of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's
crises of race and inequality.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Tomorrow, the US House of Representatives is set to vote on the dangerous
legislation known as Trumpcare that could leave millions of Americans without
access to health care. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found
that 24 million people would lose health insurance within 10 years under the
bill, and the legislation would specifically block people with Medicaid
coverage from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health
centers -- including birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing and
treatment. Joining me today to talk all
about the impact that impact that Trumpcare can have on the millions of patients
that depend on the women’s health provider each year is Dawn Laguens,
executive vice president and chief brand officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College, many Democrats
began asking themselves why the white working-class turned their backs on the
Party and helped hand victory to a billionaire con man whose policies work
directly against their own interests.
And while many, if not most, of those in The Resistance of the
Democratic base remain furious at these voters, the party’s political class and
the liberal media Establishment are making a concerted effort to convert that
rage into empathy for these people; but is this really the best thing for
Democrats to do? Joining me today to
talk all about why he thinks we should have no sympathy for these people and
the importance of Democrats not trying to feel everyone’s pain, and hold on to
their own anger is Frank Rich, Writer-at-Large for New York Magazine and the Executive Producer of the Emmy-winning
comedy Veep on HBO.
The Great Lakes hold 20
percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance,
work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under
threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the
continent. In his new book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes award-winning reporter for
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel DanEgan provides a chilling account of an ecological catastrophe happening
right before our eyes, from invasive species destroying the native ecosystem to
outbreaks of toxic algae stemming from the over application of farm fertilizer
which have left massive biological “dead zones” that threaten the supply of fresh
water to millions of Americans. Dan
joins me on the show today to talk all about the book and the perils that the
Great Lakes face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations
to come.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
In the wake
of Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College we have seen tremendous
surge in energy and activism happening to challenge the agenda of President
Trump and the Republicans; and if Democrats and Progressives want to capitalize
on this energy and effect change in Washington they need to recapture seats and
take back the House. Joining me today to
talk all about his attempt to do just that is Jon Ossoff, who is a Democrat running to fill the House seat
vacated by Tom Price in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District in a Special Election on Tuesday, April 18.
Since we last spoke
with Mark Joseph Stern of Slate last week a lot has happened, from
Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing to Trump’s second Muslim Ban being blocked
in the courts. Mark returns to the show today to talk all about these issues
and so much more.
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