"The Revolution WILL Be Televised," Kzoo County Responds to Federal Funding Freeze, and More

We open by discussing how a local resident is attempting to organize a Metro Transit bus riders union and how Kalamazoo County is responding to the Trump administration's federal funding freezes.

 

We talk a bit more specifically about DOGE, the normalization from some sectors of the media, the power and history behind the Trump admin's adversarial posture towards South Africa, and examine the meaning around Kendrick's Super Bowl halftime performance.

 

We look at Trump's aim to colonize Gaza and turn it into a casino resort, return to Michigan with stories from the state government, and close with some updates on H5N1 (Bird Flu).

 

02:00- 8:30 Local Kzoo Resident Seeks to Organize Metro Transit Riders

 

8:30- 25:30  Kzoo County Responds to Federal Cuts

 

25:30- 36:20 How the Working Class Will Get Dog Walked by DOGE and Media Reaction

 

36:20- 40:00 White Boys Still Mad: Elon, Trump, and South Africa

 

40:00- 51:40 "The Revolution WILL be Televised"- The Super Bowl Halftime Show

 

51:40- 1:02:20 Mar-a-Gaza- Casino Colonialism, the Media's Organized Forgetting, and Blaming the Victim

 

1:02:30- 1:07:20 Michigan GOP Wants to Tie Local Funding to Capitulation to ICE

 

1:07:30- 1:11:05 Michigan Civil Rights Law Protects Trans Students Athletes (All Two of Them)

 

1:11:20- 1:14:30 A Brief Guide to Protecting Your Finances With the Dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

 

1:14:35- 1:23:45 Bird Flu Update

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

A Kalamazoo Township man starts a petition to organize local bus riders 
https://www.wmuk.org/wmuk-news/2025-02-05/a-kalamazoo-township-man-starts-a-petition-to-organize-local-bus-riders

 

Elon Musk is part of a ‘coup’ we must respond to, Kalamazoo County leader says
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/02/elon-musk-is-part-of-a-coup-we-must-respond-to-kalamazoo-county-leader-says.html

 

Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk’s ”DOGE Army,” Gutting Gov’t Agencies as Courts Question Legality?
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/musk_doge_federal_government_vittoria_elliott

 

“The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/elon_musk_doge_south_africa_apartheid

 

Michigan House GOP threatens to block budgets over ‘sanctuary’ city funding
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-house-gop-threatens-block-budgets-over-sanctuary-city-funding

 

Michigan transgender youths to continue high school sports, despite Trump order
https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-transgender-youths-continue-high-school-sports-despite-trump-order

 

“Trump Does Not See Palestinians as Human Beings”: Plan for U.S. to “Take Over” Gaza Faces Outcry
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/omar_baddar_trump_gaza_israel_palestine

 

Some Moves to Protect Yourself during the Dismantling of the CFPB
https://ykhong.substack.com/p/some-moves-to-protect-yourself-in

 

Trump’s assault on public health and the growing threat of an H5N1 bird flu pandemic
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/08/ocfq-f08.html