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1) David Faris, Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University and author of "The Kids Are All Left: How Young Voters Will Unite America," discusses his recent Nation Magazine commentary, "The Framework for the Iran Peace Deal Means Total Humiliation for Trump," and other developments in the status of U.S.-Iran ceasefire and peace negotiations.

2) Dion Nissenbaum, Senior Reporter with Votebeat National, nonpartisan local reporting on elections and voting, to discuss his recent news story, "FBI probe of Ohio voting rights group expands to include an affiliated national advocacy network," and other Trump administration threats to the midterm election he's been covering for Vote Beat.

3) Pastor Doug Pagitt, executive director of the Minneapolis-based national organization Vote Common Good, discusses how the resistance community he works with has been doing since the dark days of the ICE invasion and war in the Twin Cities in January. He'll also talk about the Dept. of Justice recent issue of federal criminal charges against 15 Minneapolis residents in connection with anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis/St. Paul earlier this year, accused of “conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers” and of allegedly “violently” impeding immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities.

4) Rachel Carroll Rivas, Deputy Director Research, Reporting & Analysis with the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center & SPLC Action Fund, discusses the Center's Annual Year in Hate & Extremism Report, which finds that under the Trump regime far-right extremist groups have gained new power across the federal government, private tech sector and college campuses over the course of 2025.

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AI: The Good, Bad, and Ugly - What's the RIGHT WAY to USE AI?

An interview with Richard D. Wolff, economist and author:

"Suppose that people like you, your listeners and me were in charge of this company and we heard about AI. Here’s what we would do. We would go and we would say, 'Yes, we want the AI. Please install it right over there and this is wonderful and how are we going to handle it?'

"Here’s how we’re going to do it. All of you workers, we get the 100 workers we’ve had there for a long time together and we say we have fantastic news for you. We have this new system, this AI, we’ve just installed it. And so now from each and every one of you, we will only need four hours a day of your time and energy instead of eight. Why? Well, with AI in four hours we’ll get just the same output as before. We’ll sell it as we did. We’ll earn the same money because we’ll charge the same price and I’ll make whatever profit I’ve been making all along again. But the benefit of the AI will be in the transformed lives of 100 families whose breadwinners just got half time off with no change in pay. Is that possible? Yes. Does that happen? You bet.

"Is that an option for us? Absolutely. And what would it mean? It would mean that a new invention like AI is actually helping the majority of people who are employees instead of the owner of the business who is an employer. According to the United States Census, 3 percent of Americans are employers. The other 97 percent are not. So how do we use technology in our capitalist system to make more profits for the people already earning profits? Those are 3 percent. What’s my alternative? Using the new technology, taking advantage of it, but to bring leisure. Imagine if you had four hours a day of your life offered to you. You can now use them for your passions, for your family, to learn new skills, to go back to school, whatever it is that attracts you. Your families would be stronger. Your community would have much more of your mental and physical contributions because you were only working for ... That would be a way and think also that it would change the history of every country.

"Instead of making working people worried sick about these new technologies, the way Americans are getting themselves worried sick about how secure their job is or isn’t with AI. Instead of all that skepticism and that hostility and that opposition, workers would be at the forefront of wanting these breakthroughs because it would help their lives."

https://betweenthelinesradionews.substack.com/publish/post/202352558

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