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On Monday, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal task force approved a $3.5 billion redevelopment plan backed by luxury real estate interests. One of the task force's dissenters was City Councilmember Alexa Aviles who says the plan was rushed and unrealistic. Carolina Salguero, founder and executive director of PortSide NewYork, says the fight will continue and argues for why South Brooklyn needs a working waterfront that will make it easier to ship goods into New York and create new recreational activities as well.

We interview with Nicholas Powers about the Cult of Charlie Kirk and MAGA’s fervent play to be the victim in order to justify their own authoritarian power grab.

We take a slew of listener call-ins from people who have a wide range of opinions on the Charlie Kirk assassination and the repression of the Left that has been promised.

We interview with Nicholas Powers about the Cult of Charlie Kirk and MAGA’s fervent to play the victim in order to justify their own authoritarian power grab. In the second half of the show, we take a slew of listener call-ins from people who have a wide range of opinions on the Charlie Kirk assassination and the repression of the left that has been promised.

We speak with Minneapolis-based freelance journalist Clint Combs about Minneapolis' hotly contested mayoral race where Muslim democratic socialist state legislator Omar Fateh is mounting a strong challenge against the city’s business-friendly Democratic incumbent Jacob Frey which has gained momentum since Zohran Momdani’s upset victory over in New York City’s June Democratic primary.

The Indy’s Lane Dibbler discusses her piece "My View from the Back of an Ambulance: An EMT Describes How Medicaid Cuts Will Impact Low-Income New Yorkers.” https://indypendent.org/2025/08/my-view-from-the-back-of-the-ambulance/

A fired Amazon delivery driver, Latrice Johnson, discusses the recent rally by Amazon workers and their supporters in Maspeth, Queens protesting the company’s recent layoffs of 105 workers who had supported union activities at the warehouse.

In our first segment, Latrice Johnson joins us to discuss the recent rally by Amazon workers and their supporters in Maspeth, Queens, protesting the company’s recent firing of 105 workers who had supported union activities at the warehouse. Then, we hear from The Indy’s Lane Dibbler about her piece "My View from the Back of the Ambulance: An EMT Describes How Medicaid Cuts Will Impact Low-Income New Yorkers.” Finally, we speak with Minneapolis-based freelance journalist Clint Combs about Minneapolis' hotly contested mayoral race where Muslim democratic socialist state legislator Omar Fateh is mounting a strong challenge against the city’s business-friendly Democratic incumbent Jacob Frey which has gained momentum since Zohran Momdani’s upset victory over in New York City’s June Democratic primary.

Host John Tarleton speaks with Dr. Nicholas Powers about his experience at Burning Man throughout the years and the radical, and not-so-radical, vibe at the Nevada cultural festival

Co-hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco speak with Dr. Tami Gold and Indy Contributor Alex Vitale about their new documentary “Sex Work, It’s Just a Job” debuting this month at Quad Cinemas.

Co-hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco interview Dr. Tami Gold and Indy Contributor Alex Vitale about their new documentary “Sex Work, It’s Just a Job” and then hear from Dr. Nicholas Powers about his experience at Burning Man 2025

Dozens of doctors and others rallied outside 26 Federal Plaza on Monday to demand access to detainees that have been held for weeks on the 10th floor of that building. We speak with Dr. Steve Auerbach of the NY Doctors Coalition about the abuses immigrant detainees are enduring and why doctors are speaking out. We also discuss Zohran Mamdani's canvassing relaunch with Peter Sterne of City & State/

Zohran Mamdani relaunched his massive volunteer canvassion operation on Sunday while Andrew Cuomo continues to warn that New York's streets will be overrun with hookers if his opponent wins City Hall. We discussed this and more with Peter Sterne of City & State.

Dozens of doctors and others rallied outside 26 Federal Plaza on Monday to demand access to detainees that have been held for weeks on the 10th floor of that building. We spoke with Dr. Steve Auerbach of the NY Doctors Coalition about the abuses immigrant detainees are enduring and why doctors are speaking out.

We speak with Eric Thor, the former co-chair of NYC-DSA, about the Zohran Save Calculator, an app which tells you how much you would save under Mamdani’s policies.

We speak with Indy editor Nicholas Powers about his cover story detailing how Zohran Mamdani was able to break through idealistic leftist circles to genuinely hear and respond to the needs of working class people of color.

First, we speak with Indy editor Nicholas Powers about his cover story detailing how Zohran Mamdani was able to break through idealistic leftist circles to genuinely hear and respond to the needs of working class people of color. Then speak with Eric Thor, the former co-chair of NYC-DSA, about the Zohran Save Calculator, an app which tells you how much you would save under Mamdani’s policies.

We speak with Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing, about one of the greatest challenges Zohran Mamdani will face if he goes on to win the November general election: How to deal with the NYPD. Among the hot-button topics Mamdani will have to deal with is whether to keep billionaire heiress Jessica Tisch as his police commissioner, the future of the Cop City training complex being built in Queens and how to dismantle the Strategic Response Group, the special 800-strong battalion of cops notorious for abusing the constitutional rights of protesters. We get Alex's thoughts on Mamdani's proposed new Department of Community Safety that would transfer responsibility for homeless and mentally distressed individuals from the NYPD to trained social workers and mental health professionals.

In our first segment, we speak with Columbia Professor Joe Howley. He has been an outspoken critic of the repression of pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia since the fall of 2023. He has also been watching with dismay as the university’s top leaders recently negotiated what he says is a one-sided legal settlement with the Trump administration.

CUNY-Brooklyn College Professor Jeanne Theoharis on CUNY Firing Pro-Palestine Faculty and MLK by The Indypendent