Episodes
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko for September 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
On this week’s show we talk about Cyril's latest column, "Bucks County GOP must reject militias, QAnon, Proud Boys, and other extremism."
We also check in with some of the Anti-MaskerRaiders in Bucks County. It's also the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street which is a good opportunity to talk about the critical importance of organizing.
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Monday Sep 20, 2021
Out d‘Coup LIVE | Open Phones and Comments for September 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
On today’s show, we've got another round of open phones. From Bucks County, to Harrisburg, to Washington, the challenges we face just don't stop. What's on your mind? What's at the top of your agenda? We're taking your comments on YouTube. You can also join the show live on Riverside.fm and call in to the show.
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Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
The Wednesday Show with Cyril Mychalejko for September 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
We're back in your media feeds! Cyril Mychalejko is back with Kevin Mahoney to get us caught up on all the craziness in Bucks County.
The incredible disappearing Damsker? What? Rise in COVID numbers got you down? No longer the hero of local right-wing school board members? Worried about ties with Reopen PA? Who knows?
School boards throughout the county continue to go off the rails. Right-wing training camps sponsored by right-wing GOP activists. We're looking at you, Meehan.
And Cyril will give us a little preview of his brand new column.
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Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
On today’s show I welcome Pennridge United school board candidates Dawn Curran and Carolyn Sciarrino.
Dawn Curran is a teacher at Central Bucks High School West and has two kids, the oldest of which started first grade this fall. Dawn and her husband have been part of the Pennridge community for the past 15 years. Dawn is especially interested in helping Pennridge evolve and rebuild after the pandemic. Specifically, she is interested in enhancing education with the district’s new technology; promoting physical, social, and emotional well-being; and finding new ways to recognize and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences of the student body and the community. She comes from a family of teachers and has participated in curriculum writing and leadership activities at Central Bucks, coached several sports teams, is the faculty advisor for her school’s newspaper and the newly formed No Place for Hate leadership committee.
Carolyn Sciarrino grew up in Springfield Township in a close-knit Colombian family. Her parents emigrated to the U.S. in their twenties and ran an electrical repair shop and a hair salon. She carries their values of hard work, respect, honesty, strength of character, and kindness into raising her own family in the Pennridge school district. She and her husband are raising their four young children in the district and she has been a fierce advocate for her children and all the students in the district. She has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Temple and a master’s degree from St. Joseph’s University. She has worked in foster care, adoptions, school-based educational programs, and in social service with the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
Dawn and Carolyn are running as part of the "Pennridge United" slate of candidates that also includes Adrienne King and David O’Donnell, who we had on the show back on August 16. This year's campaign is especially contentious as their opposition has embraced much of the right wing culture war tactics that are infecting school board races throughout Bucks County and across the nation.
Upcoming fundraising event: Next Monday, September 20 there is a Yoga and Wine at Sunset fundraising event in support of Pennridge United candidates. To get information about attending the event you can click right here: Yoga and Wine at Sunset Fundraiser
If you’re looking for ways to get involved and help get the Pennridge United candidates elected to school board, fill out their volunteer sign-up form here: Pennridge United Volunteer Form. You can help out with everything from knocking doors, to phone banking, to writing letters to the editor, to doing research on school board policies.
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
President Biden announces a COVID vaccine mandate for all businesses with 100 or more employees. His administration seems to have had it with the politicization of the pandemic. In his address he said: “What makes it incredibly more frustrating is we have the tools to combat covid-19, and a distinct minority of Americans, supported by a distinct minority of elected officials, are keeping us from turning the corner...We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”
Centrist and right-leaning Democrats’ are waffling on the big infrastructure bill. Writing in The American Prospect, David Dayen has is right: Democrats are bowing to the “curse of artificial scarcity,” allowing right-wing frames about deficits and wrong-headed economic reasoning to whittle away at critical climate and infrastructure investment.
Scientists are finding that animals are literally shape-shifting in response to climate change. But hey, no rush Joe Manchin.
Speaking of Manchin, looks like his daughter is in some hot water. Yup, seems like she was cashing in on the epipen price inflation scandal...uh oh.
Is the paste causing sterility in men? One study showed that Ivermectin may do that.
Senate Democrat Vincent Hughes cited Pennsylvania Spotlight’s research at the end of yesterday’s sham "fraudit" hearing. It was so good it forced Senator Cris Dush to end the line of questioning and gavel out of the hearing. Senator Hughes asked Fulton County Commissioner Stuart Ulsh about an email he sent to fellow committee members asking them to help overturn the 2020 election.
Kutztown University president, Kenneth Hawkinson, warns faculty, staff, and students about an even bigger threat than COVID: discussions about a possible solidarity action in support of Steve Oross and others who the university has denied ADA accommodations for. In a 720 word missive, he sounded the alarm that students and faculty would misconstrue a few people dressed in cover-alls standing on a sidewalk with signs supporting stricter COVID precautions and in support of Steve Oross as an actual biothreat. Wow.
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
On today's Out d'Coup LIVE special I talk with Steve Oross, Associate Professor of Psychology at Kutztown University. Eralier this year, Oross had a heart transplant and has spent the last six months rehabilitating and recovering from his surgery. While he has made a remarkable recovery, his status as a recent heart transplant patient puts him in a "severe risk" status when it comes to the risk of dying if he contracts COVID-19.
When his doctors cleared him to return to work as long as it was remote teaching, Oross sought out direction for Kutztown University administration and human resources for shifting his classes from in-person to on-line for the fall semester. What followed was a devastating and cruel story of a university administration that has forced Oross to choose between his life and his livelihood. His story is equal parts devastating and enraging.
Don't miss this show and please share it as widely as you can. And there is more you can do to help:
- Sign the Open Letter Re: KU COVID-19 Mitigations Fall 2021" - http://bit.ly/KUFall2021Petition
- Email KU President Kenneth Hawkinson urging him to provide appropriate ADA accommodations to faculty, staff, and students who are at risk of severe complications and/or death from COVID-19: hawkinson@kutztown.edu
- If you want to reach out to Steve to lend your support or share your story, you can email him at oross@kutztown.edu
We will have additional resources and calls for action in the coming days and weeks.
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
It's Raging Chicken's Friday politics round-up with Kevin Mahoney and Sean Kitchen. It's been quite a week and we're here to dig into it.
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Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
On this week's episode, I am talking with Kierstyn Zolfo from Bucks County Indivisible to dig into the myth vs. reality of Republican Rep. Brian Fiitzpatrick's (PA-01) reputation as a moderate. Fitzpatrick's "moderate" credentials have helped garner him endorsements from the PSEA, the PA AFL-CIO, and the Sierrra Club. But what's the real deal here? Zolfo will help us dig into his record in one of the most highly watched Congressional districts in the country.
Kierstyn Zolfo is a resident of Bucks County and a volunteer organizer with Indivisible Bucks County. She also serves on the steering committee of Pennsylvania Indivisible as the Legislative Chair, and in that position edits and contributes to the Pennsylvania Member of Congress Tracking report, an effort that keeps an eye on the votes and quotes from the Commonwealth's 20 Members of Congress. Kierstyn is originally from New Jersey, but moved to PA when she was an undergrad at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, and has stuck around the area ever since.
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Saturday Aug 28, 2021
Saturday Aug 28, 2021
Bombing at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan leaves at least 112 people dead and 111 injured. That includes 13 U.S. service members.
Florida is facing its worst COVID outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic thanks to a Governor stuck in a right-wing media fantasyland and the rapid spreading delta variant. The Orlando area has begged residents to conserve water because the oxygen used to clean the water is needed in hospitals.
And more devastating news on the COVID front. According to the go-to forecasting model, the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, the U.S. is expected to see an additional 100,000 deaths unless people start doing basic things like getting vaccinated, wearing masks, and social distancing. That hits extra hard as schools across the country send kids back to classroom with a hodge-podge of safety plans passed by local school boards.
And for the fake-concern about the safety of vaccines, the FDA fully approved the Pfizer vaccine. That’s right folks, it’s official now. What’s your next excuse for putting other people at risk?
Poison control center calls in Texas are up 550% after residents start taking the horse medicine, ivermectin, in order to fight covid.
Evacuation orders are given to residents and visitors in the Lake Tahoe region as the Caldor Fire has grown to more than 213 square miles and is only 12% contained.
The Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission took the first huge step ending prison gerrymandering. House Minority Leader Joanna McClinton’s resolution ending the practice passed 3-2 after years of Republicans ignoring McClinton’s legislation in the General Assembly.
A long simmering feud between Senator Mastriano and Senate President Jake Corman over the ongoing audit saga boiled over into the public and has been lasting all week.
Gov. Tom “too-little-too-late” Wolf pleads with the PA GOP to call the legislature back into session to pass a mask mandate. PA GOP leadership took a second away from their pool floaties and backyard cookouts to say, no thanks.
Pennridge school district, under the leadership of Board Vice President Joan Cullen, shoots down their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion curricular initiatives. That’s several years worth of work down the drain. Now the ADL and the PA NAACP are publicly condemning the school board’s move. And after several articles in big market PA news outlets, even the national media is starting to get clued to how far off the rails the Pennridge School Board is. Did I mention that the Board also chose to ignore all medical expert advice and go with a mask-optional policy. Roll the dice.
Once again Kutztown University’s presidential tin man, Kenneth Hawkinson, and his HR advisors show what it looks like to treat people like line-items on a balance sheet. If you caught my special Out d’Coup on Wednesday, you already know that a faculty member who just had a heart transplant is being forced to go back to in-person teaching despite his CDC indicated “high risk” status.
In other KU related news, the university broke new ground on a musical mallet research center.
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
It's a special Thursday version of Raging Chicken's weekly politics round-up. Surprise!
On today's show, we spend a good chunk of time talking about the situation in Afghanistan, how to grapple with fallout and aftermath of U.S. empire; and, how the media is fueling misleading and unhelpful narratives about the U.S. withdrawl.
We also talk more about the right-wing playbook for sowing the seeds of division, hatred, and violence in local school board meetings. It looks like Bucks and Montgomery County are ground zero.
Sean fills us in on his plans for making a photo book based on his Instagram-ready photos taking in the Harrisburg region. And, yes, you'll have to buy one if you want to see it :-). Rumor has it he's going to sign every copy under an inked footprint of his Adidas clamshells.
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