Friday Politics Roundup | More student protest arrests; concerning polling for Biden; touch UAW loss in AL; greedflation study; PA cyber-charter King; liberal groups bite themselves

Here for the good, the bad, and the ugly in state and national politics. On today's show:

More students were arrested for taking part in Palestinian solidarity and ceasefire encampments. Now more than 2,000 students have been arrested - more than at any time since the anti-Vietnam War demonstration of the 1960s. 

Another new poll finds that about 20% of voters in five key battleground states are less likely to vote for Biden in November because of his handling of the Israeli assault on Gaza. 

Tough loss for the UAW at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama. To put it in the words of one Mercedes-Benz worker: “This is probably the most strategic and organized union busting campaign in decades.”

Biggest study of “greedflation” finds what most of us have suspected: big corporations, especially the big Fossil Fuel corporations, squeezed us for record profits while blaming it on “inflation.” 

Meanwhile, some scientists are looking to fracking wastewater for a source of lithium for electric car batteries. 

PA is the cyber-school capital and our kids are worse off for it. In the period from 2018 to 2022, the cyber-charter industry gained an additional $485.5 million in taxpayer dollars to line the pockets of executives. 

National liberal groups are biting themselves in the butt by fawning over Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

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