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Radioactivity Thursday: Questions about ACA Open Enrollment? Our guest has answers.

November 19, 2020 Open enrollment for Obamacare is now in full swing in Florida, even as the U.S. Supreme Court listened to oral arguments last week on whether the law is constitutional.  Florida’s Republican attorney...
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Radioactivity Wednesday: How Corporations Deny the Truth

November 18, 2020 Barbara Freese is an environmental attorney and a former Minnesota assistant attorney general, currently living in St. Paul.  Freese is author of several books, including “Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending...
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Radioactivity Thursday: Strongmen rulers – from Mussolini to Trump

November 12, 2020 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. President Trump and his allies—including most of the top elected Republican officials in Florida are refusing to concede that Democrat Joe Biden has won...
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Radioactivity Election Day Tuesday: Photojournalist Zach D Roberts tracking far-right groups in Florida and across the US

November 3, 2020 Good Morning, welcome to Radioactivity.  I’m Rob Lorei. Zach D Roberts is an investigative photojournalist who covers far-right extremism, and voter suppression in America. He is famously known to go to the...
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Radioactivity Thursday: Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories, QAnon and Voter Manipulation with Melissa Ryan

October 29, 2020 In her latest article for Right Wing Watch, “Disinformation, Coronavirus, and the 2020 Presidential Election“, Melissa Ryan writes: In the 2016 presidential campaign, a robust disinformation effort fueled by Russia’s intelligence agencies...
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Radioactivity Wednesday: A Deep Dive into the Latest Florida Poll numbers with Steve Schale

October 28, 2020 In 2008, Steve Schale directed the Obama/Biden campaign in Florida, leading the largest political operation in Florida history to a win for President Obama, and in 2012, served as a Senior Advisor to...
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Radioactivity Tuesday: How countries and special interests are able to quietly buy influence in the Trump administration

October 13, 2020 Donald Trump did not sell his business when he took office, nor did he give it away. By holding onto his businesses, he launched an unprecedented experiment: What happens to a multi-billion-dollar...

Radioactivity Friday: “Catholics for Choice” urges Senators to reject Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett

October 9, 2020 Good Morning, welcome to Radioactivity.  I’m Rob Lorei. The Associated Press is reporting; An old directory for the Christian organization People of Praise members shows Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served...

Radioactivity Wednesday: Leaked messages show far-right group’s plans for violence in Portland

October 7, 2020 Good Morning, welcome to Radioactivity.  I’m Rob Lorei. The summer of 2020 has seen the city of Portland, Oregon, become a symbol and a venue for the further, dramatic polarization of the...
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Radioactivity Tuesday: “How Amazon hid its safety crisis” – new reporting on the high rate of serious injury at Amazon warehouses

October 6, 2020 A new investigative report from Reveal from the nonprofit Center for Investigative Journalism obtained internal documents from Amazon showing high rates of injury at its network of fulfillment centers. Amazon, which has...

Radioactivity Tuesday: Jonathan Alter discusses his new biography of Jimmy Carter “HIS VERY BEST”

September 29, 2020 Good Morning, welcome to Radioactivity.  I’m Rob Lorei. Our guest today is Jonathan Alter, an award-winning historian, columnist and documentary filmmaker. An MSNBC political analyst and former senior editor at Newsweek, he is...
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Sweden tried “Herd Immunity” to deal with Coronavirus; it resulted in a death rate many times larger than its neighbors.

Here is a link to many coronavirus resources There has been discussion about the success of Sweden’s “herd immunity” approach to the Coronavirus pandemic on WMNF/Radioactivity this week. Some listeners have claimed that the Swedish...

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