Didactic Synapse

It’s been less than a week, but I’m back with yet another episode of my award-winning podcast. (NOTE: My podcast has never actually won any awards.) Enjoy!

Top Links

• Videos show Chicago police firing at fleeing car and handcuffing dying suspect
• Movement for Black Lives: Platform
• Girlfriend proposes to Brazilian player after rugby final

Current Events

• Trump
  • Trump asks why US can’t use nukes: MSNBC
  • NYT video of Trump supporters
  • Meet Jacqui Maxwell, the UAW Autoworker Who Interrupted Trump’s Economic Speech in Detroit
• Ilhan Omar bio and Video
• The Police Are Still Out of Control. I should know. By Frank Serpico
• Tavis Smiley: Lawyer Connie Rice & Professor Robin D. G. Kelley, Part 1 (and Part 2 is where she says: “If you’re counting on convicting police officers as your strategy for dealing with this, forget it. It’s not happening. The entire legal system is structured and aimed at making sure that their license to kill is protected.”)
• Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like”

Economics

• Regulator Pledges to Keep Secrets for High-Frequency Traders
• Amazon’s end goal for the Echo is letting you order anything on Amazon by voice

Education

• NAACP members call for ban on privately managed charter schools

Killer Robots, Etc

• Hunt for the Wilderpeople trailer:

• TayBot
• Mayor of rich D.C. suburb charged in ‘meth-for-sex’ scheme
• Lithuanian mayor crushes parked cars with tank

Hip-Hop

• Chuck D Thinks Rage Is Good for America
• Ana Tijoux – Somos Sur (Feat. Shadia Mansour):

Good news, everybody! The Didactic SynCast is back! After months of silence, my podcast is online once again. And what a time to return — I scored an interview with the amazing writer and activist Sarah Schulman, author of the new novel The Cosmopolitans, based on Honoré de Balzac’s La Cousine Bette. Have a listen and subscribe to the new iTunes feed.

Here are links to things we discuss:

• The Cosmopolitans at GoodReads
• Conflict is Not Abuse at GoodReads
• Lambda Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
• Feminist Press
• Movement for Black Lives: Platform
• Mix NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival
• Geri Allen: Lush Life
• Nelson Algren on sentimentality
• Sara Ahmed: The Promise of Happiness
• Teaser for Jason and Shirley
• Trailer for Portrait of Jason
• Amy Goodman and DemocracyNow!
• BDS Movement
• ACT UP Oral History Project
• United In Anger: A History of ACT UP on iTunes