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Coming up on today’s show, we have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to discuss the latest NSA spying revelations from Edward Snowden.

We also have Josh Bolotsky from the Other 98% here to talk about our upcoming live-riffing of Atlas Shrugged Part One at Netroots Nation.

We’ll also discuss 22 people getting arrested in Chicago to protest the Keystone XL Tarsands Pipeline, and how TransCanada briefed and trained law enforcement, calling protesters potential terrorists.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Steve Horn back on the show to discuss the latest Keystone XL pipeline updates, including dents and anomalies already showing up in the Southern portion, and how President Obama’s former communications director, Anita Dunn, is profiting off the pipeline.

We also have comedian Katie Halper back on the show to discuss her new documentary, Commie Camp.

We’ll also discuss how a member of Anonymous who helped expose the Steubenville rape scandal could face more prison time than the rapists themselves.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Allison Kilkenny from Citizen Radio back on the show to discuss the uprising in Turkey.

We also have journalist Josh Eidelson back on the show to discuss the ridiculously extravagant WalMart shareholders meeting and the low wage workers who were there to protest it.

We’ll also discuss the shocking NSA spying scandal and the attacks on the whistle blower, Edward Snowden.

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The show is on vacation this week.  As such, we are running the Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, rants, and sketches.  

Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Melissa Gira Grant here to talk about her article, The War On Sex Workers.

We also have Stanford professor Mark Jacobson here to discuss his study that found that New York State could transfer to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

We’ll also discuss how Eric Holder claimed that Wall Street was too big to prosecute.

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The show is on vacation this week.  As such, we are running the Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, rants, and sketches.  

Coming up on today’s “Best Of” show, we have musician Kimya Dawson here to discuss art, activism and her new project with Aesop Rock, the Uncluded.

We also have Nick Baumann from Mother Jones Magazine here to talk about how high speed trading may be a ticking time bomb for our economy.

We’ll also discuss the West, Texas Fertilizer plant explosion.

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The show is on vacation this week.  As such, we are running the Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, rants, and sketches.  

Coming up on today’s “Best Of” show, we have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to discuss the calls for more surveillance and drones after the Boston Marathon attacks, as well as how the media is irresponsibly tossing around the term radicalization.

We also have author and historian Rick Perlstein back on the show to discuss how Chicago teachers and activists are fighting back against Rahm Emanuel’s Shock Doctrine school closings.

We’ll also discuss the hypocrisy of Barack Obama attacking Republicans for the sequester when he signed it into law.

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The show is on vacation this week.  As such, we are running the Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, rants, and sketches.  

Coming up on today’s “Best Of” show, we have Boots Riley from the hip hop group the Coup here to discuss art, activism and his latest album, Sorry To Bother You.

We also have Jennifer Pozner of Women In Media And News here to discuss the biggest challenges women still face in the media today.

We’ll also discuss the ridiculous coverage of the Steubenville rape trial.

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Coming up on today’s show, we Amanda Marcotte back on the show to discuss Ronald Lindsay’s condescending opening lecture at the Women In Secularism conference, as well as the positive developments that came after it.

We also have Mike Ludwig from TruthOut here to discuss how the mining of the silica sand used in Hydro Fracking is taking its toll on a community in Wisconsin.

We’ll also discuss the tornado in Oklahoma, how budget cuts to the National Weather Service threaten lives, how Senator Tom Coburn wants relief tied to further cuts, and how Senator James Inhoffe claims that Oklahoma victims are different from Hurricane Sandy victims.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Hutch Harris from the band the Thermals here to talk about their new album, Desperate Ground.

We also have journalist Kevin Gosztola back on the show to discuss how the Obama administration’s war on journalists has spread from the AP to James Rosen.

We’ll also discuss how a high school girl in Florida was arrested and expelled for having a lesbian relationship with another student and how a lesbian couple living together in Texas are being forced by a conservative judge to separate.

Plus TMFS writer-performer Tim Grimes gives us his take on what Obama scandals we should be focusing on.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Mychal Denzel Smith from the Nation Magazine here to discuss the ridiculous placement of Assata Shakur on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list.

We also have Anna Marie Taylor here to discuss the new memoir she edited by the late labor journalist James Lerner, Coarse of Action.

We’ll also discuss how the Fast Food Workers Strikes have spread to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as a new study that found one out of every five children in the United States is living below the poverty line.

Plus TMFS writer-performer Bob Rok gives us his take on the racist writings of Jason Richwine from the Heritage Foundation.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have the President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, here to discuss Rahm Emanuel’s war on public education in Chicago.

We also have journalist Sarah Jaffe back on the show to discuss how a union in Oregon using collective bargaining talks to go after the big banks that wrecked the economy.

We’ll also discuss 19 people getting shot at a Mother’s Day Parade in New Orleans, the DOJ secretly getting journalist’s phone records at the AP, how we’ve passed the dangerous carbon milestone of 400 ppm and what that means for our species.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Jeff Biggers back on the show to discuss how Illinois ranks as the worst rogue coal state, and how Governor Pat Quinn has joined the climate change denying coal bandwagon.

We also have Alice Ollstein from Free Speech Radio News back on the show to discuss the shocking new Pentagon report on sexual assault in the military, as well as how the Air Force Lieutenant in charge of sexual assault prevention has been arrested for sexual assault himself.

We’ll also discuss how the DOJ and FBI still don’t think they need a warrant to read your email, as well as a former FBI agent claiming that all digital communications, including phone calls, are recorded by the government.

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Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Bryce Covert from ThinkProgress back on the show to discuss the cost of the sequester and austerity on the poor.

We also have Joan McCarter from Daily Kos back on the show to discuss the ridiculous response to the Oregon Medicaid study and the cost of over half of the states refusing Medicaid expansion.

We’ll also discuss the idiots who are protesting outside the funeral home where the first Boston Marathon bomber’s body is being held and the refusal of Cambridge to bury his body.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist David Dayen here to discuss how Obama’s Treasury Department is fighting legislation that would end “Too Big To Fail” Banks.

We also have Chris Faraone back on the show to discuss his new, free e-book on the Boston Marathon attack, Heartbreak Hell.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama is denying both science and a court order with his dangerous new FDA rules for Plan B Emergency Contraception.

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The April 2013 edition of Matthew Filipowicz Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode is now available!  

However, as “Members Only” implies, it is for Bad-Ass Members Only.  How do you become a member?  It’s simple!  Just head over to our members page and sign up.

Not only do you get the joy in your heart of supporting independent progressive media, not only do you get our monthly bonus episodes, but you’ll also receive other perks like t-shirts, stickers, personalized animations and more!  Plus, once we reach 100 members, we will go to three shows a week!

Can’t afford to become a member?  You can still support the show by making a one time donation, and if you do, you’ll get access to that month’s bonus episode!

As always, our bonus episodes give you a chance to get to know our amazing writer/performers better as we do our version of the McLaughlin Group, which we’ve dubbed the Filipowicz Forum.

This month’s forum features writer/performers Tim Grimes, Frank Chow and Bob Rok.

We talk the reaction to the Boston Marathon, the Fast Food Workers Strike, what nerdy movies we’re looking forward to this summer and more!

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Micah Uetricht here discuss Strike For 15, the Fast Food Worker’s Strike in Chicago, Illinois.

We also have Richard Eskow back on the show to discuss how the austerity “spread sheet” fiasco, should put an end to the debate on using the Chained CPI for Social Security.

We’ll also discuss the latest developments in the Boston Marathon attack, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg saying we need to re-interpret the Constitution, and the denying of a lawyer to the second bombing suspect.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Lee Fang back on the show to discuss his new book on the Right Wing infrastructure, The Machine: A Field Guide To The Resurgent Right.

We also have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to discuss the calls for more surveillance and drones after the Boston Marathon attacks, as well as how the media is irresponsibly tossing around the term radicalization.

We’ll also discuss the latest developments in the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Robin Marty from RH Reality Check back on the show to discuss her new book on the battle for women’s health, Crow After Roe: How Separate But Equal Has Become The New Standard In Women’s Health And How We Can Change That.

And in an interview recorded at the National Conference for Media Reform, we have Tim Pool here to discuss activism, journalism, and how new technology helps democratize the media.

We’ll also discuss the latest Boston Marathon bombing updates.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have a batch of interviews recorded live at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado!

We have Jaclyn Friedman from Women, Action And The Media here to discuss how pop culture can be used for both good and evil, as well as her book, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Guide To Shame Free Sex And Safety.

We have Jason Barnett from the Uptake back on the show to discuss the hardships of funding independent, progressive media.

And we have Lisa Graves from the Center for Media and Democracy here to give us the latest updates on ALEC.

We’ll also discuss the ongoing Guantanamo Bay hunger strike and how over half of the prisoners held there have been cleared for release but are still being held.

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For starters, both my wife and I are fine.  We were nowhere near the Boston Marathon explosion.  But, thank you to everyone who reached out to us yesterday.

Coming up on today’s show, we have the president of the National Mining and Metal Workers Union, Napoleon Gomez, here to his new book on the 2006 mining disaster in Mexico, Collapse of Dignity.

We also have interviews recorded live at the National Conference for Media Reform including Jennifer Pozner of Women In Media And News here to discuss the biggest challenges women still face in the media today.

And we have the Nation Magazine’s John Nichols here to discuss his new book, Dollarocracy: How The Money And Media Election Complex Is Destroying America.

We’ll also discuss the tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have a batch of interviews recorded live at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado!

We have Marcy Wheeler here to discuss the Obama administration’s discrepancies in justification when it comes to the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki.

We have Kevin Gosztola back on the show to give us an update on the trail of Bradley Manning.

We have Trevor Timm from the Freedom of the Press Foundation here to discuss the lack of transparency in the Obama administration.

And we have Tim Hwang here to talk about his world wide network, the Awesome Foundation For The Arts And Sciences.

We’ll also discuss Newark, NJ students walking out of their schools to protest budget cuts, teacher firings and school closings and the McClatchy report that shows the Obama administration has lied about the use of drones.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have a batch of interviews recorded live at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado!

We have musician Kimya Dawson here to discuss art, activism and her new project with Aesop Rock, the Uncluded.

We have Steve Horn from DeSmogBlog back on the show to discuss how Exxon is running all aspects of the tar sands pipeline oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

We have Alice Ollstein and George Lavender here to talk about their journalist collective, Free Speech Radio News.

And we have the author of War Made Easy, Norman Solomon here to discuss how politicians and the press continue to spin us into war.

We’ll also discuss President Barack Obama is proposing to cut the social safety net in his Grand Bargain with Republicans.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have artist and author Anne Elizabeth Moore back on the show to discuss her new book on Cambodia, New Girl Law.

We also have Tim Shorrock from the Nation Magazine here to discuss President Obama’s crackdown on whistle blowers.

We’ll also discuss how students at Florida Atlantic University protested and won against a private prison company for naming rights for their stadium, how Kevin Ware’s horrific March Madness injury shows the NCAA’s exploitation of college athletes, North Dakota passing a slew of horrible Anti-Choice bills, and North Carolina is trying to establish an official state religion.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have author and historian Rick Perlstein back on the show to discuss how Chicago teachers and activists are fighting back against Rahm Emanuel’s Shock Doctrine school closings.

We also have Stanford professor Mark Jacobson here to discuss his study that found that New York State could transfer to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

We’ll also discuss the tar sands pipeline oil spill in an Arkansas neighborhood, and how we could be seeing a lot more spills if the Keystone XL Pipeline is approved.

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The March 2013 edition of The Matthew Filipowicz Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode is now available!  

However, as “Members Only” implies, it is for Bad-Ass Members Only.  How do you become a member?  It’s simple!  Just head over to our members page and sign up.

Not only do you get the joy in your heart of supporting independent progressive media, not only do you get our monthly bonus episodes, but you’ll also receive other perks like t-shirts, stickers, personalized animations and more!  Plus, once we reach 100 members, we will go to three shows a week!

Can’t afford to become a member?  You can still support the show by making a one time donation, and if you do, you’ll get access to that month’s bonus episode!

This month we actually are doing something different with the bonus episode.  This month, I discuss the roots of the comedy that would eventually morph into the Matthew Filipowicz Show with someone I’ve been doing comedy with since 1997, TMFS writer/performer Tim Grimes.

For you nerds out there, it really is a prequel to the Matthew Filipowicz Show! A TMFS origin story, if you will!  We talk our early days of doing sketch comedy in Chicago, then New York, first as O.C.Y.C., then eventually as the Accountants of Homeland Security.

So what are you waiting for?  Become a member today and start enjoying the fruits of knowing you are truly a Bad-Ass!

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Gaius Publius from AmericaBlog back on the show to give us the latest on the sequester and Grand Bargain madness.

We also have comedian and satirist Rick Overton on the show to discuss the intersection of comedy, politics and activism.

We’ll also discuss the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments for Prop 8 and DOMA, and discuss the massive protest in Chicago to protest Rahm Emanuel’s racist school closings.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Amanda Marcotte back on the show to discuss rape culture, the Steubenville trial and how the story of an abused cat shows us how we should deal with instances of abused women.

We also have independent journalist Rania Khalek back on the show to discuss the lack of NYPD accountability when it comes to policies like stop and frisk as well as shootings, including the killing of 16 year old Kimani Gray.

We’ll also discuss how the State Department hid the fact that it’s environmental assessment report on the Keystone XL Pipeline was done by former TransCanada contractors, as well as a new scientific study that claims New York State could switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030 if it chose to.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have comedian and author Katie Goodman here to discuss how the actual members of both parties are more progressive than the politicians that represent them.

We also have Kenzo Shibata from the Chicago Teachers Union back on the show to discuss how parents and teachers are fighting back against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s racist school closings and CPS’ banning of the book, Persepolis.

We’ll also discuss the 10 year anniversary of the United States invading Iraq and read the last letter from a dying veteran to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist David Dayen back on the show to discuss the shocking Senate report and criminality of JP Morgan Chase.

We also have the hip hop group Rebel Diaz here to discuss art, activism and the violent NYPD eviction from their South Bronx community center, RDACBX.

We’ll also discuss rape culture and the horrific coverage by CNN and other news outlets on the Steubenville rape trial.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Greg Kaufmann from the Nation Magazine’s This Week In Poverty back on the show to discuss a proposed Anti-Poverty Contract for 2013.

We also have activist Isobel Arthen here to discuss how protesters staged a mock Funeral For Our Future at TransCanada’s Massachusetts office this week to protest the Keystone Tarsands XL Pipeline.

We’ll also discuss the leaked Bradley Manning audio from the Freedom of The Press Foundation and the hypocrisy of those who leaked the classified information in the New York Times puff piece on Anwar Alwaki’s assassination.

Here is the photo that we discuss in today’s show.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Natasha Lennard from Salon here to discuss how the debate on drones is getting muddled.

We also have Allison Kilkenny from the Nation Magazine and Citizen Radio back on the show to discuss how President Obama’s early career should have given us plenty of clues about his economic outlook, as well as the great work of the Occupy Wall Street off-shoot, Strike Debt.

We’ll also discuss the fact that since Attorney General Eric Holder has claimed that Wall Street is too big to prosecute, we should consider pushing for his resignation, firing or impeachment.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Professor Stephen John Hartnett here to discuss his book on the history of the death penalty in America, Executing Democracy.

We also have comedian and satirist Lee Camp back on the show to discuss our upcoming stand-up show in Boston, misogyny in comedy after Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar hosting night, and the trial of Bradley Manning.

We’ll also discuss Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan and Eric Holder claiming that the President can use a drone to assassinate an American on US soil.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Chris Faraone from the Boston Phoenix here to discuss how the right wing turned on one of it’s own, James O’Keefe’s former colleague, Nadia Naffe.

We also have from Driftglass and Blue Gal from Crooks and Liars and The Professional Left back on the show to discuss the madness of the sequester cuts.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama’s State Department has made the ridiculous claim that the Keystone XL Pipeline is environmentally sound.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Mike Papantonio from Ring of Fire back on the show to discuss the future of progressive media.

We also have Tim Karr from Free Press here to discuss the zombie like rise of the online privacy-killing bill CISPA, as well as the roadblocks to public and municipal WiFi.

We’ll also discuss how the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to FISA and may strike down the Voting Rights Act.

Our writer-performer Tim Grimes gives us an exclusive listen to the Pope’s Sex Tape!

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The February 2013 edition of Matthew Filipowicz Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode is now available!  

However, as “Members Only” implies, it is for Bad-Ass Members Only.  How do you become a member?  It’s simple!  Just head over to our members page and sign up.

Not only do you get the joy in your heart of supporting independent progressive media, not only do you get our monthly bonus episodes, but you’ll also receive other perks like t-shirts, stickers, personalized animations and more!  Plus, once we reach 100 members, we will go to three shows a week!

Can’t afford to become a member?  You can still support the show by making a one time donation, and if you do, you’ll get access to that month’s bonus episode!

As always, our bonus episodes give you a chance to get to know our amazing writer/performers better as we do our version of the McLaughlin Group, which we’ve dubbed the Filipowicz Forum.

This month’s forum features writer/performers Tim Grimes and Bob Rok.

We talk the sequester, drones, Presidential assassination power, Seth MacFarlane, the Oscars, racism, sexism and misogyny in comedy, and more!

So what are you waiting for?  Become a member today and start enjoying the fruits of knowing you are truly a Bad-Ass!

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to discuss the CIA and military’s hidden presence on college campuses.

We also have Victoria Law here to discuss the danger of states cutting prison budgets, while not cutting prison populations.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, had a provision in his contract at CitiGroup giving him a bonus if he quit to take a job as a high ranking government official, as well as the Obama administration refusing to state if they believe they can assassinate American citizens without a trial on US soil.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Dave Johnson from Campaign for America’s Future here to discuss how congress manufactured the crisis that threatens the United States Post Office today.

We also have comedian and host of Absurdity Today, Julianna Forlano back on the show to discuss the Keystone Pipeline protest and the NDAA.

We’ll also discuss how Facebook made 1.1 billion dollars last year but paid zero in taxes, how a football stadium in Florida is being named for the second largest private prison, GEO Group, and how President Obama was golfing with oil executives while tens of thousands protested the Keystone Tarsands XL pipeline.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have David Dayen back on the show to discuss the 1 year anniversary of the Financial Fraud Mortgage Crisis Task Force that doesn’t actually exist.

We also have Jane Kleeb from Bold Nebraska back on the show to give us an update from this past weekend’s Keystone XL Pipeline protest in Washington, DC.

We’ll also discuss the plans to escalate civil disobedience if President Obama approves the XL pipeline, and how the Pope will remain in the Vatican after he resigns to keep from being prosecuted.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Nick Baumann from Mother Jones Magazine here to talk about how high speed trading may be a ticking time bomb for our economy.

We also have journalist and filmmaker Greg Palast back on the show to discuss how Obama’s proposed voting commission is not enough, the potential nomination of Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary, and how, if approved, the Keystone XL pipeline will make the Koch Brothers billions.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama’s hypocrisy in blaming the Republicans for the sequestration considering he signed the bill, as well as 48 people getting arrested at the White House to try and stop the Keystone XL Tarsands Pipeline.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine here to discuss how conservatives and the Supreme Court may destroy the Voting Rights Act.

We also have independent journalist Sarah Jaffe back on the show to discuss Seattle teachers refusing to administer a for-profit company’s standardized test and the cost of emotional labor in the service industry.

We’ll also discuss how after 14 months of waiting for their day in court, the prosecutors office suddenly dropped the charges against those arrested in the Occupy Boston raids.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Les Leopold back on the show to discuss his new book, How To Make A Million Dollars An Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away With Siphoning Off America’s Wealth.

We also have labor activist and author Amy Dean here to discuss how restaurant workers, through groups like ROC-United, are fighting for sick days, benefits and economic justice.

We’ll also discuss the release of the DOJ white paper on Barack Obama’s assassination of American citizens.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have labor journalist Josh Eidelson back on the show to discuss the rise of alt labor movements across the United States.

We also have writer Katie Klabusich back on the show to discuss the frustration of re-fighting battles that have been long since decided legally, like a woman’s right to reproductive health.

We’ll also discuss the former head of FEMA Michael Brown’s repulsive reaction to the power going out at the Super Bowl, as well as my recent visit to New Orleans which included the viewing of a Chewbacca themed Marti Gras parade.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Tracy Weitz from Advancing New Standards In Reproductive Health here to discuss their new study finding that abortions are just as safe when performed by nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified mid-wives as when performed by physicians.

We also have Tyler Zimmer from the Occupied Chicago Tribune here to discuss the real effects of austerity when it comes to CTA fare hikes and service cuts.

We’ll also discuss how the economy is now heading into a double dip recession due to the lack of government spending.

Our writer-performer today is Tim Grimes.

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The January 2013 edition of Matthew Filipowicz Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode is now available!  

However, as “Members Only” implies, it is for Bad-Ass Members Only.  How do you become a member?  It’s simple!  Just head over to our members page and sign up.

Not only do you get the joy in your heart of supporting independent progressive media, not only do you get our monthly bonus episodes, but you’ll also receive other perks like t-shirts, stickers, personalized animations and more!  Plus, once we reach 100 members, we will go to three shows a week!

Can’t afford to become a member?  You can still support the show by making a one time donation, and if you do, you’ll get access to that month’s bonus episode!

As always, our bonus episodes give you a chance to get to know our amazing writer/performers better as we do our version of the McLaughlin Group, which we’ve dubbed the Filipowicz Forum.

This month’s forum features writer/performers Tim Grimes and Bob Rok.

We talk gun control legislation, immigration reform, how right wingers are so crazy they’re hard to satirize, and nerd out on the latest Star Wars VII news, and discuss Marvel vs DC comic book movies!

So what are you waiting for?  Become a member today and start enjoying the fruits of knowing you are truly a Bad-Ass!

-Matt

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Melissa Gira Grant here to talk about her latest article, The War On Sex Workers.

We also have Cliff Schecter back on the show to give us an update on gun control legislation and GOP gerrymandering.

We’ll also discuss the fact that Harry Reid and certain Senate Democrats flat out refused to reform the filibuster.

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