(Chapo Trap House)1073 - Unsafe, Illegal, and Common feat. Kylie Cheung (9/21/26)Journalist and author Kylie Cheung joins us for a survey of abortion rights in the post-Dobbs landscape. We discuss the anti-abortion surveillance state, the medical establishment’s failure to meet the moment, and the right’s construction of a broadly pro-rape politics. We also discuss the Democratic Party’s failures in protecting abortion and their continual usage of reproductive rights to hold voters hostage despite funding genocide—including genocide of pregnant women—abroad.
https://podbay.fm/p/chapo-trap-house/e/1790054513A Union Feud Shouldn’t Sink California’s Billionaire TaxWhile much of the discourse around Prop 40 has understandably been devoted to what it means to tax the billionaires, it is saving Medi-Cal — and not some vague notion of “punishing the rich” — that is the central purpose of the initiative. However, rather than support this pragmatic solution to a looming crisis, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California has officially remained neutral on the initiative, which was put forth by one of their own member unions, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW). Now investigations commissioned by SEIU California and the international union allege that SEIU-UHW’s president, Dave Regan, the man widely acknowledged as the architect of the tax, has attempted to “extort” support for Prop 40 from them, according to the inflammatory headline in the Los Angeles Times, a newspaper owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. Coming less than two months before the election in November, the allegations against Regan bear all the hallmarks of a politically timed campaign — an attempt to chip away at Prop 40’s popularity. Now SEIU will have to decide which path to take: save health care coverage for nearly fifteen million Californians, or surrender to the billionaires. The key allegations against Regan are that he attempted to “extort” support for Prop 40 from SEIU California by threatening to investigate governance issues at the state council, and that this action was part of a pattern of “bullying,” directed at women in particular. At issue are Regan’s interactions with SEIU California’s then president, David Huerta, and its executive director, Tia Orr, who claims Regan attempted
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