Jun 2, 2026 · 58 min · 8 segments
First up, Dr. Gerald Horne joins the show to ring in 250 years of the US project - how is that going? Dr. Horne sets the record straight not only about what’s missing in our ever censored history…
José Luis Granados CejaGuest
Gerald HorneGuestAnd here's some of the news that didn't make the news for the week of June 1st.
So here's a rundown of just a few of the things that the Trump administration pushed through in the month of May alone.
Fish and Wildlife Service has cleared the way for the continued widespread use of atrazine.
Despite years of scientific warnings linking the chemical to hormone disruption, reproductive harm, developmental abnormalities, groundwater contamination and possible cancer risks.
Earlier EPA scientific reviews had already warned atrazine could adversely also affect more than a thousand protected species and critical habitats across the country.
Because who needs them? Speaking of the oddly named Environmental Protection Agency, they also this month announced plans to repeal federal restrictions on four PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in drinking water.
They also announced a proposal to allow drinking water systems to delay compliance with the standards for PFOA and PFOS, the most notorious of these forever chemicals.
Put together, these actions will delay or eliminate entirely critical drinking water protections for up to 105 million people across the country whose drinking water providers have detected PFAS above the levels of 2024 standards, which, if we're being honest, we're still too high because there's not actually a safe level of forever chemicals.
And lastly, the 2024 public lands rule was also rescinded, removing a federal protection that had required the Bureau of Land Management to treat conservation as equal to drilling, mining, grazing and industrial extraction on public lands.
In other words, millions of acres of public lands across the US West are now more vulnerable to industrial use because the Trump administration decided that conservation was getting in the way of, quote, productive use.
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute found that US employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance.
The funds are funneled predominantly to union avoidance consultants and law firms that specialize in union avoidance services.
This includes things like exploiting the National Labor Relations Board's administrative process and creating nearly endless delays for workers who are trying to form a union, because that just feels a whole lot easier than using that money to just pay people more.
In reporting by LA Taco, some 500 people are now on hunger strike at five different ice concentration camps across the U.S. What started with one man's hunger strike at a New Mexico facility in protest against human rights and constitutional violations has spread to include at least 100 people at the Adelanto Ice Processing Center in California, 20 more at the Desert Annex down the street, and an estimated 300 people at the Delaney Ice Detention Center in New Jersey and the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.
Speaking of Delaney, as of the recording of this news segment on Saturday, May 30th, the hunger strike at Delaney Hall is still ongoing.
The hunger strike began on May 22nd, protesting literal worms in their food, abuse, neglect, and inadequate medical care leading to preventable deaths.
ICE and other officials quickly resorted to violence, attacking protesters, spraying them with chemical agents, and beating them, among other things.
And here's some of the news that didn't make the news for the week of June 1st.
So here's a rundown of just a few of the things that the Trump administration pushed through in the month of May alone.
Fish and Wildlife Service has cleared the way for the continued widespread use of atrazine.
Despite years of scientific warnings linking the chemical to hormone disruption, reproductive harm, developmental abnormalities, groundwater contamination and possible cancer risks.
Earlier EPA scientific reviews had already warned atrazine could adversely also affect more than a thousand protected species and critical habitats across the country.
Because who needs them? Speaking of the oddly named Environmental Protection Agency, they also this month announced plans to repeal federal restrictions on four PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in drinking water.
They also announced a proposal to allow drinking water systems to delay compliance with the standards for PFOA and PFOS, the most notorious of these forever chemicals.
Put together, these actions will delay or eliminate entirely critical drinking water protections for up to 105 million people across the country whose drinking water providers have detected PFAS above the levels of 2024 standards, which, if we're being honest, we're still too high because there's not actually a safe level of forever chemicals.
And lastly, the 2024 public lands rule was also rescinded, removing a federal protection that had required the Bureau of Land Management to treat conservation as equal to drilling, mining, grazing and industrial extraction on public lands.
In other words, millions of acres of public lands across the US West are now more vulnerable to industrial use because the Trump administration decided that conservation was getting in the way of, quote, productive use.
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute found that US employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance.
The funds are funneled predominantly to union avoidance consultants and law firms that specialize in union avoidance services.
This includes things like exploiting the National Labor Relations Board's administrative process and creating nearly endless delays for workers who are trying to form a union, because that just feels a whole lot easier than using that money to just pay people more.
In reporting by LA Taco, some 500 people are now on hunger strike at five different ice concentration camps across the U.S. What started with one man's hunger strike at a New Mexico facility in protest against human rights and constitutional violations has spread to include at least 100 people at the Adelanto Ice Processing Center in California, 20 more at the Desert Annex down the street, and an estimated 300 people at the Delaney Ice Detention Center in New Jersey and the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.
Speaking of Delaney, as of the recording of this news segment on Saturday, May 30th, the hunger strike at Delaney Hall is still ongoing.
The hunger strike began on May 22nd, protesting literal worms in their food, abuse, neglect, and inadequate medical care leading to preventable deaths.
ICE and other officials quickly resorted to violence, attacking protesters, spraying them with chemical agents, and beating them, among other things.
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