Make It Plain with Mark Thompson

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on the Florida ban, and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure on the 13th anniversary of the ACA.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Chief Economist of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Div. III Final Four-bound Swarthmore College alum joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rev. Mark moderates T]\the 2023 20th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Ubuntu Plenary with an Introduction by Dr. Forrest Harris, President of American Baptist College, and with Panelists. Pastor Michael McBride of Live Free USA; Bishop Leah Daughtry of The House of the Lord Churches; Rev. Terry Melvin, President of the Coalltion of Black Trade Unionists; Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; and the Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher, Pastor of Memphis Abyssinian Baptist Church.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Stanford African Historu Professor Joel Cabrita on her new book, WRITTEN OUT: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala , chroniclng the life of a prolific writer in the 50s and 60s, the second Black woman to obtain a degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and one of the co-founders of Eswatini’s first political party in 1960. Despite Twala’s significant achievements, her obscurity exists today due to the calculated plagiarizing and silencing of her work by white academics.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Roger Mitchell is a national expert on deaths that occur while in the custody of law enforcement and has served as an expert in many high-profile cases. He currently is the Chairman of the pathology department at Howard University College of Medicine and is the Speaker of the House of Delegates for the National Medical Association which has a membership body of 50K Black Doctors.Dr. Mitchell is the Former Chief Medical Examiner for Washington DC.  He recently served as Chairman and lead author among a group of nationally recognized forensic pathologists tasked with making recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination and Reporting of Deaths in Custody for the medical examiner/coroner community.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos as Democrats win Tuesday in VA, WI, KY, and NH, and Biden visits Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Rob Wipond and forced treatment survivor Cindy Hadge of the Wildflower Alliance join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants to recruit more teachers of color, and White House Domestic Policy Council Dep. Director Chiraag Bains on President Biden's new Executive Order, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins #ThursdayKos with the latest Civiqs poll. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Democrats Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's SOTU speech, and the Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the January 2023 jobs report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement, Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President for Infrastructure Implementation preview of the President’s State of the Union address tonight.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

American Federation of Teachers Secretary-Treasurer and immediate past president of the Florida Education Association on the banned course, and the myriad of other issues Florida's students, parents and teachers face which DeSantis ignores. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Twenty-one years of investigative journalism by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham has resulted in their new book on the history of brutality, racism and corruption on the part of the Oakland police.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daniel Golden of ProPublica joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos is unspared from media layoffs as Markos shares on this week's Thursday Kos. Also, the latest on U.S. and German equipment headed to Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Professor Felicia Kornbluh on the role her mother, Beatrice Kornbluh, played in establishing Roe, and on the role her neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, played in ending sterilization abuse disproportionality victimizing African American, Latina and Indigenous women, as told in her new book, A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy