Good morning, good news! We are in the middle of a nationwide general strike, and you didn’t even know about it. A few months ago we talked about a General Strike scheduled for October 15th, in which workers from every industry would simultaneously stop working until their needs were met - which included higher wages and better working conditions. 2021-10-14 20:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: a ghost from the 70s is haunting the economy. With higher prices across unrelated industries, 2021-10-13 17:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: Millennial are the unluckiest generation in US history. Compared to every single generation going back to 1792 - that’s the Transcendental, Gilded, Progressive, Missionary, Lost, G.I, Silent, Baby Boomer, and Gen X generations, spanning the Civil War, both World Wars, the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, and the Great Depression - 2021-10-08 23:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: babies are full of micro plastics, in fact, babies have 10 times as much micro plastic in their bodies as adults do! A recent study published by researchers from the United States and China found that tiny particles of synthetic material that are smaller than 5 millimeters in size, were present in fecal samples from adults, infants, and even newborn babies - and another study from December of 2020 found micro plastics in the placenta of pregnant women, on both the feta...
2021-10-08 22:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, good news: an unprecedentedly data leak just exposed hundreds of billionaires, celebrities, judges, religious leaders, members of royal families, and even heads of state like Vladimir Putin of Russia and King Abdullah of Jordan, for having hidden offshores assets and businesses by using tax havens like Panama, Dubai, Monaco, Switzerland, and the Cayman Islands.
This is the biggest financial leak in history, it involves 11.9 million documents, 2.9 terabytes of data, and det...
2021-10-08 22:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostY'all, I packaged and sent 75 mugs and 250 stickers today and BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED!
But seriously, this is SO exciting, and we're so excited that you all are going to get our merch. I think our shipping service automatically emails you your tracking number, but if it doesn't, message us and we'll send it over. :)
Also, check out the episode we just did with Robert Reich - we love him and it's our favorite one yet.
- GMBN
2021-10-02 01:48:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: In order for an average worker at a big corporation, -- not the lowest paid but average -- to make as much as their CEO does in one year, they’d have to work 40 hours a week, for 300 years. America is the richest nation in the world – richer than thi...
2021-10-01 23:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news, we are less than one month away from the United States defaulting on 28.5 trillion dollars of debt, which will immediately crash the economy, collapse the US doll...
2021-09-30 21:06:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks!
I've sent out the mugs for all Patrons who subscribed by September, and if you subscribed IN September, yours are going out on October 1st (since Patreon doesn't charge for your membership until that date).
Also, I had a headache and a half getting the weight right for this shipment (this is my first time ever bulk shipping anything!), and had to repackage literally all of the mugs 😭, so if there wasn't enough packaging and it arrives broken, I'm SO SORRY, pleas...
2021-09-20 17:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: America is undergoing a tidal wave of workers abandoning their jobs, in what economists are calling “The Great Resignation”. Since April of 2021, about 4 million Americans a month are quitting their jobs, with a record-breaking 2021-09-17 15:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: 35 million Americans just lost their federal unemployment income at the worst possible time during one of the deadliest covid-19 spikes w...
2021-09-13 18:03:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, good news! There may be a huge loophole in the Texas abortion ban that would allow any woman free access to a medically-induced abortion up to 11 weeks into their pregnancy, and they can’t be sued for it under the...
2021-09-06 17:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: we are *actually* running out of water. Megacorporations, agricultural giants, and manufacturing conglomerates are spending millions of dollars bribing local and state politicians to give them access to reliable sources of freshwater so they can drain them and 2021-09-04 23:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, very bad news: the Supreme Court just ruled that citizens in any state can police any woman seeking medical attention that violates Christian doctrine in exchange f...
2021-09-02 22:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Good Morning, Bad News: we’re talking about someone being able to externally disable your car’s brakes while you’re driving, or hacking enough major appliances at the same time to create an electrical spike and bring do...
2021-08-25 03:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: ultra-wealthy members of Congress are illegally manipulating the stock market while trading hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stocks to make obscene profits off of national crises that they are supposed to be fixing.
It's blatantly illegal, but not one single member of congress has ever been prosecuted <...
2021-08-20 23:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Good Morning, good news! President Biden has the legal authority to forgive ALL federal student loan debt with just an executive order, and WITHOUT the approval of Congress. In doing so, he would unshackle an entire generation from an unpayable $1.7 trillion dollar deadweight. The people who are saying that it can’t be done a...
2021-08-11 22:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: minimum wage workers can no longer afford rent in ANY state, city, or county in America. It’s over. A report just released from the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows that a full-time minimum wage worker mathematically cannot pay rent on an average two-bedroom apartment ANY...
2021-08-11 22:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: the federal eviction moratorium officially ends at midnight on Saturday, July Thirty-First. Nearly one-in-six renters face eviction, while owing as much as 2021-08-11 22:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: trillion-dollar tech giants have built an underground network of illegal surveillance and behavior modification systems, so intimate and invasive that they can accurately predict and change your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Your private human experience is being modified and commodified 2021-08-11 22:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news - millions of infants and children are starving in the United States, which has the worst food security of any economically comparable nation.
Good morning, good news! It’s about time for a general strike, and you’re probably hearing a lot about one scheduled for October 15th, 2021. Now, if you’re a billionaire or politician, you may be thinking, “Come on, everything’s great now! We gave you guys $1,400 bucks six months...
2021-08-11 22:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: the United States is being occupied by a domestic military force with no external oversight, 2021-08-11 22:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, bad news: white racists in power are manufacturing fake outrage about Critical Race Theory while simultaneously stripping BIPOC of their voting rights, in a direct effort to create a second Jim Crow era an...
2021-08-11 22:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostGood Morning, Bad news: public transit in the United States is a fucking joke. This year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the US transit system it’s lowest grade ever, a D-, which is the same grade it got 4 years ago, when the transit funding deficit was $90 billion dollars. Today, 2021-08-10 16:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Content warning: this episode includes a mention of self-harm.
Good morning, bad news: we are facing an epidemic of farmers dying by s*icide. According to the CDC, agriculture workers have one of the highest rates among all occupations, and a study by USA Today found that at least 450 farmers in the Midwest had killed themselves from just 2014 to 2018, although the real number is likely much higher. Let’s talk about how American capitalist intervention in farming is destroying farmers...
2021-08-10 16:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, bad news: for the last ten years billionaires have been buying every single home they can get their hands on, and creating an unstoppable housing crisis that will make it impossible for you to ever own a home, and even if you don’t own a home, and never plan to, it’s still bad news because the way they’re paying for this land grab is by...
2021-08-10 16:43:34 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, bad news: we need to stop tipping right now - no I don’t mean don’t leave tips, I mean, we need to end one of the most antiquated, racist, sexist, exploitative, and stupid systems of wage theft and wage discrimination that solely exists because it benefits a very small proportion of privileged workers, while allowing businessowners to pay most of their employees next to nothing. Now, that might not seem like the case, a lot of people who work for tips say that they make a lo...
2021-08-10 16:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, very bad news: Millennial and Gen Z are the poorest generations in US history - not only do they have less money than any generation before them at their age, by comparison they also have the lowest average wages, expo...
2021-05-22 03:58:48 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, bad news: Americans who lost their jobs during the pandemic are not going back to work, and it’s creating a massive labor shortage. The latest jobs report was expected to add a million new jobs, but only saw a quarter of them filled, while 2021-05-12 19:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post