SCOTUS Does Good? National Pride? 6.16.20

In episode 652, Miles and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by Alex Schmidt to discuss the Supreme Court's decision when it comes to LGBTQIA job discrimination, government officials still not getting it when it comes to police abolition, a new poll letting us know Americans are not happy with America, what to replace racist statues with, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Justices rule LGBT people protected from job discrimination
2. Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration
3. Black Lives Matter activist Oluwatoyin Salau found dead
4. ‘You Don’t Need to Protest’: Cuomo Declares Victory After Passage of Police Reform Package
5. Gallup: Pride in the US falls to new low
6. Dolly Parton statue may replace KKK leader memorial at Tennessee Capitol
7. Tennessee Just Voted to Keep a Racist Statue of a KKK 'Grand Wizard'
8. Creator of popular petition to replace Confederate statues with Britney Spears tributes says singer 'means more to us than most of the historic figures we've learned about in history class'
9. Gwar back campaign to replace Robert E. Lee statue with monument of frontman Oderus Ungerus
10. Replace All the Racist Statues. Literally Anything Would Be Better.
11. A petition to replace the Christopher Columbus statue with the Route 1 orange dinosaur is gaining steam, sort of
12. Roots and Racism: The Tale of Doctor Jack
13. WATCH: Dirty Art Club - Arctic Garden

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