MILWAUKEE - We take a deep dive into the escalating data center debate in Wisconsin for the entire show.

We welcome IUPAT District Council No. 7, Director of Governmental Affairs Office, Andy Buck to tell us why their union supports the current data centers that will be built union and how IUPAT members get work and sustain work.

Next, State Senator Chris Larson joins us to provide his political perspective and educate us on the state’s role in enabling the current dynamic and how we need to see the populist organizing opportunity the data centers provide.

Finally, 620AM WTMJ’s Kristin Brey returns to the show to discuss her insightful observation that there is a unique coalition of political forces aligned against the new data centers and what it says about the current political environment.

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http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/affordable-care-act-02-s450.jpgPeople face sticker shock on out-of-pocket costs with many seeing premiums double, some seniors seeing increases of over $30,000 per year, if Republicans allow enhanced Obamacare supports to expire.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/laura/disinfo-2025-s436.pngDisinformation spreads because people want to believe it. The nation drowning in ignorance, anger, and fake statistics that sound believable only because they confirm what people already think.

MILWAUKEE - As Trump takes a bulldozer to the White House and liberal democracy, we take a deep dive into the devastating potential impact of the tech oligarchs here in Wisconsin. Foxconn 2.0: the Data Center Invasion, shows that as in the movies the sequel is even worse than the original.

Robert tells us about economist Jerrod Bernstein’s forecast that there is an AI bubble that will pop the stock market and leave Wisconsinites holding the bag on huge new fossil fuel plants and infrastructure when AI goes bust.

We review how state and local officials continue to ignore growing public public opposition and lavish the tech giants with generous state a local tax subsidies.

In addition, opposition to the transmission lines for massive data centers is growing and producing unique new political alignments.

Also on this week’s show: Congressman Brian Stiel’s bill that would cut funding to Milwaukee, other major transit systems; Flu vaccination rates plummet in Wisconsin in the wake of anti-vax disinformation from the top of government; and Wisconsin federal food assistance runs out in 8 days, leaving over 700,000 Wisconsinites in peril.

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Governor warns Wisconsin FoodShare Program to run out of funding in eight days as Republicans' federal government shutdown continues.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/laura/trump-lawsuits-s425.pngDonald Trump’s latest $230 million lawsuit against the Justice Department proves once again that no one loves the courtroom more than he does. What it would be like if the rest of us could sue him for the stress, sleepless nights, and emotional trauma his chaos has caused?

Green Bay Rep. Rivera Wagner Statement on Government Shutdown Impacting WIC and FoodShare Benefits

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/laura/trump-respect-2025.pngSeven million Americans marched for democracy, and Trump called himself king. Respect has to be earned, and Donald Trump has never even tried.

MADISON — State Sen. Kelda Roys issued the following statement on the announcement that the Universities of Wisconsin are closing their Baraboo campus.

MILWAUKEE - We are back after a week off! We welcome State Representative Vinnie Miresse to the show to discuss new legislation to protect the ‘rights of nature’ and reinstitute a state anti-mining law.

We take stock in the state of American democracy and why Saturday’s No Kings Rally 2.0 will communicate by the number of people who turnout widespread opposition to the authoritarian usurpations of the Trump Regime. We encourage our listeners to attend an event near you. Find No Kings Rallies here.

We look at a current Supreme Court case that could deal a death b low to America’s multiracial democracy by legalizing racial gerrymandering. Robert helps us understand why the United Healthcare and Ascension deal unintentionally lays bare the corruption of hospital and insurance pricing and why it’s long overdue for the hospital industry to be regulated in the public interest. We also discuss the toll of over a decade of austerity in Wisconsin, as a new report ranks Wisconsin 46th in the nation in public college affordability. 

We close by highlighting the overwhelmingly approving by the state senate of a bill to require health insurers to cover all necessary breast cancer screenings, including women that are hard to diagnose, without co-pays and deductibles.The bill is named for a Neenah woman who died of breast cancer because of inadequate screenings. Outcome in the Assembly unclear, as the health insurance industry has killed the bill during the last two legislative sessions. But word in the Capitol is that Robin Vos will block it in the Assembly, just as he has done with postpartum care for women and their children.

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