Media Coverage of Russia’s Retreat in Ukraine and the Release of Leonard Peltier

Mark Sleboda, international affairs and security analyst joins the show to talk about media coverage of Russia's military retreat in Ukraine. The Washington Post is reporting that Russian soldiers are dropping their weapons on fleeing areas previously occupied by Russia.The New York Times says that the Russian collapse has been so rapid, that a Chechen leader allied with Moscow says he will complain to President Vladimir Putin about the country's military strategy and that the Russian military “appears to be stunned” and the quickness of the collapse. But the Russian military says this was a strategic retreat that had been planned in advance. Meanwhile, pro-Putin candidates swept to victory in municipal elections in Russia over the weekend.Maru Mora Villalpando, Founder of La Resistencia, community organizer and immigrant activist joins the show to talk about US immigration policy. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, for the first time sent migrants from the US southern border to Chicago, part of his campaign to bus migrants to northern cities and sanctuary cities to make a political point about what Texas experiences as a border state. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said “This is a manufactured crisis on the part of Governor Abbott.” But it's also true that New York City's social safety net is straining, that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has twice tried to call in the national guard to help her city bodies manage the thousands of migrants who have come to DC since April, and that in the Chicago area already, local officials are saying this is chaotic, we didn't get enough warning,Jim Kavanagh, editor of thepolimicist.net joins the show. They begin the conversation with news that Donald Trump made an unannounced and unexpected trip to Washington yesterday. Then the Misfits and Kavanagh talk about politics. Polls across the country have been pretty consistent that the Democrats are expected to keep the Senate and the Republicans are expected to win the House. But the New York Times yesterday said that among women, including Republican women, inflation and the economy are not important issues. They are far more concerned about abortion. The article concluded that House races will be far tighter than the polls might lead us to believe,Troy Heinert, South Dakota State senator joins the show to talk about the walk underway right now from Minnesota to Washington DC to ask President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, who has served 46 years in prison after a problem-ridden trial and a parole process so egregiously unfair that the UN Human Rights Council this year called for him to be released immediately and given the right to compensation. It concluded that, basically, Peltier remained in prison because he was Native American. The DNC recently passed a resolution urging Joe Biden to release Leonard Peltier.