TMI 01/12/2024 - How AOC's Championing the Green New Deal in Congress Soured Her on Activist Support, Why a "Free Speech Specialist" Law Firm is Fighting Climate Activists' Free Speech and more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Washington hot to make change in a place devoted to preserving the capitalist status quo, often at the expense of everyone not rich enough to buy congressional influence. We look at how the combination of her rebuke from the powers that be and the fickleness of the more particular forces she wanted to represent pushed her away from continuing to fight for the ideals of the Green New Deal, even as it took flight internationally. Then, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is famous for fighting for First Amendment protected political speech... so long as you're wealthy enough to pay for it. That means that Big Oil has been quite successful in twisting that firm's speciality into a weapon against environmental protest. All this and more on TMI for Friday, January 12, 2024 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!