Salon.com Contributing Editor Heather Digby Parton: Trump’s Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Spineless GOP Senators

America's leading public interest lawyer & consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats’ Multiple Failures

Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher: Human Rights, Religious Groups Urge Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences Before Trump Takes Office

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Bhopal's disaster still lingers, 40 years later
• Trump's plans "impoundment" to freeze appropriated funds
• Judge's decision a major win for labor in Wisconsin

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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Unanswered Questions Persist After the Sudden Overthrow of Syria’s al-Assad Regime

Ploughshares Fund's Dr. John Carl Baker: Courageous South Koreans Rise Up to Block a Right-Wing Coup

National Immigration Law Center's Kica Matos: National Immigrant Advocacy Groups Prepared to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Starvation threatens an estimated 500,000 in North Darfur
• Municipal water systems need help to replace lead pipes
• Trump 2.0 to weaken EPA environmental regulation and health laws

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Former chairman of Ohio's Democratic party and author David Pepper: Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years

Author and Left Hook Substack columnist Wajahat Ali: Trump Voters Should Try to Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon President

Third Act climate activist Sheldon Pollock: Activists Demand NY Gov. Hochul Sign Law to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate Costs

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Rohingya refugees recruited from Bangladesh to fight in Myanmar
• Thousands march in New Zealand to protest bill's interpretation of founding treaty
• Trump administration may privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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