California's Clean Energy Revolution: Leading the Nation to 100% Renewable Power by 2045 with David Hochschild

Can we teach AIs to be ethical and safe? At least 100 of them are on your phone right now, watching you and learning from you every day. De Kai helped build this field, and he calls them our artificial children. The AI pioneer explains why regulating AI companies matters but won't be enough, why open-source models running on a laptop are about to blindside the biggest players, and what will happen when AI unavoidably learns without huge, expensive data centers.

The Supreme Court just heard the case that decides whether communities can sue Big Oil for the cost of extreme weather. Justice Alito recused himself, so a 4–4 tie leaves Boulder County’s lawsuit alive. David Fenton comments on the warnings that these suits could bankrupt the oil companies, why the tobacco cases are the right comparison, and why nobody gave those a chance either until a jury saw what the companies knew.

In 1959, a scientist told the American Petroleum Institute that burning fossil fuels would raise global temperatures and drown coastal cities. The industry spent the next 40 years saying the science was uncertain. Richard Wiles of the Center for Climate Integrity has spent his career getting Big Oil's own documents in front of juries to prove they knew the damage they would cause. This episode of Agitation Nation features Wiles and Michael Greenberg of Climate Defiance on the plastics fraud, the natural gas lie, and the campaign to make the oil industry legally immune from all of it. #ExxonKnew

For decades, Ben & Jerry's sold ice cream with a mission. Then its independent board refused to keep selling in illegal Israeli settlements. Ever since, its giant corporate owners have been dismantling everything that made Ben & Jerry's what it is. When the White House turned against climate and DEI, a lot of companies dropped it fast. Ben Cohen says that tells you they never meant it. Can businesses change the world?

Six years ago, Bernie Sanders was deemed too radical to nominate. Now his ideas are winning more primaries than ever. Faiz Shakir ran Bernie’s 2020 campaign. He walks us through the 2026 midterm map and explains how authenticity and working-class politics are winning. 00:00 The Year Money Started Losing 05:46 The Cabinet Bernie Never Got to Name 09:32 If Cooper Loses, It's a Long Night 11:40 Fifteen People Got a Vote on Every Sentence 14:55 Michigan: The Loudest Race in the Country 28:19 She Won Spending Fifty Thousand Dollars 33:08 Where We Disagree About Climate 37:26 Inside the Club That Runs the Party 40:30 Bernie-Style Is Worth Twenty Points 46:54 A Trillion Dollars Is 32,000 Years 51:12 Most Media Treats People as Dumb 54:24 Pass the Torch