"The mainstream media...took these statements from the OAS at face value, and ran with them, didn’t even try to form any kind of assessment of their own as to the value of these statements."

To the extent the Bolivian coup story's being told, it's being told too late. But CounterSpin listeners learned in real time.

"There are lawsuits being filed in support of the real power, and that is the power of the people."

"Charles Koch, who's one of the richest billionaires in the world...has been staking efforts by people who have been working to privatize the Postal Service for more than five decades."

Militarized federal agents have been deployed with a mission reflected in Defense Secretary Mark Esper's comment that city streets are a "battlespace," filled with what Homeland Security Acting Chief Chad Wolf called "violent mobs."

"Allowing homelessness and housing poverty to exist in our country has always been a public policy choice, and we can instead choose to end it."

We’re looking at 20 to 28 million people facing eviction between now and September. Making folks homeless in a pandemic is just a flashpoint of this country's affordable housing crisis.

"There's a real question over whether Facebook is just too damn powerful, and whether we need further regulatory and legislative interventions to hold this company accountable to the people."

A conversation that excludes sheriffs from talk of police abolition and/or reform is missing a critical element.

Facebook has accommodated Donald Trump, allowing him to post false, incendiary and racist comments that would get another person sanctioned.