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The Weekly ListWeek 34 - New Information on Iran, a Supreme Court Decision, and a Not So Beautiful BillThis week was a lot! The week opened with debate over Trump’s attack on Iran front and center, as increasing evidence came forward (I wrote more here) that the strikes did not in fact “obliterate” Iran’s nuclear sites. Trump and his regime sought to change and control the narrative on Iran by attacking the media, and calling those who questioned the outcome various forms of unpatriotic. Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ and very unpopular tax bill passed the Senate, 51–50, as details emerged that it would balloon the national debt by $3.3 trillion, benefit the top 20% of earners, harm the bottom 20%, and...
2025-07-0325 minThe Weekly ListWeek 23 - A Shocking Abuse of PowerThis week, host Amy Siskind discusses how Trump pushed the boundaries of the legal system, flouting a ruling by the Supreme Court on Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other immigration related moves seemed aimed at distracting attention from economic matters.
2025-04-1726 minThe Weekly ListWeek 22 - Trump Veers Toward Ending US ExceptionalismHost Amy Siskind discusses US news during the last week including Trump’s tariff war declaration and the global disruption that ensued and the importance of the Hands Off protests which took place on Saturday.
2025-04-1028 minThe Weekly ListWeek 21 - A Rebuke of Trump and Musk in WisconsinHost Amy Siskind discusses US news for the last week of March including the involvement of Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
2025-04-0327 minThe Weekly ListWeek 20 - Nobody Was Texting War PlansHost Amy Siskind discusses notable news events of the week including a shocking breach of national security, as a journalist from The Atlantic was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat discussing a pending attack in Yemen.
2025-03-2736 minThe Weekly ListWeek 19 - An Intrusion on the President’s AuthorityThis week, host Amy Siskind discusses another inflection point in Trump’s pace of breaking norms, and unfortunately a turn for the worse.
2025-03-2030 minThe Weekly ListWeek 18 - I’m Not Even Looking at the MarketThis week, host Amy Siskind discusses the country’s angst and anger over mass firings, frozen federal funding, and cuts in entitlement programs converged on Elon Musk and his so-called DOGE.
2025-03-1327 minThe Weekly ListWeek 17 - This Is Going to Be Great TelevisionHost Amy Siskind discusses the events of the last week, including Ukraine President Zelenskiy's visit to the United States.
2025-03-0633 minThe Weekly ListWeek 16 - Musk Goes to War With Trump’s CabinetHost Amy Siskind discusses US news events for the week of February 24, 2025
2025-02-2731 minThe Weekly ListWeek 15 - He Who Saves His CountryHost Amy Siskind discusses US news events for the week of February 17, 2025
2025-02-2028 minThe Weekly ListWeek 14 - A Constitutional CrisisHost Amy Siskind discusses US news for the week of February 10, 2024.
2025-02-1327 minThe Weekly ListWeek 13 - DOGE Goes RogueHost Amy Siskind discusses US news for the week of February 3, 2024.
2025-02-0630 minThe Weekly ListWeek 12 - Shock and AweHost Amy Siskind discusses US news and failing norms for the week of January 27, 2025
2025-01-3025 minThe Weekly ListWeek 11 - The New Gilded AgeHost Amy Siskind discusses the events in US news leading up to and in the days after the second inauguration of Donald Trump.
2025-01-2325 minThe Weekly ListWeek 10 - Is America to Become an Oligarchy?Host Amy Siskind discusses US news from the week of January 13, 2025.
2025-01-1624 minThe Weekly ListWeek 9 - Genuflecting to TrumpHost Amy Siskind discusses US news from the week of January 6th, 2024.
2025-01-0919 min2025-01-0315 minThe Weekly ListWeek 7 - The ReturnHost Amy Siskind discusses US news from the week of December 23, 2024.
2024-12-2822 minThe Weekly ListWeek 6 - The ReturnHost Amy Siskind goes over the headlines from US news for the week of December 16
2024-12-2115 minThe Weekly ListWeek 5 - The ReturnHost Amy Siskind discusses US news from the week of December 9, 2024.
2024-12-1416 minThe Weekly ListWeek 4Host Amy Siskind discusses the latest news updates regarding the upcoming second Trump administration.
2024-12-0715 min2024-11-3012 minThe Weekly ListWeek 2 - The ReturnHost Amy Siskind discusses Trump's cabinet picks and his relationship with Elon Musk
2024-11-2314 minThe Weekly ListThe Return - Week 1Host Amy Siskind discusses the last week post-election as Donald Trump selects his cabinet for his second regime.
2024-11-1620 minThe Weekly ListNew Era of Donald TrumpHost Amy Siskind discusses the results of the 2024 presidential election and what that might mean for the future of democracy
2024-11-0815 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Biden Drops OutHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of news with only 100 days to the 2024 US Presidential Election.
2024-07-2923 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - The Democrats' Horrible, Terrible, Really Bad WeekHost Amy Siskind discusses the first Biden Trump debate and its effects on the Democrats' strategy going forward.
2024-07-0937 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - 34 CountsHost Amy Siskind discusses Donald Trump's 34 felony counts.
2024-06-0324 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Trump 2024Host Amy Siskind discusses the 2024 Republican primaries
2024-03-1724 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - New Year 2024Host Amy Siskind talks about the latest news in US politics
2024-01-0522 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Trump ReindictedHost Amy Siskind discusses former US President Donald J. Trump's indictment in Georgia
2023-08-2229 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Trump's IndicmentHost Amy Siskind discusses former US President Donald J. Trump's March 30th indictment.
2023-04-1424 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - We Did What We Had to DoHost Amy Siskind discusses the aftermath of the 2022 US midterm elections
2022-11-1818 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of US news and the upcoming midterm elections.
2022-10-2023 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - FBI at Mar-a-LagoHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of US political news including primary updates and Donald Trump's legal troubles.
2022-08-2431 min
The Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Roe v. Wade OverturnedHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of political news.
2022-07-0340 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Leaked Supreme Court DecisionHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of political news.
2022-05-2418 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - The Price of AuthoritarianismHost Amy Siskind discusses Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Recorded April 6th, 2022.)
2022-04-0722 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Russia Invades Ukraine: How Did We Get Here?Host Amy Siskind discusses the factors at play in Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Recorded March 7th, 2022.)
2022-03-0921 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Nine Months Until the MidtermsHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in American politics.
2022-02-1324 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - One Year After the United States Capitol AttackHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2022-01-1023 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Looking to 2022Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2021-12-2725 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Electoral ApathyHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2021-11-0821 min
In Conversation… with Frank SchaefferAmy SiskindFrank Schaeffer In Conversation with Amy Siskind, author of The Weekly List and President of The New Agenda, a non profit dedicated to the advancement of women and girls, exploring advocacy, activism, and her book, The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year.Links:https://amysiskind.comhttps://theweeklylist.orghttps://twitter.com/Amy_Siskindhttps://twitter.com/TheNewAgendahttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-list/id1392843387https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635572711?tag=&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY, ACTIVIST FO...
2021-10-151h 03The Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Handmaid's TaleHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2021-09-1730 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - January 6th CommissionHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2021-08-0230 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Six Months After the InsurrectionHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2021-07-1229 min
How To Not Lose Your Sh!tWe’re Not Hysterical, We’re Pissed! (with Amy Siskind and Adrienne Martini)On today’s episode, hosts Rachel Vindman, Jasmine Clark, and Amanda Weinstein talk about anger. They discuss the injustices in the world and in their personal lives that make them angry, and how women often aren’t allowed to express anger. And Jasmine reminds us that as a Black woman, she’s given even less space to show her anger because she’ll be stereotyped as an “angry Black woman.” Then they all discuss how to channel our anger into meaningful change.They speak with Adrienne Martini, who wrote a book called “Somebody’s Gotta Do It: Why Cursing at t...
2021-06-2347 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - The Cult of the GOPHost Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
2021-06-1825 minThe Weekly ListDemocracy at Risk - Two Sides, One TruthHost Amy Siskind talks about the progress of the Biden administration and the continuing attacks on democracy.
2021-06-0124 minThe Weekly ListReturning to Normalcy - Republicans in the Post-Trump EraHost Amy Siskind discusses the political events of the last few weeks.
2021-05-1729 minThe Weekly ListReturning to Normalcy - Nearing 100 DaysHost Amy Siskind discusses the vaccine rollout, improving economy, and the latest instances of police brutality.
2021-04-1934 minThe Weekly ListReturning to Normalcy - Violence Against Asian AmericansHost Amy Siskind talks about the wave of attacks against Asian Americans during the last year and the Biden administration's work toward coronavirus relief.
2021-03-2223 minThe Weekly ListReturning to Normalcy - Insurrection DebriefHost Amy Siskind discuss additional facts about the attack on the Capitol that have come to light in the last few weeks.
2021-03-0822 minThe Weekly ListRepairing Our Democracy - ImpeachmentHost Amy Siskind talks about Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
2021-02-1527 minThe Weekly ListRepairing Our Democracy - The First DaysHost Amy Siskind talks about the shift to "normalcy" after the end of the Trump administration.
2021-02-0227 minThe Weekly ListWeek 207 - The Final CountdownIn the final full week heading into the election, the seeds of Trump’s bungled pandemic response came back to haunt him, with the twin challenges of record daily cases and hospitalizations in many states, along with the worst week for the stock market since March. Even as a new outbreak hit Vice President Mike Pence’s staffers, Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows all but conceded the regime had thrown the white flag on any federal response, saying, “We are not going to control the pandemic.”
Trump barn-stormed battleground states, all of which were facing surges in cases, a...
2020-11-021h 18The Weekly ListWeek 203 - Super-SpreaderOn Thursday of this week, around 5 p.m., I tweeted that this week was unusually quiet in terms of the chaos, and was on pace for the fewest broken norms in 2020. I wrote that I was not sure what to attribute it to, but “We might be heading toward the end.” Hours later, Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs broke the news that Hope Hicks had tested positive for coronavirus, which led to a cascade of disclosures. Shortly after midnight that evening, Trump announced on Twitter that both he and First Lady Melania were also positive.
The original plotline see...
2020-10-051h 10The Weekly ListWeek 201 - May Her Memory Be a BlessingIt’s hard to express the sense of loss this year has brought to the our country: already we’ve endured three years of division, broken norms, lawlessness, kleptocracy, bigotry and hate, gaslighting and non-stop lies — leaving our country anxious and exhausted entering 2020.
This year has brought illness, unemployment, starvation, death, wildfires, hurricanes, social unrest, and now the loss of a revered and beloved Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 46 days before the election. It’s hard to put into words the cumulative stress, sorrow, and anger our country is experiencing. Now, as Trump continues to lie and sow doubt about t...
2020-09-211h 15The Weekly ListWeek 200 - West on FireThings are getting worse in America, week by week. This week, as the West Coast saw wildfires spread, with much of California, Oregon, and Washington covered in smoke so thick the sun couldn’t break through and the sky was a hazy gray or shade of yellow and orange, Trump ignored it. Just as he skipped a commemorative ceremony in lower Manhattan for the anniversary of 9/11 — as if the blue states were not his responsibility — repeating a theme from the start in office: leader of his supporters, not the country.
This week Trump was engulfed in a second major scandal...
2020-09-141h 32The Weekly ListWeek 199 - Vote TwiceThis week, with no discernible post-convention bounce and the election two months away, Trump was frenzied. He started the week with a storm of tweets, and then embarked on espousing a series of bizarre conspiracy theories that made him appear mentally unfit to lead, some of which were then backed in part by Attorney General William Barr — our country’s chief law enforcement, who openly lied and obfuscated in a television interview.
While continuing to attack the integrity of the election, Trump encouraged his supporters, at campaign rallies in two swing states and on Twitter, to vote twice, an illega...
2020-09-071h 42The Weekly ListWeek 198 - Republican Nepotism ConventionThis week, the Republican Party held its convention — which was likened to a Trump convention — a four-day span of shattered norms, and possibly multiple violations of the law. Gone were names familiar to the Grand Old Party, replaced by Trump loyalists and his family members. Republicans, for the first time 1856, didn’t even produce a platform! Instead, the convention was akin to a reality television show, starring Trump every night, full of lies, misinformation, and an alternative reality in which the pandemic was over.
As the election approaches, the Trump regime continues to be increasingly brazen and lawless. This week, the...
2020-08-311h 20The Weekly ListWeek 197 - Bannon ChargedThis was the longest weekly list, and it was simply exhausting. The Democrats held a very successful first virtual Democratic National Convention, while Trump spent the week advancing lies and conspiracy theories about voting to undermine the election. Polls continue to show he will lose by a wide margin.
In a break from tradition, both former First Lady Michelle and President Barack Obama gave historic speeches, focused on warning the American people that Trump is a danger to our democracy, and is not capable of doing the job. The emotional speeches were a call to action, from the form...
2020-08-241h 34The Weekly ListWeek 196 - Post Office Under AttackThis week, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden chose his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian American vice presidential candidate. An oddly unprepared Trump campaign and Republican Party reacted with a deluge of sexist and racist attacks, including shameful accusations of “birtherism.” Trump also threw his support behind a House candidate who espouses the QAnon conspiracy theory and is openly racist, raising serious concerns again about the future of the Republican Party.
This week, as polls continued to show Trump down to Biden nationally and in key battleground states, and despite the pandemic continuing to impact muc...
2020-08-171h 20The Weekly ListWeek 195 - Back to SchoolThis week U.S. intelligence revealed Russia is actively interfering in the 2020 presidential election, with a goal of harming presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Democratic leaders pressed NCSC Director William Evanina to inform the American people, while Republicans, reminiscent of 2016, tried to obfuscate intelligence by publicly claiming it was unclear Russia was helping Trump, and using the whataboutism that other countries, China and Iran, were also interfering.
This week Trump continued to push for schools to reopen, falsely claiming on Fox News that children are “almost immune” — a clip of which was then pulled by Twitter and Facebook over it b...
2020-08-101h 18The Weekly ListWeek 194 - Delay the Election?This week, for the first time, Trump publicly floated the idea of delaying the November election, drawing swift condemnation from Democrats and a mild rebuke from Republican leadership. The co-founder of conservative Federalist Society said in an op-ed that Trump should be removed if he tries to follow through. Undeterred, Trump spent the week continuing to sow doubt about the results of the “rigged” and “most fraudulent” upcoming election. His U.S. Postal Service appointee meanwhile took steps to slow the flow of mail ahead of the expected surge of mail-in and absentee ballots in less than 100 days.
This week, the...
2020-08-031h 27The Weekly ListWeek 193 - Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.This week, as the coronavirus raged out of control, passing 4 million U.S. cases and 145,000 deaths, Trump resurrected his daily coronavirus briefings — by himself, with no health officials. He also sought to divert attention to Portland, Oregon, where alarming images of unmarked federal law enforcement were seen shoving and tear-gassing growing crowds of Black Lives Matter protestors. Reporting indicated Trump has purposefully picked Portland to create imagery and video content of a culture war, which he continues to flame.
This week a series of stories came out about the corruption of the Trump regime, but in the chaos, got litt...
2020-07-271h 20The Weekly ListWeek 192 - Secret PoliceThis week, as the coronavirus raged out of control in many states, Trump sought to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, with several members of the regime publicly attacking Fauci’s credibility. Reporting indicated Trump had lost interest in the pandemic, with an adviser telling the Post, Trump’s “not really working this anymore. He doesn’t want to be distracted by it” — as the country hit a daily record 77,000 new cases.
As Trump continued his fall in the polls, he fired his campaign manager, but stuck with his strategy of us vs. them: this week repeatedly invoking the white “suburbs” and stok...
2020-07-201h 20The Weekly ListWeek 191 - Daily RecordsThis week, the pandemic continued to worsen, with many states seeing new highs and the death toll starting to rise. By week’s end, the U.S. registered an unthinkable nearly 70,000 new daily coronavirus cases. Amid the surge, issues that plagued the April wave of cases in New York and elsewhere, like shortages of PPE and testing, reappeared, making it clear the federal government had done nothing to address or plan for a new surge. Trump continued to deny the severity of the virus, falsely claiming “99 percent of [cases] are totally harmless,” and then pushing for schools to reopen.
This wee...
2020-07-131h 14The Weekly ListWeek 190 - Russian BountiesThis week the coronavirus spread further out of control, topping 50,000 daily cases for three consecutive days — more than 10,000 higher than the early peak in April. Trump continued to largely ignore the pandemic, refuse to wear a mask, and make the most trusted source of information, Dr. Anthony Fauci, less accessible, leading to confusion in the patchwork of state responses.
This week reporting indicated Trump knew as early as 2019 that Russia had put bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and several U.S. Marines were killed as a result. Trump pretended he had not been briefed, and after he offic...
2020-07-061h 10The Weekly ListWeek 189 - Out of ControlThis week started with a humiliating return to the campaign trail for Trump, as a mere 6,200 supporters showed up for his rally in Tulsa, after the campaign bragged more than one million had registered. Trump’s poll numbers continue to sag amid his mishandling of the pandemic and racial justice protests. Instead of rising to the challenge, Trump reverted to drumming up racism and division — resulting in even the conservative Wall Street Journal Editorial Board warning he was in danger of not only losing to Democrat Joe Biden, but also taking the Republican Senate down with him.
This week the co...
2020-06-291h 17The Weekly ListWeek 188 - TulsaThis week grave polling results revealed a downtrodden country feeling the impact of concurrent and intersecting crises, as national pride fell to its lowest level in two decades, while just 20% were satisfied with the direction of the country. Trump received poor marks for his handling of the coronavirus and for dividing the country amid social unrest.
The coronavirus was back with a vengeance this week, as several states experienced spikes and daily record highs, weeks after reopening and Memorial Day celebrations. Nonetheless, Trump denied the new surge, claiming the virus was “dying out” and it would “fade away.” Vice Pre...
2020-06-221h 20The Weekly ListWeek 187 - QuestionableThis week Trump seemed to fade into the background, unsure of how to respond to a triple set of crises that gripped the nation: continuing social unrest, a second wave of coronavirus, and the stock market plunging with the economy officially entering a recession.
Trump spent most of the week locked up in the White House, behind the layers of fencing he had constructed, which protestors in turn decorated with signs reading “Black Lives Matter,” “Fuck Trump,” “I Can’t Breathe,” and other such posters. Trump finally emerged on Thursday, heading to Dallas, but still without addressing the killing of George...
2020-06-151h 18The Weekly ListWeek 186 - Coward-in-chiefThis week, in a scene reminiscent of a crackdown in an authoritarian regime, U.S. troops stationed in our nation’s capital at Trump’s behest fired tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protestors to disperse them as Trump delivered a “law and order” speech from the White House Rose Garden. The sounds of protestors screaming and shots being fired could be heard in the background as Trump spoke tough talk, and threatened to send the U.S. military to cities to take control. Trump then awkwardly swaggered to St. John’s Church, with a few in his inner circle, and...
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2020-06-0731 minThe Weekly ListWeek 185 - Kerosene on the FlamesThis was one of the darkest weeks since I started the list. The week began with Trump spinning conspiracy theories to distract from the country reaching the grim milestone of losing 100,000 Americans to the coronavirus, and ended with our country literally burning in the flames of our racial divide, with Trump throwing kerosene on the flames.
Susan Glasser, a writer for the New Yorker, noted the year 2020 has been some horrible combination of the 1918 (the deadly Spanish flu pandemic), 1929 (the Great Depression), and 1968 (the Civil Rights Movement). The heaviness, sorrow, and sheer exhaustion our country felt this week was...
2020-06-011h 17The Weekly ListWeek 184 - Transition to GreatnessThis week, Trump fully transitioned from leader to salesman, leaving the states to fend for themselves, while he promoted a “transition to greatness.” After a week when two White House employees tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump made the remarkable claim he has been taking hydroxychloroquine prophylactically — leading public health experts to sound the alarms to American citizens not to follow Trump’s lead. Days later, the largest study yet on the drug’s efficacy to date found no benefit, but severe cardiac risks for Covid-19 patients.
This week, Trump continued campaign stops at battleground states, visiting a Ford Motor plant in M...
2020-05-251h 15The Weekly ListWeek 183 - ObamagateThis week Trump tried out a new, more positive approach as the death toll passed 80,000 and more than 36 million Americans were unemployed, claiming, “We have met the moment and we have prevailed.” Trump bragged the U.S. leads the world in testing, then later seemed to indicate testing was not important, and if we didn’t test so much, we wouldn’t have so many cases — leading an NYT health and science reporter to say of Trump, “This is not somebody whose grasp of the science is even third-grade-level.”
Contrary to Trump’s upbeat assessment, this week Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC...
2020-05-181h 11The Weekly ListWeeek 182 - Outbreak in the West WingThis week, despite a White House model showing ending social distancing would result in a spike of 200,000 new cases a day and deaths of 3,000 a day, the majority of the country started to reopen. Public health officials warned of dire consequences, with one likening the premature reopening to genocide, but Trump triumphantly declared Phase 1 was over, and now the American people would need to be “warriors” and return to work — a possible death sentence for many of the vulnerable.
Trump was back out on the campaign trail, visiting a factory in swing state Arizona, where his campaign music played in t...
2020-05-111h 18The Weekly ListWeek 181 - Vietnam WarThis week, with his approval dropping and Republicans alarmed about losing the Senate in 2020, Trump shifted away from holding daily task force briefings. Instead, he and his regime sought to portray a great economic recovery coming soon, with the worst of the pandemic behind us. Trump told reporters, “I see the light at the end of the tunnel very strongly,” and Jared Kushner told “Fox & Friends” that the regime’s handling of the crisis was “a great success story.”
While Trump tried to shift the narrative, the death toll passed another milestone — deaths during the Vietnam War — and ended the week with more than 6...
2020-05-041h 11The Weekly ListWeek 180 - Global EpicenterThis week opened and closed with Russia: opening with a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report reaffirming U.S. intelligence’s January 2017 conclusion that Russia interfered to help install Trump, and closing with Trump surreptitiously signing an unusual joint statement with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the pandemic.
This week the country passed the tragic milestone of 50,000 deaths from the coronavirus — more than 1 in 4 deaths worldwide. The country is losing 10,000 Americans every four days now, and as New York sees its cases and deaths ebb, several other states surged. Trump flipped from encouraging states to reopen, to pulling back, to encouragi...
2020-04-271h 28The Weekly ListWeek 179 - Absolute AuthorityThis week Trump threw a series of shiny coins to distract from the growing death toll and his mishandling of the coronavirus response. On Monday, he proclaimed he, not the governors, had “absolute authority” to reopen the country; on Tuesday he halted funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of a global pandemic; on Wednesday he threatened to adjourn Congress to make recess appointments; on Thursday he announced his plan to reopen the economy to much ballyhoo and which wasn’t actually a plan; and on Friday he encouraged protestors with tweets to “liberate” states from lockdown orders. Each item w...
2020-04-201h 07The Weekly ListWeek 178 - Most Deaths in the WorldThis week, nearly 12,000 Americans died of the coronavirus. The U.S. became not only the country with the most cases by a factor of three, but also the country with the most deaths in the world. As American bodies piled up, Trump was obstinate and refused to change his approach, instead continuing to tweet grievances and holding daily campaign rallies masquerading as task force briefings, some lasting hours long.
It became clear this week that neither Trump nor our federal government would have a plan or much of a role to play in stopping the growing outbreak — unthinkable in...
2020-04-131h 20The Weekly ListWeek 177 - National StockpileThis week coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S. spiked, adding close to 200,000 reported cases, and by midweek, more than a thousand Americans were dying each day. Trump pivoted from denying the crisis and wanting to reopen the country, to suddenly acknowledging the gravity and claiming if 100,000 to 200,000 Americans die, he will have done a “very good job” — a remarkable claim! Only two times in American history, the Civil War and World War II, did more Americans die.
Trump continued to blame governors, the media, and this week accused hospital workers in New York City — as that city became the gl...
2020-04-061h 21The Weekly ListWeek 176 - Shelter in PlaceThis week the U.S. continued exponential growth of coronavirus cases, finding itself with the most cases in the world on Thursday — surpassing Italy and China. The number of deaths likewise continued to grow exponentially. New York was hardest hit, accounting for roughly half the cases, but was also ahead of the rest of the country in aggressively testing and quarantining.
An impetuous Trump, eager to put this all behind him, and concerned about the stock market and his re-election, continued to minimize the pandemic, saying Monday he wanted to reopen the economy at the end of a 15-day period, meaning next M...
2020-03-301h 22The Weekly ListWeek 175 - Where Are the Tests?This week the United States had the highest spread rate of the coronavirus of countries reporting, starting the week with roughly 2,500 cases, and ending the week fourth in the world with more than 22,000. Countries that had early testing available like South Korea saw their daily adds ebb to below 100, while daily growth in U.S. cases was close to 50%. Despite Trump’s promises last Friday for 1.4 million tests this week, a new Google testing website and drive-thru testing at retailers — none of it happened. Trump continued this week to hold daily press briefings in which he lied, spread disinformation, and attacked the medi...
2020-03-231h 09The Weekly ListWeek 174 - Global PandemicThis week Trump finally was no longer able to sustain a narrative minimizing the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. The week started with 387 cases in 28 states, and ended with more than 2,500 cases in 49 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, with 51 Americans dead. Trump continued to blame everyone but himself: the Obama administration for lack of testing, the Federal Reserve for stock market volatility, the media for creating panic and holding him to account. On Friday, he called a national emergency as the country was gripped with fear and uncertainty.
The stock market, to which Trump has hitched his re...
2020-03-161h 20The Weekly ListWeek 173 - Coronavirus SpreadingThis week the coronavirus spread in the U.S. from 15 to 387 cases in 28 states, with at least 19 people dead. The number of cases is likely well under-reported due to the lack of available testing kits — one of many signs that the Trump regime is ill-equipped to tackle what is likely to become a global pandemic. The lack of verified information, combined with the constant disinformation put forward by Trump and his regime, led to a general sense of panic, as travel, conferences, and other events were canceled.
The economy showed signs of cracks, with a highly volatile stock market...
2020-03-091h 00The Weekly ListWeek 172 - Markets CrashingThis week the coronavirus consumed the country and the world, as it spread from continent to continent. Trump’s strategy in recent weeks of ignoring and minimizing the virus’ import became untenable as his precious stock market plummeted, and country by country news spread of deaths and disruptions. The global stock markets have lost $6 trillion in value from the outbreak, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 12% and 11% this week alone, the worst fall since the recession of 2008.
Trump held an impromptu news conference Wednesday, where he openly contradicted the experts by his side. He spen...
2020-03-0256 minThe Weekly ListWeek 171 - Russian Election Interference: 2020 EditionThis week the country strayed further from democracy, as Trump purged the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The firings started when Trump learned a senior official at ODNI had briefed House lawmakers on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2020 election, with the intent to help Trump. Trump fired his acting director, installing a loyalist with no intelligence experience, who then started the process of cleaning house of those not loyal to Trump. Admiral William McRaven, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, noted in an op-ed, “We should be deeply afraid for the future of the nati...
2020-02-2458 minThe Weekly ListWeek 170 - Tuesday MassacreThis week, unchecked by checks and balances, Trump continued his retaliation tour, unabashedly showcasing his will to control the Justice Department. After career prosecutors made recommendations for sentencing for his longtime associate Roger Stone, which were overridden by the DOJ, a mass exodus ensued, nicknamed the ‘Tuesday massacre’ — a nomenclature now familiar in the era of Trump. Feeling unshackled, Trump publicly criticized prosecutors, judges, and even jurors, seeming to openly seize the DOJ as a department under his control, without a hint of independence.
Trump also flexed his political will by deploying the Department of Homeland Security to impose measures...
2020-02-1657 minThe Weekly ListWeek 169 - Trump's VendettaThis was one of the most frightening weeks, as Trump seized on his impeachment acquittal to retaliate against his perceived enemies. Within 48 hours, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security suspended the Global Entry program for New York residents, Trump’s Treasury Department turned over confidential records on Hunter Biden to Senate Republicans opening investigations at his behest, and Trump ousted Alexander Vindman and his twin brother from the National Security Council and recalled Gordon Sondland from his post as U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
The only brakes on Trump’s momentum in seizing power were a visual rebuke...
2020-02-101h 01The Weekly ListWeek 168 - No WitnessesThis week, despite explosive new allegations implicating Trump in leaked portions of the manuscript for John Bolton’s upcoming book, the Senate voted 51–49 on Friday not to call witnesses, all but ensuring Trump will be acquitted in the impeachment trial. This marks the first time in U.S. history that an impeachment trial will occur with no witnesses. Both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asserted an acquittal without witnesses and documents would be meaningless.
The gravity of what many viewed as a cover-up was summarized by presidential historian Jon Meacham, who noted after the S...
2020-02-031h 05The Weekly ListWeek 167 - The Trial BeginsThis week the Senate impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began, even as evidence continued to trickle out. House Democrat impeachment managers made their case for the two articles over three days, laying out their argument with an intricate presentation and appealing to Republicans’ better angels to put partisanship aside for the sake of preserving our fragile democracy. As the week came to a close, it appeared Senate Republicans were unwilling to do so.
The atmosphere of the largely obfuscated Senate chamber was described as that of an elementary school classroom, with Senate Republicans joking and, at times, lea...
2020-01-271h 03The Weekly ListWeek 166 - Articles of ImpeachmentThis week the articles of impeachment were transmitted to the Senate, and the impeachment trial formally began. Senators were sworn in, but it was unclear if they planned to follow the oath they swore to deliver impartial justice.
This week the House released hundreds of pages of documents provided by Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani. Parnas made stunning disclosures in MSNBC and CNN interviews of other Trump regime members being “in the loop” on Trump’s plan to withhold aid from Ukraine pending the announcement of investigations, including Vice President Mike Pence, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, an...
2020-01-201h 04
Dyking Out - a Lesbian and LGBTQIA Podcast for Everyone!Activism w/ Amy Siskind - Ep. 47THE Amy Siskind (The New Agenda, The Weekly List) joins us to Dyke Out about activism in the face of an administration that’s worse than season 7 of The L Word (or Below Her Mouth which we discuss up top). Amy has been following and documenting the daily deluge of the harmful and #notnormal actions happening under this government, and we are just in awe of her ability to take on such an exhausting endeavor. We ask about how important it is to pay attention to what’s happening vs. ignoring it for your own sanity. And, on a scale of f...
2018-08-141h 14
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TVAmy Siskind on Pres. Trump’s Weekly Erosion of NormsAmy Siskind has written a book called “The List: A Week-By-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year,” and tells Bob Herbert how she hopes this record will help lead us back to normalcy in the future.
2018-07-3126 min
The Rob Burgess ShowEp. 113 - Amy SiskindHello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 113th episode, our guest is Amy Siskind.
Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A former Wall Street executive, she’s President and Co-founder of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, and campus sexual assault. Amy’s advocacy for equality now occurs alongside her mission as one of the most thorough and vocal observers of our failing-but-not-yet-failed democracy.
In the...
2018-06-2238 minThe Weekly ListThe Weekly List Podcast PreviewWelcome to The Weekly List podcast, hosted by Amy Siskind, author of the book The List. Every week the podcast will give greater context to the news items of that week's Weekly List and highlight a few stories that you may not have heard. For the full lists, visit our website is www.theweeklylist.org.
2018-05-3102 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEpisode 29: Amy SiskindPresident and co-founfer of The New Agenda Amy Siskind speaks with reporter Nomiki Konst about her new book The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year. In their conversation they talk about the difference between normal and abnormal political maneuvering, the polarization of ICE, attacks on our voting systems, the deep web of Russian and moneyed connections with the Trump Administration, and the impact of the Weekly list on her life.
2018-04-3057 min