Shows
City of Tea (916)Accountability: Kempa Needs ItDave Kempa is a harmful person.
The latest episode of City of Tea addresses the urgent need to confront and expose harmful behavior within our community. We engage in a heartfelt and raw conversation about the difficulties of handling toxicity and accountability among trusted friends.
The episode underscores the importance of restorative justice, supportive spaces, and the power of speaking up. Join Shannon, Gabe, PJ, Skyler, and Flo in this vital discussion about truth, healing, and the path forward.
#protectfloatallcosts
2025-03-141h 28
The DrainThe Drain 000 - Introductions with Kempa and Sweet PalmaGreetings, babies, and welcome to the first ever episode of The Drain.
This is a podcast covering California news and culture. Hosted by journalist Dave Kempa (founding editor of VOICES: River City) and Max (a.k.a. Sweet Palma, producer of the violently famous Seeking Derangements), we discuss the liberal California hegemony through a leftist lens, just steps from the state Capitol.
Free episodes (The Drain) every Tuesday. Premium episodes (The Plug) every Friday.
Tips/Pitches/Chisme to thedrainpodcast@gmail.com.
Find us wherever podcasts are available.
Thank you. W...2025-03-121h 15
Hamilton Today with Scott ThompsonMusical Theatre Has Peaked With 'The Last Timbit'!The Hamilton Today Podcast with guest host Scott Radley:We look at The Leafs’ heartbreaking – to some – Game 3 loss. Balloon-powered Space Glamping. It’s not three random words drawn out of a hat, it is an option for space tourists in the near future. The question is, would you want to? Writing in the Globe and Mail, Don Drummond says that the Ottawa is manipulating markets with the capital-gains hike in order to score small, arbitrary goals. Legendary hockey broadcaster Bob Cole has died at age 90. What is the impact of body cameras worn by police officers? Premier...2024-04-261h 24Hamilton Today with Scott ThompsonThe response to Buffy Sainte-Marie's heritage being called into questionThe Hamilton Today Podcast with guest host Scott Radley:How is Buffy Sainte-Marie's Indigenous heritage being called into question being received by the Indigenous community and society at large? How is it that approximately a third of all restaurants in Canada are operating at a loss? The government's spending is putting upward pressure on inflation. Why can't we move Halloween to a time of year that's less cold and challenging to trick or treat in? What is a hate crime in Canada anymore and shouldn't we be seeing more charges get applied in the wake of the...2023-11-011h 05
Voices: River CityPREVIEW: 179 - Weatherman freed (8.27.2021)[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron today!]Today we discuss the commutation of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's father, David GIlbert, who has been serving a sentence of 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of a Brink's armored truck turned violent. Gilbert and his wife, both members of the Weather Underground, had been acting as getaway drivers for members of the Black Liberation Army. (Watch the award-winning 2002 documentary on it here).We also touch on last week's release by the Gravel Institute of a short documentary on...2021-08-2703 minVoices: River CityPREVIEW: 177 - Cops hiding deaths[To view or hear the full episode, become a patron today!]Far too often we hear about police treating people of color like they're second-class citizens, such as last year, when Solano County Sheriff's deputies knocked a Black woman unconscious in front of her children when she was changing seats with her father on a day-trip outside of Dixon. We also see how horrible the system can be for folks within the system. Here in Sacramento, the sheriff's department doesn't let the public know when someone dies in their custody. 2021-08-2003 minVoices: River CityTEASER: 175 - Chief Daniel Hahn retires (8.13.2021)[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron here today!]On the four-year anniversary of his swearing in as chief of the Sacramento Police Department, Daniel Hahn has filed his intent to retire to Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan. This comes at the end of a complicated tenure that included the police killing of Stephon Clark, police violence during 2020's George Floyd protests, and a 2021 report showing racial bias within the ranks of Sac PD.The crew discusses Chief Hahn's time as police chief, as well as what this means for the future of...2021-08-1305 minVoices: River CityTEASER: 168 - Runaway Hahn (7.16.2021)[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!]Chief Daniel Hahn and the Sacramento Police Department have dropped out last-minute on Monday's joint meeting between the Sacramento Measure U Advisory Committee and the Community Police Review Commission. Thankfully, we've got Flo and Keyan to walk us through the central points. Three topics of note:- How many Measure U tax dollars will be going to Sacramento's police next year? (Interested to discuss the school-to-cop pipeline they appear to be touting in this portion...)- Dr Shani Buggs and Patricia Powers' co...2021-07-1602 minVoices: River CityTEASER: 146 - Safe Ground at last (4.2.2021)[Wanna hear/see this whole episode? Become a patron here!]Sacramento's library galleria warming center has closed, and guests are being encouraged to check out the new Safe Ground location near Southside Park. This location--the culmination of over a decade of hard work from the region's homeless advocates--will be stocked with tiny homes, and will serve as a triage center and space for folks to get medical attention and vaccines. Meanwhile, Marcos Breton has a new piece out and it’s uh, really something. Enjoy!2021-04-0204 min
Voices: River CityTEASER: 136 - Democrats behaving badly (2.26.2021)[If you want to view/listen to the full episode, become a patron here!]Over the course of Democrat Anthony Rendon's tenure as Speaker of the California Assembly, his wife has taken in over $500,000 from corporations who were concurrently fighting big battles in the state legislature. The biggest donor? For-profit utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which is responsible for multiple California wildfires, including the Camp Fire, which killed over 85 people in northern California. After the company filed for bankruptcy--they were on the line for $30 billion in wildfire liabilities--California Democrats bailed the company out in a lightning-quick two weeks of...2021-02-2603 minVoices: River City135 - Kula Koenig of Social Justice Politicorps (2.23.2021)We're joined today by friend of the show Kula Koenig, founder of Social Justice Politicorps, a grassroots operation dedicated to raising social justice narratives in discussions over how county, city and school board governments work in the Sacramento region.We discuss how a deepening rift between progressives and moderates is starting to form in the region, and what that means for the future of movement politics.Kula also shares with us her newest project, the Social Justice Now PAC, which aims to help elect radical voices into elected office throughout the region. (Want to help them succeed? Contribute...2021-02-2359 minVoices: River CityTEASER: 134 - Texas goes dark (2.19.2021)[To listen to/view the full episode, become a patron here!]The gang talks about Democrats scoring political points on the Texas rolling blackouts, which left up to 4 million people without electricity in freezing temperatures, and last summer's California blackouts, which Republicans used to score political points as well.But these blackouts aren't a red or blue problem; they're a capitalism problem.Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always:Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you, @ShanNDSTevens, @FlojauneSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot...2021-02-1904 minVoices: River City133 - Extremely Thick and Incredibly Big (2.16.2021)We start the show with a moment for Mark Bell, a deeply impressive poet/author who spent years in the streets of Sacramento. We then reluctantly discuss this piece by the Bee's Opinion Editor Gil Duran, wherein he lobs many bombs toward good people, and offers up an entire menu of awful takes. Take one quick scroll through his Twitter feed and you'll find that our guy has simply lost the plot. Finally, we take a look at The push to reopen schools in California, and what that means for all of us. Tha...2021-02-161h 00Voices: River CityTEASER: 132 - Dis-appointing (2.12.2021)[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron here today!]Governor Gavin Newsom will perhaps soon be appointing a replacement for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. But first Becerra needs to get by Senate Republicans who are eyeing him as their target Biden appointment to shoot down.Canada recently listed the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization. And it appears the US Justice Department is beginning to reach the same conclusion, arresting five Proud Boys for conspiracy in relation to the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Here locally, the "Hangtown Santa" (yeesh) associated with the terrorist group was thi...2021-02-1204 minVoices: River CityTEASER: 130 - The Numbers Game (2.5.2021)[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron here today]The gang discusses all the ways the city and county work to harm their constituencies through budgets.We also touch on Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is the future of the Republican Party incarnate.2021-02-0505 minVoices: River City129 - Ousters (2.2.2021)We start this one with a quick coronavirus update from resident epidemiologist Dr Flo. It's a complex moment, with cases beginning to drop, multiple vaccines rolling out and Governor Gavin Newsom reopening California, despite some dangerous new strains of the virus spreading throughout the country.Speaking of Newsom, a Republican push is nearing the finish line in a signature-gathering campaign to recall the governor, with GOP staples like former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and John Cox (who lost to Newsom by a whopping 24 points in 2018) seizing upon the momentum of rage-filled rightwing animus and threats leveled against the...2021-02-0259 minVoices: River CityTEASER: 128 - Living humans, cold as ice (1.29.2021)[If you want to hear/see the full episode, become a patron today]The crew discusses the massive failure on the part of both the city and county of Sacramento in protecting its unhoused population from a storm that resulted in multiple deaths in the streets.2021-01-2903 minVoices: River City127 - Elegy for the California GOP (1.26.2021)What is the future of the Republican Party? Is it now the party of Trump, in the form of far-right insurrectionists and conspiracy theories? Or is it a more moderated, Mitt Romney style of small government fiscal conservatives? No matter who wins the fight for the soul of the party in California, the state's GOP is as good as dead, with no potential for growth in either direction. Here in Sacramento the party took a step toward the fringe, with far-right Proud Boy Jeffrey Perrine being elected into the county's GOP leadership. At first it didn't matter to...2021-01-2658 minVoices: River City126 - Copaganda (1.22.2021)We're joined by civil rights attorney Tifanei Ressl-Moyer to discuss a memorable week in Sacramento policing.The night before Sacramento area residents planned to march against fascist Proud Boys, the Sacramento Police Department terrorized anti-fascists, tearing through their homes and arresting people under questionable pretenses.This, ironically, took place just hours before Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn was scheduled to argue in a city council meeting that his police force did not treat anti-fascists any worse than they do Proud Boys and other far-right groups. The people of Sacramento did not buy it, with dozens of residents w...2021-01-221h 27Voices: River City125 - Miracle in Merced (1.19.2021)Surprising absolutely no one, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones recently admitted that some of his deputies attended the January 6 Trump rally in Washington, DC.News also broke over the weekend that three local federal employees were under investigation for going out to the nation's capital to attend the rally. They've already confirmed that a local DEA agent was in fact a part of the Capitol siege. The other two under investigation are a DHS officer and someone with the FBI at an "administrative" role.Again, surprising no one. We also take a look at Bertha Perez...2021-01-1953 min
What's With MillennialsEpisode 15: #Movements (Interview)What's With #Movements? Digitally-backed protests and demonstrations are a regular sight on social media. This can partly be blamed on the way that Millennials have kept all knowledge merely keystrokes away at all times. But are we as society becoming too defiant against the powers that be, or are we standing up for what is right? Find out as hosts D'Adonis, Jeremy, and Jonny along with Special Guests: RDA Christine, and Professor of Journalism Dave Kempa, explore the question that everyone is wondering:What's With Millennials and #Movements?<br /><br /><br />WATCH THE VIDEO...2016-12-1935 min
Serious Talk. Seriously.Episode 124: Dave KempaEpisode 124 with journalist Dave Kempa is here (and he tricks me by making me the guest on my own show)! Dave and I discuss the doxing and assault that happened to @Sac_Snark on Wednesday, September 28, 2016; the current
The post Episode 124: Dave Kempa appeared first on Serious Talk. Seriously..2016-10-0400 min