This morning we are broadcasting from Yale University in New Haven Connecticut where I am reporting on Bishop Barber's Conference at the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy that's exploring what's at stake morally during the midterm elections when the nation selects a new Congress.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Victor Orban, who was supported by President Trump, conceded the election that he lost over the weekend ending his 16 year grip on power.
Meanwhile, following the collapse of US talks with Iran President Trump's rhetoric has gotten even more belligerent and mercurial. Trump is now pledging to have the United States blockade the straits of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil flows and close to a third of its fertilizer.
The Guardian is reporting that the US Central Command has said the US Navy will begin interdicting "any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the strait of Hormuz by 10 AM this morning.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard responded that any effort to enforce a blockade, usually considered an act of war, would be considered a breach of the cease fire that the US and Israel said would not include Lebanon.
The six week war of choice launched by the US and Israel has killed at least 3,000 in Iran and over 2,000 in Lebanon where Israel continues to execute its scorched earth approach by leveling entire villages as it did over the last two-years in its clearing of Gaza that killed 70,000 Palestinians wiping out entire families including tens of thousands of women and children while the world watched.
An increasingly unhinged President Trump went after Pope Leo on social media where he called the leader of the planet's 1.4 billion Catholics soft on crime and blamed the church for local and state bans on congregant worship during the worst of COVID that killed over 1.1 million Americans.
So, what does the world do when the leader of the most powerful nation on earth continues to act erratically lashing out at a growing list of perceived enemies?
We uask Yale Global Justice Fellow Jim Henry and Dr. Joe Wilson, labor historian and biographer of A. Philip Randolph.
As our region's head into the 2026 primaries, longtime Democratic incumbents, like Rep. Frank Pallone, who was first elected to Congress in 1988, are facing spirited challenges. Our B Block will zero in on that June primary race.
In the second half, I was joined by John Tarleton, the Indypendent who will help me interview Sara Nelson, president the AFA-CWA flight attendants union, who joined Senator Bervie Sanders and Mayor Mamdani on Sunday at the launch of new national non-profit called UNION NOW, designed to build greater worker power across the nation with a more aggressive approach to reigning in run away wealth inequality and rapidly accelerating corporate consolidation as well as the rampant political corruption that makes them both possible.
In the D Block, we heard from Stephanie Luce, professor of Labor Studies at CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies about the long history of May Day as both a national and international labor celebration.
While May Day fell out of favor with US unions during the red scare a younger generation appears to be embracing it.
