Excellent #Civics101 episode in presidential records law and their impact in modern #USPolitics and democracy: https://overcast.fm/+2sZw3OSOU Impartial and to the point 👌🏽

Intro to Civics 101
The Three Branches of Government

👉 Executive:
Led by Pres. Joseph R. Biden (D)
Military & Law Enforcement

👉 Legislative:
Senate, Democrat-controlled
House, NRA-
and Evangelical-controlled

👉 The Federalist Society
#Civics101 #ThreeBranchesOfGovt #POTUS #Biden #NRA #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #HarlanCrow #JudicialEthics #ChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIArights #discrimination #bigotry

Nice summary of #Australia government structure during the #Civics101 session at #SmP2023.

I knew about the green (House of Representatives) and the red (Senate) carpet in #parliament but missed the blue carpet (Executive). It's important for scientists to also engage the relevant public servants who brief ministers on policy.

Protip for finding out whom in parliament shares interest in your area: check the #Hansard and #FriendshipGroups

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Friendship

How does something go from an annual tradition to a mandated day off? Who decides to make a holiday official? Today we're taking a look at everything from Christmas to National Walk Around Things Day, from our twelve official federal holidays to some day made up by a sock company. Our guides to the holiday season are Jeff Bensch, author of History of American Holidays, and JerriAnne Boggis...

[Civics 101] Holidays #civics101
https://chrt.fm/track/C9668A/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/41d7bf5e-9faa-4d38-98cb-707e8f7c5eb4/episodes/8551aac4-6934-4727-b0c1-897eded090db/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=41d7bf5e-9faa-4d38-98cb-707e8f7c5eb4&awEpisodeId=8551aac4-6934-4727-b0c1-897eded090db&feed=jiCMS8G_ via @PodcastAddict

#CivilRights Dred Scott v Sandford https://www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-episodes/dredscottvsandford #Civics101

#CivilRights Dred Scott v Sandford https://www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-episodes/dredscottvsandford #Civics101

What does the Constitution say about who is allowed to be president? And why is the answer to that question still a little unclear? 

Brady Carlson, host of All Things Considered at Wisconsin Public Radio and author of Dead Presidents.  explains the formal and informal rules that govern who is allowed to become Commander-in-Chief. 

[Civics 101] Who gets to run for president? #civics101
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/149541922 via @PodcastAddict

It's a #moody kind of night, calling for a moody kind of #flashback #photo, taken in #Nice in 2016, where I fled just before the election that shocked me out of my faith that the #US electorate would march us to a better, fairer country. I still don't have that faith. I never should have had it in the first place. The fight for #democracy, #equity, #justice is an every day, every week, every month, every year, life-long commitment. That's #Civics101. I'm here it. But, this was a long week.