We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan
In the A Block today, we’ll break down a jam-packed week of political news that included a resumption of fighting between the US and Iran as President Trump appeared to give up on the peace process, the detention of Congressman Ro Khanna by armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo becoming the latest casualty of the immigration crackdown in Trump’s second term, the resignation of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner amidst rape allegations and the death of four-time Senator Lindsay Graham. We’ll do our best to get to it all with our We Decide political panel David Levinthal, Washington DC correspondent and senior Editor at NOTUS. Laura Jedeed, a writer at FirewalledMedia.com and an Army veteran of two tours in the War in Afghanistan, and Egberto Willes, host of KPFT's Politics Done Right.
In the B Block today, we’ll listen back to We Decide producer Jesse Lent’s interview with Adam Federman, a reporting fellow at the nonprofit investigative journalism site Type Investigations and Seth Stern, the director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation about the federal convictions of 15
activists stemming from a nonfatal shooting at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in North Texas on
July 4, 2025 that injured Alvarado Police Lieutenant Thomas Gross in the shoulder. According to a press
release from the Justice Department last month, seven of the activists were sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison.
In the C Block, we’ll speak to Jennifer Coffey, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commission and Jim Pattiz, a conservationist, writer, and filmmaker who is the co-founder of More Than Just Parks, an investigative journalism and conservation advocacy organization covering America’s public lands.
Coffey and Pattiz discuss efforts by the Trump administration to rollback habitat protections for endangered species clearing the way for oil drilling, mining, and development.
And in the D Block, We’ll hear We Decide producer Ursula Ruedenberg’s latest update on the war in Ukraine as Russia continues its alarming trend of targeting civilian infrastructure including religious and historic sites.