Trump is attacking LGBT+∞ Kids
It's Monday afternoon, June 23, 2025, 17:13, and I've updated this Web page with a link to the program in the WBAI archives and with Pickles of the North's links to Web sites about hot weather. The original top of this page follows the arrow. ⇒ I've been awake for a long time. I'm amazed that I've even gotten this much done on this Web page. I will update it this weekend, so it might be worth checking back for that update. And now I'll post this Web page and crash.
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday July 9, 2025, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security.
Some years ago the WBAI LSB voted to hold its regular meetings on the second Wednesday night of every month, subject to change by the LSB, so we have the following schedule:
These meetings are set to begin at 7:00 PM.
WBAI has a program schedule up on its Web site. The site has gotten many of the individual program pages together to provide links and such, so check it out.
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Here is WBAI's current Internet stream. We can no longer tell if the stream is working without testing every possible stream. Good luck.
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WBAI is archiving the programs! WBAI has permanently switched to yet another new archive Web page! This one is more baffling than the previous one. For some time I was unable to post archive blurbs, then I could, and then I couldn't again. Now I can again and there are a whole bunch of archive blurbs up there now.
This is a link to the latest version of the official WBAI archive. The archiving software appears to have been at least partially fixed. To get to the archive of this program you can use the usual method: you'll have to click on the drop-down menu, which says Display,
and find Back of the Book on that menu. We're pretty early in the list, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Once you find the program name click GO
and you'll see only this Back of the Book program. Management has fixed some problems that we'd been having with the archives.
For programs before March 23, 2019, we're all out of luck. The changes that took place once WBAI Management took control of the WBAI archives seems to have wiped out all access to anything before that date in March. You'll have to click on the same drop-down menu as above, which says Display,
and find Specify Date
, it's the second choice from the top. You are then given a little pop-up calendar and you can choose the date of the program there. Then click GO
and you'll see a list of programs that aired on that date. For those previous programs you can get the audio, but nothing else, since I can't post anything to those pages anymore. Good luck.
Since the former General Manager banned Sidney Smith from WBAI he's not alternating with us on the air. As of November 2020, Back of the Book airs weekly.
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Breaking news: A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday ordered Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil released by 7:30 p.m.
This came in just before we began to do the final recording session of this program.
And as I'm typing up this Web page I've heard that they did in fact let him go and he's traveling back to New York City.
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The Trump administration has announced that it will eliminate services offered through the National Suicide Prevention Hotline that are tailored to specifically provide support for LGBT+∞ youth. This is the 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline number.
Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black said of this move, This is devastating, to say the least.
The Trevor Project is an organization focused on suicide prevention efforts for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth. Mr. Black continued, Suicide prevention is about people, not politics. The administration's decision to remove a bipartisan, evidence-based service that has effectively supported a high-risk group of young people through their darkest moments is incomprehensible.
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By the time you hear this program it will be Summer. It will happen while I'm editing this program on Friday night. Huzzah!
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On Sunday, one hour before sunrise, look to the east to see a crescent Moon and Venus only about 7° apart.
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Pickles here! The Big Heat will be on this week, and if you want to get accurate information on the air quality where you live, and also any wild fire smoke that may impact your area, as well as other pollutants like ozone, go to this government Web site about air quality.
For information about how much the heat dome is affecting your area, try this CDC Web site about heat risk. Despite a disclaimer, the website is still being maintained!
And go here for more on excessive heat Try and stay frosty!!
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There are a lot of issues that are considered hazardous to talk about on the air at WBAI, even though the gag rule was lifted in 2002. However, there is the Internet! There are mailing lists which you can subscribe to and Web based message boards devoted to WBAI and Pacifica issues. Many controversial WBAI/Pacifica issues are discussed on these lists.
One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
There used to be a number of mailing lists related to Pacifica and WBAI. Unfortunately, they were all located on Yahoo! Groups. When Yahoo! Groups was totally shut down in December 2020, all of those mailing lists ceased to exist. One year earlier their file sections and archives of E-mails, had been excised leaving only the ability to send E-mails back and forth among the members. Now it's all gone. Older Back of the Book program Web pages tell a little more about those lists.
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