🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 50: Dead Silence: When Power Refuses to Speak📅 August 28, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCWhen children are murdered in a church and the President can’t even tweet, what does that silence tell us?When executive orders target protest, cash bail, and freedom of speech, what kind of nation are we becoming?This isn’t just a week in review. It’s a timeline of a state unraveling—and a warning to anyone still hoping silence will save them.🔥 Top Stories This Week:🕊️ Minneapolis Church Mass Shooting: Silence from the TopA devastating school shooting inside a sacred space. Children lost. Families shattered. And yet—no press briefing from the President. Not even a full tweet.• What does silence from the highest office signal in 2025?• Are we witnessing apathy—or calculation?🚫 Executive Orders: Flag Burning & Cash Bail BansTrump signs sweeping EOs banning cash bail in D.C. and threatening funding to cities “disrespecting the flag.”• Is this a PR stunt—or a prelude to martial law?• The authoritarian creep is no longer creeping.⚖️ Pritzker to Trump: “Not in My State”Illinois Governor JB Pritzker delivers a fiery rebuke against Trump’s threats to send National Guard to Chicago.• A rare moment of political courage or the beginning of federal-state breakdown?📉 Lisa Cook Ousted from the FedTrump illegally removes Lisa Cook—the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board.• Beyond DEI: this is about silencing economic dissent and consolidating fiscal power.🗺️ Redistricting as a Weapon: Texas Rep Speaks OutState Rep. Ann Johnson slams her GOP colleagues for “cowardice and racism” during redistricting debates.• If they can redraw democracy—can they erase it entirely?🎭 Culture Corner:👴🏻 Old Man Reads the GOP for FilthA viral takedown of Republican lies, hypocrisy, and cowardice—served cold and raw.🐕🦺🚀 Snoop Dogg vs. Buzz LightyearYes, this is real—and it’s a hilarious, ridiculous culture war worth unpacking.🍽️ Cracker Barrel DramaDo we really give a sh*t?🎾 Taylor Townsend’s RiseDominating on the court—and hurting feelings of her losing opponent triggers racist remarks.