Welcome to the Visu.News podcast, I’m Zach D Roberts and this week I’m chatting with Huffington Post reporter and author of a new book on the proud boys – Andy Campbell. Much of the American public first learned of rightwing hate gang the Proud Boys after the infamous presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe…
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VisuNews: Isolated Incidents Podcast – The Unification Church aka Moonies
Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Subscribe to the Visu.News Podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify This is Zach D Roberts, I’m an investigative photojournalist and cofounder of Visu.News. This is the Visu.News Podcast – Isolated Incidents edition. Each month I interview an expert in the world of…
PHOTOS: On the Line: The Fight for Abortion Rights
Originally published in TheProgressive.org Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) On December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest case that seeks to chip away at abortion rights across the country. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state of Mississippi urged the Supreme Court to ban abortions after…
Fighting the Good Fight: An Interview with Kim Kelly
Originally published in TheProgressive.org Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Not since opening the pages of a worn copy of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States have I read a book on a subject about which I thought I knew a great deal, only to learn that I knew next to nothing….
Uvalde Mayor and City Councilmember Calls Media Chicken & Chickenshit
The Uvalde City Council meetings have been quite a shit show for the last couple weeks as they continue to attack the media and anyone who criticizes them. This evening the Mayor called the media who released video of the police response “chicken.” He claims they were planning on releasing the video to the families…
Nobody Is Protected – Interview with author Dr. Reece Jones
Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Become a Patron! This episode of the Visu.News podcast – I speak with author Dr. Reece Jones who has a new book out this week, titled Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States. Nobody is Protected is a book that…
Proud Boys Indicted for Jan 6th Sedition
Members of the leadership of the violent hate gang, The Proud Boys, that planned the January 6th insurrection have now been indicted for seditious conspiracy by a federal grand jury. The right-wing armed militia group, the Oath Keepers, who were their co-planners on Jan 6th already had seen similar charges. As we have written before,…
West Virginia Protest Calls out Manchin’s Coal Profits
Over the weekend, 16 people were arrested after trying to block the entrance to the Grant Town Power Plant, which burns pricey waste coal bought from Sen. Manchin’s company. Originally Printed in DeSmog on April 12, 2022 On Saturday, April 9, a group of more than 50 activists from the region and around the country…
VIDEO: The Hercules of Cancel Culture – Kevin Sorbo at CPAC
Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Become a Patron! Star of TV and screen actor Kevin Sorbo was at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month in Orlando, Florida speaking about being canceled and about building his own uncancellable studio. I was there for Visu.News and took the opportunity to ask him the only thing I…
Stacey Abrams Appears on Star Trek: Discovery
Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams has made a short appearance on Paramount TV’s Star Trek: Discovery. It’s only a brief moment but she plays the Earth’s President, watch below. The episode titled “Coming Home” is the conclusion for the fourth season of the…