Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin here in studio with Mike Prysner.

On today's episode, we wanted to give attention to the flip side of our normal content,

with our friends Jordan

Cherton and Jen Dyes of Status Koo.

While we usually focus on what the U.S. Empire is doing to people around the world,

status coup does a great job of covering the impact of imperialism within our borders, the

decay and rot of a system that pours trillions into war and occupation, while

barely giving crumbs to those suffering at home.

Last week, the Senate reached a bipartisan agreement to increase military spending by 25 billion

in the next year alone, saying Biden's increase of over10 billion wasn't enough. Unlimited money for the

empire, while poor and working people here face a wave of evictions, joblessness, and hardships

as we head into another round of the pandemic. While we know it's essential to cover what

crimes this money is spent on abroad,

we also need to look at what the lack of those funds means within. Jordan and Jen do incredible

work doing just that. You can watch them at YouTube.com slash status coup and support them by becoming

a member like I am at status coup.com.

And I know we're planning to do a lot more in collaboration with you guys.

Thank you so much for joining us on the Empire Files podcast, Jordan and Jen.

So you guys just came out with an incredibly explosive expose in The Intercept about Flint.

And of course, we're going to get into that.

But I first wanted you both to remind our audience about what exactly happened in Flint.

Because it's been about seven years on from the initial scandal.

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