This week, on America: In the Making...

• the fallout from Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance (15:47),
• teacher strikes continue in San Francisco (01:39),
• that AI video with the Obamas (05:34),
• the NAACP take on Elon Musk (38:06), and
• a cat sanctuary puts some kindness back in the world (12:15)

Joining the show this week is Ira Chaleff, author of To Stop a Tyrant: The Power of Political Followers, which is available to buy now. He is co-author of the original handbook given to every newly elected member of the US Congress and is Chair Emeritus of the non-partisan Congressional Management Foundation.

And Abre' Conner, Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP

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News sources:

• NAACP Taking Action: Tech companies ‘be on alert,’ NAACP says with new guiding principles for data centers | The Verge

• NAACP Playbook: https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-releases-playbook-frontline-communities-stop-dirty-data-centers 

• NYT Magazine Article: https://law.news.niu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/03/Pollution-Is-Killing-Black-Americans.-This-Community-Fought-Back.-.pdf 

• Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl: https://apnews.com/article/bad-bunny-kid-rock-super-bowl-halftime-698c46096a387cfec34e4cc2fba29d82 

• Turning Point’s halftime show: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/millions-of-super-bowl-fans-tune-into-turning-point-usas-halftime-show-instead-of-bad-bunny/ar-AA1VWOUB?ocid=BingNewsSerp 

• Megyn Kelly on Piers Morgan: https://youtu.be/UmoekomrMww 

• Spanish speaking Americans: https://factually.co/fact-checks/society/percentage-of-us-population-that-speaks-spanish-e6d3f7 

• Teacher strikes in San Francisco: https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-teachers-strike-ec574f8ac7ef0e0041e9f136e9f99140 

• Trump’s Obama video: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/06/donald-trump-racist-meme-obama-explained/88544923007/ 

• Trump not apologising: https://time.com/7372734/trump-obama-monkey-video-republican-criticism-racist-trope/ 

• Cat Sanctuary: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pet-sanctuary-takes-in-overflow-from-homeless-shelter-amid-unprecedented-cold-snap/ 

• Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary: https://safehavenpet.org/

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