Virtually Speaking Sundays is a counterpoint to the weekly gasbags who air on Sundays. This week we talk about SCOTUS and the Real Donald Trump.

Today at 4pm ET / 1pm PT — Click to listen live, or later,

Dave Johnson — Senior Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future. Read Dave at Seeing the Forest, Campaign for America’s Future, Huffington Post and other outlets. With more than 20 years of technology industry experience, Dave’s earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic. He was a pioneer in design and development of productivity and educational applications of personal computers. He helped co-found a company developing desktop systems to validate carbon trading in the US. Follow @DCJohnson

Cliff Schecter — A public relations, political and digital strategist , Cliff is President of Libertas, LLC and a columnist at The Daily Beast and Contributor to The Huffington Post and semi-regularly to the Cincinnati Enquirer op-ed page. Cliff sits on the Boards of

We Act Radio, the Ohio Innocence Project and Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio.

Tonite Jay Ackroyd, Dave Johnson on Scalia, the Democratic pie fights and a plea for progressive unity in the face of policy and constitutional crisis.

Click here to listen live (5:00p pacific, 8:00p eastern) or later recorded: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2016/02/15/dave-johnson-virtually-speaking-sundays

This week: Scalia, the Democratic pie fights and a plea for progressive unity in the face of policy and constitutional crisis.

Jay’s guest is Dave Johnson — Senior Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future. Read Dave at Seeing the Forest, Campaign for America’s Future and Huffington Post. Follow @DCJohnson

The 2016 Virtually Speaking Media Panel:

Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, Culture of Truth, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Isaiah Poole, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Sara Robinson, Susie Madrak, Spocko, Stuart Zechman

Listen at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/11/22/dave-johnson-isaiah-pool-virtually-speaking-sundays

Sanders on Democratic Socialism; Trump on Muslim Americans; Warren on corporate tax reform. Commentary from Dave Johnson and Isaiah Poole you’re unlikely to hear from the DC media villager. Jay Ackroyd host.

The regular VS Media panelists:

Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Isaiah Poole, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Sara Robinson, Susan Madrak, Spocko, Stuart Zechman

Click here to listen live or later.

Presidential primary campaigns and authenticity; policing America. Sara Robinson and Dave Johnson discuss the absence of coverage of mainstream policy alternatives that are both effective public policy and poll very well, the contrast between the marginalization of the Sanders campaign, and impediments that the symbiotic relationships between cops and prosecutors create cops commit violent crime.

The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol, Charles Lenchner, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Isaiah Poole, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, RJ Eskow, Sara Robinson, Spocko, Stuart Zechman, Susan Madrak

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/08/16/sara-robinson-dave-johnson-vs-sundays

Dave Johnson, Isaiah J. Poole. Jay Ackroyd moderates. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Listen live or later http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/07/13/isaiah-j-poole-dave-johnson-schumer-portman-rewarding-corp-tax-evasion

6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern discussing the proposed “repatriation tax holiday” on what corporations owe on “offshore” profits held in tax havens. Also “reform” — a huge tax break to encourage off shore production and profits in the future.

Then, from the morning talk shows: Labor overtime rule, the Confederate battle flag, TPP, Debt crises in Greece and Puerto Rico, HUD announces fair-housing rule.

Commentary from Dave Johnson, Isaiah J. Poole. Jay Ackroyd moderates. Political satire from Culture of Truth.

Listen live or later http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/07/13/isaiah-j-poole-dave-johnson-schumer-portman-rewarding-corp-tax-evasion

Topics: Fast Track in the House and why Obama is being Obama. Bernie and Hillary, Elizabeth Warren’s letter about the SEC. Progressive: what’s in a name?

RJ Eskow, Dave Johnson and Jay Ackroyd. Political satire from Culture of Truth.

Listen live or later at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/06/08/dave-johnson-rj-eskow-vs-sundays

6pm pacific/9pm eastern

Bankrupt American public policy: TransPacific Partnership (TPP); the Republican budget; Iran treaty. Clinton and the dominance of centrist policy and rhetoric in the Dem party.

Commentary from Dave Johnson, Stuart Zechman, Jay Ackroyd. Follow @DCJohnson @Stuart_Zechman @JayAckroyd

2015 Media Panel Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman. Alternates: Susan Madrak, Sara Robinson, Spocko, Charles Lenchner.

Listen live or later: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/04/06/dave-johnson-stuart-zechman-vs-sundays

Virtually Speaking is an online radio show that you can listen to at any time, live or later. It features online progressive “personalities” — people you see doing a lot of writing online.

Tonite I am on with Joan McCarter of Daily Kos. Moderator is Jay Ackroyd.

Live 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific

Click here to listen live or later http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2015/02/16/dave-johnson-joanmccarter-virtually-speaking-sundays

Topics:

Which lies really matter, Brian Williams’ or Dick Cheney’s?

GOP governors and Medicaid expansion encapsulated in King v Burwell and the tension in the party between doing as the Koch’s command and what their constituents need.

Joan McCarter — Senior Political Writer and regular front page contributor to Daily Kos. Joan writes about national legislative developments. Follow @joanmccarter

Dave Johnson — Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future and Senior Fellow with Renew California. Read Dave at Seeing the Forest, Campaign for America’s Future and Alternet. Follow @DCJohnson

Virtually Speaking Sundays offers an alternative to the Sunday morning talk shows, drawing from a panel composed of prominent members of the liberal blogosphere