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Lars Larson Northwest Podcast 2026-03-30

March 30, 2026·1 hr 37 min·7 clips

Portland's Vision Zero pedestrian safety program — funded by diverted road taxes — actually increased pedestrian deaths by pushing traffic onto side streets.

What, exactly, are they protesting for? The host opens on the No Kings protests and turns them into a charge sheet almost immediately. To him, the demand is not clear policy. It is opposition to President Donald Trump, and he says the idea that this is spontaneous does not pass the smell test. The protests have been going on for weeks, he says, with organizers bragging about showing up every single week while ordinary listeners are still supposed to guess what the demand is. His premise is blunt: voters chose Trump, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate, so a crowd in the street should not get to swap out the people in Washington, D.C. Then the show takes a hard turn into abortion pills on campus. A guest argues that the medical exam before the pills is not a technicality. Ultrasound matters, she says, because an ectopic pregnancy can rupture and become life threatening. She also cites research claiming women are 36 percent more likely to die if they take the pills without knowing. The segment stays with the physical aftermath, not the polished version. What happens when a student takes the pills and goes back to a dorm room? Who is there when the pain starts, when there is blood, when the bathroom becomes part of the procedure? The language is intentionally uncomfortable, and the host does not soften it. The campus bathroom gets framed as a kind of abortion clinic, not because the segment sees it as safe, but because the burden lands on a young woman by herself. Parents come in later. The guest asks whether families paying for education want universities involved in providing this while brushing past the medical and emotional fallout. Then Steve calls, and the show swings back to Trump, impeachment, and whether street pressure can deliver what an existing process already covers. The host widens the complaint. Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and others challenged elections, he says, while after 2020 people were told they could not even mention that election. The segment ends where it began: who gets to challenge power, who gets branded illegitimate, and who has to live with the result when the vote goes the other way.

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A fast, combative take on protest politics, campus abortion access, and election legitimacy.

This episode makes a blunt case about the No Kings protests, campus abortion-pill access, and the idea that election disputes should stay inside the system rather than move into the street.

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