Topic: Daily Kos

The hosts examine the media coverage of a high-profile sexual assault case at Stanford University. They highlight a report that activists from MoveOn.org and Daily Kos delivered "empty boxes" to a commission as a staged photo opportunity for a petition. The discussion also touches on the massive backlog of untested rape kits across the United States.

Soledad O'Brien and other media commentators argue that the word "thug" has become a proxy for racial slurs in the wake of the Baltimore protests. This claim is contested by pointing out that the term was frequently applied to white protesters during Occupy Wall Street and to various ethnic gangs in California.