Episodes

4 days ago
271 - Death And Tax Cuts
4 days ago
4 days ago
Fretterman is back in the news. Elias Rodriguez’s chat messages and manifesto. Elon is calling it quits. Israel is expanding settlements in the West Bank. The State Department is setting up an office of “remigration,” and it’s worse than it sounds. And the morning after pill is coming to a corner store near you.
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https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/john-fetterman-israel-paid-trip-nonprofit/
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/middleeast/israel-west-bank-settlements-expansion-intl?cid=ios_app
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-department-office-of-remigration
https://x.com/dabbs346/status/1928441971460202894

Sunday May 25, 2025
270 - Universal Basic Midscome
Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
RFK swims in poop. People aren’t paying their burrito debts. DOGE seeks out fraud, sews chaos at the SSA. ICE is hiring for construction jobs. The House passes Trump’s big beautiful bill. Troy City Council votes down Good Cause hearing. Israeli Embassy staffers shot in DC. And cannabis sales in New Mexico fund basic income for the poor.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rfk-jr-rock-creek
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna207940
https://newrepublic.com/post/195363/elon-musk-doge-social-security-fraud-investigation-total-bust
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-hiring-construction-jobs-aver
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg0kgg2njo
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/good-cause-eviction-hearing-rejected-troy-s-gop-20340500.php // https://www.wamc.org/news/2025-05-23/good-cause-is-not-good-for-troy-as-gop-council-majority-votes-measure-down
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooting-dc-jewish-museum-rcna208427
https://www.businessinsider.com/albuquerque-new-mexico-basic-income-marijuana-tax-2025-5

Monday May 12, 2025
269 - Tiny Hands, Big Pipe
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
A racoon and his emotional support meth pipe. Trump’s new plane. Afrikaners as refugees. Worcester neighbors rise up. Fetterman crashes out. Israel continues its genocide. China’s new thorium reactor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pet-raccoon-meth-pipe-mouth-drivers-seat-ohio-traffic-stop/
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/massacre-thai-restaurant-market-gaza-city-israeli-airstrikes
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/fbi-opens-formal-investigation-ny-attorney-20316868.php
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/trump-deportation-habeas-corpus-miller.html
https://newrepublic.com/post/194996/john-fetterman-explodes-union-meeting-freaking-staff
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a64550626/thorium-reactor-nuclear-power/

Monday May 05, 2025
268 - John Fretterman
Monday May 05, 2025
Monday May 05, 2025
ICE drags a mother and her daughters out of bed and robs them blind. Driverless semis make a debut in Texas. Local sheriffs warn that a water gun game could get you killed. By them. MTA wants to use predictive AI, flouting countless cautionary tales. John Fetterman is not doing so well. New executive orders are spicy. A man’s venom filled blood could create useful antivenoms. And Massachusetts' wealth tax didn’t scare off the rich people.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194557/ice-invades-wrong-home-oklahoma-girls-underwear-life-savings
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/business/first-driverless-semis-started-regular-routes?cid=ios_app
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/sheriff-warns-of-dangers-in-senior-assassin-water-gun-game
https://www.theverge.com/news/658524/mta-ai-predictive-crime-new-york-subway-platforms
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/05KVifmfoa
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5d0l7el36o

Monday Apr 28, 2025
267 - Swindler's List
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Trump wants to send “homegrowns” to CECOT. RFK JR wants to create a list of autistic people. Musk sends DOGE into the NLRB. DHS tweets home address of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura to 2.4 million followers. George Santos gets the book thrown at him. And Freshkills Park is getting turned into a pollinator playground.
https://www.europesays.com/2009702/
https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1911463710029488317
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/george-santos-sentencing-fraud?cid=ios_app

Monday Apr 14, 2025
266 - Land of the Free
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
This episode covers the Trump administration’s increasingly brutal treatment of immigrants and how the detention system is handling it (not well).
https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-party-free-speech-trump-deportation-mahmoud-khalil
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/us/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-update-columbia-university?cid=ios_app
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/us/immigration-detainees-trump-ice-students-visa?cid=ios_app
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gnzzeg34o
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/albany-seeing-fewer-crashes-after-25mph-speed-limit-change

Sunday Apr 06, 2025
265 - A New New Fucking Deal! ft. Adam Pelletier
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
This week we are cursed with a loss, as Britney is out, but we are blessed with a guest - our good friend Adam Pelletier, who is a worker at the NLRB and organizer in the Federal Unionists Network. We talk about the "Hands Off!" rally in Albany, tariffs, and uncommon grounds is organizing a union!
https://labornotes.org/2025/04/federal-unionists-say-its-not-game-over-its-game
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/protesters-tell-trump-musk-hands-off-federal-20260299.php
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-harbor-tom-homan-jaime-cook
Wildflower: https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/uncommon-grounds-workers-saratoga-clifton-park-20254954.php

Monday Mar 31, 2025
264 - Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Children (As Wage Slaves)
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Florida legislators think children have had it too good for too long and need to be put to work. It’s poppin off in the group chat. The White House wants to use gold to buy Bitcoin. Trump signs some alarming executive orders. And two cities are looking to deprioritize cars in their urban planning.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-says-gold-reserves-213421472.html
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/03/trump-goes-nuclear-federal-workforce
https://newrepublic.com/article/193352/trump-car-tariffs-vehicle-auto-ceo-wrecks-spin

Sunday Mar 23, 2025
263 - Hey, President, Leave Those Kids Alone
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Trump tangles with the Department of Education. ICE detains a canadian woman for two weeks. Israel kills 200 children in less than a week. And electric tricycles are giving women in Zimbabwe a newfound freedom to travel.
https://apnews.com/article/women-zimbabwe-rural-electric-tricycles-9a298da6e5f394bc6394cf61b940b4ed
https://x.com/seamus_malek/status/1902445414923817024?s=46
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2025/03/22/ice-irs-immigrants-deport/

Monday Mar 17, 2025
262 - DOGE Style
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Tesler boycott and protests. Illegal detentions and possible deportations. A cop kills a cyclist while watching Matt Walsh video. Solar farms may help rejuvenate barren ecosystems.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72860-8
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e