Ironweeds

271 - Death And Tax Cuts

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://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/politics/fetterman-senate-absence-mental-health-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=2A13909D-680E-420B-A685-E5BC42D02877

 

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/john-fetterman-israel-paid-trip-nonprofit/ 

 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=80AA9966-D0AC-4FAC-AC66-B6870484D1B9

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=1083C134-EE2C-4B76-A979-F600253FBA2F

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/china-student-visas-revoke.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=96A941E6-27E3-4B21-B368-7D567B84A892

 

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

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/politics/joni-ernst-flippant-defense-trump-agenda-analysis?cid=ios_app

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/emergency-contraception-morning-after-available-convenience-stores-rcna204952

270 - Universal Basic Midscome

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.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/john-reilly-indicted-door-dash-shooting-video-20334578.php 

 

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

269 - Tiny Hands, Big Pipe

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://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511 

 

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.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5391815/first-afrikaners-granted-refugee-status-due-to-arrive-in-u-s

 

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/05/08/two-arrested-after-neighbors-try-to-stop-ice-agents-from-detaining-worcester-mother/

 

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/

268 - John Fretterman

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://kfor.com/news/local/this-family-is-all-of-us-federal-lawmaker-criticizes-oklahoma-ice-raid-homeland-security-responds/ 

 

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://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-struggle-mental-health-clinical-depression.html

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/05KVifmfoa

 

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/28/massachusetts-millionaires-tax-institute-policy-studies-newsletter 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5d0l7el36o

267 - Swindler's List

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.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-safe-house-b2738214.html

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/george-santos-sentencing-fraud?cid=ios_app 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paula-white-cain-faith-office-husband-b2738449.html

 

https://www.silive.com/news/2025/04/it-was-the-worlds-largest-landfill-now-staten-island-park-to-get-50k-flowers-to-lure-bees-and-butterflies.html

266 - Land of the Free

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://floridapolitics.com/archives/730757-miami-dems-demand-krome-detention-center-tour-amid-reports-of-inhumane-conditions/

 

https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

 

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://www.bupipedream.com/news/at-least-five-student-visas-have-been-revoked-university-confirms/165800/ 

 

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/albany-seeing-fewer-crashes-after-25mph-speed-limit-change

265 - A New New Fucking Deal! ft. Adam Pelletier

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://on.ft.com/44cQfWQIn

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

264 - Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Children (As Wage Slaves)

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://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-election-order-calling-proof-us-citizenship-vote-2025-03-26/

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20250326135414/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/ 

 

https://deadline.com/2025/03/trump-smithsonian-order-improper-ideology-national-monuments-1236352842/

 

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/03/trump-goes-nuclear-federal-workforce 

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20250329132455/https://www.ft.com/content/2ac76276-16ad-4cc0-ae16-1c5a2ffc3f36 

 

https://newrepublic.com/article/193352/trump-car-tariffs-vehicle-auto-ceo-wrecks-spin

 

https://www.theenergymix.com/paris-votes-for-500-more-car-free-streets-while-uk-town-builds-for-bikes/ 

263 - Hey, President, Leave Those Kids Alone

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://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/20/us/trump-education-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=2DD82E4C-44AC-4985-8442-57B037CF9456 

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

 

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/ 

 

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unicef-more-200-children-killed-tuesday-gaza

262 - DOGE Style

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://vtdigger.org/2025/03/07/shelburne-police-officer-had-youtube-video-playing-in-cruiser-at-time-of-fatal-crash-court-records-say/ 

 

https://on.ft.com/41MXr9p 

 

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

 

https://abc7ny.com/post/dhs-arrests-another-student-involved-columbia-university-protests-mahmoud-khalil-detained/16022464/

 

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained