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Episodes
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Trump and Army celebrate their birthdays. FEMA is not long for this world. LA turns up. Floridians given free reign to mow down protestors. Chatbots are making people literally insane. Minneapolis assassinations. Israel-Iran hostilities heat up. And we’re so very sorry, we forgot to record our wildflower.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-700-humans-ai-klarna-173029838.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/los-angeles-national-guard-troops-marines-morale
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-says-floridians-have-right-hit-protesters-cars-2084418
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting?cid=ios_app
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-attacks-iran-promising-full-scale-military-operation
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
The messy first couple has a bad breakup. Mayor Mantello has a spat with Troy’s city hall landlord. Florida meteorologist says cuts to science are making his job impossible. Insect numbers are collapsing. Ice is spreading suffering and violating human rights. And free tax software just got open sourced.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/rfk-jr-maha-health-report-studies
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-really-not-leaving/
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/troy-mayor-first-columbia-president-exchange-20361498.php
https://youtu.be/bwmmPlw06_0?si=pXhOSadKXpTy_WKx
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/landlord-lobby-will-boost-cuomo-with-2-5m-spend-00389886
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/djibouti-deportations-migrants-ice-trump/
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/
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Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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