Episodes

6 days ago
6 days ago
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

Monday Mar 10, 2025
261 - More Like Enola Straight
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
A rabid white supremacist interacts with powerful government X accounts. The EPA wants to bar states from warning about dangerous chemicals. Measles in Texas. The great DEI military purge. Beavers get the goods and more!
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/captive-dreamer-elon-musk-jd-vance/
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-epa-pesticides-regulations-health/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZuzIzY8YQ&t=4s

Monday Mar 03, 2025
260 - Cancelled
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Musk blows a $22 million Starlink deal over a tweet.The USPS does more than you might think. Kathy Hocul demands CUNY to remove a job call for a Palestinian Studies position. Trump crushes USAID projects around the world. The asteroid won’t hit Earth, but the Moon better look out.
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/crypto-trader-kills-himself-on-x-live-to-create-a-meme-coin/
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/usps-rural-areas-services-privatization/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/kathy-hochul-palestinian-studies-cuny-job

Monday Feb 24, 2025
259 - Mordechai, Why?
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Elon ignores his children. An Israeli mistakes other Israelis for Palestinians and opens fire. Latest executive order gives Trump sweeping new powers. Judge attacks transgender military ban. Temporary protected status for Haitian immigrants set to expire this year. And Tesla sales tumble across Europe.
https://x.com/lionel_trolling/status/1892705650544664916?s=46
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/miami-shooting-israeli-men
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1isvzgu/the_full_executive_order_is_out_this_is_the/
https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-slams-trans-military-ban
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy839m7xd1zo
https://x.com/whitehouse/status/1891922058415603980?s=46
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/11/tesla-sales-tumble-across-europe/

Monday Feb 17, 2025
258 - Stay Strawpped
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Meta pirated books for its AI. Trump is sending immigrants to Guantanamo. The Justice Department orders prosecutors to drop their case against Eric Adams. Trump bans plastic straws. RFK is coming for your SSRIs. And Worcester becomes a sanctuary city for trans people.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/02/13/nazi-flags-can-fly-utah-school-not/
https://grist.org/accountability/exxon-plastics-plant-point-comfort-texas/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-guantanamo-bay-migrants
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-us-attorney-0395055315864924a3a5cc9a808f76fd
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/economy/plastic-paper-straws-trump?cid=ios_app
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump?cid=ios_app
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/02/heres-whos-running-new-york-city-mayor-2025/401994/

Monday Feb 10, 2025
257 - And That’s Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Kanye’s Twitter rant. Stories from the Trump Administration. The gleam in Netanyahu’s eye. A Petersburgh judge who knows you’re guilty. And Japanese micro forests.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-judge-petersburgh-resigns-1634b59d392c834f561d9f992864395f
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/29/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

Monday Jan 27, 2025
256 - One Week
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
The first week of the Trump administration is over. Let’s see what they’re up to. And Cuba is helping fight illiteracy in Honduras.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-world-health-organization.html
https://insiderpaper.com/china-vows-to-support-world-health-organization-after-us-withdrawal/
https://www.404media.co/tiktok-free-palestine-comments-removed/
https://www.ft.com/content/fcaf50dc-6779-44d2-a7fa-264df798a4c1
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2024/10/29/honduras-highlights-cubas-role-in-literacy-program/

Monday Jan 13, 2025
255 - Logging Off
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Fires are raging, Meta is giving users the keys to the castle, Israel is obstructing the UN, and goose poop has cancer fighting compunds.
https://x.com/esaagar/status/1876612227807236310?s=46
https://www.forestryfirerp.org/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-obstructs-un-probe-7-october-sex-crimes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/middleeast/gaza-death-toll-underreported-study-intl?cid=ios_app
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/politics/takeaways-trump-hush-money-sentencing?cid=ios_app

Monday Jan 06, 2025
254 - 10 Ton Sex Machine
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
A series of violent attacks from troops and veterans. Super sexy bullet trains in China. Congestion pricing takes effect in NYC. Paid prenatal leave for NYers.
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/01/04/amazon_worker_health/