Episode 31 explores the humanitarian crisis that is Afghanistan and the politicians and grifting influencers who are using it to fan the flames of hate and conspiracy thinking, ignoring and even revising history, for their deranged agendas while leaving the Afghan people on the sidelines.

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SHOW NOTES:

Elections Official Accused of Helping Leak Data to QAnon Leader https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbza/elections-official-accused-of-helping-leak-data-to-qanon-leader

Mike Lindell Is Hiding an Alleged Election Data Leaker Under FBI Probe https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvjwa/mike-lindell-is-hiding-an-alleged-election-data-leaker-as-fbi-open-investigation

RNC quietly deletes webpage touting Trump's call for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan https://www.salon.com/2021/08/16/rnc-quietly-deletes-webpage-touting-trumps-call-for-us-troops-to-withdraw-from-afghanistan/

How the Taliban Overran the Afghan Army, Built by the U.S. Over 20 Years https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistan-army-collapse-taliban-11628958253

Trump officials scramble for distance from his Taliban deal https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/19/trump-officials-scramble-distance-his-taliban-deal/

Biden administration embroiled in internal blame-shifting amid Afghanistan chaos https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/politics/biden-afghanistan-blame-shifting/index.html

Internal State Department Cable Warned of Kabul Collapse https://www.wsj.com/articles/confidential-state-department-cable-in-july-warned-of-afghanistans-collapse-11629406993

Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/us/politics/afghanistan-biden-administration.html

Thousands of Afghans and Iraqis are under threat for helping Americans. Now they hope Biden will help them settle in the U.S. (2020) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-refugees-visas/2020/12/30/572c00fc-3e4f-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

How Afghanistan’s President Helped His Brother and a U.S. Contractor Secure a Lucrative Mineral Processing Permit https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/how-afghanistans-president-helped-his-brother-secure-lucrative-mining-deals-with-a-us-contractor

With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/world/asia/cia-delivers-cash-to-afghan-leaders-office.html

The Afghanistan Papers https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/

Episode 30 explores the ties that bind much of the far-right movement's death merchants regarding the latest uptick in Covid-19 cases in the U.S. brought on by right-wing lies and propaganda designed to obfuscate their responsibility.

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SHOW NOTES:

It started with a mock “slave trade” and a school resolution against racism. Now a war over critical race theory is tearing this small town apart. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/mock-slave-trade-critical-race-theory/2021/07/23/b4372c36-e9a8-11eb-ba5d-55d3b5ffcaf1_story.html

St. Louis County Health Director: I Was Assaulted, Called “Brown C——” After Mask Plea https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2021/07/28/st-louis-county-health-director-i-was-assaulted-called-brown-c-after-mask-plea

More Pregnant Women Are Hospitalized With Severe COVID-19 Symptoms As Delta Variant Surges, Central Texas Doctors Say https://www.kut.org/covid-19/2021-08-02/austin-public-health-severe-symptoms-among-pregnant-women-covid-19-delta-variant

Latest COVID-19 wave likely to cause another 115,000 deaths by year-end, analysts say https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-variant-rbc-capital-labor-day/

Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2104983

The GOP is reviving the old history of blaming outsiders for disease https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/15/gop-is-reviving-old-history-blaming-outsiders-disease/

Germany’s Anti-vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/anti-vaccination-germany-anti-semitism/618777/

Episode 29 dives into the Texas GOP's latest attempt to tighten its grip on state power, following suit with Republican legislatures across the United States, and why they feel emboldened to get away with it.

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SHOW NOTES:

Texas lawmakers advancing bail bills that opponents say do little for people stuck in jail because they’re poor https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/06/texas-bail-reform/

Twitter thread by Alec Karakatsanis re: the Texas cash bail system https://twitter.com/equalityalec/status/1412077485236310018?s=21

Archive of stories re: the Texas jail system: https://sheddinglight.in/texas/home

Episode 28 explores the rightwing phenomenon of idolizing and hero-worshipping violent narcissists and the recent recharging of pseudoscientific claims from the anti-vax and IDW crowd of an anti-parasitic drug called Ivermectin as an unproven COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic.

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SHOW NOTE:

‘Tucker Carlson Distorted My Reporting in His Latest Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory’ by Trevor Aaronson: https://theintercept.com/2021/06/22/tucker-carlson-january-6-fbi-conspiracy/

Ivermectin to be investigated in adults aged 18+ as possible treatment for COVID-19 in the PRINCIPLE trial https://www.principletrial.org/news/ivermectin-to-be-investigated-as-a-possible-treatment-for-covid-19-in-oxford2019s-principle-trial

Scientists May Be Using The Wrong Cells to Study COVID-19 https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-may-be-using-the-wrong-cells-to-study-covid-19/

Why Is the Intellectual Dark Web Suddenly Hyping an Unproven COVID Treatment? https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5z5y/why-is-the-intellectual-dark-web-suddenly-hyping-an-unproven-covid-treatment

Ivermectin and COVID-19: How a cheap antiparasitic became political https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/ivermectin-covid-19-antiparasitic-political/

The Ivermectin Advocates’ War Has Just Begun https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d5gv/ivermectin-covid-treatment-advocates-rogan-weinstein-hecker

Episode 27 explores the GOP strategy to solidify its stranglehold on US power and democracy, why the Democratic Party is being held hostage by a handful of wishful-thinking idiots, and why reactionaries are freaking the f*ck out over "critical race theory."


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SHOW NOTES:

Debunker Mick West Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/MickWest?s=20

'The aliens haven't landed: Why you should be skeptical of recent reports of UFO sightings' by Mick West: https://money.yahoo.com/aliens-havent-landed-why-skeptical-090251254.html

'Bigger than QAnon: Democrats can’t ignore GOP’s holy war' by Talia Lavin: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1269875

'Fox News uses obscure outrages and local oddities to fuel its culture wars' by Parker Molloy: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-uses-obscure-outrages-and-local-oddities-fuel-its-culture-wars

Episode 26 explores the Wuhan "lab leak" theory and the recent FOIA emails obtained by The Washington Post and Buzzfeed News and whether they show any culpability, criminality, or nothing at all.

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SHOW NOTES:
Tweet thread by Nsikan Akpan, PhD on the "lab leak" hypothesis: https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1396240581651742724?s=20

'How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Lab-Leak Theory' by David G. McNeil Jr.: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-lab-leak-theory-f4f88446b04d

Belgium's Van Ranst: Covid Scientist Targeted by Far-Right Sniper: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57358492

Episode 25 explores the renewed focus on the year-long conspiracy theories re: the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and the nuance needed to navigate this latest round. In the second half, reproductive rights are on the precipice of total abolition in the United States.

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In episode 24, we try to explain what the hell is happening in the Holy Land, the GOP's Arizona "audit", and Tucker Carlson and why he's so beloved by those on the far-right.

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First up, the Republican Party's reactionary fearmongering campaign against trans rights and voting rights. The juice: Inhumane f*ckery committed by American politicians, specifically those within the Democratic Party, in conjunction with IP vultures like Bill Gates and the pharmaceutical industry.

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In episode 22, we get into the rise in violence against Asian Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and other minority groups in America and discuss some of the history and reasoning behind why reactionaries can't help themselves but to hate, lie, and panic their way around social issues.

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SHOW NOTES:

A Survey Study of Surgeons’ Experience with Regret and/or Reversal of Gender-Confirmation Surgeries
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212091/

Why ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is bad science
https://theconversation.com/why-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-is-bad-science-92742

Transgender adolescent suicide behavior
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/142/4/e20174218.full.pdf