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-We all owe Louise Mensch an apology if Donald Trump is executed for stealing highly sensitive state secrets. It brings us no pleasure etc.

-Owning China by rejecting the Mandate of Heaven: CDC confirms that the U.S. government is just fully giving up

-Some rare good news: one of Elon Musk’s companies was actually denied almost $1 billion in subsidies

-Biden admin regulators have failed to reverse a Trump era policy granting banks permission to get involved in crypto, senators warn

- “Actually, the right does share our criminal justice reform goals” crowd is nominated for the Garbage Can alongside the CDC, Hillary Clinton, Tulsi, Andrea Mitchell, and Brian Kilmeade

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-The Biden administration and DC mayor Muriel Bowser are ignoring pleas to help migrants being bused to the nation’s capital by callous Republican governors. Regular Washingtonians are stepping up and mutual aid is filling the void. Organizer Claire H joins us to discuss.

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-Congress gave the Department of Defense $58 billion more than it asked for last year. That’s more money than the annual budget of many agencies that don’t kill people.

-Who’d have thought that an organization with the initials SS would find itself implicated in a far-right power grab? (Secret Service Jan. 6 text messages erased amid investigations.)

-FOIA Follies: Ivana Trump no longer has rights under the Privacy Act

-The Fed stonewalled our inquiry of Jerome Powell’s alleged “wokeness”

-Anti-abortion freaks, John Bolton, Uvalde Police, the Musk family, Ruy Texeira, and Dr. Leanna Wen are nominated for the Garbage Can this week

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-Andrew Perez joins us to talk about Leonard Leo and his dark money network that has been pushing the court to the far-right for the past 17 years

-Leo, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Manchin, and Stacey Abrams get Garbage Can nominations

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An interview with Angel Montalvo, who’s running for Congress in Miami on a Berniecrat platform, and down to lock horns with reactionaries in both parties

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-After changing their story numerous times, cops admitted to cowering in the hallway while the Uvalde shooter killed kids

-Speaking of cops and mass killings, the recent Buffalo shooter became friends with a retired federal agent in a racist chatroom where participants got a preview of the massacre.

-FOIA Follies: DOJ has more than 400 email records from 2020 involving Attorney General Barr’s chief of staff and the phrase “call me”

-Abbott Labs CEO on the infant formula shortage crisis that he caused: “We’re gonna learn from this”

-Uvalde cops, Republicans fixated on school doors, Chuck Schumer and a trio of Oklahoma sickos get nominated for the Garbage Can

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-Through the magic of FOIA, we have obtained the first five weeks of Pete Buttigieg’s schedule as Transportation Secretary, and decided to make a quiz about it. Sam Sacks is in the hot seat.

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-US Officials, Turn on Your Monitor: Hearing features complaints about an alleged Chinese development debt trap, defense of stiff IMF surcharges

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-The Amazon Labor Union, led by fired warehouse worker Christian Smalls, has won a certification vote, in an incredible historic victory for an independent labor union

-There are still battles to be fought before even thinking about contract negotiations: Amazon is threatening to challenge the NLRB’s authority before a judiciary that’s incredibly hostile to labor.

-Other headlines: One step forward, two steps back on Russia-Ukraine peace talks, House passes cannabis legalization, USDA pressed on subsidies to law-breaking meat conglomerate

-FOIA Follies: Intelligence agencies’ version of Twitter, eChirp, reportedly contains evidence of US spies cheering on January 6 plot

-Garbage Can: Psaki and Mulvaney access mongers, Buffalo Sports Billionaires, and Oscars dipshits take the spotlight

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