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This week we saw a taste of how depraved and disturbed this administration is when it comes to its immigration policy, namely its recently-rescinded family separation procedures and still-active tent city concentration camps. We’ll put this in some context and see what our politicians and pundits had to say about these atrocities. If this is something you feel strongly about, you’re probably a sensible human being with something similar to a soul, and you can find some links to organizations combating this epidemic, like Raices, sanctuary dmv, and the Whitman walker health center in the show notes below.

To lighten things up, we’re spending more than half of the show on pop culture this week. Well start off with a discussion of the possession horror tour de force that is Hereditary, and then move to a different sort of family horror with Netflix’s half-baked true crime documentary series The Staircase. For story time, Dan will describe how his attempt to sneak into the horrendous crime thriller Gotti, starring John Travolta, was thwarted by a Times Square disciplinarian. And of course, we’ll weigh in on what truly matters in this day and age, the great Waluigi debate.

Show Notez

Orgs to support

https://www.raicestexas.org

Provides legal support through the Karnes Pro Bono Project for parents and children who have been separated and incarcerated.

https://www.splcenter.org/our-issues/immigrant-justice/southeast-immigrant-freedom-initiative-en

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative also provides pro bono legal support for immigrant detainees.

https://www.caircoalition.org

Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition

Along with Catholic Charities and Sanctuary DMV, this organization provides crucial legal services and advocacy to the immigrant community in the DC area.

https://www.whitman-walker.org

Whitman-Walker Health

Provides legal support for asylees and refugees seeking naturalization and US citizenship, specializing in working with the LGBTQ immigrant community.

http://sanctuarydmv.org

Sanctuary DMV

https://www.hogarimmigrantservices.org

Catholic Charities

https://www.centralamericanlegal.info

This NY-based organization is, amongst other things, seeking research to overturn Jeff sessions’ order limiting the basis for seeking asylum in the US.

Hereditary Dividing Audiences

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-hereditary-is-dividing-movie-audiences-1118755

The Staircase Owl Theory

https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a21343954/the-staircase-netflix-owl-theory-true-crime-doc/

Gotti: A Modern Triumph

https://twitter.com/Gotti_Film/status/1008902659858882560

http://www.businessinsider.com/gotti-positive-rotten-tomatoes-audience-score-raises-suspicions-2018-6

The time has come once again for roving hordes of MAGA teens to descend on our nation’s fair capital, the war between cops and robots is in full swing, and racist sheriff par excellence Joe Arpaio may yet be able to clear his record. We’ll talk about some of our favorite recent stand up specials, and briefly mention the atrocious upcoming motion picture adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead directed by, who else? Zack Snyder, of course. For storytime Dan will tell us all about doing God’s work by booing Rudy Giuliani at Yankee Stadium, and we’ll close out with a tribute to Anthony Bourdain

LINKZ

For the second year in a row, MAGA teens invade our fair nation’s capital

https://www.racked.com/2017/6/15/15809198/maga-hats-preteens-middle-schoolers

Bourgeois Upper East-sider complains that her private school baby (3 y/o) is “obsessed” with Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/donald-trump-obsession-liberal-kid.html

Cheesecake Factory Employees Shame Man in MAGA hate

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8wja/conservatives-are-fuming-over-cheesecake-factory-staff-harassing-a-guy-in-a-maga-hat?utm_campaign=sharebutton

Televangelist preacher Jesse Duplantis begs his followers for $54 million for a 4th private jet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44305873

New Yorker Piece that started it all for Bourdain https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this

Bourdain stands up for rural food critic who got dragged for reviewing a local Olive Garden

http://time.com/5306366/anthony-bourdain-marilyn-hagerty/

Bourdain on Supporting #metoo movement https://medium.com/@Bourdain/on-reacting-to-bad-news-28bc2c4b9adc

Please be sure to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes by searching the Plunge with an exclamation point at the end, and share the show with all of your friends, enemies, colleagues, whatever. This week, we discuss the near-endless outpouring of videos of white people freaking out on people of color in public. We’ll also put to rest the needless adulation for ailing Republican Senator John McCain, the warmongering quote-on-quote maverick who brought us Sarah Palin. In pop culture, we’ll start off wacky and New Age-y with a discussion of Netflix’s Rajneeshee documentary Wild Wild Country, then we’ll get cynical as hell talking about Obama’s upcoming Netflix content and the unmitigated disaster that is the Solo movie.

Linkz:

Trump Loves Race Car

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/donald-trump-nascar-championship-remarks-601653

Staffers put intentional grammatical errors into ghost-written Trump tweets to make them sound authentic

https://mashable.com/2018/05/22/trump-tweets-grammar-errors/#hu8P8lHnoPqM

DC is a swampy cesspool

https://qz.com/1284955/donald-trumps-white-house-has-a-growing-sinkhole-on-the-north-lawn/

Hilldawg with the sick Russia burn

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/21/hillary-clinton-pulls-out-russia-hat-while-speaking-yale-graduates/628887002/

Yas Queen Gina

https://www.advocate.com/women/2018/5/21/gina-haspel-officially-becomes-first-woman-lead-cia

Barack and Michelle get that Netflix cheddar

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/barack-michelle-obama-ink-deal-produce-content-netflix-n876046

Solo movie is an ongoing disaster

http://theweek.com/articles/773677/why-everyone-hates-solo

This week Gina Haspel decided, with Trump’s encouragement, not to withdraw from consideration for the job of CIA Director, Facebook hired the Heritage Foundation to help them address their alleged conservative bias, and the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York was tweeting about nipples for some reason. In terrible takes, we’re discussing the Home Depot CEO’s book I Love Capitalism, Kumail Nanjiani’s gut-wrenchingly bad tweets, Mitt Romney’s professed love of ground meats, and the general incel panic brewing amongst older generations that have been unfairly forced to learn what that word means. We’ll keep panicking about incels in the pop culture corner as we discuss the classic Scorcese film Taxi Driver through that lens, and we’ll also talk about an atrocious Law and Order: SVU episode about college activism and the unbearable persistence of HBO’s overwrought sci-fi catastrophe Westworld.

NOTEZ:

Gina Haspel offered to quit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44028854

Streaming services have a conspiracy documentary problem

https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-insidious-conspiracy-theory-documentaries-on-netflix-and-amazon-prime.html

Facebook Hires Ultra Conservative Group to Monitor Content

https://splinternews.com/facebook-does-not-understand-the-conservative-grift-1825725673?rev=1525296392462

Trump Doctor

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ai

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter/index.html

Bizarre NYPD Nipple Tweet

https://twitter.com/SBANYPD/status/992561992731852800

New Book: I Love Capitalism to dispute Bernie Sanders popularity

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/992501679739240448

Romney loves hot dogs

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/mitt-romney-favorite-meat-hot-dog.html

THE INCELS ARE COMING

https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html

Matt Christman on Prestige TV

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-tv-became-respectable-without-getting-better

Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes, follow us on SoundCloud, and check out the Twitter page @plunge_podcast. This week, we’re following up with the Golden State Killer, we’re witnessing Bill Gates drink literal feces, and we’ll analyze the #Resistance’s breakdown. In terrible takes, we’ll see who was more tasteless: was it Michelle Wolf, at the White House Correspondents Dinner or Donald Trump at the Paralympics? In our literacy campaign, we’re talking about Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, and Patton Oswalt’s Silver Screen Fiend. In pop culture, Meek Mill’s release was a bright spot in an otherwise bleak week in which Bill Cosby was finally convicted of crimes he committed years ago, Tina Brown received a pitch for a #MeToo rehabilitation show featuring Charlie Rose, and Kanye West revealed his shared “dragon energy” with Donald Trump. Please note that this episode was recorded before Kanye said anything about slavery or the holocaust, so that’s why we didn’t talk about it.

Follow up on Golden State Killer news (HE WAS A COP)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-james-deangelo-golden-state-killer-east-area-rapist-arrested-california-officials-latest-updates2018-04-25/

SCOTUS begins hearings on the travel ban

https://splinternews.com/the-supreme-court-hearing-on-trumps-travel-ban-sounds-l-1825535327

Bill Gates Drinks Feces

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/631602128574881792

Assault culture at Neera Tanden’s CAP

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahmimms/inside-a-divisive-fight-over-how-a-top-progressive-think?utm_term=.ty6D3ZQRg#.meyJa0dBj

Clinton wanted to cancel interview with Ronan Farrow over Weinstein coverage

https://splinternews.com/ronan-farrow-says-hillary-clinton-canceled-interview-af-1825530129

Joy Reid is just a mess

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/24/msnbcs-joy-reid-claims-her-website-was-hacked-and-bigoted-anti-lgbt-content-added-a-bizarre-story-liberal-outlets-ignore/

Joy’s cyber friend is Nazi-adjacent

https://www.mediaite.com/online/joy-reids-cyber-security-expert-bragged-about-affiliations-with-neo-nazis/

Revolting James Comey Comic Book

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evq3dp/someone-turned-james-comey-into-a-crime-fighting-comic-book-hero-vgtrn

Democrats discourage competitive primaries

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/steny-hoyer-audio-levi-tillemann/

George Clooney’s bizarre prayer for America

https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-clooney-a-prayer-for-our-country

Trump’s Paralympics Comment

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-to-paralympians-you-are-tough-to-watch_us_5ae4f0c9e4b02baed1babaef

WAHH MICHELLE WOLF SO MEAN WAHHH

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2018/04/29/being-mean-isnt-funny-its-mean-266565

Ebro Darden seems to confirm Kanye had a problem with opioids

https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.46605/title.kanye-west-makes-bizarre-call-to-hot-97s-ebro-reportedly-splits-with-scooter-brauns-management

Trump Jr thinks Chance is a basketball player https://twitter.com/sleep2dream/status/989284047502434305

Meek Mill Freed

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/meek-mill-reflects-on-jail-time-in-post-prison-interview-w519626

Charlie Rose New METOO interview show?

https://pagesix.com/2018/04/25/tina-brown-wants-no-part-of-charlie-roses-metoo-redemption-series/

Cosby Guilty Verdict

http://kdvr.com/2018/04/26/bill-cosby-lashes-out-at-prosecutor-in-expletive-laden-tirade-after-guilty-verdicts/

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Please subscribe and give us that coveted 5 star iTunes rating. We have a tantalizing tornado of stories today. In court Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen admitted his connection to blustering state TV personality Sean Hannity. In gossip news women of a certain age are horny for brain pill salesman Alex Jones and for the newest member of Trump’s legal team, the decaying husk Rudy Giuliani. In terrible takes we wade through nauseating sendoffs to Paul Ryan and appraise the self worshiping book tour of former FBI director James Comey. In the pop culture corner we discuss the acclaimed Teddy Perkins episode of Atlanta, Dennis Miller’s fall from Weekend Update to Breitbart News, and the most underrated Coen Brothers movie A Serious Man.

Links:

Michael Cohen and Hannity Chaos

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/04/17/full-support-fox-news-is-cool-with-the-sean-hannity-michael-cohen-connection/?utm_term=.e1fcd6f812d9

Cohen went to Cooley Law School

https://forward.com/fast-forward/398890/michael-cohen-went-to-worst-law-school-it-accepts-80-of-applicants/

Horny For Rudy & Alex Jones

https://pagesix.com/2018/04/11/women-are-lining-up-to-date-rudy-giuliani/

https://twitter.com/gabriellahope_/status/983828969320538112

Parkland teacher left loaded gun in bathroom, homeless man found it

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/article208653029.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition

School District arms classrooms with mini bats

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/382660-school-district-arms-teachers-with-baseball-bats-to-fight

Who Is Asking For A Matt Lauer Comeback?

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/matt-lauer-is-planning-his-comeback

Good Riddance Paul Ryan

https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/984425361546104833

https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/984053086665748480

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/984131839156776964

AWFUL:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/12/how-donald-trump-upended-paul-ryans-plans-217989

His potential replacement is a nazi

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgzpd/the-leading-republican-running-for-paul-ryans-seat-is-a-white-nationalist?utm_source=vicefbus

..Or Randy Bryce (@IronStache) !!!

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/randy-bryce-paul-ryan-w519010

NYT exhumes Michiko Kakutani to review this Comey sludge

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/james-comey-a-higher-loyalty.html?action=click&module=Intentional&pgtype=Article

Taibbi on Comey

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/james-comey-j-edgar-hoover-w519214

Dennis Miller: From Weekend Update to Breitbart News

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/04/16/methinks-take-trump-down-or-pipe-down-start-impeachment-proceedings-now/

A Serious Man in GQ

https://www.gq.com/story/the-most-underrated-coen-brothers-film-is-on-netflix

Please take a second to like, subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes. Rudy Giuliani’s marriage may be over, but we’re just getting started. We’ve got quick hits on Scott Pruitt, Sinclair media, and all the Twitter drama, from Kurt Eichenwald to Kevin D. Williamson. In terrible takes, we have Tucker Carlson afraid of the fairer sex, Preet Bharara loving on Jeff Bezos, and Ezra Klein flattering our soulless information overlord, Mark Zuckerberg. For a marathon pop culture corner, we’re talking about Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy, John Hodgman’s Vacationland, Warren Beatty’s Reds, HBO’s Silicon Valley, and the ignominious rebirth of the most foul-mouthed friend of Israel, Roseanne Barr. For story time this week, Sam will tell you about getting into a fight with someone aggressively asserting their right to recline on a transatlantic flight.

Linkz:

LOVE IS DEAD

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/381680-rudy-giulianis-wife-files-for-divorce?rnd=1522874846&

Deadbeat Scott Pruitt “The Kato Kaelin of Capitol Hill”

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/382006-pruitt-overstayed-his-welcome-at-condo-rental-report

Never stop stealing: the DEA edition

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/29/since-2007-the-dea-has-taken-3-2-billion-in-cash-from-people-not-charged-with-a-crime/?utm_term=.4ebc8059a502

The Sinclair unison supercut is the demonic voice of corporate monoculture

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/anchors-reciting-sinclair-propaganda-is-terrifying-in-unison.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=fb

Seattle Times Investigation of Sinclair

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/turmoil-inside-komo-news-as-conservative-owner-sinclair-mandates-talking-points/

Eichenwald Mania

https://www.mediaite.com/online/the-kurt-eichenwald-ben-shapiro-drama-takes-bizarre-turn-there-are-no-words/

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/381519-vanity-fair-distances-itself-from-kurt-eichenwald-after-journalist-launches

https://theoutline.com/post/749/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-of-kurt-eichenwald?zd=1&zi=lxj6oy3a

Tucker Carlson the virgin thinks there are too many girls on campus

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/03/28/tucker-carlson-laments-success-women-college-campuses-america/219771

Ezra Klein’s Embarrassing Softball Interview With Zuckerberg

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-fake-news-bots-cambridge

Long read about the making of Reds

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/03/reds200603

HBO’s Silicon Valley

https://www.critmediations.com/essays/2018/3/27/silicon-valley-hbo

Roseanne’s descent to Edgelord

https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/roseanne-barrs-bizarre-evolution-national-comic-sensation-racist-twitter-troll

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/remember-when-roseanne-ran-for-president.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/roseanne-boss-asks-viewers-separate-revival-controversial-stars-persona-1099523?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/roseanne-reboot-trump.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-ish-creator-kenya-barris-plots-exit-abc-studios-pact-clashes-1099582

http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/381395-roseanne-is-bringing-conservative-american-women-out-of-the-closet

Believe it or not, you’re listening to another episode of The Plunge! Be sure to rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Twitter at plunge_podcast!

Coming up - we have quick hits on Stormy Daniels, Cynthia Nixon, and the Kushner organization. Then we will survey the worst of the countless attempts by baby boomers to co-opt, distort, and even disparage the message of the young organizers of the March for Our Lives rally. In pop culture we have Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin, CBS’s Undercover Bosses, and a review of the first episode of Barry, Bill Hader’s murderous new comedy on HBO. As always, we will close out with a classic story from the vaults - this is the Plunge.

Notez

Sketchy “no tipping” restaurant food delivery app

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2017/03/10/food-delivery-startup-targeting-office-workers.html

Cynthia Glamour Interview

https://www.glamour.com/story/cynthia-nixon-new-york-governor-interview

Best way to mark 15 years of Iraq is to bring deranged walrus John Bolton onboard

http://www.wearethemighty.com/lists/9-john-bolton-quotes-that-prove-hes-the-worst-national-security-expert

The Other Kushner shady Qatar Dealings (he is hideous)

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/23/joshua-kushner-met-with-government-of-qatar-to-discuss-financing-in-the-same-week-father-charles-kushner-did/

March For Our Lives

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/25/march-for-our-lives-white-suburban-liberals-minority-activists-fight-together-for-gun-control

PA superintendent’s brilliant idea to arm students with rocks

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/23/pennsylvania-school-wants-to-arm-students-with-rocks-to-protect-them-against-active-shooters.html

Rick Santorum: better for students to learn CPR than try to ban guns

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/25/santorum-cpr-parkland-students-guns-484543?cmpid=sf

NRA quaking over David Hogg profanity

https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/977250661157883905

NRA Idiot Cruel Self Own

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/380124-nra-host-criticizes-parkland-students-ahead-of-march-for-our

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Today’s show is jam-packed: we have quick hits on Rex Tillerson and Elon Musk, terrible takes about global warming and Donald Trump Jr.’s divorce, and we’re talking about The Young Karl Marx and some rare sports coverage in the pop culture corner. Our main story is the Facebook Cambridge Analytica revelations in the Guardian. So sit back and bask in the content. This is The Plunge.

Notez:

Tillerson Fired While Expelling Feces

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-was-on-the-toilet-when-i-told-him-hed-be-getting-fired

Elon Musk poaches comedy writers from the Onion for mysterious project

http://splitsider.com/2018/03/elon-musk-vs-the-onion/

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-did-everything-i-could-buy-clickhole-their-edito-7569

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-embarrassed-after-realizing-he-proposing-idea-1823804914

Neil Young vs NRA “Why Doesnt She Just Shoot Me?”

https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-on-nras-dana-loesch-hating-his-music-why-doesnt-she-just-shoot-me/

Nazi infidelity drama

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x75vg/the-most-prominent-hate-group-in-america-may-collapse-because-of-an-affair-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus

Don Jr Divorcing...WONDER WHY?

https://pagesix.com/2018/03/14/donald-trump-jr-and-wife-headed-for-divorce-friends-say/?utm

Suggestive drunk texts

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/donald-trump-jr-sent-suggestive-twitter-dms-while-married.html

Gross Trump Jr Ballad

https://splinternews.com/imagine-writing-this-sex-n-love-ballad-about-donald-t-1823917005

RIP Stephen Hawking

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_us_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15

Bizarre article arguing that Albert Einstein would have been a climate denier

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/16/would-albert-einstein-be-a-global-warming-skeptic-yes/

Christopher Wylie news drop

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

Inside Facebook’s 2 years

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/

Facebook Groups used to Spread Misinformation

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-facebook-groups-are-being-exploited-to-spread?utm_term=.oy6XEgpM6&bftwnews#.hw6YKb2wB

Facebook will show you child pornography

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/facebook-apologises-child-sexual-abuse-offensive-autocomplete-terms

Zuckerberg can serve in gov’t “indefinitely” without it counting as Voluntary Resignation

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/connector-in-chief/

Zuck also wants you to know he eats white toast with no jam or butter

https://twitter.com/Meg_u_min/status/910768888094236672

Facebook’s heinous corporate tax lobbying

https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-president-taxes-lobbying

Tech giants are monopolies

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/246822/facebook-google-amazon-monopolies

The Rise of The Facebook Graveyard

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead

David Mitchell on nationalizing Facebook: “When you're getting something free, you're not the customer, you're the product.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/facebook-monopoly-david-mitchell

Young Karl Marx Interview

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/the_young_karl_marx_raoul_peck

OJ Rips Kap for Kneeling

http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/16/oj-simpson-kaepernick-flag-protest-trump/

It’s already the 20th episode of The Plunge, and we’re still dredging up more and more of the clogs and confusions in our convoluted cultural discourse. We’ll check in with Betsy Devos, the widely hated Education secretary fresh off an awful TV interview. Marco Rubio tried to redeem himself with the teens after his disastrous CNN town hall performance by appearing on Youtube celebrity Jake Paul’s vlog. Chuck Todd refused to trade jabs with President Trump, and The New Yorker declared Robert Mueller a “style icon” in far too many words.

For our main story, we’re going to discuss the recent BuzzFeed investigation into the NYPD’s police discipline records, then we will lay out the highly pragmatic case for defunding, disarming, and eventually abolishing the police. In the pop culture corner, we’re talking about Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, 20 years of The Big Lebowski, and the upcoming Netflix documentary on the noted glutton for punishment Rachel Dolezal. Dan will wrap us up with a big-time radio producer man story about what to do when you get a phone call from a white supremacist.

Links:

Go lowball Michael Flynn on his house

https://www.remax.com/realestatehomesforsale/411-n-pitt-st-alexandria-va-22314-gid40

0028332425.html

Dating is hard when you’re a crackpot

https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/03/05/why-its-hard-for-conservatives-to-date-in-dc-right-now/

Doesn’t anyone feel bad for Richard Spencer?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/12/antifa-is-winning-richard-spencer-rethinks-his-college-tour-after-violent-protests/?utm_term=.2fdbee4378a0

MY EYES ARE BURNING: ROBERT MUELLER, STYLE ICON

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/robert-mueller-style-icon?mbid=social_facebook

Buzzfeed Investigation into NYPD Discipline Records

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious

Case to disarm the police

https://qz.com/602682/the-case-for-disarming-americas-police-force/

Labor fatality statistics for police and other occupations

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/when-will-they-shoot/

The case for abolishing the police

https://citylimits.org/2016/08/16/no-backspace-the-case-for-abolishing-the-police/

At the very least, let's abolish ICE

https://www.thenation.com/article/its-time-to-abolish-ice/

Changing definition of a prestige awards film

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/03/oscars-2018-best-picture-shape-of-water/554942/