This week, Maggie Gehlsen-Burnett and Mallory Hagan sit down to discuss a few topics that have flown under the radar this week. The Senate’s overnight vote funded ICE and Border Patrol through the end of Trump’s term, kept the administration’s controversial $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund alive, and passed largely along party lines. As per usual, nearly 30 Republicans spent the week signaling they’d vote against it, before (shocker) doing whatever Trump wanted them to.

Maggie and Mallory also discuss RFK Jr.’s push to access Americans’ medical records, ostensibly to investigate a long-debunked link between vaccines and autism, a years long obsession of Kennedy’s.

Additionally, the duo covers the modern day MAGA movement’s latest push at criminalizing free speech and creating fear around dissent. Specifically, the Manhattan Institute’s disturbing campaign to reclassify nonviolent civil disobedience as “civil terrorism” under state law, and how this connects to the White House’s counterterrorism memo from earlier this spring.

In other, more upbeat news, Maggie and Mallory discuss Rob Sand’s victory of the Democratic nomination for the governor of Iowa, and Hunter Biden’s incredible Twitter feed.

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