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Jen the Libertarian episodes

  • The Awful Alex Morse Story

    I bring you one of the most sordid tales of backstabbing intrigue ever. Alex Morse is the victim of one of the grossest smear campaigns I've seen in a long time and the story is a mashup of everything that's wrong with everything right now

    45 min
  • Biden / Harris 2020, USPS Meltdown, Who's Running DHS?

    So we now know the entirety of the 2020 Democratic ticket, a controversy / conspiracy involving the USPS and our pending mail voting tsunami, and btw we don't know who is supposed to be running DHS but we know who isn't supposed to be running it and surprise it's the two people who aren't supposed to be running it

    37 min
  • COVID and Kids and School and The Lack Of Decent Data with Matt Welch
    Matt wrote a piece for Reason about his journey trying to find decent data on the safety of sending kids (namely his own) back into a brick and mortar school environment. Spoiler alert - it was quite the frustrating experience, not made any easier by the media and its current incentive structure. And because it's us there's plenty of talk about other stuff too Link to Matt's piece - https://reason.com/2020/08/12/media-alarmism-is-making-it-difficult-to-assess-school-reopening/
    1 hr 19 min
  • Education In The Time of COVID with Corey DeAngelis
    Sure everything is bad is right right now and that includes the current educational mess we find ourselves in for the 2020 - 2021 school year but there may be a silver lining here - parents across the country are going to have to join the school choice conversation Corey and I discuss what this could all mean for school choice going forward, especially as it relates to the money spent on eduction and the options on offer going forward Link to the EdChoice public opinion tracker Corey references if you're interested in seeing the raw data - https://edchoice.morningconsultintelligence.com/downloads/
    59 min
  • Trump's Very Bad No Good EOs, The Beirut Explosion

    Trump decided this is the week he's granting himself the power to decide if Tik Tok and WeChat get to operate in the US and to institute his own covid relief plan via EO (none of this seems particularly legal btw), and Beirut suffers an explosion that due to social media we all knew about in real time

    35 min
  • What Happened to Mobilize 2020 with Cliff Maloney

    As I'm sure everyone is aware YAL's Mobilize 2020 got canceled at the last minute by the city of Dallas (insert rage emoji here) so I have a brief chat with Cliff Maloney, president of YAL, to find out what happened.

    Stay tuned after the interview where I give my own thoughts and explanation as to why I am mad about the cancelation.

    30 min
  • Bad Economic News, Portland, New DACA Memo, Tech Hearing

    I think I can use this episode's title for every weekly roundup for at least the rest of the year...

    We got Q2's GDP numbers and yeah lol we're boned, Portland seems to be healing now that the feds are leaving, the Trump administration is trying another DHS DACA memo out, Congress having another useless tech hearing, and hey did you remember this is still an election year and that Biden has to name a running mate

    37 min
  • The Future (And Demise) Of The Antiracism Movement
    Where I look into movements that have come and gone in the past (namely girlboss feminism and #MeToo) to predict the future of the current It Movement Let's just say the future doesn't look bright Link to Leigh Stein's Medium piece referenced - https://gen.medium.com/the-end-of-the-girlboss-is-nigh-4591dec34ed8
    26 min

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Political and social commentary from a libertarian woman's perspective.