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Ep 253: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) and Meredith (@MeredithLClark) make their Oscar predictions and discuss the George Floyd murder trial and Derek Chauvin being found guilty on all counts, even while police continue to kill people like Ma'Khia Bryant and Andrew Brown Jr.

Oscar Predictions

Best Supporting Actor: Should and Will win is Daniel Kaluuya

Supporting Actress: (Allison) Should is Yuh-Jung Youn and Will is Glenn Close and (Meredith) Should is Yuh-Jung Youn and Will is Olivia Coleman

Best Actor: Should and Will win is Chadwick Boseman

Actress: Should win is Viola Davis and Will win is Frances McDormand

Best International Film: Should and Will win is Another Round

Best Animated Film: Soul

Best Documentary: Should win is Collective and Will win is My Octopus Teacher

Best Adapted Screenplay: (Allison) Should and Will win is Nomadland and (Meredith) Should win is Nomadland and Will win is Borat

Best Original Screenplay: (Allison) Should win is Promising Young Woman and Will win is Trial of Chicago 7 and (Meredith) Should win is Promising Young Woman and Will win is Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Director: Should and Will win is Chloe Zhao

Best Picture: (Allison) Will win is Nomadland and Should win is Judas and the Black Messiah and (Meredith) Will win is Nomadland and Should win is Minari

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Ep 252: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) and Meredith (@MeredithLClark) rank their top 10 films of 2020/early 2021. Feel free to cheer in agreement or yell at us on Twitter! #lighttreasonpod @lighttreasonpod

10. Allison: I'm Thinking Of Ending Things

Meredith: Greenland

9. Allison: Kajillionaire

Meredith: Sound of Metal

8: Allison: Palm Springs

Meredith: Possessor

7. Allison: Barb and Star

Meredith: Another Round

6. Allison: Possessor

Meredith: Martin Eden

5. Allison: Sound of Metal

Meredith: Minari

4. Allison: Minari

Meredith: Blood Quantum

3. Allison: Judas and the Black Messiah

Meredith: First Cow

2. Allison: Promising Young Woman

Meredith: Collective

1. Allison: First Cow

Meredith: Promising Young Woman

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Ep 251: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) reads a Patreon rec and discusses the Alabama bill that would make it a felony to prescribe hormone blockers to trans youth and recs: The Snyder Cut (hear me out!!), The Suicide Squad trailer, Falcon and Winter Soldier, Minari, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

In bad news: Mass shootings (in Atlanta and Colorado) are back in the news but they never really left us, the Atlanta shootings are a hate crime, and banning assault guns and expanding background checks may not be the convenient solutions the left is hoping for

In good news: Big boat in a little canal (and the penis and the butt) and Amazon is very much aware of the pee bottles and poop bags and this graphic from The Intercept is just delightful

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Ep 250: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) reads some Patreon recs and a ghost story 👻 and recs Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and Meredith (@meredithlclark) recs Eurovision before they share their Last Normal Day, discuss the Vanity Fair Armie Hammer profile, and Oprah's interview with Harry and Meghan (including William and Pierce Morgan's responses)

In bad news: Kyrsten Sinema profoundly sucks, Republicans are escalating voter suppression efforts in Georgia, and the landscape for legal abortion has never been more dire

In good news: Biden signs the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill and directs states to make all adults eligible for the vaccine by May 1, and top Democrats are calling on Gov. Cuomo to resign

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Ep 249: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) reads some Patreon recs and Erek (@erek_smith) recs Buffy and X-Files and Allison recs Nomadland (with caveats) and anti-recs I Care A Lot

In bad news: CPAC was its normal shitshow, the stimulus makes it out of the House but will probably lose the $15/hour minimum wage hike, the Biden administration bombs Syria and some Democrats in Congress are wondering if was legal (while other Dems cheer for it on Twitter), Biden opens a baby jail at the border, Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to be as dumb and shitty as you thought she was, and several major newspapers and networks are peddling anti-trans propaganda while shutting out trans people from the conservation about trans rights

In good news: Meghan McCain's stylists are waging a secret war against her and we thank them for their service, SCOTUS rejected Trump's last-ditch bid to keep his tax docs hidden, and now prosecutors are gunning for Don Jr. as well, and the House passes the Equality Act

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Ep 248: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) recs Judas and the Black Messiah, Small Axe, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always

In bad news: The Texas blackouts are what happens in a racist, classist privatized state; and Biden rejects a proposal to cancel $50,000 in student debt

In good news: Rush Limbaugh is dead, Ted and Heidi Cruz are busted fleeing their state for warmer weather, and the South Carolina law that would have banned most abortions has been suspended one day after passage thanks to Planned Parenthood

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Ep 247: Erek @(Erek_Smith) sends greetings from North Carolina and recs Hell's Kitchen, The Chase, chess on Twitch, and Dirty Money's S2 episode on conservatorships, while Allison (@allisonkilkenny) recs Framing Britney Spears, the Hollywood Reporter's article on Shelley Duvall, and Promising Young Woman (no spoilers). They also briefly chat about the Super Bowl and the weird optics of the NFL pushing its "End Racism" campaign without ever addressing blacklisting Colin Kaepernick

In bad news: Joss Whedon dared to ask: what if a hot chick killed vampires? and we praised him as a feminist for, like, a while. Also, Ben Shapiro and Gina Carano: dream team? And no, conservatives aren't abused in Hollywood — they run it. Finally, video showed during the impeachment trial shows how close rioters got to Pence and other lawmakers, turns out that convo between McCarthy and Trump was a bit more contentious than previously reported, and the GOP is fracturing in a big way

In good news: The kitten filter is a viral video that actually lives up to the hype, and our Special Britney Spears Correspondent breaks down what the latest conservatorship update means, and Justin Timberlake finally apologizes — kind of

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Ep 246: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) reads Patreon recs, requests, and life updates and recs: Sound Of Metal, Lupin, Industry, Wandavision, and anti-recs Malcolm & Marie, while Meredith (@MeredithLClark) recs Save Yourselves, The Insider, and Promising Young Woman

In bad news: The Armie Hammer story is about abuse and not just sensationalized cannibalism headlines, 199 Congressional reps were a-okay with Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for the assassination of Nancy Pelosi, and many on the right call AOC a liar—but her trauma is real and the truth is the Squad has been dealing with death threats since day one

In good news: House fast-tracks Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus, Trump's entire legal team quits ahead of his impeachment trial, and Bernie Sanders is the chairman of the powerful budget committee and that's pretty cool

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Ep 246: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) reads a Patreon message about redheads and Melatonin and recs: In And Of Itself and David Byrne's America Utopia before Charles (@charlesrockhill) shares a disturbing dream and recs: The Goes Wrong Show, Bling Empire, Anything For Jackson, and details the Olivia Rodrigo-Sabrina Carpenter drama

In bad news: Coronavirus variants and the vaccine shortage, the little coup that didn't happen, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene believes Jewish people built a laser that started the California wildfires, and the My Pillow Guy stuff

In good news: The GameStop story is hilarious but also illustrates why Wall Street is an evil scam (featuring whiny billionaire piss babies)

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Ep 245: Allison's Melatonin adventure and online etiquette recs. More recs: Ted Lasso, His House, and Gangs of London (it's Sope Dirisu's world and we're just living in it)

In bad news: Let's talk more about that attempted coup, including how Trump tried to oust acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and may have used shell companies to fund the D.C. protests that led to the Capitol insurrection. Also, Pence is a big ol' coward, QAnon is here to stay despite their inauguration meltdown, and Trump pardoned a bunch of his political cronies on his way out

In good news: The inauguration went down (including the swearing in of Kamala Harris, our first female, first black, and first Asian Vice President), and Biden immediately signed a bunch of good executive orders, including: suspending the "Remain In Mexico" policy, ending the Muslim ban, changing "alien" to "noncitizen" revoking the Keystone XL pipeline permit, rejoining the Paris Agreement, placing a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Artic, and creating an actual plan to deal with the ongoing pandemic

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