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Ep 175: Erek (@erek_smith) talks about his new podcast Bass'd On A True Story (@bassedpod) and recs Pup's Morbid Stuff, while Allison plugs her show at UCB Hell's Kitchen tomorrow July 22 at 6 PM and recs: the new trailer for It, Top Of The Lake, The Terror season 1, and the new season of Queer Eye, and anti-recs the Cats trailer.

What's your earliest memory of watching something on TV or in a movie that scared you? #LightTreasonPod

In bad news: Trump is surprised that, when he goes full racist on Twitter, pissed off white people at his rallies also go full racist, House GOP freak out when Pelosi calls Trump's tweers racist, and here's some video of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein acting like the bros they are

In good news: Ilhan Omar gets the greeting she deserves, the judge who was nice to an alleged rapist because he came from a "good family" has resigned, and it's the 50th anniversary of the moon-landing and NASA has big plans to send a woman to the moon next

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Ep 174: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) shares a story about Megan Rapinoe and recs Trapped, while Allison recs Instant Hotel, The Last Czars (kind of), I Love You, Now Die, anti-recs The Handmaid's Tale, and they have a long convo about Midsommar (ALL THE SPOILERS)

In bad news: Mike Pence takes a little fascist vaycay at a border concentration camp, Carla Provost proves women can break the glass ceiling and totally be fascists too, Trump's dumb social media summit included right-wingers who haven't even been banned from social media, and Scarlett Johansson says she should be able to play an Asian person, or a dog, or whatever

In good news: A massive blackout hit Manhattan and New Yorkers responded in A+++ fashion, U.S. women's soccer champs chant "Equal pay!" during ticker tape parade, and sexual predators go down in flames, from Jeffrey Epstein to R. Kelly

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Ep 173: Allison's Catholic guilt blames her for the L.A. earthquakes and she recs: The Heavens, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Stranger Things season 3, Good Omens, Killing Eve season 2, and Big Little Lies

In bad news: Trump's dumb tank parade, Judge is nice to a teen accused of rape because he came from a "good family," Trump admin said it wouldn't put citizenship question on the census and then Trump blew it up with a tweet, and Alaska shatters all-time heat record

In good news: Charges dropped against woman whose fetus died after she was shot in the stomach, Halle Bailey is our new Little Mermaid, U.S. women's soccer team defeats England, Illinois governor signs exec order to protect trans students, and Lil Nas X comes out

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Ep 172: Faith (@bohemianfaith) recs Pose and Bisexual Horizons and Allison talks about Targetgeddon and recs watching Seth Meyers and Rihanna get drunk, E. Jean Carroll's brave testimonial about Trump raping her, the Doctor Sleep trailer, Big Little Lies, Handmaid's Tale (kind of), Outlander (kind of), and Los Espookys, and asks: What's in the suitcase?

No episode next week due to Allison being in L.A.!

In bad news: Eight women accuse Max Landis of sexual abuse, Trump says he stopped airstrike on Iran because 150 people would have died (yay?), admin plans roundup of 2,000 family members in deportation raids and tells ninth circuit that detained kids don't need soap

In good news: Sean Hannity is thirsty, U.S. women's soccer games out-earned men's games, five anchors sue NY1 for age and gender discrimination, highlighter shirt guy is not here for your racist bullshit, and we want to know what you think is in the suitcase: #LightTreasonPod

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Allison shares a story about the kids from Stranger Things and reads Patreon questions/recs about Game of Thrones and Gentleman Jack. Also, recs for: When They See Us, Fleabag, Handmaid's Tale (SPOILERS), and Outlander

In bad news: An expert on concentration camps says that's exactly what the U.S. is running at the border, Joe Biden doesn't know how to healthily interact with women and girls, the Trump admin is eager to go to war with Iran, and Trump says "I think I'd take it" when asked if he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents

In good news: Bye, bye, Sarah Sanders, NYC tenants get a rent-law blessing that landlords see as a curse, NY Assembly green lights driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, Vox Union deal offers minimum salary of $56,000 and parental leave, and a federal office says Kellyanne Conway should be removed from government

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Ep 170: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) rec: Fleabag, LP, Esti hummus (caramelized onion), and anti-rec the corporatization of Pride, while Allison recs: this viral How To Make An Old-Fashioned video, Always Be My Maybe, Black Mirror (kind of), and When They See Us

Introducing....JOANY!!!

In bad news: YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its policies, Joe Biden finally decides discriminating against poor women is wrong and reverses his position on Hyde, Trump admin cancels English classes, soccer, and legal aid for child migrants after botching family reunifications and leaving kids in vans overnight

In good news: Nevada approves abortion rights bill that removes long-standing criminal penalties, the Central 5 prosecutor has resigned from victim assistance nonprofit Safe Horizon, UN Commissioners says U.S. abortion laws are "torture," and a Troublemaker writes in with some good personal news

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Ep 169: Erek (@erek_smith) recs Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace and Ma (no spoilers), and Allison recs: Nailed It, Riverdale season 3 (kind of), Chernobyl, and the Game of Thrones doc

In bad news: Robert Mueller is fucking done with all of us, the future of abortion in Missouri remains shaky, and Trump just dismantled one of the last major protections keeping transgender people safe (getting an assist in his transphobia mission by the New York Times)

In good news: Hell yeah, Illinois! House approves marijuana legislation bill and expunges criminal records for pot crimes and approves sweeping abortion rights bill, two transgender activists are getting a monument in NYC, and this photo of William H. Macy on his way to his daughter's graduation party is just...perfect

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Ep 168: Allison discusses the Game of Thrones finale (mostly spoiler-free) and recs Veep's finale, Barry, and the new Westworld trailer.

Allison's Patreon supporters can hear her bonus episode of Game of Thrones with The Struggle Bus's Sally Tamarkin!

In bad news: Sexism! Washington Post freaks out that Elizabeth Warren was paid a reasonable fee for providing legal services and videos of Nancy Pelosi were edited to make her sound as if she's drunkenly slurring her words, Pelosi is playing the game — but not the game most Democrats assume, and a 10-year-old girl is the sixth known migrant child to die in U.S. custody

In good news: Theresa May resigns, a second judge refuses to block House subpoenas for Trump bank records, and Trump's tweet about Rex Tillerson is a glorious self-own

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Ep 167: Allison discusses the upcoming last episode of Game of Thrones and recs: Tuca and Bertie, new albums from Megan Thee Stallion, The National, and Carly Rae Jepson, and Chernobyl and Oscar At The Crown

Allison's Patreon supporters can hear her bonus episode of Game of Thrones with The Struggle Bus's Sally Tamarkin!

In bad news: Alabama passes the most restrictive abortion law in the country, anti-choicers are silent as a toddler apprehended at the border dies after weeks in the hospital, Trump administration is denying citizenship to some children of same-sex couples, and Australia's shocking election

In good news: Jay Inslee unveils $9 trillion climate jobs plan to cut emissions and bolster unions, The Queer Liberation March will happen on the same day as the NYC Pride March, Taiwan legalizes same-sex unions, and a billionaire philanthropist vows to pay off Morehouse College grads' student debt

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Ep 166: Erek (@erek_smith) recs Chernobyl and The People's Republic of Walmart, while Allison recs Adam Sandler's SNL, Vampire Weekend, the new trailers for It and Spider-Man: Far from Home, Bringing Down The House, and anti-recs Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and they discuss bitter, washed up hacks

Allison's Patreon supporters can hear her bonus episode of Game of Thrones with The Struggle Bus's Sally Tamarkin!

In bad news: Georgia just made it so people who terminate their pregnancies could receive life in prison, conservatives' full-court press to overturn Roe V. Wade and the U.N. says a million species could got extinct, but don't worry — Biden says he'll find a "middle ground" on climate change

In good news: Ben Shapiro gets destroyed, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces that everyone on her staff gets three months of paid paternal leave when they have a child, and shocker! The Gofundme campaign to build the wall is a bust

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