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Ep 106: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) rec Netflix's Comedy Lineup, Conspiracies, Oren Lavie, Terry Pratchett, crocheting, and playing video games, and discuss black actors — for the first time ever — sweeping all of the guest actor Emmys and John Legend's EGOT

In bad news: Missouri may soon have just one abortion provider left, CBS will keep Les Moonves on as an unpaid advisor and Moonves' treatment of Janet Jackson and Julie Chen's weird omission of her connection to Moonves (she's married to him) on The Talk

In good news: Plaid Shirt Guy and brave kids everywhere, VOTE TODAY, NYC!: Zephyr Teachout's ultrasound commercial is badass, and Miss Michigan's amazing intro at the Miss America pageant

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Ep 105: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) rec Trial and Error, We Need To Talk About Britney, while Allison recs The Good Place, The Great British Bakeoff, and this awesome bonus episode all about Riverdale at her Patreon

In bad news: Nike purchases banned by Louisiana city mayor for recreation programs in response to Colin Kaepernick campaign, Dallas officer broke into home of Botham Shem Jean, a black man, and murdered him, and migrant parents are refusing reunification with their children in a devastating attempt to keep them safe

In good news: NFL will not have national anthem policy this season and Gov. Brown's new climate goal: less than zero global warming emissions

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Ep 104: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) recs Dr. Death and Viva and Allison discusses Serena Williams and sexism in tennis and the misogyny behind blaming Ariana Grande for Mac Miller's death

In bad news: Trump administration wants ability to hold migrant kids indefinitely, IBM used NYPD surveillance footage to develop technology that lets police search by skin color, Les Moonves to leave CBS after six more women accuse him of sexual abuse, and a Daily Caller editor wrote for an "alt-right" website using a pseudonym

In good news: Carl Bernstein calls for Congressional hearings to determine Trump's fitness, federal judge strikes down Texas's obscene fetal-burial law, hundreds of thousands join global climate marches over the weekend, India legalizes gay sex, Burberry vows to stop burning its own product and instead will ban fur, and California becomes the first state to pass bill that will ban sale of cosmetics tested on animals

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Ep 103: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) recs Zola Jesus, Haxan, Thick Of It, and looks forward to Widows, while Allison recs The Good Place, Great British Baking Show, answers a Patreon question about Twitter and the First Amendment, and talks about how only Elon Musk could make smoking pot look uncool

Allison interviews Twanna Hines (@funkybrownchick) who recs: Eloquent Rage, classical music, meditation, Seven Year Switch, Pose, Black-ish, This Is Us, Black Klansman, Mr. Rogers, going to the Smithsonian, and masturbation

In bad news: You're not part of the resistance if you're serving a fascist regime, Sarah Huckabee Sanders posts New York Times phone number to urge calls on op-ed source, release emails show Brett Kavanaugh may have perjured himself at least four times, Kavanaugh calls birth control "abortion-inducing drugs," and Trump administration considers requests to defund Planned Parenthood in three states

In good news: Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones, Jared can't get in the building, Ted Cruz warns Democrats want to bring "tofu and dyed hair" to Texas

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Parker (@parkermolloy) looks forward to Riot Fest and her Wisconsin getaway while Allison unpacks the sperm apocalypse

In bad news: Bob Woodward's new book reveals a "nervous breakdown" of Trump's presidency, Monica Lewinsky is continuously expected to field questions about Bill Clinton when he is almost never asked questions about her, and Trump renews threat over NBC's "license"

In good news: Ayanna Pressley won her primary and is close to becoming Massachusetts' first black woman in Congress, the New Yorker disinvites Steve Bannon from festival after Twitter uproar, Spain cancels bombs sale to Saudi Arabia amid Yemen concerns, and Kim Kardashian goes back to the White House to discuss the case of Chris Young, a man whose 2010 arrest for marijuana and cocaine possession led to a life sentence

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Ep 101: Parker (@parkermolloy) recs Kids Baking Championship and Magic for Humans, while Allison recs the Mean Girls musical and discusses the trailer for the new season of Bojack Horseman

In bad news: Hours before Kavanaugh nomination hearing, Bush lawyer releases 42,000 pages of documents to Judiciary Committee, 22 protesters arrested so far during hearing (Americans remain split on Kavanaugh's confirmation), Kavanaugh snubs father of Parkland shooting victim, Trump floats that protesting maybe ought to be illegal, and activists protest Schumer over a deal he made to expedite confirmation of 15 of Trump's judicial nominees to lifetime federal court seats

In good news: Conservatives run wild in response to Colin Kaepernick being names the face of Nike's 30th anniversary of Just Do It campaign and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announces he will not seek re-election

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Ep 100: Faith (@bohemianfaith) joins the show again to discuss Neko Case and traveling via train across country, while Allison explains why George W. Bush nostalgia is bullshit and talks about looking forward to The Purge TV series. Also, Childish Gambino's great summer vid Feels Like Summer unfairly places burden on women of color and Al Sharpton criticizes Trump at Aretha Franklin's funeral

In bad news: Former ER actress Vanessa Marquez killed by police struggled with mental illness, U.S. ends all funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Trump administration withholds 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh's records, the Village Voice is officially dead, and the looming health crisis in the aftermath of the California wildfires

In good news: Lana Del Rey postpones Israel show until she can "perform in both Palestine and Israel" and the backlash over Fox News job-shaming ex-Cosby actor for "bagging groceries"

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Ep 99: Faith (@bohemianfaith) recs X-Ray Spex, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Deuce, Saved!, farm shares, and talks about finishing her book, while Allison recs Succession and the Harry Potter audio books

In bad news: Bank of America is freezing accounts over citizenship questions, NBC tried to kill the Harvey Weinstein story and threatened Ronan Farrow, Luciano Garagnani wore a "Weinstein Is Innocent" t-shirt at the Venice Film Festival, and ICE is using our shitty mental health system to target people for deportation

In good news: Labor union approval is steady at a 15-year high and disapproval of Trump hits a new high with 63 percent of voters saying they support the Mueller investigation and 49 percent saying they believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings

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Ep 98: Happy Labor Day! Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show again to rec: The Purge TV series, Karyn Kusama's Destroyer, and Mitski

Allison interviews Sarah Mirk (@sarahmirk) about sex-ed for teens and her recs: Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, Amateur by Thomas Page McBee, Ru Paul's Drag Race, the Making Gay History podcast, and radiooooo.com

In bad news: Kansans drank contaminated water for years and the state didn't tell them, Trump says Evangelicals can expect "violence" if Republicans lose power in the midterms, Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home, and Rep. Steve Scalise admits he might have attended a white supremacist event

In good news: Tallahassee's progressive Mayor, Andrew Gillum, wins Democratic primary for Governor of Florida despite his opponent's racist attacks, Texas GOP uses hot photos of Beto O'Rourke in Twitter attack, Jerry Brown signs bill eliminating money bail in California, California is the first state to denounce "corrective" intersex surgery on children, and thousands of teachers in Washington state strike over salaries

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Ep 97: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show to discuss street harassment and to rec: Riz Ahmed's interview in the New York Times Magazine, House of Devil, and The Good Place, and to chat about her hobbies of cross-stitching, knitting, and adult coloring books

In bad news: Trump administration is trying to strip citizenship from many Americans born near Mexico border, Betsy Devos wants to protect college campuses from complaints of sexual misconduct, California man charged with making violent threats against Boston Globe employees, and Texas man shot women drivers because he doesn't believe women should drive

In good news: Thousands of people across the country united to protest Brett Kavanaugh and Gov. Cuomo and Cyntha Nixon clash during their first (and only) heated debate and it was a good time

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