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Ep 86: Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show again to help answer a Patreon question about causing a little trouble and recs quitting your job, The Comedians, and crocs, while Allison recs Nicki Minaj's Queen and then they discuss the Oscars' dumb new "popular film" category

In bad news: Ben Shapiro thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owes him her time for some reason and Space Force is an extremely Trump move

In good news: Congressman Chris Collins arrested on insider trading charges

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Ep 85: Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show to talk about his upcoming month-long European music tour and Allison talks about an air-conditioning disaster

Allison interviews comedian and writer Matt Kirshen (@mattkirshen) about his show Probably Science and his recs: Slow Burn, This Sounds Serious, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Queer Eye, Great British Baking Show, and the art of unplugging

In bad news: NPR defends its interview with white supremacist Jason Kessler following backlash and Twitter admits InfoWars violated its rules but says it will remain on the platform

In good news: Twitter suspended Proud Boys and founder Gavin McInnes accounts ahead of Unite The Right rally, Uber, Lyft, and DC restaurants ban Unite The Right rally participants, and rapist Brock Turner has lost his appeal and remains guilty of sexual assault, and a handful of Talking Dead staffers have quit ahead of Chris Hardwick's return

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Ep 84: Parker (@parkermolloy) joins the show to discuss the end of Upworthy, Twitter and Alex Jones, and Lollapalooza

In bad news: California wildfire is now the largest in the state's history, Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria deaths were more than 1,400, Jared Kushner ordered deletion of Observer articles critical of his friends, and kids were killed at a Texas youth facility—and then the feds sent migrant children there

In good news: Special election shows the playing field is tilted towards Democrats: Democrats pick gay, Native American nominee Sharice Davids in Kansas's third district, Rashida Tlaib set to become first Palestinian-American Congresswoman, St. Louis voters oust prosecutor who didn't bring charges in cop killing of Michael Brown, unions win in Missouri with rejection of right-to-work law, the authors of the "hothouse Earth" paper don't want you to despair, and NYC votes to limit ride-hailing cars and establish a $15 living wage for drivers in a major defeat for Uber and Lyft

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Ep 83: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) join the show again to rec Hulu's Younger, Robyn, Superfruit, Making It, and of course Mean Girls

In bad news: Trump warns countries against doing business with Iran as sanctions kick back in, Trump's Muslim ban is forcing some Americans to move to war-torn countries to reunite with their families, and Sarah Jeong is the latest victim of the far-right weaponizing old tweets

In good news: Robert Mueller's "star witness" Rick Gates testifies against former boss Paul Manafort and a New Orleans judge rules that cash bail is unconstitutional

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Ep 82: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) join the show to rec Strictly Ballroom, Orange Is The New Black, and Slasher, and to discuss how an alt-right troll won The Bachelorette

Chloe (@chloepatterson) encounters a baker from Wisconsin

In bad news: Even if emission reduction targets are met, Earth is still heading towards "hothouse" state, EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing, and the Trump administration now wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants

In good news: A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change, and Apple, YouTube, and Facebook have kicked Alex Jones off their platforms (while Instagram and Twitter hold out)

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Ep 81: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show again to help answer Patreon questions about covering climate change news on LTN and white supremacist rallies in Portland and to rec Jonathan Van Ness' podcast Getting Curious

In bad news: Trump administration mulls bypassing Congress for more tax cuts for the rich, Trump thinks you need a photo ID to buy groceries, ICE teams up with Nicaragua even as U.S. decries Ortega's crackdown, a solution to the U.S. border crisis could be to treat detained migrants as refugees, worker charges with sexually molesting eight children at immigrant shelter, and former acting ICE director reacts to audio of separated children

In good news: Inmates are getting registered to vote in one of the country's biggest jails, ACT UP New York stages protest at Whitney, saying Wojnarowicz retrospective fails to connect to current HIV/AIDS issues, and an activist has published 11,000 WikiLeaks Twitter direct messages

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Ep 80: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show to rec Adrienne Truscott's One Trick Pony, The Rezort, Raw, and Robyn's new single and to talk about Trump's hatred of Lebron James

Allison interviews professor and pop science communicator Raychelle Burks (@DrRubidium) about science in fandom and her recs: Luke Cage, Murder She Wrote, EDM, and The Cooking Gene

In bad news: Metro considering separate trains for white nationalists attending Unite The Right rally, Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys rally in Portland, and what that New York Times climate blockbuster missed

In good news: NRA says it's in deep financial trouble, entire construction crew walks off the job after racist boss fires Latino coworkers for confronting him, and Pope Francis changes church teaching about death penalty and says it's now "inadmissible"

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Ep 79: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to help answer Patreon questions about blueberries vs. strawberries, Batteries Not Included, and the best ways to fuck with tourists

In bad news: Jeff Sessions announces "religious liberty task force," 1,000+ people have already downloaded plans to 3-D print an AR-15, Alex Jones tries to get $100,000 from parents of Sandy Hook victim who had to go into hiding over his conspiracy theories, and migrant children rejoining their parents are not the same

In good news: Ginsburg suggests she has at least five more years on the Supreme Court, Michael Avenatti says she'll represent three more women allegedly paid off by Trump, federal judge orders the Trump administration to stop giving migrant kids psychotropic drugs without consent, and uproar in France over video of woman hit by harasser in Paris street

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Katharine (@spkheller) and Faith (@bohemianfaith) join the show again to discuss Robert Mueller and Don Trump Jr. accidentally being at the same airport gate together, this dumb column blaming millennials not being able to afford houses on expensive bachelorette parties, and which Republicans we would fuck (JUDGMENT FREE ZONE)

In bad news: Les Moonves and CBS face allegations of sexual misconducts and the State Department is retroactively revoking transgender women's passports

In good news: GOP politician switches parties over Trump administration's "racism" and "misogyny" and Scott Walker trailing Dem challenger by 13 points

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Ep 77: Katharine (@spkheller) and Faith (@bohemianfaith) join the show to rec: Straight White Men, Seeing All Red, The Fall, and The Podcast Shop: thepodcastshop.com

Allison interviews journalist Melissa Jeltsen (@quasimado) about true crime, domestic violence, In The Dark, Helter Skelter, and going to the beach

In bad news: 6-year-old girl separated from her mother was sexually abused at an Arizona detention facility and ICE has conducted hundreds of raids in New York since Trump came to power

In good news: Facebook suspends U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Michael Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting

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