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Ep 66: Katey (@khealywu) joins the show to discuss noisy neighbors and our love for Jonathan Van Ness. Also, Sandra Oh is the first woman of Asian descent to ever score a nod in the Emmys best actress category, a massive black sarcophagus was unearthed in Egypt but no curse could be worse than 2018, and Kylie Jenner is not "self-made" and no one should have $900 million

In bad news: Trump barrels his way through NATO summit, calling Germany a "captive of Russia" and demanding NATO countries double their defense spending, and Peter Strzok's chaotic congressional hearing

In good news: Ash Sarkar calls Piers Morgan an idiot on TV, RAICES brought a $20 million check to the White House to free every separated family, a family of woodchucks ate Paul Ryan's car, and these soccer fans trolled Russia using their countries' jerseys to form a Pride flag

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Ep 65: Meredith Clark (@MeredithLClark) joins the show again to rec The World Cup, Monty Python's Philosophers football, and the trailers for The Nun and Unfriended: Dark Web, and Allison talks about truTV's "Paid Off" game show featuring people buried by student debt

In bad news: GOP-backed House candidate promoted white nationalist propaganda, ACLU says less than half of migrant families will be reunited by Tuesday deadline, defense contractor caught housing migrant children in an office building, and CBP and ICE officials are shackling pregnant women and denying them care when they miscarry

In good news: This group of friends made an amazing cross-country relay to reunited a mom with her kids, same-sex couples in Hong Kong granted equal visa rights, a bunch of Nazis can't travel to some countries and that's terrific, and Bushwick has dope graffiti

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Meredith Clark (@MeredithLClark) joins the show to rec The Purge, The Forrest, Three Body Problem, You Must Remember This, and to talk about her piece on Sharlene's

Allison is interviewed by journalist Clark Kent (@erek_smith)

In bad news: Trump's pick for the Supreme Court is a right-wing extremist, but that didn't stop the NYT from publishing a glowing op-ed about Brett Kavanaugh written by his old Yale professor, Trump pardons Oregon ranchers at center of 40-day standoff, San Bernardino gang prosecutor calls Maxine Waters a "cunt" and wonders why she hasn't been shot, and The Handmaid's Tale launches a line of wines

In good news: Boris Johnson resigns as Foreign Secretary with pressure building on Theresa May, Stephen Miller threw out $80 worth of sushi after bartender gave him double middle fingers, and Meredith recs spending time in nature and watching vikings knit

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Ep 63: Erek (@erek_smith) and Faith (@bohemianfaith) join the show again to rec Wynona Earp, Detroiters, Institute, New Order, Culture Abuse, Fierce by Jo Weldon, J.G. Ballard, and Allison recs Declan McKenna. Also, Scarlett Johansson has been cast as a trans man in an upcoming film.

In bad news: Trump asked aides if he could invade Venezuela and the U.S. opposes breast-feeding resolution

In good news: Alan Dershowitz has no friends, young leftist candidates are breathing new radicalism into stale climate politics, and lions ate some poachers in Africa

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Ep 62: Erek (@erek_smith) and Faith (@bohemianfaith) join the show! Allison shares stories about the House of Yes and Desi popping an air mattress, recs Nanette and Sorry To Bother You, and talks about The Handmaid's Tale being way too real (no spoilers)

Allison interviews journalist Naomi LaChance (@lachancenaomi) about The Neapolitan Novels, Jane The Virgin, Molly's Game, Neutral Milk Hotel and The Decemberists and listening to comfort music, and getting a big dog

In bad news: Massacre at Maryland newspaper, the army is quietly discharging immigrant recruits, and Trump's bizarre rally speech in which he mocked #MeToo and praised Putin

In good news: Scott Pruitt is out amid ethics investigations and Therese Patricia Okoumou scales the Statue of Liberty to protest ICE

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Ep 61: Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy) joins the show to discuss Thursday in concert, ireallydocare.com, and of course Meatball

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In bad news: Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court (here is a list of of the monsters Trump is considering as his replacement), Jeffrey Toobin says there is "no doubt" abortion will be illegal in 20 states in 18 months, SCOTUS deals blow to labor unions in Janus case, and private messages reveal the cis journalist groupthink behind trans media narratives

In good news: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's huge upset over Joe Crowley, hundreds of women to risk arrest in civil disobedience protests in D.C., and a handful of Democrats are proposing the abolition of ICE

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Ep 60: Erek (erek_smith) joins the show again to rec: Scott Walker (the musician), fresh strawberries, and CBD coffee (maybe?), while Allison recs putting your phone on airplane mode

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In bad news: SCOTUS rules in favor of Trump's Muslim ban and sides with clinics that lie to people seeking abortions

In good news: Democratic Congressman to introduce legislation that would abolish ICE, Erek is going to a lot of music shows, and Allison is trying to stop being a pessimistic little shithead

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Ep 59: Erek (erek_smith) joins the show again to help answer a Patreon question about avoiding being a collaborator and to talk about David Lynch saying he thinks Trump "could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history"

Allison speaks with Yeti Cooler's #1 fan

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In bad news: Trump accuses restaurant that refused to serve Sarah Sanders of being "dirty," Washington Post Editorial Board says Sanders should be allowed to eat in peace, Trump threatens Maxine Waters, and a Walgreens pharmacist denies woman medication for miscarriage citing moral objection

In good news: Occupy Ice protesters shut down Manhattan immigration hearings

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Ep 58: Erek (erek_smith) joins the show again for the debut of Erek's Stoop Books: King of the World by David Remnick, Havana Nocturne by T.J. English, and Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts, and to rec the Twilight Struggle board game, while Allison discusses the Roseanne spinoff and that damning Rolling Stone profile of Johnny Depp

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In bad news: 1,000 undocumented immigrants just got sent to a prison that staffers consider unsafe, Navy document shows plan to erect "austere" detention camps, and a San Francisco woman calls cops on a black girl who was selling water

In good news: asylum seeker who sued Trump administration is reunited with her son, being transgender is not a mental illness according to the World Health Organization, and D.C. voters approve minimum wage increase for tipped workers

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Ep 57: Erek (erek_smith) joins the show to rec Boris, Fiddlehead, and Muscle Before Paradise and Allison recs the Australian episode of Queer Eye and Cooking on High

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Allison interviews Aydian Dowling (@AydianDowling), the first trans man on the cover of a mainstream magazine, about inspiration and staying motivated, and Aydian recs: Les Brown, Gary Vaynerchuk, The Profit, and Drake

In bad news: male political reporters retweet other dudes three times more than their female colleagues, Aracely Martinez Yanez fled Honduras and received asylum after surviving severe domestic abuse but a new ruling will shut the door on other women like her, and Andrew Sullivan proposes giving Trump his wall

In good news: Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant over her work for Trump, protesters blast Kirstjen Nielsen's home with audio of crying immigrant children, and ICE protests spreading as demonstrators block buses transporting migrant children

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