Light Treason

Ep 56: Meredith Clark (@MeredithLClark) joins the show to rec the World Cup, Lykke Li, Donna Minkowitz's Mea culpa on the Brandon Teena story, Koko the gorilla, Escape To The Continent, and being a mom to a Corgi, and to say WTF about Melania's "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" jacket and Trump hugging the flag

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In bad news: Trump admin holding babies in multiple "tender age" shelters AKA the story that made Rachel Maddow cry on-air, it's misleading to say Trump has signed off on plans to end his family separation policy, the "tent cities" cost more than keeping kids with their parents, immigrant kids are being forcibly injected with drugs, Corey Lewandowski refuses to apologize for "womp womp" comment, while Stephen Miller gets off on the pictures of kids crying for their parents, and Jesse Singal continues to be super transphobic

In good news: Protesters confront Kirstjen Nielsen as she dines at a Mexican restaurant, ICE temporarily shutters Portland facility due to Occupy protest, protesters gather at LaGuardia to meet planeloads of migrant children, flight attendant pens op-ed saying he won't work flights that separate immigrant kids from families, and Cynthia Nixon calls ICE a terrorist organization and calls for its abolishment

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Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to rec Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande's Bed, Dear White People, The Break with Michelle Wolf, comedy specials by Hannah Gadsby and Ali Wong, 100% Hotter, the new Halloween trailer, Leslie Jones' recap of Drag Race, and the SpongeBob and Mean Girl musicals, while Allison recs Alicia Silverstone's Lip Sync Battle episode

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In bad news: the flyer DHS gives parents who have had their children stolen away from them, U.S. expected to disengage from UN's Human Rights Council, 22 injured and suspect killed in Trenton arts festival shooting, and how the Koch Brothers are killing public transit projects around the country

In good news: protesters camped outside Portland ICE headquarters hold 24-hour vigil, judge strikes down Kansas voter law and orders Kobach to take classes

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Ep 54: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to rec Hereditary (light spoilers), Oceans 8, and Everything Is Love

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Allison interviews Dawn, a Long Island medium, and Jenn, a straight ally

In bad news: a political cartoonist claims he was fired for making fun of Trump, hundreds of children are being kept in cages at Trump's child internment camps, ProPublica published audio of children who've just been separated from their parents at the border, Kirstjen Nielsen's disastrous press conference, Laura Ingraham says the child internment camps are "essentially summer camps," Tucker Carlson's responds to the scandal with a racist tirade, and a Texas deputy sexually assaulted an undocumented immigrant's child

In good news: former Trump operative Roger Stone met with Russian who wanted $2 million for Clinton dirt and Laura Bush calls family separations cruel and immoral (even though her husband invented ICE)

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Ep 53: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show again to rec: King Princess, House in L.A. by Jungle, Cara Salimando's Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby, Grace VanderWaal's Moonlight, Jane the Virgin, Women by Chloe Caldwell, and discuss online dating and the Hemsworths

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In bad news: Trump says he wants "my people" to "sit up at attention" like North Koreans, defense contractors are cashing in on immigrant kids' detention, and a Marine veteran is training white supremacists in military tactics

In good news: a wave of "red flag" gun laws shows the power of the Parkland effect and on Father's Day Democrats marched on a tent encampment for isolated migrant children

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Ep 53: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show! Today's recs: Queer Eye season 2, Hereditary (no spoilers), Killing Eve, and Friday Night Tykes

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Allison interview Bob's Burgers writer Wendy Molyneux about kindness in comedy and dealing with life under Trump. Wendy recs: Babylon Berlin, Howard's End, Little Fires Everywhere, political podcasts, and internet gossip

In bad news: Chloe Dykstra accuses Chris Hardwick of abuse and sexual assault, Danny Masterson's rape accusers slam Netflix over The Ranch return, and the Antarctic ice sheet is melting way faster than expected

In good news: ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort jail after new Mueller indictment, FBI seizes 731 pages of Michael Cohen's text messages, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z just dropped their collaborative album

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Meredith (@MeredithLClark) joins the show! Today's recs: Sense 8, Lykke Li's new album, the World Cup, The Looking Glass War by Jean le Carré, and Strictly Ballroom

In bad news: Trump administration's child internment camps: the administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas, MSNBC reporter: detained immigrant children "effectively incarcerated" in Texas facility, breastfeeding mother says officials took her baby at immigrant detention center, customs and border protection agent could face internal investigation for questioning reporter, Steve King promotes well-known Neo-Nazi on Twitter, and SCOTUS upholds Ohio's aggressive voter purge law

In good news: Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, New York files suit against Trump alleging his charity engaged in "illegal conduct," Sarah Sanders and Raj Shah planning to depart the White House, and the high-climbing raccoon finally reaches top of St. Paul skyscraper and America exhales

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Ep 51: Parker (@parkermolloy) joins the show to rec Brooklyn 99, Grateful by Diana Butler Bass, Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey, Mountain Goats, Erin Rae, and Ted Leo

In bad news: Trump showed Kim Jong Un a fake movie trailer starring the two of them as heroes, second anniversary of the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, something is killing the world's oldest Baobabs, and Jeff Sessions just blocked most victims of domestic and gang violence from applying for asylum

In good news: Maine will now offer a nonbinary gender option on driver's licenses and a pit bull saves its family from a fire and carries a baby out to safety by its diaper

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Ep 50: Chloe (@itsthechew) joins this very goog episode to rec Robyn and Carly Rae Jepsen, Karaoke feat. Lizzo, the new Queer Eye trailer, and Allison recs the New York Times crossword app

Erek (@erek_smith) interviews Deb, the tourist

In bad news: The dumpster fire of the Trump administration: a guy's job is just taping back together the documents Trump tears up, senior White House aide is reportedly sharing fake stories with staffers to identify who's leaking to the press, while another senior White House official defines Trump's doctrine as "We're America, bitch," and the end of Net Neutrality has begun (but there's still hope!)

In good news: Robert De Niro's mantra of "Fuck Trump" at the Tonys, ICE came for a Tennessee town's immigrants and the town fought back, and the Trump-Kim joint agreement includes a (symbolic) denuclearization agreement

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Erek (@erek_smith) recs Sleepies, Parlor Walls, Merzbow, and Law & Order SVU, while Allison recs The Staircase, and Andrew Garfield dedicated his Tony win to "LGBTQ people who've fought and died for the right to live"

In bad news: Trump's weird hatred of Justin Trudeau: the erroneous historical reference to the War of 1812 and his "fit of anger" at Trudeau during the G7

In good news: Trump commutes sentence of Alice Marie Johnson

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Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show to discuss Anthony Bourdain's powerful legacy

Allison interviews Danielle Moodie-Mills (@DeeTwoCents) about inspiring young people, The Chi, Billions, Vanderpump Rules, Drop The Ball, J. Cole, and Cardi B

In bad news: immigrants are dying because of our inhumane policies: two immigrants have died by suicide in separate incidents after being detained by authorities, a DREAMer died within weeks after being sent back to Mexico, and agents are lying to parents by telling them their children are being taken away for "baths" only to have them never return

In good news: restaurants are boycotting the army base that called ICE on a pizza delivery man and a judge stopped Calderon's deportation

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