When you don’t have power, at least you can draw attention to those who do. For critics of what Republicans are doing in the federal and state budgets, that includes food drives to call attention to cuts in family nutrition programs—and setting a world record that calls attention to a potentially dangerous oil and gas pipeline across northern Wisconsin.

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We’ll visit with COURIER’s Cam Stevenson in a preview of his new role covering Congress. Formerly the editor of our Arizona sister outlet, the Copper Courier, Cam is moving to Washington, DC and has already started a new daily newsletter, “Below the Beltway.” We’ll discuss the ongoing efforts to sanewash Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and we’ll show how residents in some communities are trying to shame local law enforcement into not becoming a branch office of Trump’s masked secret police force.

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We hear a lot from the political right about “groomers,” people who are preying upon the young and vulnerable in order to recruit them into a harmful lifestyle. As is often the case with the political right, this is another case of projection. We’ll talk about a Courier Newsroom series that examines how vulnerable young men are being targeted to push hyper-masculine MAGA agendas and young women are being taught to embrace a MAHA agenda of outdated anti-feminist tropes.

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Here’s an example where “the least they could do” is far from complimentary. Childcare provider and advocate Corrine Hendrickson explains how the new state budget comes nowhere near the investment needed to help parents with rising childcare costs, or businesses who lose workers when a parent has to stay home, or providers who can’t get the bare minimum for offering safe and educational childcare that enables economic growth.

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Sweeping the LA Dodgers right before the All Star break was a pretty big deal for the Milwaukee Brewers. Sweeping them again right after the All Star break is even better—especially as it continues a 10-game winning streak. And in a reminder that Donald Trump can even ruin our escape into sports, he’s threatening to unleash his army of trolls on two sports teams unless they restore the racist nicknames they had finally sent to history’s dumpster.

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It’s time for baseball’s second-half kickoff. Wait, maybe that’s not the right analogy! Well, anyway, we’ll talk to Mike Clemens about the Milwaukee Brewers’ expectations as they end the All Star break and start a weekend series out west against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He’ll also fill us in on the upcoming start of Packers training camp. (We knew that kickoff analogy belonged somewhere else!) And we’ll talk to Dr. Kristin Lyerly about the ways sneaky politicians are trying to fool people into thinking an abortion ban isn’t really an abortion ban—when it really is.

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We’ll talk to our Week In Review panel about a vote in Congress this week to gut federal funding for public radio and television—a relatively minor line in a budget, but a lifeline to many communities that aren’t otherwise served by for-profit media.

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The news was equally shocking and infuriating: CBS was pulling the plug on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” not negotiating a new contract with Colbert, not naming a new host, just ending the highest-rated franchise in late night TV. It appears to be only the latest corporate capitulation to Donald Trump—and it is stunning to see ongoing similarities to how Hungary went from a democracy to a dictatorship after its leader took control of public broadcasting, private media, and public education. Also: Courier Newsroom’s Keya Vakil will cover Trump’s quest to downplay the Epstein files.

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It’s a sad saga that has already taken far too long for those who deserve justice. Unfortunately, the case of infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been caught up in politics for disgustingly partisan reasons. Donald Trump and his allies made a cottage industry out of using the case for political gain. Now the president is calling it all a hoax and his base is incensed. We’ll ask Joe Zepecki about whether Trump has cried “wolf” one too many times.

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