This episode I break down why the current 🍊administration is so obsessed with whole milk, and the destruction of the American bison. Spoiler alert: it's racism.

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Sources + Recommended Reading

📚 Why the US Army tried to exterminate the Bison [VIDEO]

📚 The Buffalo War [WEBSITE w/ FILM + ARTICLES]

📚 Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed

📚 Why the Trump Administration Is Obsessed With Whole Milk

📚 ‘White Power Milk’: Milk, Dietary Racism, and the ‘Alt-Right’

📚 Bison/Buffalo: Bison Genocide

📚 Buffalo slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples

📚 Defenders Stands Against Rejection of Bison Grazing Lands

📚 Bureau of Land Management revokes American Prairie’s bison leases

📚 Bison, Great Plains restoration threatened by Trump administration

📚 The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo: 1865-1883

📚 Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part I

What does it mean when everyone has a giant rock? 

Checkout my YouTube video on the myth of old money 

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Sources / Recommended Reading 

📚 Sustainable Management of Luxury

📚The Truth About Mined Diamonds, and an Ethical (and Stunning)

📚Chioma Alade, Fine Jewelry Specialist and Founder of Havilah Fine Jewelry on ethically mined diamonds

📚Diamond rings are getting bigger. Just don’t ask if they’re real.

📚Supersized Engagement Rings Are Trending Right Now—Here’s Why

📚Lab-Grown Diamonds Boom: Is It Game Over For Mined Diamonds?

I mean really, how is this anything but insulting?

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Recommended Reading:

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

For Part I of this Series, listen to Ep. 109: Revisiting Tiger King on ⁠Spotify⁠ or Apple Podcasts

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Recommended/ Referenced Reading

Doc Antle, Owner of Myrtle Beach Safari, Sentenced for Federal Wildlife Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges

‘Doc’ Antle Illegally Running Myrtle Beach Safari: PETA Calls on Feds to Shut It Down

The truth about white tigers

Does the US have a pet tiger problem?

Our culture must continue to protect and support women’s education, professional efforts and her right to make her own money!!!

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On New Year’s Eve, Keith Richards was murdered in his home by an off-duty ICE Agent, leaving behind two  daughters. If you’re able, please consider donating to his official Gofundme.

This week’s recommended reading is about Mr. Richards, Renee Good (who was also murdered by an ICE Agent), and the state sanctioned violence enacted by ICE Agents: 

‘Active shooter’ or ICE agent’s victim? What happened in L.A. New Year’s Eve killing?

Fatal ICE Shooting Sparks Scrutiny of Killings in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

We must protect a woman's right to learn, to work, to make her own money!!!!

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Sources: 

⁠Myth vs. Fact: The Definition of Professional Degrees⁠

⁠Average Medical School Debt ⁠

⁠Nursing no longer a professional degree under Trump’s Education Department ⁠

⁠Lawmakers urge Education Department to add nursing to ‘professional’ programs list amid uproar ⁠

⁠Women in Medicine: Spotlight on Nurses ⁠

⁠Nursing: Can It Remain a Source of Upward Mobility Amidst Healthcare Turmoil?⁠

⁠The movement of class: on occupation and everyday mobility patterns in the United States ⁠

⁠In D.C. and Across the Nation, Nursing Provides a Path to Economic Well-Being⁠

⁠Economic Security and Mobility: Reviving the American Dream⁠

⁠The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940 ⁠

⁠ Project 2025⁠

⁠NOW Fact Sheet: Project 2025’s Threats to Women’s Economic Equality

Thank you for a wonderful year - every listen to this podcast has meant so much to me. Have a wonderful, safe, New Year! And Merry Christmas <3

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Ending the year with an article about Orcas (my favorite animal), and dolphins (the classic example of pretty privilege, those mammals are monsters): Watch orcas and dolphins team up to hunt—a possible scientific first

On Law and Order: SVU, the Patriot Act and Going Viral.

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Referenced Reading

End Mass Surveillance Under the Patriot Act

Oversight of the USA Patriot Act: Hearing Before

the S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong., Apr. 5,

May 10, 2005 (Statement of David D. Cole, Prof. of

Law, Geo. U. L. Center)

Learn More About the Patriot Act

Here’s a basic overview of what it is 

‣ Patriot Act

‣ Everyone’s heard of the Patriot Act. Here’s what it actually does.

‣ With or Without the Patriot Act, Here’s How the NSA Can Still Spy on Americans

Edward Snowden, in his own words (article from 2013): 

‣ Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

The Patriot Act was Detrimental to Arab-Americans, learn more here: 

‣ THE USA PATRIOT ACT IMPACT ON THE ARAB AND MUSLIM AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Do you know how much of a handful Matthew is?!

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Recommended Reading:

Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce

It was one of my funnier side quests.

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Recommended Reading:

How Private Equity Is Changing Housing